Very nice and concrete advises are given in this publication on Digital Science: PhD Tips: How to Manage Busy Supervisors

Today is Sunday. And I arrived at Nantes. And again this city shows its incredible charm. By doing nothing, just by the fact of existence.

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I have just finished reading my first manga. Yes, the first manga in my life! It is really a pity that I have lost the draft of this very post..
Anyway, I will try to recover what I had in mind.
The manga I've read is called Blame! created by Nihei Tsutomu. I have basically nothing to say about that except for these two words: must read. It is ( Read more... )

Yes, it has finally happened. Two days ago I watched this movie. My friends know that the fact of me watched something is kind of extraordinary. Why? Due to the fact that I am not a fan of movies at all ( Read more... )

I was too lazy to write posts regularly here.. But at least one thing has to be done. I have just finished to read this book:
Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson.

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I am sure that everyone knows this sound of pave. You hear that whenever you carry the suitcase with wheels and it slightly jumps on every brick of the pave. My recent thought about that was: what if we can recognize the street by this sound? Something like Shazam for paves :) Surely, it is unrealistic. And the second thought was that this sound is ( Read more... )

This is the post about my first bass guitar. It still works, by the way! But I have bought another bass (Fender) about 3 years ago and it is a real instrument ( Read more... )

This is just a short post about frequently used software. About a year ago, my boss has bought new laptop for me: this brilliant peace of hardware, Lenovo ThinkPad T440s. It has the two functional buttons (F5, F6) that allow to change the brightness of the screen. However, under Xubuntu it does not work properly for me. It works only like 0% - 50 ( Read more... )

It was Sunday, 7th of December 2014. I got up at 6am and then fell asleep again to awake around 9am. It must have been cold that day. I started working on my project. Then went to our "shared" kitchen on the 3rd floor. Silence... Another Chinese girl was preparing her breakfast. Though her English wasn't so good. You know, this is kind of weird ( Read more... )

It is another "thank you" post. It is devoted to my close friend. We met when I was around 14 years old. At that time, you know, the difference of 1 year between you and friends may matter. And the difference of 2 years is assumed to be really huge! So we have 1 year of difference ( Read more... )