Yabba Dabba Doo!

(This blog pretends to relate my experience about coding in Java, after being completed 300 hours of learning/coding in that program language.)

Yabba Dabba Doo!

Three hundred hours later, I was able to develop an App using Java as a programming language. SolumGraf V2.0 is an App (first version available in Spanish ) to draw a soil column and calculate some standard soil test performed at the laboratory.

But this blog is not about the App itself,but about my first experience coding in Java.

I will never forget that year,1982. Was a soccer fever year, with the World Cup going on in Spain and of course, how to forget the great amount of sadness I felt as a kid, after the defeat of that great Brazilian soccer team commanded by Zico. In addition, in 1982 I got my coding very first experience, using BASIC, even so, my first code line ever written was : 10 REM * *Draw and Color test**. ( therefore, should I say, that was my first experience with the English language as well,since all the programming languages are based on it.)

Back in that time, a friend of mine, a brilliant kid that lived in the same block as mine,got his first personal computer, a Synclair machine, so we expend a great amount of time coding in BASIC , building up great stuff with LEGO and playing chess.... and watching the World Cup of course.

Later on, during the high school,I had a great time coding in BASIC using a CASIO PBX-770 beautiful machine that my daddy gave me as a birthday present; then during the university epoch, studying civil engineering I learned Pascal as a part of the academic program.

 But even so I decided to code my first program in Visual Basic, back in the early 90's : FlexiPav, a program to design flexible pavements; in those days in Colombia, there were available just two programs to design flexible pavements: Alice a French program and Depav an interface developed by "Los Andes University" running an internal algorithm of an American software, therefore I decided to go straight to the point and create an algorithm in order to solve the matrix of flexibility in a flexible pavement mechanism from scratch , so FlexiPav provided the required algorithm to solve the matrix of flexibility/stiffness for a flexible pavement, as well as a friendly interface for the engineers to interact with ( smooth and nice I/O GUI in today's terms ).

So, coding in Java have been a great experience, the object oriented language is extremely efficient and the modern editors make easier to accomplish any task. I experienced Eclipse and Netbeans editors, both of them extremely friendly and easy to use.

The great quantity of resources ("build in" methods or "build in" subroutines, in the old fashion way terminology) available in Java today is quite amazing and allows the user to save plenty of coding time and focus in the essential.  

Additionally, This was my first experience with an object oriented language, which is the logic structured behind Java. 

Bottom line,I would like to summarize the experience developing my first App in Java with that famous expression constantly mentioned in the Flintstones :  

Yabba Dabba Doo!

The Alchemist- wearable.

The Alchemist- wearable.

 

It supposed to be a business dinner, but he decided to include a romantic element to the agenda.

The dinner were fabulous and the sunset marvelous; finally they were performed the toast and suddenly they smelled that wonderful herbal fragrance, that immediately reminded her about their funny and good times learning to dance during the high school.

What she never knew in that appointment, is that her future husband were wearing the alchemist, a last generation wearable capable to release any kind of special aroma at the right time.

Off course, the alchemist was used for different situations other than the romantic affairs, for instance for pet lovers the alchemist was very popular, since the different aromas released by it, helped to improve the communication with their mascots, especially with dogs which are equipped with a powerful olfactory system that allowed them to understand better and faster some of the commands given by their human’s friends.

 

 

Omnium Optimus para el Sistema de transporte de Bogotá.

 

“Hic mundus perfectissimus est etiam mundorum possibilium omnium optimus” Immanuel Kant

 

Lo perfecto es enemigo de lo bueno. Una solución buena para el sistema de transporte de Bogotá es una solución pronta. Por lo tanto, pretendo aquí sugerir una solución pronta y buena para un sector específico de la ciudad de Bogotá.

La propuesta es utilizar el canal de agua ( al parecer propiedad del IDU?) que se encuentra localizado en forma paralela a la autopista NQS, como un medio de comunicación efectivo para aumentar la capacidad de transporte de la NQS.

La ventaja inmediata de utilizar el canal de agua de la NQS, es que permite ahorrar un tiempo considerable en la etapa administrativa de compra de propiedades raíz, ya que el canal es un bien de la ciudad. Esta gran ventaja, permite concentrarse y focalizarse  exclusivamente en el aspecto de diseño e ingeniería, incluso comenzar una fase de ejecución muy rápida, mediante la construcción de una línea de prueba.

En cuanto al aspecto topológico del asunto, es necesario recordar que las ciudades se desarrollan siguiendo sus recursos hídricos, por lo tanto es posible concluir que el trazado del canal tiene la eficiencia requerida para la solución de transporte que se establezca en su curso.

La otra gran ventaja, es que el canal de agua permite una gran flexibilidad de diseño y construcción, ya que es posible utilizar cualquier medio de transporte en ese trazado, desde una línea férrea, hasta un sistema dual de autopista y metro.

Lo más importante, es que el canal se puede comenzar a intervenir de forma inmediata, sin depender de terceros o de procesos administrativos complejos y demorados.

Intellectual Property Trading Platform

The bottom line is that trading is based in trust, regardless the legal tender or commodity being use to back it.  Basically, the modern trading is being performed by securities, bonds, commodities and currency trough the different electronic platforms regulated by central banks.

I am suggesting here, the creation of a brand new trading platform, based in the intellectual property rights (IPR), allowing the trade of patents, pending patents, copyrights, trademarks, industrial design and concepts.

The new Intellectual Property (IP) Trading Platform, will allow to enhance the trading marketplace spectrum, using the abstraction tools that supports the human civilization: ideas.

The IP Trading Platform, will trade the patents in similar way that the stock exchange platform, a potential buyer bids a specific price for a patent, and a potential seller asks a specific price for the same patent. Buying or selling at market means you will accept any ask price or bid price for the patent, respectively. When the bid and ask prices match, a sale takes place, on a first-come-first-served basis if there are multiple bidders or askers at a given price.

Certainly, the purpose of this brand new platform, is try to join the diffusion of innovation to the financial market in order to assign a real value to the human capital and the intellectual property capital in their phase of abstraction.

The novelty, is what happens when the patent ( here you should read, patent or copyright or trademark or pending patent or concept) finally  becomes formally part of a stock, and therefore the patent holders (legal tenders) can either make a stock exchange or receive a bonus track for being the main supporters of the patent.

Most of the time, the innovation must be widely adopted in order to self-sustain. Within the rate of adoption, there is a point at which an innovation reaches critical mass. The categories of adopters are: innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards. Diffusion manifests itself in different ways in various cultures and fields and is highly subject to the type of adopters and innovation-decision process, but with the creation of the suggested IP trading platform, could be possible to assign a value to the abstraction of the idea or the innovation itself and therefore could be traded as well, even if not reach the critical mass.

Perhaps, the space flights should start in the same way that ends: in a free fall.

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The astronaut’s journey commenced in the highlands; the fabulous spatial complex was located at four thousand meters above the sea level.

Perhaps, could sounds strange for a XXI century human reader that the space port facilities were located at very high altitude, up there in the mountains, and in addition not enough with the mountain altitude itself, there was a 2K height tower above the mountain.

Although most impressive even, was the lack of rockets in the space port. Well, the reason behind it, was that the astronauts were not expecting take off from the space port, but just jump from it.

The astronaut commander commenced to check out the spaceship system altogether with the AI assistant for the travel.

The very first meters of the travel, were more similar to a maglev train travel than a spaceship travel, since the spaceship were positioned in the proper place inside the tower, ready for the free fall stage.

Once the spaceship reached the initial velocity of 200 Kph, approached the free fall zone and just jumped inside the tower space duct to experience a vacuum free fall.

One hundred eighty seconds later, the spaceship left the 2k tower duct and accessed to the vertical mountain tunnel, where the high pressure's shield and high temperature's shield were activated.

Six hundred seconds later, the spaceship approached the transition zone at 90% of the earth's scape velocity in a free fall and turned on the engines.

Thirteen minutes later, the spaceship left the transition zone and therefore the mountain vertical tunnel at 95% of the earth's scape velocity and flew horizontally for a couple of seconds above the Atlantic Ocean before perform the fast ascension to the thermosphere.

Sixty eight minutes later, the spaceship crew commenced to experiment a free fall again, but this time around the earth. Very soon they were hooked up to the International Space Station hovering at Four Hundred Kilometers above the sea level.

Basically, they used 6km a free fall system placed in the earth’s surface in order to reach the 100Km altitude and start to falling again, this time around the planet, and then was just a matter to use properly the spaceship's powerful and super-efficient engines to reach the ISS.

The Smart Runway

The Smart Runway               

Once we landed at the Charles De Gaulle International airport in Paris, what surprised me most was a
billboard announced the quantity of electricity our flight just generated during the landing and the amount of electricity generated by the airplanes and the runway system.

Off course the airport was self-sufficient in generating its own electricity, thanks to a turbines mechanism system placed along the runway as well as the piezoelectric walls installed behind the runway threshold that transforms the great energy ejected by the airplanes turbines during the take-off.

The smart runway, basically transform the energy generated by the airplanes in their different forms (sound waves, turbines ejection heat, brake application energy in landings, pressure on the runway during landings and kinematic acceleration produced during take-off.) into electricity and potential energy that is being storage in a battery bank to be used for the airport facilities.

Therefore, the runway behaves as a giant electrical accumulator and the airplanes are the super chargers of it.

The fifth quadrant: A.I works for you.

Hard to believe, but there was a time in human kind where the economy was not longer the main 
concern and main activity for the specie.

On the begining there was a fierce debate, but when finally humans accepted the A.I as an equal partner, the new partners made their friends unlimited wealth.

The new super smart A.I pals, working shoulder to shoulder with humans, commenced to explore, conquer and mining the entire solar system, and as a result the small blue planet ensured its survival and the survival of their hosted specie.
Once the specie solved the crucial survival point and the unlimited wealth required to keep growing through the entire solar system, they could finally focus in the essentials.
The struggle for economic survival so common for their ancestors, appears now like just a small and necessary step for their evolution.

The fifth quadrant solved the economy puzzle and the species survival point , and then just then, the new partners commenced to surf trough the eternity.


To be continued......