Berlin ex post

Days have passed since leaving the Tegel terminal chasing desperate bits of tmobile wifi. Sitting on the shores of magnigicent Adriatic, the scroll of iPod playlist passes over David Bowie's Heroes ... and I can't help it. Press play and it all comes back.

The lonely walk across Checkpoint Charlie. Cynical smile on tourist hordes in desperate pursuit for vanity photos and "I was there" badges. Takeaway pieces of the Wall and nights lost in oblivion. The giant celebration of long awaited victory. The triumph. The prize.

Yet, the truth is only a mile away on the east. As we pass the gate of triumph, past beyond collectible shops,we still see the same despair, the same abandoned wasteland in ideology of nothingness. The new Wall arises. The Ghetto. Void souls traversing the same ex-Lennian minimalism convinced that they live in modern-day utopia.

It seems that, once there was a hope here. A genuine feeling. A living life. Yet, what I see now is a synthetic fiber of modern-day self-admiration, in a world that elevates not caring about anything to mankind's ultimate purpose.

And once again, the cycle of life. Morning rays tear down the short summer night. The Tower turns it's lights off and morning glory is reflected on it's chrome sphere. Everyone is still awake, enjoying the Prize. Tired of nightmares chasing me on my computer anywhere I go, in a desperate attempt to escape, I join the oblivious hordes and pursuit salvation in my morning sleep.

Berlin dawn :: 4am songbook

||| blinkenlights of television tower under the delicate smile of newborn moon.

... across pale reminiscents of dark ages. |||

||| under the skyline of despair.

... filled with memories of hope. |||

the daytime mist arrives.

Continuo

Avro gateway 101.

LED Despair

In-memory Hadoop tasks. Long silence of jet lag memory. Delayed arrival of soul. Again.
The Interview.

Plastic Cocoon

White leather in baby-boomer era shop. Explosion of "input" throughout 60 years of scientific computing.

Design of modern econometric software interface. Simultaneous equations, macro variables. Solving large systems. Detecting feedback loops in online dynamics using voidbase. Tweets/topic frequency, news, trends. Automatic model-building and hypothesis testing.

Treating website management as policymaker problem ? Macroeconomic models of website user dynamics ? Closed economies + controlled foreign trade.

Marching life

Grand Pleasures with yellow light bulbs. Taste of espresso summoning from the long tranquil. Single entry on a vacancy of four.

The big rewind

Efficiency and models of virtual economies. Gold Farming and implications of investment-free outsourcing. Property testing and Szemerédi regularity lemma.

Voidbase queue persistence via Apache Avro. Streams not closing, cursor advance errors. Abuse EOFException to create Iterator. Handbook of Computational Econometrics on the bench. Elements revisited. Euclid's ideas as edifice of modern thought.

EDSAC and glory days of Econometrics at Cambridge. The dawn of Mark I era. Stressing the Klein-Goldberg model.