Posts Tagged ‘human’
Friday, January 15th, 2010
Since at least 1970s, we all became used to seamless and instantaneous access to financial resources worldwide.
Over the last few decades, this extended also to the assembly line and the supply chain.
The missing link is still the people.
We are burdened by increasingly Byzantine rules on movement and resettlement, whose complexity is creating an industry in its own.
In this article, some simple considerations from observing rules and regulations around, trying to balance common sense and security.
Tags: border, control, human, immigration, migration, rights, schengen, security, travel
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Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
After the Millennium Bug, a side-effect of 9/11 was the quest for a “silver bullet” in global and personal security.
Biometrics (see the article on Wikipedia to start your quest on what it means).
Pardon my over-simplification: I will consider biometrics, be it the actual measurement of physical, unchangeable characteristics of a human individual, or the profiling [...]
Tags: behavior, biometrics, human, information, model, privacy, security, surveillance, technology
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Thursday, October 15th, 2009
I attended today a conference in Gent, “Ondernemen in Vlaanderen”
Earlier today I twittered: “In Dutch now, but why the talks about talent come always to the same diagnosis?”.
This short article (800 words) is to share some considerations from few conferences that I followed today.
Tags: educational, financing, flanders, human, innovation, ondernemen, resources, startup, system, talent, vlaanderen
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Friday, May 22nd, 2009
The visible title of this section is “Genome and brain mapping”.
The link is named “cathedrals”.
It is not a criticism: it is a realistic assessment.
Beside the human genome and brain mapping, this section will discuss also how these and other mapping initiatives could affect not just science and medicine, but our everyday life.
This post is part of a series, first published in May 2009.
Tags: and, brain, carnegie, genome, gmn2009, grail, holy, human, kennedy, knowledge, library, management, mapping, monty, president, project, python, science, technology
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Sunday, May 10th, 2009
The “human side” of the GMN2009 series.
Or: how did I came to develop it, and what needs to be done to replicate it- maybe with other subjects?
Tags: and, behavior, covey, crazy, draugiem, experiments, gramata, human, modeling, read, writing
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
standardized tests can be useful- but, in my experience, should be compounded with profiling
Tags: checks, human, iq, limesurvey, management, mensa, profile, profiling, project, questionnaire, resource, selection, test, tests
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
In the line of “A theory of Justice”, any human society has an unknown element of fairness embedded deep into the reptile brain 
Tags: basic, cipolla, corollary, human, law, stupidity
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
it was originally written as an half-serious essay for his students, but it was so successful, that became almost a samizstat (spelling, please…)
Tags: basic, cipolla, human, law, stupidity
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"Ondernemen in Vlaanderen" and educational systems
Thursday, October 15th, 2009I attended today a conference in Gent, “Ondernemen in Vlaanderen”
Earlier today I twittered: “In Dutch now, but why the talks about talent come always to the same diagnosis?”.
This short article (800 words) is to share some considerations from few conferences that I followed today.
Tags: educational, financing, flanders, human, innovation, ondernemen, resources, startup, system, talent, vlaanderen
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