Jeroen van de Graaf

[Jeroen van de Graaf @jvdgbr]

After all, GPS was designed to guide cruise missiles, which go 5-10 times as fast.

[Jeroen van de Graaf @jvdgbr]

Using GPS it should be possible to get information about altitude and speed INDEPENDENT from pitots and other sensors that may malfunction.

[Jeroen van de Graaf @jvdgbr]

I conjecture the AirFrance RioParis disaster could have been avoided: using GPS (to be continued)

[Jeroen van de Graaf @jvdgbr]

"The quake was 600 million times the energy of the Hiroshima bomb": Wikipedia http://goo.gl/L0veV Fukushima timeline http://goo.gl/urULI

[Jeroen van de Graaf @jvdgbr]

Semester started today, finally.

[Jeroen van de Graaf @jvdgbr]

Finalmente finalmente finalmente tomei posse na UFMG hoje. Finally the burocratic quagmire ended today and my "transer" to UFMG is complete.

[Jeroen van de Graaf @jvdgbr]

For Montrealers: I finally dismounted and said farewell my Futon d'Or, after 17 years of faithful service.

[Jeroen van de Graaf @jvdgbr]

It's been so hot recently; I am back to eating ice cubes, like I used to do as a child. Well, after drinking the caipirinha, of course.

[Jeroen van de Graaf @jvdgbr]

FSP: Marcela Temer não deve morar no Jaburu com o marido. O casal concluiu que para o filho de dois anos, será melhor estudar em SP

[Jeroen van de Graaf @jvdgbr]

Q:But could call a machine like that "intelligent" ?A:The question is how superficial you are willing to be with defining "intelligence."

[Jeroen van de Graaf @jvdgbr]

My objections against the strong Turing thesis of AI nicely put: "A computer simulation of an orange is not an orange." http://goo.gl/0jfit"

[Jeroen van de Graaf @jvdgbr]

PS: como é piep-piep-piep em português? Anyway: trocar de Oi para TIM e NET não foi um trabalho fácil.

[Jeroen van de Graaf @jvdgbr]

Já tentou cancelar um serviço da Oi? Eles te transferir para a seção responsável, você fica boiando 3 minutos, e depois: pip-pip-pip-pip

[Jeroen van de Graaf @jvdgbr]

Poor people see the world not in terms of goods to be consumed but as problems to be alleviated. http://goo.gl/3mhi

[Jeroen van de Graaf @jvdgbr]

nomeado/appointed: http://goo.gl/NOom1 third column nr 717

[Jeroen van de Graaf @jvdgbr]

Long but very interesting article from the NYTimes about their relation with Assange and WikiLeaks http://goo.gl/zE9e7

[Jeroen van de Graaf @jvdgbr]

Ooh my god: Toylet video games help Japanese men aim straight http://t.co/ZImbU0d via @guardian

[Jeroen van de Graaf @jvdgbr]

Nicolelis: “Einstein não seria pesquisador A1 do CNPq” | Viomundo - O que você não vê na mídia http://t.co/i4P69cI via @viomundo

[Jeroen van de Graaf @jvdgbr]

One hunderd tweets of solitude http://www.newsweek.com/2011/01/11/sherry-turkle-looks-at-technology-and-relationships-in-alone-together.html

[Jeroen van de Graaf @jvdgbr]

Very very probably a week's visit to the beach will be enough to kill off the remainders of my annual December depression :-)