Dejan Krizaj blogged

Rebel poetry.

2020-10-15T06:11:00.003-07:00

"Rebellion is perhaps among the deepest roots of science: the refusal to accept the present order of things."

"Perhaps poetry is another of science's deepest roots: the capacity to see beyond visible."

Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

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Unite.

2020-01-02T07:38:00.002-08:00

"We cannot allow what divides us as individuals to continue to undermine what unites us as a people, what brings us together as Americans***."

*** Substitute the last word with the name of any community we are part of, smallest to largest.

Homeland, Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa

Photo: China Embassy in Slovenia

Live.

2019-11-10T05:15:00.000-08:00

"And there are so many reasons to live! As a sentient being, you have the potential to flourish. You can refine your faculty of reason itself by learning and debating. You can seek explanations of the natural world through science, and insight into the human condition through the arts and humanities. You can make the most of your capacity for pleasure and satisfaction, which allowed your ancestors to thrive and thereby allowed you to exist. You can appreciate the beauty and richness of the natural and cultural world. As the heir to billions of years of life perpetuating itself, you can perpetuate life in turn. You have been endowed with a sense of sympathy—the ability to like, love, respect, help, and show kindness—and you can enjoy the gift of mutual benevolence with friends, family, and colleagues. And because reason tells you that none of this is particular to you, you have the responsibility to provide to others what you expect for yourself. You can foster the welfare of other sentient beings by enhancing life, health, knowledge, freedom, abundance, safety, beauty, and peace. History shows that when we sympathize with others and apply our ingenuity to improving the human condition, we can make progress in doing so, and you can help to continue that progress."

Steven Pinker - Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_Now

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Unquestionable answers.

2018-12-12T03:36:00.000-08:00

“I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.” ― Richard Feynman (supposedly)

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Design for everyone. Including You.

2017-08-26T00:08:00.004-07:00

It began with the fact that the Elon Musk greatly warned of the danger when artificial intelligence would seriously enter the war industry. The latest step is a collective call to ban the killer robots. (Which might be too late anyhow.)

But then, Caroline Sinders comes to what Elon has forgotten before that and how most (including his) technology contributes to discrimination.

In one sentence: "You should worry about who has a say over the future - the whole world is not D.C. or Silicon Valley - so how do we design for everyone?"

Including You, the reader of this post.

Here is yet her another article about how data is processed (in)correctly, on the basis of which we and artificial intelligence (mis)understand the world. And You.

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Vinod and Dejan.

2017-05-11T10:26:00.003-07:00

(Invitation for a UP FTŠ Turistica students workshop with Vinod Sasidharan.)

Spoštovani študenti, UP FTŠ Turistico bo v Portorožu konec maja v okviru programa Erasmus+ (KA107) obiskal strokovnjak s področja trajnostnega razvoja turizma, dr. Vinod Sasidharan iz San Diego State University.

Dr. Sasidharan je eden od ustanoviteljev združenja AIRTH.global in soorganizator mednarodne konference AIRTH/Encuentros 2017, kjer sta bila marca letos poleg strokovnih in akademskih prispevkov na temo inovativnosti v turizmu organizirana (1) odmevna okrogla miza lanskih inovativnih nagrajencev Slovenske turistične organizacije ter (2) terenski obiski nagrajenih sejalcev in snovalcev po Sloveniji.

Tako razvojno naravnana okrogla miza kot obiski so se izkazali za učinkovit pristop k povezovanju teorije in prakse ter mednarodni izmenjavi izkušenj in mnenj o turistični ponudbi in njenih nadgradnjah - tudi za študente, ki so vzporedno s konferenco izvedli prvi, uspešni in zelo dobro obiskani start-up vikend.

Dr. Vinod Sasidharan in dr. Dejan Križaj bova od ponedeljka 22. do torka 23. 5. 2017 na voljo študentom, ki bi se želeli pogovoriti o lastnih turističnih idejah ter njihovemu iskanju, raziskovanju, razvoju in trajnostnemu uresničevanju. V ponedeljek in torek bosta organizirani dve predavanjih z gosti, po katerih bo možen skupinski ali individualni pogovor. Če se nameravate dohodkov udeležiti, se prijavite preko obrazca na spodnji povezavi.

Ponedeljek 22.5. - 15:00 - 18:30 - predavalnica 001
Obvezna prijava na dogodek tiny.cc/1705vinod

Dr. Vinod Sasidharan
"Integrating sustainable tourism and service learning into curriculum"
Projekti sodelovanja na področju trajnostnega turizma med gospodarstvom in študenti

Gostja: Mateja Kozlovič, Hiške Slovenske Istre
magistrska diplomantka UP FTŠ Turistice
prejemnica nagrade STO snovalec 2011 za najbolj inventivno idejo

Torek 23.5. - 9:30 - 13:00 - predavalnica 001
Obvezna prijava na dogodek tiny.cc/1705vinod

Dr. Vinod Sasidharan
"Sustainable tourism beyond environmental protection"

Gost: Iztok Bončina
doktorski študent UP FTŠ Turistice
Vesolje - nova (tudi trajnostna?) turistična destinacija

Photo: Dejan
Vinod in San Diego, April 2017

Disagree. Healthy.

2016-11-27T06:08:00.002-08:00

"Note further that in science, conformity is anathema to success. The persistent accusations that we are all trying to agree with one another is laughable to scientists attempting to advance their careers. The best way to get famous in your own lifetime is to pose an idea that is counter to prevailing research and which ultimately earns a consistency of observations and experiment. This ensures healthy disagreement at all times while working on the bleeding edge of discovery." Neil deGrasse Tyson

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/neil-degrasse-tyson/what-science-is-and-how-and-why-it-works_b_8595642.html

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Persist.

2015-09-27T09:21:00.001-07:00

Tourism is one of the most persistent human activities.
http://www.delo.si/mnenja/turizem-je-ena-najbolj-trdozivih-cloveskih-aktivnosti.html

Future.

2015-07-23T02:05:00.003-07:00

"Silicon Valley entrepreneurs mostly view cultural, institutional, governance and even dating issues as technology challenges waiting to be solved. But the challenge and promise of a new future must be addressed holistically. The creations coming out of Silicon Valley in the form of apps, devices and software platforms are not so much facilitating a 'race against the machines,' but a race against our own social institutions, values and practices, and that is the future."

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http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/07/22/is-silicon-valley-saving-the-world-or-just-making-money/innovation-is-happening-faster-than-we-can-adapt

Jump.

2015-02-23T08:08:00.000-08:00

Great service innovation jumps between two countries that are more alike than meets the eye wink emoticon Thank you, Kotaro!

— at Jaist Satellite.

https://www.facebook.com/dejan.krizaj/posts/10153022973704361

Respond.

2015-02-02T15:25:00.000-08:00

"We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention. In some ways, this is getting far afield. I mean, we are — as far as we know — the only part of the universe that’s self-conscious. We could even be the universe’s form of consciousness. We might have come along so that the universe could look at itself. I don’t know that, but we’re made of the same stuff that stars are made of, or that floats around in space. But we’re combined in such a way that we can describe what it’s like to be alive, to be witnesses. Most of our experience is that of being a witness. We see and hear and smell other things. I think being alive is responding." Mark Strand (1934–2014)

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http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/01/28/mark-strand-creativity/?mc_cid=f2a44c2b67&mc_eid=8a631ce51e
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/nyregion/mark-strand-80-dies-pulitzer-winning-poet-laureate.html?_r=0

Switch.

2015-01-27T16:00:00.001-08:00

"The online learning partnership offsets some of the disadvantages that can come with being a high-achieving student in a small, isolated school district, providing the chance to take challenging academic courses that many schools can't offer."

In which part of this wiring is your switch?

http://www.nationaljournal.com/next-america/education/how-online-learning-can-close-the-ap-participation-gap-20150127

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New learning and engagement.

2014-12-25T02:08:00.000-08:00

"(...) we tend to feel awfully guilty about it, supposing that our time in front of our devices should be “constructive” and “productive” when it is, in reality, both productive and aimless. Since our lives have pretty much moved to the screen, we can expect our time on the Internet to be as varied as life itself. It’s a mistake to describe our online experience as monolithic: sometimes we need to work and other times we need to drift, to waste time, to fuck off. Learning and engagement continues as before, but it takes new and different forms. I think it’s time to drop the guilt about wasting time on the Internet, and move on. Surely we’re more complex than that."

Kenneth Goldsmith, Why I am Teaching A Course Called “Wasting Time on the Internet“

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/wasting-time-on-the-internet

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Books to recommend.

2014-01-26T03:14:00.004-08:00

"It is really hard to say which books one should recommend. The best is if they are somehow intriguing, kind of not the obvious choices. Books that open a new way of thinking, a new culture, present a person´s world that one is not so familiar with."
Pekka Metso

http://metinalista.si/i-like-the-books-tell-a-good-story-that-stays-in-my-head-pekka-metso/

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Boundary Spanners for Contemporary Problems

2013-11-05T07:58:00.000-08:00

"It is logical to expect that if academia were to become more institutionally organized to tackle contemporary problems in the way that competitive firms are expected to behave rather than remain tied to historical disciplinary boundaries, then one would expect that boundary spanners would obtain better near-term outcomes."
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/10/31/study-finds-phds-who-write-interdisciplinary-dissertations-earn-less#

Creativity in Tourism

2013-09-15T07:52:00.000-07:00

http://www.dnevnik.si/poslovni/zaposl/z-znanjem-in-kreativnostjo-tudi-v-turizmu-do-zanimivega-dela

Google translate: http://goo.gl/NQnnBX

Glass

2011-02-25T11:41:00.000-08:00

Transparent future.
Via tnooz.

Canada 2010

2011-01-29T09:33:00.000-08:00

https://picasaweb.google.com/dejan.krizaj/1010Canada#

What are you thinking right now?

2010-11-25T08:59:00.000-08:00

The final question/answer of the video are worth waiting.
Via DailyBits.

Limited?

2010-08-08T02:45:00.000-07:00

Michael Witbrock's tweet:

at iCiS workshop "No single human can synthesize data from 100 million scientific articles and 1,000 data sources" -> no set of humans can

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New thinking

2010-08-04T10:44:00.000-07:00

"It would be great if pupils, students, people... - in addition to established ways of thinking (analyze, criticize, argue, categorize, defend our own perspective) - had chance to learn to think in other ways (cooperative research, constructively plan the future, simplify, take into account perspectives and perceptions of others, focus)."

Nastja Mulej, Council 4 New Thinking

Science-Fiction, Science-Passion.

2010-06-30T21:17:00.000-07:00

"The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver. It is truly one of the things that makes life worth living and it does so, if anything, more effectively if it convinces us that the time we have for living it is finite."

Richard Dawkins - Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

Photo: wikipedia.org

Playing or working?

2010-06-22T04:58:00.000-07:00

"... people usually experience as work what they have to do by some external force, whereas to experience something as play, they must feel that they have chosen to do it voluntarily."

Mark Twain (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)

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Too modern.

2010-06-14T23:48:00.000-07:00

http://www.premoderno.com/
English: second picture.

Ouch.

2010-05-14T07:33:00.000-07:00

"We do not invest in an idea, but in an enterpreneur or enterpreneur team. We have checked apx. 400 business plans in last three years and the idea itself is worth nothing in business. There is always 10 Slovenes more with the same idea, 50 Europeans, 100 Chinese... Business is competition - who will have the best team, the best strategy, the best marketing."

Slovenian Business Angels, Blaž Kos, coordinator (Slovene links: 1, 2)

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