Nov 13, 2018Essential dot profileThis is really documentation for my .profile in the form of a blog post. I detail the utilities that I use on daily base via function definitions on this file and a little of what I have learned maintaining this file. I separate the code side on the .profile and…Terminal1 min readTerminal1 min read
Oct 12, 2017Trekking on the DolomitesThis is an overdue trip report from our Summer 2015 Dolomites three-day trekking. On that summer we embarked in a hut-to-hut hiking trip in the Dolomites region in northern Italy. It was one of the best trips we have taken as a family. Before taking on the challenge, we were…Travel13 min readTravel13 min read
Jun 22, 2016Meeting Edvard Teller, father of the Hydrogen BombI had finished a Master’s degree in Computer Science at Stanford University and was working at a think tank (in the Bay Area) when I had a short conversation with a hungarian friend: “So what have you been up to?” I said “Oh, not much, reading a biography in Hungarian…Science9 min readScience9 min read
Jun 3, 2016Movies: The end of the TourI saw this movie recently in an airplane. Had been wanting to see it for a time now. I really wanted to like it. I really appreciate the type of relationship I thought this movie was about: Salieri and Mozart, Bruno and Charlie Parker/Jhonny Carter. Dave Foster Wallace seems to…Movies2 min readMovies2 min read
Jun 2, 2016Creating a theme for QuiverI really like Quiver. It’s a great little app and I am using it more and more like I would use Evernote. In fact, it is the application I wish Evernote was. Of course, to be at the Evernote level, Quiver would need to have automatic synching in the cloud…Quiver4 min readQuiver4 min read
Apr 7, 2016Rediscover your travel steps (using Photo EXIFs)Problem So I have a bunch of photos taken with my iPhone, mainly shot in the mountains, and I would like to extract a GPS Path in the form of a GPX file. Once I have the GPX file I can load it into any mapping tool that supports it. …Photos4 min readPhotos4 min read
Mar 15, 2016Publishing Automatic Github PagesI describe a way to deploy static Github Project Pages auto-magically from main repository (without the need for Jekyll). Introduction I think Github Pages is the best thing since sliced bread. But I find it cumbersome to maintain two repositories, one for code the other for documentation (master and gh-pages). There…Github3 min readGithub3 min read
Feb 20, 2016Movies: Searching for Bobby FischerI saw this movie (for the n-th time) last night with the kids. This movie is as great for the things said as it is for its silences. It has a great cast but the best of them all is Max Pomeranc in my opinion. I did not know this…Kids2 min readKids2 min read
Feb 5, 2016Indispensable Utilities in MacThis are the utilities that I find indispensable on the Mac. I have a minimalistic approach to managing the apps in my desktop. They really have to prove their worth to be there. Here they are in alphabetical order. 1Password Password Vault and Form Filler This is probably my most essential…Mac7 min readMac7 min read
Feb 5, 2016Searching for PrimesYesterday I saw the news that a new largest prime had been found. Geeky piece of news you might say. But it is interesting on a couple of notes: It was done via a massive “prime-hunt” called GIMPS (see below) Larger and larger primes are needed for the encryption keys…Math3 min readMath3 min read
