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Productivity Roundup

Over the last months lots and lots of tools have crossed my way, all of them aiming to make one’s (my in this case ) life easier and more productive.
Social networking
I personally like last.fm not only because I love good music, but also because of its feature to listen to your “neighborhood”. You’ll always [...]

About the Cardinality of Sets

Even though it “only” was an assignment in Computational Models, it has a rather nice solution. The Problem:
Show that for every set it holds that .
A proof: The basic idea is to generalize Cantor’s diagonal argument. Assume that there is a set such that . Then there is a surjective mapping . Define [...]

A Delicious Experiment

As I said several times before, I like to push myself in several areas. One of them, even one of the most relaxing areas, is cooking and baking. Besides the relaxing impact on me, cooking also contributes to my health as well as my quality of living and learning.
Well, obviously not every good one could [...]

The Blog’s Future

Even if it was rather quiet on my blog over the last few months, I had a really exciting time. Let’s dive quickly into a brief overview what’s happened:

We, my girlfriend and I, renewed our relationship. Quite exciting since I never thought we would be back together again and that our bond could be much [...]

Be Your Best Within Your Capabilities

Jacek’s message amazed me. While he was working on the reanimation of the newspaper-business (well, not the whole business, but you get the idea) he observed that within your capabilities, despite of how restricted they seem to be, you can push yourself to a whole new level by thinking creatively and provide meaning(-full content). Outstanding [...]

Intelligent Procrastination

Time off is time off and working time is working time. Common sense, right? Consider a situation when your motivation is low, but you really wanna get the job done. What do you do to get your level of motivation back where it should be?
Wrong Approaches
Some things seem to help, but they don’t. I will [...]

My Five Last Words

Zementblog initiated a new blog parade (blog carnival) with the following task:
Each attendee should think about the last five words he or she wants to say if he/she was aware of that these words would be their last.
For me it was a brain-teaser ’cause I would like to share so many insights, but since my [...]

Understand the problem before aiming towards a solution

Of course, this really is quite common sense. But what do you do when the heat is on, when the stress seems to overpower you? I tell you what I (unfortunately) mostly do (since I can’t speak for you ): I try to get rid of each problem as fast as I can [...]

Concrete Complexity: Theorem Mindmap and Summary

Since my oral exam in concrete complexity theory is coming up very soon I’ve prepared a mindmap, showing the most important theorems and how they are connected. I will add the link very soon; An update in this post will you inform if the mindmap is on Furthermore I’m currently writing a summary, [...]

Blog’s kickstart

You might wonder why there are so few posts and so little information about the blog’s purpose. To be honest: I’m way behind my own schedule for getting this “thing” a kickstart. But after my last exam for this semester (next friday about “concrete complexity theory”) I will add the missing parts very soon as [...]