Dr.-Ing. Sorin Liviu Jurj

We are both vegetarians. Dipty since birth due to being raised in a Hindu family, me since February 2014 due to a natural phenomenon I wrote about here before. Therefore, because we are both foodies, and pretentious when it comes to vegetarian food choices, when we recommend something, we mean it. Today, we discovered a [...]

Yesterday evening, we arrived in Shanghai by train, as I already mentioned here. What we didn’t fully realise was that the Shanghai Hongqiao train station, where we arrived, was situated around 20 km away from the hotel we booked on trip.com, namely Jinjiang Metropolo Shanghai Xintiandi Hotel, situated at No. 120 Mengzi Road, Huangpu District, [...]

Yesterday, we had a quick breakfast (at home, we don’t have breakfast other than a cup of Indian chai, but here, because it’s vacation, we enjoy a lot of watermelon, some yoghurt, and some soya balls), after which we took a private car booked a day earlier on trip.com and travelled to visit the Mutianyu [...]

Today, we visited the Palace Museum (including Treasure Hall + Clock Hall), which is near Tiananmen Square, after we booked the tickets on trip.com from here yesterday. We enjoyed a few hours there. We didn’t book a guide, and refused two who offered themselves to guide us when we reached there, because we wanted to [...]

I write this blog post for the first time from China, more exactly from Beijing. We will be in China for almost 3 weeks. I planned this trip more than a year ago, but due to personal reasons, we postponed it until now. One of the main reasons I decided to come here was because [...]

We plan to visit China for a few weeks in May. It was in plan since last year, and I’m happy to finally be able to do it. I have dual citizenship (Romanian and German), so travelling to China with my Romanian or German passport in 2026 is visa-free (max 30 days). All I had [...]

One of the most stubborn questions in mathematics asks how large a party must be before you can guarantee that either r people all know one another or s people are all mutual strangers. That threshold is the Ramsey number R(r, s), and even R(5,5) remains unknown today (the best bounds place it somewhere between 43 [...]

When I was in the first grade and just learning to read and write, I recall a page in our schoolbook that featured pictures of people in various occupations. The teacher asked us, “Which one would you like to become when you grow up?” Most of my classmates chose the usual answers, such as doctor, [...]

There’s a growing argument in the AI space that goes something like this: the models in the cloud aren’t aligned with you, they’re aligned with the company behind them. If you want AI that truly serves your interests, run your own models. Sovereign minds use sovereign AI. We’re seeing the friction of this misalignment play [...]