Curând va trebui să alegem cine ne va fi președinte în următorii 5 ani. Mie cei doi politicieni rămași în cursă îmi sunt la fel de dezagreabili, și nu cred că voi vota pentru nici unul din ei. Pentru a mă convinge de acest lucru am încercat să fac o analiză rațională a celor doi candidați, punând în balanță calitățile și multele lor defecte. Până la urmă decizia că pentru mine amândoi sunt la fel de răi este desigur una subiectivă, și sper ca voi să reușiți să alegeți răul cel mai mic, oricare ar fi acela.
Inainte sa judecati daca are sanse sau nu, sau sa-l catalogati drept rocker pletos va invit sa urmariti un interviu cu Remus Cernea pe TVR. Mie mi-a placut foarte mult, si voi vota cu Remus duminica viitoare. Schimbarea in Romania trebuie sa inceapa de undeva, si daca nimeni nu face nimic n-o sa se intample niciodata.
Calitatea video a inregistrarii nu este foarte buna din cauza compresiei, dar asta n-ar trebui sa conteze prea mult. De auzit se aude!
Eu îl susțin pe Remus Cernea la alegerile prezidențiale pentru ca nici unul din candidații partidelor politice nu mai au în ochii mei credibilitate. Pentru că m-am săturat de clasa politică românească, dar nu vreau să pierd speranța că se mai poate schimba ceva. Mă gândeam să nu mă duc la vot, până azi când am am aflat de Remus. E tânăr și nonconformist, îmi place cum gândește și îl admir pentru curaj. Nu a făcut politică, dar a fost implicat în societatea civilă. Nu are un partid puternic în spate (e candidatul Partidului Verde) și încă se chinuie să strângă cele 200.000 de semnături pentru candidatură, dar are idei interesante și duce un “război de gherilă”pentru atențiamass-media.
Ad Astra has a list* of researchers based in Romania and their ISI publications between 2002 and 2006 (computer science). The data is not so recent** and seems to be quite noisy***, still the general image is quite clear. It could be useful if you want to do research in Romania and you are looking for an adviser or a university****.
* Because of unavoidable errors this is not a reliable ranking.
They say a picture is worth 1.000 words, so here is a 2.000.000-words-worth collection of pictures I took in the nicest holidays I had for a very long time.
Disclaimer. The quality Picasa displays online is absolutely horrible, for which I apologize. I usually scale down the pictures myself at reasonable quality, but this seems to no longer help — Picasa now scales them one more time and compresses them so much it destroys them. One thing that might work is downloading the albums you want to see as a whole using the Picasa client for Windows.
Rappers from my home town: Suceava, Romania. Parts of the video are filmed on the playing ground of the Computer Science National College, where I used to play ball when I was young.
Today we Romanians celebrate our national holiday. In a tradition that started last year when I translated muCommander to Romanian, I decided to do something that, even though very small, is still beneficial for my country. This time the translation goes from Romanian to English, and the source is an article by Razvan Florian about the current status of the Romanian research system. While the article puts my country is a rather negative light, I think it is an accurate description of reality, and should make an interesting read to foreigners interested in Romania.
Introduction
Sadly, the Romanian research system is currently in a lamentable state. Its poor performance situates Romania behind most countries in Europe, and even behind some of the countries in Africa. This situation is caused not only by the insufficient funds allocated for research, but also by the poor organization of the research system and the inefficient distribution of funds, as a consequence of using evaluation criteria for research that encourage the production of rubbish, rather than valuable knowledge or technologies. The current material aims at presenting the current status of the Romanian research system, while making reference to more detailed materials produced by the “Transparency and objectivity in the management of Romanian research” project, funded by the European Union through the PHARE program and carried over by the Ad Astra association.
Ad Astra publishes a journal twice per year containing reports on Romanian science, as well as papers on science and education policies. They also maintain a White Book of Romanian research in an attempt to showcase modern science, performed either in Romania or by Romanian scientists abroad.
Last but not least, Ad Astra aims at providing an open discussion forum on science and education policies, with the declared aim of presenting coherent reform proposals to the Romanian political establishment. They seem to act as a whistleblower for the chronic problems in the Romanian research and education system, about which everybody knows, but about which only very few try to do something. Here is a online petition for the resolution of some important problems of the Romanian research system.
Since helping organize the IMPRS Romanian-Bulgarian Night is what wasted most of my time over the last several weeks I’ll better write something about it. We had at least 180 participants (including Romanian’s Ambassador from Luxemburg), over 10 types of traditional food (guess who cooked it), 10 types of really good wine, palinca and rakia, 2 presentations, 2 traditional rooms, 1 movie, 1 instrumental performance, several dance preformances etc.
I didn’t have time to see almost anything since I was running from one place to the other trying to fix the last details. However, judging by the reactions of the people who attended the event everything went very well. Now I only wait for the videos to make my own opinion, and until then there are some photos to see.
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