Yesterday was the PI Day, as every March, 14 day is, every year. But yesterday was special because the year we are in is 2015. The English spoken world spells the year as "15". So, writing the day, today, we have 3.14.15. Coincidentally, 15 are the following decimals after 14, "3.14" being the general and the most often used abbreviation of what "Pi" represents. [source: Pinterest] First nine decimals of π can be represented by just giving the exact date and time at nine twenty six and … [Read more...]
The Imitation Game
The Imitation Game is a 2014 thriller directed by Morten Tyldum, with a screenplay by Graham Moore based on the biography "Alan Turing: The Enigma" by Andrew Hodges. [source of all pictures: imdb.com] The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, a very apt fellow, who started to work for the British Ministry of War during World War II, leading a team of crypt analysts in the challenge to solve the Enigma code. They have been in the possession of such a specimen and they tried to … [Read more...]
Facespace?
A post on The Oatmeal remembered me of what was upon a time... How Tom Anderson and DeWolfe sold and how Facebook beat myspace, and of course, the ultimate drop, the connection to myspace through facebook. Brrr... [source: "The Oatmeal", but you have to click the pic to see it's real value] I used to have one of my favorite Social Media accounts on myspace... Myspace was a real experience. It forced me to learn HTML, it was funny and made me a lot of valuable friends I still treasure. … [Read more...]
Sad stories from the last century
I wanted to write about the Latvian documentary called The Soviet Story, inspired by a magazine article I read a few weeks ago. Of course I have searched for the movie and seen it. The critical view I read, was not at all reasonable, on the contrary, speculations were made that the film could be an exaggeration of the truth. I remember having met a lot of opinions in a certain matter discussed in the documentary, and I was intrigued by the lack of data. In time, I completely forgot. It was about … [Read more...]
Turkey and Turkish politics – part four
With the previous post on the topic, I ended the period of Turkey's formation as a "modern" country, a period where the people was ordered to look to the European West instead of Mecca. I haven't mentioned the fact that Iran's Shah Reza Pahlavi I, was a great admirer of Atatürk, wanting to do the same, in Iran. More to know of The expat Shah's father, is his admiration for another "great" man of the modern history. When you wish for power and you got it, you may think that … [Read more...]
History – Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette is a film directed and written by Sofia Coppola Nominated to Palme D’Or but winning only the Cinema Prize of the French National Education System at Cannes in the same year, this marvelous and sensitive film is a joy of the eye. The best she ever directed. The music choice is also extremely inspired, with the costumes by Milena Canonero who won herself an Academy Award for them. Kirsten Dunst (the Interview With the Vampire revelation, movie based on Ann Rice's … [Read more...]