A Little Change

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After blogger disaster in Turkey, I moved my blog to a shared hosting. Shift happened too fast, so I just picked a random theme for my blog. At the end, today, I found a chance to Google for some cool wordpress themes. I decided on something called “resurrection”. It is buggy and doesn’t support widgets. You have to manually adjust the your sidebar content. Despite lack of  wordpress functionally, it makes your blog look like a bit geeky and cool. I’m planning to play with theme and write some stuff to handle standard wordpress things  in my free time.

Finally, I’m getting close to the end of the semester. So, I’ll have more free time to play Red Alert 3 and do some funny things. Describe “funny things”? I registered a funny domain to make a small enjoyable web 2.0 application. It won’t be a big issue but it’ll have more functionally than isit2009yet. Enough talk lets, fight :)

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Another Reason To Use Python

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I don’t have enough time to blog these days but I tweet so frequently.  It sounds like a contradiction, huh? I spent my whole weekend trying to simulate standart and improved Booth Radix(2,4,8, and 16) Multipliers.

I decided to use python to implement the simulator. It’d be ruby, java … etc. but
timing was a big issue. I had to understand all the algorithms and implement, then, prepare a performance analysis report. Python saved my life, it took 2 nights to implement and port it as win32 application for windows users who don’t have python interpreter installed. It was quite useful to develop and share because If you are living in a third world country, you can share your (python, ruby, haskel,perl,ocaml …etc. ) project  source code with anyone
who asks it. Because, probably, most of the computer science (and engineering) students including graduate ones don’t know about the computer languages like python. Their response will be, “…mm, strange  … what does this small code snippet do? ….”. Yes, it is strange and that small piece of code is the core of the algorithm…. etc. People who have extreme D&D  (Drag & Drop) capabilities without knowledge are dominated in Turkey. Yes, I mean  Microsoftian people.

By the way, I’m trying to finialize my studies on IR (which is specific to Turkish language) to send it local conference which will be held in Harran Uni.

I didn’t mention about the new year as I did in the past because, things are same. I’m still:

  • student, trying to work on semantic techs.  like semantic web.
  • single, looking for the luckiest lady :)
  • waiting for the coolest companies to discover me. Google would be fine but I’m OK with IBM or Apple too :)

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About Eric T. Cartman

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I can say that South Park is the best TV Show I have ever seen. And, Eric T. Cartman is the most funnies character in the series. Surprised when I read about Cartman’s personality in Wikipedia. Is it possible to some like him can exist in real life? Briefly, Eric T. Cartman:

Eric Cartman is often spoiled, foul-mouthed, sadistic, ill-tempered, insensitive, racist, antisemitic, sociopathic, greedy, loudmouthed, lazy, fat (he believes that he is not fat, but big-boned), wildly insecure, bigoted, and manipulative. He is portrayed as having a general lack of moral responsibility or social conscience. He despises Kyle because of his Jewish background and will make fun of him about being Jewish. Though he hates Kyle, he will socialize with him along with Stan and Kenny. Cartman has a habit of bullying and teasing all of his friends; Kyle is the most threatened and teased by Cartman during most episodes.

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Sometimes Cartman acts differently around the other boys, even stating that Kenny is his best friend and he is okay with Stan, but later goes back to annoying everyone.

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The Green Trend

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Probably, Web 2.0 era is the golden age of the web with fancy social applications. So, what’s next? Failure !!!  These 2.0 companies already have started to run out of money and struggling to come up with new ideas.

So what will the next round be? Economic crises, energy problems, global warming … etc. centric solutions which points green computing will rule the market.

Some companies already have produced their greenest products like Apple MacBooks. In my opinion more entrepreneurs are going to focus on green technology to make a difference.

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Semantic Web ~ Web 3.0

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Web 2.0 makes our life easier day by day and lets us to access any information whenever and wherever we are with simple internet clients.

On the other hand, user contributed data (social media & networks) grows enormously so, we have to spend our time  by eliminate unnecessary data and pick up useful ones. There are two ways to handle this situation; intelligent applications or meaningful data. When we consider development and maintaining costs intelligent applications would be a failure. Giving meaning to data seems more applicable, at this point semantic web plays the role.

By definition;

Semantic web is the extension of the current web which delivers extra information
in well formed machine readable structure.

Web 2.0 is the new way of delivering information with user friendly designs, web services,
social networks, blogs, videos … etc.

Web 3.0 is the evolution of the Web 2.0.

Actually, Web 3.0 is going to be integration of social media with semantic web; adding semantic structure to user contributed data.

So, if you have machine readable data, smart agents can be developed to handle daily tasks you have to do. For example, if you need to buy a book, let it to be done by your agent.  It will seek and find the cheapest book and give an order for you. It is not only for machines, it might change the way we surf the web. For example, semantic web for e-government projects aim to provide all necessary information in one place (website).

However, it might have some issues like security and privacy. Also, semantic structures will result in the rise of agents and new types of spams.

Semantic Web research areas have been increasing and spreading and more companies investing for theses technologies. I hope I can take part in these research projects and develop something useful.

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Possible Semantic Web Research Topics

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I’ve tried to predict semantic web hot topics and feature trends in my recent posts.  Plan was eliminate some of topics according to my interests and make a decision during this holiday. First part of plan worked well but, unexpected things happened; I got cold and spent all my holiday (1 week) in the bed. If I hadn’t been sick I was going to search these 4 topics;

  1. Ontology Learning and Metadata Generation (e.g., HLT and ML approaches)
  2. Semantics in P2P Computing
  3. Semantic Web for e-Business, e-Science, e-Health, e-Culture, e-Government, e-Learning and other application domains
  4. Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web

We’ve decided these topics during the meeting before the holiday with my advisers  from both ex and new university. In my opinion these are more promising and familiar to me but I still can change it whatever I like and  any help will be applicable.

Tomorrow night, I will be leaving from Konya and will be at the office Monday morning in İstanbul.

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One year with Twitter

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One year ago today I registered @merturk nick on Twitter. At first, it was like plain old web 2.0 applications such as facebook .  I was twitting once or twice a day  and trying to find friends in my neighborhood to follow but it didn’t work. Then, twitter has become more popular day by day in 2008 and I had more (worth to follow) friends and followers.  Today, I’m tweeting all the time with my pc or mobile phone (even its an old one).

During this time period some of my habits have changed; I’m paying more attention to my twitter time line than my emails. I’m blogging less but tweeting more. I’ve posted 363 entries since 2005 but  904 tweets since 2007. If I have to use email for communication, I prefer twitter style short messages. I’ve complaint to @twitter for forgetting my birthday even I didn’t do it to my real life friends … and so on.

In conclusion, happy birthday my twitter account @merturk

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Eid al-Adha

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After a long and tough journey I arrived my home yesterday. In normal conditions it takes 8 or 9 hours from Istanbul to Konya using a bus but ours broken down between Ankara and Bolu and it took 3 hours to get an aid to change the transportation vehicle. So, it took 12 hours. During 3 hours wait time, I got cold and barely getting better.

In my religion these days are called Eid al-Adha and whole week is officially holiday. I usually spent my time with my family in holidays and this is the main reason why I’ve traveled. Konya is one of the most facinating cities in Turkey and it is best known with Mevlana(k.s.). You can learn more about Mevlana(k.s.) and Konya using wikipedia or just I ask me :)

Eid Mubarek to all my brothers and sistes.

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The Incredible Movie

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It took a long time to decide blogging about The Incredible Hulk. I’ve seen it 3 or 4 days ago and I’m still under the impression of the movie.  I thought, it is an ordinary marvel production till I watch it.
It is a nice movie with cool VFX you can find it any film. The thing that impresses me is actors’ performance. I love two scenes in the movie:

1.    Betty first sees Bruce
2.    Betty embraces Bruce in the rain (reunite)

Both Bruce and Betty’s performances are awesome; I really like their voice in the movie.
It just hearts …

I’ve already watched it 3 times and going to keep watch the scenes I like.

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What is Google Waiting For a Stable Version of Gmail?

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Gmail is out there for years and works fine but it is still in Beta. Gmail team improved Gmail Spam very well and added lots of features including themes support. Even though, they put delete button !!! However, it is still in Beta. I don’t understand how Google’s applications/services versioning works. Sometimes, I though they may still dealing with annoying security threats or working on a new spam filter to make super duper unbreakable spam detection and removal system to reach stable version of Gmail. But, Google isn’t perfect and Gmail too.

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