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	<title>Virtuous cycle</title>
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	<description>Bartlomiej Owczarek weblog</description>
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		<title>Nasza klasa and facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nasza Klasa was kind enough to invite me to their management presentation last week. Here are some comments.
Perhaps annoyingly to organizers, question on top of everyone&#8217;s mind was &#8211; not what is NK current performance &#8211; but rather how the site is going to compete with Facebook, which is gaining users and, even to higher [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.owczarek.com.pl/blog/2010/03/14/nasza-klasa-vs-facebook/</link>
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		<title>Savants and hierarchical memory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Savants are capable of amazing performance in a number of specialized tasks (e.g. rapid counting). In the same time they have difficulties with tasks requiring higher level of abstraction, and display poor general intelligence.
Is integer arithmetic fundamental to mental processing? the mind&#8217;s secret arithmetic, A. W. Snyder, D. J. Mitchell:
In contrast to the popular views [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.owczarek.com.pl/blog/2010/02/14/savants-and-hierarchical-memory/</link>
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		<title>Blogging is found to be totally uncool, just when I have a right mood for it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quoting Nick Carr&#8217;s post:
Did you see that new Pew study that came out yesterday? It put a big fat exclamation point on what a lot of us have come to realize recently: blogging is now the uncoolest thing you can do on the Internet. It&#8217;s even uncooler than editing Wikipedia articles or having a Second [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.owczarek.com.pl/blog/2010/02/08/blogging-is-found-to-be-totally-uncool-just-when-i-have-a-right-mood-for-it/</link>
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		<title>88 constellations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you need some inspiring associations?
Yes you do
Check out 88 constellations:

Sharing something is much faster on facebook, but I still don&#8217;t like facebook that much.
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		<link>http://www.owczarek.com.pl/blog/2010/02/07/88-constellations/</link>
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		<title>Paul Rand&#8217;s identity works</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paul Rand is perhaps America&#8217;s most famous identity designer, who developed logos such as IBM&#8217;s or NEXT&#8217;s.
Therefore it might be a shame to admit that it was only recently that I became aware of his works, nevertheless, I wanted to share appreciation of his identity document for Steve Jobs&#8217; NEXT:

On the webpage, you need to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.owczarek.com.pl/blog/2010/02/06/paul-rands-identity-works/</link>
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		<title>Random thoughts about winter and the coming year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We spend winter holidays in Warsaw, looking after all details for setup of our brand new consulting vehicle.
Details include registering company (in fact two companies), selecting accounting firm, developing company&#8217;s brand and identity.
We are trying to be quite innovative and perfectionist in each of these, except for maybe the accounting.
Everyone left for skiing and all, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.owczarek.com.pl/blog/2010/02/06/random-thoughts-about-winter-and-the-coming-year/</link>
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		<title>EU subsidies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I never liked subsidies, just from perspective of avoiding rent-seeking, but this message from PARP (agency managing subsidies at least for innovative projects) gives some rationale to this stand at last.
PARP warns companies who were granted subsidies not to change their ownership structure, because it might be interpreted as breach of subsidy contract.
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		<link>http://www.owczarek.com.pl/blog/2010/01/23/eu-subsidies/</link>
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		<title>On Intelligence: recommended reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m fascinated by the topic of artificial intelligence, but the fact is, despite all the hype in the last half a century, this faculty hasn&#8217;t come up with anything even remotely close to capabilities of a human brain, and many pundits started to lose hope that it ever will. 
Development focused on custom solutions designed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.owczarek.com.pl/blog/2009/12/30/on-intelligence-recommended-reading/</link>
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		<title>Visualization &#8211; Microsoft Pivot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft previewed one of its new technologies from the labs, the Pivot.
(on a separate note, while watching the video I realized that till now I didn&#8217;t know how to spell pivot correctly)
From the video, it seems that new Pivot does the same thing as it&#8217;s desktop older brother in Excel, namely allows to slice a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.owczarek.com.pl/blog/2009/12/05/visualization-microsoft-pivot/</link>
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		<title>New war of platforms?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting article by Tom O&#8217;Reilly.
Perhaps days of fragmented but free-for-all web are coming to an end, as the gravitational pull of proprietary platforms &#8211; Facebook, iPhone, Google services &#8211; steadily increases.
On the other hand, many of these platforms in fact broke open spaces that were previously off limits to anyone but owners of the closed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.owczarek.com.pl/blog/2009/11/16/new-war-of-platforms/</link>
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