Learning is fun.

Online courses from Princeton, Stanford, etc. are here and seem to be free. One of these is the online computer vision course from Prof. Jitendra Malik at UC Berkeley. Here is the link.

Challenge on Yahoo! dataset.

The dataset provided by Yahoo! contains user click logs for news articles displayed in the Featured Tab of the Today Module on Yahoo!
The goal is to optimize the choice of the article to display with respect to a user description in order to gather the maximum number of clicks. Here is the link.

IGARSS Data Fusion Contest

The IGARSS Data Fusion Contest is designed to investigate the potential of multi-modal/multi-temporal fusion of very high spatial resolution imagery. Here is the link.

Ergonomic chairs

During my masters, I had an office with ergonomic chairs and I have missed my chair ever since... l believe it was this brand : an Aeron Chair by Herman Miller. A big screen and a good chair seem to boost my productivity quite a bit.