Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev.

I wonder if there would be a demand for a service “Order all your/other’s posts from Facebook/Vkontakte” in the form of a book? Complete with dates, photos, etc. With other people’s posts, it could be made as a gift for the person whose posts were used.

Less than six months passed – got there! 🙂

Bowling tricks from 1948. Back then, “let’s keep rolling until we get it right” was quite expensive – film after all. Some very unusual and quite complex.

Makos sometimes surprises a lot

How I liked it! Indeed, it’s one of those films that make you want to finish a bottle of Tokaji, opened at the start of it) only 16 actors, a single closed pavilion in Sweden, and six weeks of shooting. A masterpiece!

So, I dreamt of Putin. AAAAH! I didn’t even manage to put on a shirt in my dream. Then I see – a guard is taking our photo. Damn, I thought, what kind of photos will those be. Ran for a shirt, then Putin went somewhere down to the basement via a long staircase, and it turned out to be some kind of glass factory. That’s when I woke up;) thank God. Otherwise, it would’ve continued, and I would’ve been a United Russia party member by morning!

A sample of British humor) looks good right after the Apple presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObD_8OfkSbs

Today we assembled a new model from Lego – a little dinosaur. Now it’s time to program it. In the end, it should work something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=p_zBfAY7azo#t=49

The little dinosaur has three motors – one for each pair of legs and one for the jaw, and for now, two sensors – ultrasonic “eyes” and another inside – to programmatically move the legs correctly. I will do the programming tomorrow. If it turns out interesting, I’ll post a video.

It took about five hours to assemble. A couple more hours will be spent on programming.

Well, what can I say about “The Imitation Game”. A decent film, but tough for IT folks to watch.

Below are spoilers.

The film suggests that Turing worked on creating the machine alone. The rest of his team had little idea how this thing worked, and didn’t really believe it could solve the problem. It’s like they found an alien computer and were trying to use it. I can understand skepticism from the military leadership, but his own engineers!

How does an interest in crosswords relate to narrowing down options for brute-forcing? In our backwoods, every other grandma solves crosswords or scanwords better than a Moscow engineer) Or is it customary in England to solve crosswords by brute force?

It’s unclear why they abandoned manual decryption as soon as midnight struck and the Germans changed the password. It seems that the algorithm for narrowing down options was unformalized, i.e., depended on the size and presumed content of the message and sometimes it led to finding the key.

Unclear how, after the “idea” in the bar, he didn’t have to redo the machine. If there was initially no assumption about lines repeating in all reports, why was this already implemented in the “hardware”?

And the machine itself looks very “glossy”. Those who have made prototypes will understand me)

Sherlock’s ears are constantly visible in Benedict Cumberbatch) But, it seems, this is now his lot for all subsequent films)

Playing Gershwin’s Summertime, kinda jazzy