Madrid, year 2057. Technology provides humans with a life full of comforts and… without errors? Jorge Arellano, a normal guy, will find himself trapped in his house by the same devices that guaranteed his security. How will a man used to machines solving all his problems react to this situation?

Let’s not pretend that things will change if we keep doing the same things. A crisis can be a real blessing to any person, to any nation. For all crises bring progress. Creativity is born from anguish. Just like the day is born form the dark night. It’s in crisis that inventive is born, as well as discoveries, and big strategies. He who overcomes crisis, overcomes himself, without getting overcome.

He who blames his failure to a crisis neglects his own talent, and is more respectful to problems than to solutions. Incompetence is the the true crisis. The greatest inconvenience of people and nations is the laziness with which they attempt to find the solutions to their problems. There’s no challenge without a crisis. Without challenges, life becomes a routine, a slow agony. There’s no merits without crisis. It’s in the crisis where we can show the very best in us. Without a crisis, any wind becomes a tender touch. To speak about a crisis is to promote it. Not to speak about it is to exalt conformism. Let us work hard instead. Let us stop, once and for all, the menacing crisis that represents the tragedy of not being willing to overcome it.

Albert Einstein

Makefile: commands commence before first target. Stop.

Open your Makefile, and check if you included a space after a backslash when defining a variable in several lines, i.e.:

VARIABLE = value1 \
value2

This University have published different courses in iTunesU or Youtube (I talked about one of them before, “Machine Learning”). But in this case, they are going one step beyond: all online students will be evaluated, they will have to do the same exercices and exams than Stanford students. And if they pass the course, they will obtain a certificate. And this is for free.

I have signed up to receive more information about this course, it can be an interesting experience.

Predator is an open source software developed by Zdenek Kalal at University of Surrey (UK), that uses learning to improve the visual object tracking process.

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