Category: Tales from life
Random interesting stories from the life of Nikola Milosevic
The day international law died – Anniversary of NATO attack on Yugoslavia
It passed 17 years since NATO attacked Yugoslavia on this day, 24.3.1999. I have been writing about it from my personal viewpoint and described how the events affected me. The article can be found here: https://inspiratron.org/blog/2014/03/24/15-years-nato-bombing-serbia-fr-yugoslavia/ Now, on the 17th anniversary of the event I would like to discuss how the…
Komentari na Zakon o informacionoj bezbednosti/Comments on Serbian law on information security
Srpska verzija Nedavno je u Skupštini republike Srbije usvojen Zakon o informacionoj bezbednosti. Tekst usvojenog zakona se može pronaći na sajtu parlamenta. Tokom leta je bila u toku javna rasprava o zakonu, tokom koje sam se i ja uključio sa mojim komentarima. Moji komentari se mogu videti niže u embedovanom…
Starting an open source effort to bring biomedical data and tools together
Motivation from the community A week ago I posted an blog post about my idea of creating Open Source organization that would have an goal to bring biomedical data and tools together to a single place. The original post can be read found here: https://inspiratron.org/blog/2015/12/12/open-source-effort-to-bring-all-open-biomedical-data-together/. Since I posted it, quite large…
Expirience from Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School
I have participated on Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School (LxMLS), which took place on July 16-23 at Instituto Superior Técnico, a leading Engineering and Science school in Portugal. It is organized jointly by IST, the Instituto de Telecomunicações and the Spoken Language Systems Lab – L2F of INESC-ID. It was quite…
Hacker’s lament
But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950’s technobrain ever take a look behind the eyes of the Hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him? I am a Hacker, enter my world…. Mine is a world that begins…
Blindfolded nation
Recently a friend of mine pointed me to one interesting Pakistani video. To be honest, I don’t get a word what the video is about, since it is on Pakistani language, but you can kinda get the message from the fact that all the adults in the video are blindfolded….
I vote for Charlie Chaplin
Definitely, if there is a politician who would think and drive as Charlie Chaplin did in the Great Dictator, I would vote for him/her. This speech outlines the value humanity or a community should strive to. This is quite funny comedy of Hitler at that time, but the speech is…
OWASP Seraphimdroid android security published
Follow my blog with Bloglovin Today I have to make one very important announcement. The first version of OWASP Serpahimdroid has been officially published. It is now publicly available in Google play store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.owasp.seraphimdroid). I would like to tell a bit of the background of this project and describe some…
Scientific blogging
I have seen many advices on how important it is to blog if you want to become influential scientists. Even on my university (University of Manchester), faculties are organizing crash seminars on scientific blogging for researchers with introduction to WordPress. However, I am quite familiar with WordPress, since I was…
15 years from NATO bombing of Serbia (FR Yugoslavia)
Short story It was 23rd of March 1999. Quite a tough time in Serbia, you could tell it by smelling the air. People around were nervous because NATO intervention was expected to happen. Everyone was hoping that it will not start, but there were signs that it will begin soon….
Manchester – first impressions
I haven’t written here for couple of months. There was several reasons for that. My trip to Manchester and my PhD was preparing. There was a lot of changes going on, and there was almost no time for writing. Now there is a little time to write about first impressions….
Protest na pogrešan način
Pre nekoliko sati sam na facebook-u dobio poziv za nekakvu protestnu šetnju u organizaciji studentata mislim da ekonomskog fakulteta, zbog poslednjih presuda donešenih u Hagu. Ok, slažem se da presude treba osuditi i da protiv njih treba protestovati, jer u njima nema pravde, ali me to nateralo da se zamislim…