Jure Cuhalev

Saturdays are the days for hacking (after having a great run earlier of course). This time I’ve been preparing a network data set for a friend. The idea was to take a look at who follows who on Koornk.
Tools used: their API, Python scripts and Pajek to draw the results.
This is what I’ve got after a [...]

Further reading Arabesk book (it does have 850+ pages), I’ve stumbled upon another concept - emotional institutionalization. The idea is that, together with assimilation with local culture, you also have to change the way you perceive your own emotions in relation to what’s happening in your new world.

The reason for this concept in the book is that the [...]

In the last few days, there have been a number of stories about Twitterank and the way it asks you for your Twitter username and password in order to calculate something it calls “PageRank for Twitter”.
Image by ecstaticist via Flickr
The issue here, as you might have guessed already, is that the service requires you to [...]

Brendan McCollam [http://www.withoutatraceroute.com/] is a 2008-2009 Watson Fellow [www.watsonfellowship.org]. Here are my notes at his Haip 2008, lecture - Without A Traceroute - Traveling the world hanging out with hackers

What is the Watson Fellowship?
 
Basically, you make up some crazy project that you’re really interested in, and they give you $28,000 to do it.
Examples of Watson [...]

For reasons beyond me, it’s really foggy in Ljubljana in past few days. Some even commented that we could introduce our own version of Jack the Ripper, as the visibility is so low.
Having an opportunity to drive in this fog at 5am, I started to realize that driving school didn’t really prepare me for such [...]