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About Me

Student of informatics and amateur photographer liking good books, alternative films, lounging in sunlit grass and all kinds of creative games.

Believes that people should laugh and smile much more and appreciate constructive criticism.

Ceaselessly fascinated by the world.

Location:
Slovakia, Zvolen
Current role:
Student
Gender:
Male
I am:
Brainstormer, Photographer, Student
Languages:
Slovak, English, German, Czech
Universities:
Masaryk University, Brno
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"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it."
(Joseph Joubert)

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    A reply on Conversation: Translating TED.com website into other languages...

    Feb 15 2011: No, it cannot be relied to be done via crowd-sourcing, but it may be good to begin the translations with local TEDx organizers (they have come across most of the terms and often have created a website in their language - we for example had a large debate how to translate the word TEDster)

    ad 2: the first step can be translating only the core of the site - the menu and about pages, basics about the TED community, ect. so that people can orientate on the site. Later on, when proper translators are found the system of translating news "real-time" can be developed.
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    A comment on Conversation: Translating TED.com website into other languages...

    Feb 15 2011: I absolutely agree. The subtitling is great, but I cannot send a link to a non-English speaker, because I can't be sure they'll be able to set them on (or to find another talks, interesting topics...)

    I think there already are some pages simulating this (e.g. http://www.tedtochina.com/ ) and I think it would be better done officially via ted.com
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    A comment on Conversation: Should anyone be able to upload their TEDTalk to TED.com?

    Feb 15 2011: I also stick to NO. There are many other places, where people can post their talks.

    However, adding the best ones via the "Best of the web" section is in my view a good idea. It may be interesting to develop some kind of recommendation system for those talks (i.e. a place to post links cumulating the amount of recommendations in an internal database - and when videos reach high levels, they can be considered to be added)

  • A reply on Conversation: Test Schools, Not Children

    Feb 15 2011: I don't completely agree that most of the children tend not to like going to school. Remembering my first grade (and I mean first grade primary school), most of the children were actually excited to be "going to school". And that feeling was still (!) there when learning basics of mathematics, writing and reading. But gradually, they began not to like going to school...

    How come school makes children gradually dislike learning? Yes, we should test schools, but in my view primarily to determine, where the mistake is. Some schools are better - where's the difference?

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