Земетресение в Пловдив в 3 ч на 22-ри май 2012 г./ 22/5/2012 | Earthquake in Plovdiv, 22-nd of May 2012,. in 3 h AM

Разлюля ни земетресение, хоризонтално, в 3 часа и няколко минути. Токът прекъсна за миг (токов удар). Чакаме да разберем магнитуда. :) Може би около 3,5 - 4 по Рихтер? По информация от радио Пловдив, епицентърът е бил между Перник и София, с магнитуд 5 - 5.8, което е сериозно, но в Пд я да еимало 4, я не? На третия етаж се усети сериозно. Продължи може би 10-тина секунди, не можах да засека точно. Нямаше паднали предмети, само се раздрусаха полилеите... Едва ли има жертви и пострадали в Пловдив, освен...

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News: Updates about the upcoming First AGI/SIGI, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary conference, organized by Todor Arnaudov and friends, as of 9/5/2012

See the: Initial Announcement The organization is progressing, so far the date is inclining to the first quarter of July in Plovdiv, but would be confirmed later. I'll mention for now some of the accepted actual participants and the preliminary directions of their topics: A leading researcher in Reinforcement Learning and Robotics from the Italian Institute of Technology A brilliant undergraduate (as of now) in Robotics from the University of Reading, UK, with a paper that's also for an IEEE conference. A very talented...

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BBC's "The Computer Programme" Documentery Series - "Computational Thinking" - Excellent Dcumentary Filmmaking, Storytelling and Education - and Enjoyable Watch

Beginners and general audience wouldn't really need that much new courses in "Computational Thinking", such as those mentioned in this article When Code is Hot (see the comments also) - if they knew about that BBC Documentary Series produced 30 years ago and still does excellent job, even though it talks about BASIC and 8-bit computers. ;) To me it's awesome, excellent examples from the golden age of personal computers, better known as "microcomputers" at the time, and they are still valid, now just running at bigger scale. The...

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