A tribute among chaos.
Tech: Cost center vs. Profit center
Cost center vs. Profit center Reanimando un poco esta vertical, quería escribir algo sobre la importancia de saber dónde desarrollar una carrera técnica y que no siempre es obvio el funcionamiento de puertas para dentro. En muchas de las charlas que vemos de mentores o gente más Senior escuchamos que hay que saber entrevistar al…
Final Project: Estudio del dañado en materiales para reactores de fusión nuclear
Proyecto de Fin de Grado presentado para optar al grado en Ingeniería de la Energía, por la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Abajo se encuentra el link de descarga. Resumen La fusión nuclear por confinamiento magnético representa una de las primeras candidatas para liderar la mitigación del cambio climático. Sin embargo, uno de los principales problemas…
Survivorship Bias
1941. This a World War II story, where as many of those, starts with Nazis hounding a Jew out of Europe and ends with the Nazis regretting it. As a member of the bomber crew, the Allied Aviation, the chances of surviving during a given mission were probably incredulous. After flying above enemy territory suspended…
Helping the Poor is Not Always Intuitive
Motivated by my missunderstanding about the Nobel Prize Kahneman’s example, citing Thomas Schelling and why Our Intuition Sucks at Math, I have decided to dig deeply and give a try to the next problem. This article is inpired by the Chp 34. Thinking, Fast and Slow, and mainly by Thomas Schelling’s book Choice and Consequences…
Falacias, Especias y muchas cosas no tan bonitas
Entre otras muchas cosas, el curioso mundo de la lógica-retórica-dialéctica está interconectado y, mediante esta primera, podemos seguir un método de manera consistente sin incurrir en errores en su aplicación. Y es aquí donde aparece la falacia, como un tipo de error que puede traer de la mano el razonamiento de turno. Como a todos…
Paper: Negative Emissions
This paper is the result of the research carried out for the course “Climate Change Mitigation”, where the topic decided was Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs), due to such an interesting part of engineering and global potential. The aim of the study was: reviewing most relevant literature to the date and trying to provide a global…
Project: Design of a Wind Turbine
Project conducted by my team, for the course “Design of a Wind Turbine” taught at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), which consisted in achieving the highest efficiency possible for a small-scale wind turbine. The full process was: studying the theory related to fluid mechanics, electrical machines and wind turbines; the programming of…
Intro
This is my pseudo-professional approach to academic life, mental world and whatever curiosity comes to my mind at any time. Just the attempt at bringing something valuable for me — even for you — and mainly the self-impossition to write, read and improve in english. I am still considering how I will write posts and…