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Monthly Archives: December 2008
Fully Operational
Finally my personal website has reached a state that I can call “fully operational”: all links seem to be working, and there is enough content to make it useful to its purposes. I must confess that working it up to … Continue reading
Qualification
France has an interesting system for the selection of professors, based in a double-approving system: first, a qualification at national level, and then, as job positions become available, an evaluation of the interested candidates by a local committee. Continue reading
Fresh at thirty
Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach is now, of course, a classic, but it was only this year that I’ve finally read it. All I can say is that it is worth every gram of the hype. Continue reading
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