101% = [(100 + 1) / 100] x 100

Posted in me by Francisco Marco-Serrano @ Aug 10, 2007

Good, I’ve been able to survive to 100 posts!. During all these years I’ve been (at least I think I’ve been) writing about economics, technology, and operations research, mainly about OR. It’s been two countries: UK (”operational research”) and Brazil (”pesquisa operacional”); however, I’ve been sticking to the american “operations research” (as INFORMS suggests), although as an Spaniard I know it as “investigación operativa” as well. So, three countries, four names, loads of fun!. Don’t forget “economics”, “economía”, and “economia” (in valencian language; yes, my mother tongue).

As my little celebration I’ve extended the “About” page adding information “about the blog”, and, following the idea from Javier Llinares, some info on the main stats. KPI’s?: I’m embarrassed about mine, but, life’s life.

Human Being Math Programming

Posted in maths, me by Francisco Marco-Serrano @ Jul 12, 2007

OK, let’s see if this would work…

Max “Human understanding on… [here your wish]”

s.t. Human Being Limitations
Environmental Constraints

Does it have any global optimum?.

Unifying

Posted in me by Francisco Marco-Serrano @ Jun 19, 2007

Some would say unifying systems is the best option. I’m going to trust them and start combining my messy presence in the web (site, blog, networking…).

Wait for us in the domain kProductivity.com.

See u!

Wastin’ my time.

Posted in me by Francisco Marco-Serrano @ Jun 11, 2007

No, it’s not about this blog (others can argue, though!). It’s about keeping my haircut: 2 hours in the queue, plus 45 minutes to cut. Is there any barbershop in town would let me get at least 15 minutes of my time saved?. Who knows. I’ll try to do it myself (regardless of how my loss of image costs me).

Ta!

Car Park

Posted in me by Francisco Marco-Serrano @ May 24, 2007

Call me a grumpy old man and I’ll tell you that but the “old” you’re right. Bloody heck!, who the hell designs car park spaces?. Do architects know anything about average car sizes?, which evil algorithm do they use to design the lay-out?… Fuck!, another mark on my car!!!.

Ok, ok, sorry architects, probably is the structural engineers that tell you where the columns have to be. All apologies!, forgive this poor grumpy young man.

Regards,

FMS