I had the honor to visit Frans Snijders Blok in Bussum for the last three days. He has collected nearly ALL LEGO Minifgures. His collection is just amazing! He is also offering special sets and pieces at this online shop Blokbricks.
Author: Christoph Bartneck
Collecting LEGO
Today I visited Ruud Woeltjes, one of the founders of the Dutch LEGO club De Bouwsteen. He collects and builds LEGO models for already more than forty years and his amazing collection of LEGO bricks and models takes more than a whole floor in his house. He has more than a million bricks! It is the biggest collection that I have ever seen.
How to create multiple folders with AppleScript
For a project I needed create 5000 folders. Needless to say that I certainly did not want to do this manually. After searching on Google I combined two AppleScripts. This new script creates multiple folders in the front window.
try
tell application “Finder” to set the this_folder ¬
to (folder of the front window) as alias
on error — no open folder windows
set the this_folder to path to desktop folder as alias
end try
repeat with i from 1 to 100
tell application “Finder”
make new folder at this_folder with properties {name:”xyz” & i}
end tell
end repeat
Open PhD Position at HIT Lab NZ and OPI
The HIT Lab NZ at the Canterbury University (Christchurch, New Zealand) in collaboration with the Institute of Information Processing (Warsaw) has the following vacancy for a PhD student:
Performance Indicators and Visualizations for Polish Science
Project Description
In many countries, quantifiable indicators are being used to assess the success of scientific organizations and individuals. The discussion and implementation of scientific indicators is only starting in Poland, which gives an opportunity to develop a modern system for the assessment of scientific organizations and individuals.
This system should go far beyond the counting of publications and should balance qualitative with quantitative indicators. Such a system should be easy to use and openly available, so that the wide public can make up its own mind about the quality of organizations, individuals and the topics that are being investigated. This approach will help to democratize and objectify discussions that may lead to the future funding policies.
The Institute of Information Processing (OPI) in Warsaw is officially keeping the record of the results of the completed research and R&D projects and will provide access to their databases. The goal of this PhD project is to develop a user-friendly software tool that allows researchers and policy makers to reliably assess the scientific performance of individuals, projects and organizations. Continue reading “Open PhD Position at HIT Lab NZ and OPI”
The Importance of Open Access Publishing
I was interviewed about Open Access Publishing for the Open Access week. Here is the video: