When somebody asks me what I saw so far in Leuven and why I didn’t send some pictures. My answer be like : PS: The actual trajectory of my school bus fits pretty much the trajectory depicted in the figure. 😀
“Researchers are professionals engaged in the conception or creation of new knowledge, products, processes, methods and systems and also in the management of the projects concerned. The measure shown in this map is researchers in full time equivalents divided by the total annual average employed population.” Eurostat Of course, quantity Read more
"Imagine it’s 10 years in the future. You are one of the 1 billion people on a new social network called FelelThat. FeelThat uses advanced biological and neurological sensors to allow you to share and receive emotions with anyone in the world. You can literally feel what someone else is Read more
IBM promises first commercial quantum computers in a few years.It will not outperform conventional computers, at least not yet. But the company says that the system will be crucial in developing a market for future quantum machines that can handle complex calculations currently out of reach of classical computers. The Read more
When being in the academia feels like: Source: Sketching Science fb
The chicken or the egg causality dilemma is commonly stated as "which came first: the chicken or the egg?". The dilemma stems from the observation that all chickens hatch from eggs and all chicken eggs are laid by chickens. "Chicken-and-egg" is a metaphoric adjective describing situations where it is not Read more
The answer to the question why academic researchers usually don’t have a romantic relationship. It just does not fit to their thinking spectrum 😀 Source: PhD Comics
Robots are taking human jobs. But Bill Gates believes that governments should tax companies use of them, as a way to at least temporarily slow the spread of automation and to fund other types of employment.It’s a striking position from the world’s richest man and a self-described techno-optimist who co-founded Read more