Author: mariofvicente

Engenharia no Portugal Camponês

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Palavras para quê? Um fiel retrato de época que explica como é que chegámos ao ponto onde estamos hoje em engenharia neste país.

Apreciem como a criada se coloca em sentido perante o Sr Engenheiro quando este chega a casa, e a primeira coisa que ele faz é interrogar se o jantar está pronto. A resposta, naturalmente, é um confiante e submisso “Está sim, Sr Engenheiro”.

Mas as semelhanças não ficam por aqui nesta produção portuguesa profética. No último episódio, os filhos do proprietário de um restaurante antigo adquirem a propriedade deste por meios duvidosos, com o intuito de o converter num snack-bar. É o que acontece ainda hoje com as escolas de engenharia legacy, que tentam a todo o custo reconverter em snack-bares de engenharia com o intuito de cativar as novas gerações de Srs Engenheiros.

Primeira telenovela portuguesa, exibida em 1982, sobre a vida de uma família da classe alta e proprietária de uma empresa de vinhos chamada “Vila Faia”, e que pretende ser um retrato da sociedade portuguesa da época. Os problemas no seio da família, os crimes acontecidos na empresa e o romance de João Gudunha e Mariette são os temas principais desta trama. Nos principais papéis estavam Nicolau Breyner, Margarida Carpinteiro, Ruy de Carvalho, Rosa Lobato Faria, Mariana Rey Monteiro, Ana Zanatti, Varela Silva, Glória de Matos, entre outros.

True Machine Learning

While the Medieval Age of engineering feasted on the misinformation and disinformation about machine learning and artificial intelligence, I have been addressing the real problems.

Today true machine learning is born.

Today the Dark Age on this subject has passed.

True Artificial Intelligence is now being woven, a beautiful child that will come forth from the thoughtful and artistic womb of dutyful posterity.

For a context about this subject please refer to my 2019 article, since my position hasn’t changed since then. You also benefit from reading this other article.

The presentation, without the demonstration, can be downloaded here.

The communications to the Portuguese Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial, the European Patent Office and the United States Patent and Trademark Office can be accessed by clicking on the respective links.

presentation
demonstration

You can watch the videos above on Rumble:
True Machine Learning
True Machine Learning – Demonstration

March 2025 Update:
This model became the basis for a proper, scientific machine model of Reasoning which is described here.

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Header image: citological drawing by Ramon y Cajal.

Wrist vibrato

This video records my main findings after studying the wrist vibrato on the violin for the past few months. This technique involves a number of different factors that I believe should be addressed and developed separately so as to make it easier to develop the proper wrist vibrato.

Hand angle relative to the neck
Finger pressure
Thumb support
Wrist vibration

Its worth noting that it is not enough to do the right things to play the vibrato, because we depend on strenght and flexibility on different parts of the fingers, and these can only be developed in time.

So, if you are doing everything right and still you can’t do the vibrato properly, that is the most likely reason and I believe that my approach here can help you pinpoint the factors that are hindering your performance.

Below is an illustration of the suggested increase in amplitude for the wrist vibrato. This helps avoid a kind of “resonance” that amplifies the violin shaking.

Practising what I preach:

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This recording is kept for historical reasons since it is not recent and I am practising & improving everyday. It is about the development process, not the actual technique.