Un lenguaje de dominio específico para mutación de modelos

El pasado día 14 de julio realicé la defensa de mi tesis doctoral 'Un lenguaje de dominio específico para mutación de modelos', trabajo que he realizado bajo la dirección de Esther Guerra y Mercedes G. Merayo, y cuyo tutor ha sido Juan de Lara, obteniendo la calificación de Sobresaliente Cum Laude por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Between Spain & Portugal

I copy here the beginning of the entry for 'Hispania' in the English Wikipedia:

Roman provinces of Hispania

Hispania was the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula and its provinces. Under the Republic, Hispania was divided into two provinces: Hispania Citerior and Hispania Ulterior. During the Principate, Hispania Ulterior was divided into two new provinces, Baetica and Lusitania, while Hispania Citerior was renamed Hispania Tarraconensis. Subsequently, the western part of Tarraconensis was split off, first as Hispania Nova, later renamed "Callaecia" (or Gallaecia, whence modern Galicia). From Diocletian's Tetrarchy (AD 284) onwards, the south of remaining Tarraconensis was again split off as Carthaginensis, and probably then too the Balearic Islands and all the resulting provinces formed one civil diocese under the vicarius for the Hispaniae (that is, the Celtic provinces). The name Hispania was also used in the period of Visigothic rule.

On teaching science

In the next few paragraphs, I will try to share my view on the current situation of how our country is carrying out the teaching of science.

John Nash (1928 - 2015)

Currently, we have a serious problem with motivation in the teaching of science. It seems that today's students have very little interest in knowledge, intellectual effort, or education in general. We enter a vicious cycle in which students do not learn due to their lack of motivation, but at the same time, they are not motivated because they do not learn.

On climate change

Today, I would like to talk about the famous TED Talk 'School strike for climate' by Greta Thunberg.

As you may already know, the topic of this talk is that we are in an emergency to act against climate change. In fact, we have been in an emergency for many years, and it seems we have been just letting time pass by.

Things to do in Madrid city

La Latina

Currently, I don’t spend too much time outdoors, therefore my view can be a little bit outdated. However, my impression is that things haven’t changed too much in the last few years, thus you may find this information useful if you come to the city where I'm living.

Conflicto con mis vecinos

Charles Chaplin (1889-1977)

Exterior, patio del edificio, amanecer

PEDRO, 37, tranquilo, desde la ventana

Hola, buenos días, ¿algún infectado por coronavirus?

ALICIA, 31, exaltada, desde la ventana

¡Vaya una manera de dar los buenos días!

Instant messaging applications

Since the Internet and email as a means of text communication were established for commercial use (the early 1990s), there have been several tools that have emerged to enable instant messaging, or what is better known as chat. With the emergence of smartphones in the mid-2000s, these instant messaging tools have become ubiquitous. It is easy to observe how every traveler is utterly focused on her/his terminal chatting with one of her/his contacts on some very important topic when one takes public transport.

The haunted time travel of the mad candidate to Knight Templar

Star Wars (1977)

In the 12th Century, deep in Old Castile, there was a young soldier who was preparing to become a Knight Templar. His name was Pedro Zarquillo. From an early age, he followed very carefully every instruction of his masters. But there was a final trial which he had to get through. The night before he was going to be ordained as a Knight Templar, he was asked to leave Old Castile. He was only provided with his white horse ‘Luciernaga’, a bottle of good old Castilian wine, and two pieces of bread. He was told to travel to the west and get as far as he could. Although he didn’t understand anything, he tried not to think too much, as he had always been compliant with every order from his templar masters. Thus, that very night, he left Old Castile.

Las tres personalidades de Freud

Sigmund Freud
(1856 - 1939)

Copio aquí esta breve reseña de la entrada sobre Freud de la Wikipedia:

Sigmund Freud (Príbor, 6 de mayo de 1856-Londres, 23 de septiembre de 1939) fue un médico neurólogo austriaco de origen judío, padre del psicoanálisis y una de las mayores figuras intelectuales del siglo XX.

No quiero extenderme demasiado en mi explicación, e intentaré ir al grano. Describo a continuación brevemente la teoría del psicoanálisis fundada por este autor.

Zaratustra contra Don Quijote

Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844 - 1900)

En el mundo de los sueños estaba Zaratustra, el personaje mítico de Nietzsche, hablando en su montaña con los animales, el águila, el camello, el león y la serpiente, divagando sobre la idea de que Dios ha muerto. Zaratustra queda convencido de ello después de hablar largamente y decide salir a predicar. En una de sus escapadas, caminando entre los bosques, sufre una alucinación. Se le presenta una figura extraña, un caballero destartalado a lomos de un jamelgo de no mucho mejor aspecto. La imagen es la del caballero de la triste figura, Alonso Quijano - más conocido como Don Quijote - cabalgando, sólo esta vez, sobre Rocinante.

Cuestiones éticas contemporáneas: La sospecha sobre la sospecha

Estoy enfadado. Estoy enfadado y triste. Estoy enfadado porque llevamos ya mucho tiempo tirándonos los trastos a la cabeza unos a otros. Estoy triste porque mucha gente ha muerto de forma injusta desde hace ya demasiado tiempo y mucha gente sigue sufriendo hoy innecesariamente para que hoy yo pueda estar escribiendo esto, y vosotros podáis estar leyéndolo. ¿No estamos pagando un precio demasiado alto?