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Why Bike Commute?
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Mirek Kordos, March 2011 żółta oczojebna kurteczka
Witold, Szczepan, Magda and Mirek, August 2010.
Welcome
Welcome to my web page! Nice to see you here. You have just arrived to one of the most exciting places on the internet. Here you can find out about my (and hopefully also your) interests that include:
- Travelling by Bike, Ballroom Dancing, Cross-country skiing and other sports
- I don't own a car, instead I commute and travel around the world by bike, because:
- I like it very much
- In this way I don't get stuck in traffic jams
- Bikes commuters are much healthier and on average live three years longer
- That reduces air and noise pollution and first of all CO2 emissions, which cause the global warming that is already seriously endangering the human life in the next decades
- And finally that saves me money on gasoline, vehicle maintenance, parking fees and parking tickets
- Ballroom dancing is a wonderful hobby that can be practiced all year round. My favorite dances are Slow Waltz, Foxtrot and Quickstep (it's not me in the links but Marcus and Karen Hilton, 9-fold World Champions).
- Cross-country skiing uses every major muscle group and is one of the sports that burn the most calories per hour. I like cross-country skiing competitions, which are much safer than bicycle races (half of the speed and snow is soft) and than running (it is not so easy to get an injury, because the movement is smooth).
- Sex. Well, sex is also a very good sport, which helps keep you fit and should be practiced on regular basis in spite that no official competitions are organized.
- I also like from time to time (that is every second weekend) to take a part in ballroom dancing, cycling or cross-country skiing (and maybe also running in the nearest future) events and competitions, not to win (rather impossible) but just to take a part.
- I don't own a car, instead I commute and travel around the world by bike, because:
- Artificial Intelligence
- My special interests are in hybrid intelligent systems with neural networks and rule extractions for regression problems and their applications in technology, medicine and finances. The web page of our research group will soon be ready here
- My old special interests were in visualization of multidimensional spaces (how to see the impossible) and in artificial neural networks including visualization of the multidimensional MLP error surface.
- Another interesting topic is how to computationally model such phenomena as human passion and creativity, which is definitely more difficult than to model human memory and logical reasoning.
- Brain and Natural Intelligence
- To understand how the brains works we must build a model of it as a computer program. Many such approaches, have been taken and some are quite successful, in spite that they explain only chosen aspects of the brain activity.
- Using the brain more effectively just simply contains the following steps:
- Defining the main goal
- Using proper time management techniques and giving priority to the non-urgent and important tasks leading to the main goal
- Using the best of the bunch of learning techniques when appropriate
- Promoting the ideas by networking and "marketing"
- Creativity is more complex as well to use in practice as to create a computational model; in general I like the saying "Enter through the narrow gate".
- .NET and related technologies
- Of course I must implement somehow all the IA methods. C# is my language of choice. I think it's more mature than java (I only think so, I'm not sure, so you don't have to agree). I also use it for developing commercial systems.
- People say Microsoft makes lots of mistakes both in code and in policy. That's true, but only that one who does nothing doesn't make any mistakes. But I thing that the total balance of Microsoft's activity is positive (I only think so, I'm not sure, so you don't have to agree).
- More
- To find out more just explore my web page.
Conference Plans for 2012
- HAIS: Int. Conf. on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems, March 28-30, 2012, Salamanca, Spain, photos
- ICAISC: Int. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, April 29 - May 03, 2012, Zakopane, Poland, photos
- ICANN: Int. Conf. on Artificial Neural Networks , September 11-14, 2012, Lausanne, Switzerland
- SCIS-ISIS: Int. Conf. on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems, November 20-24 (June 10), 2012, Kobe, Japan
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