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30 maggio American in Chengdu Criticise NY TimesThe address is as following: To Andrew Jacobs @ The New York Times: My Chengdu looks different than yours This guy is an English teacher if I am right. He says the view of Chengdu in the NY Times article is biased from truth, which could make his friends in US worrying about him. He wants to clarify that Chengdu is not that bad as it is depicted. Well, I think what he really needs is to tell his friends don't treat NY Times seriously. 26 maggio Blogging Is GoodFrom Scientific American: Blogging--It's Good for You "Self-medication may be the reason the blogosphere has taken off. Scientists (and writers) have long known about the therapeutic benefits of writing about personal experiences, thoughts and feelings. But besides serving as a stress-coping mechanism, expressive writing produces many physiological benefits. Research shows that it improves memory and sleep, boosts immune cell activity and reduces viral load in AIDS patients, and even speeds healing after surgery." 14 maggio Donation
The death toll has reached 14,000 and is expected to rise much higher. Taiwanese businessman Wang Yongqing donated ~15,000,000 US$ to Sichuan. Hongkong businessman Li Jiacheng donated ~5,000,000 US$. Compared to them, 100$ cannot help much. Well, I'm just a poor student and I have to feed myself. This piece of donation is more like a gesture, for my inner peace. I have to do something, otherwise, I feel bad. Attached: Letter from Chinese Scholar & Student Association of University of Victoria. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. China's redcross 11 maggio Engineering Breeds LeadersFrom Scientific American: Training Scientists to Run for Office http://www.sciam.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=CA3A76DF-FB11-0BF3-A86033A268B03153&sc=rss It says scientific training helps in public decision making so US wants officers to be trained scientifically.
China has a tradition that engineers being the leader of the country. Half of Chinese top leaders are from the engineering departments of Qinghua University. I like that. Personally speaking, I think scientific training IS important, especially math. Math is the easiest and the most efficient way to understand complex questions. It makes you thinking objectively.
As a engineering student, I argue engineering students are the best candidates for future presidents. For science students, they are too theoretical and abstract to deal with the real world. For others, they are too romantic to be serious.
Clarification:
1st, computer science is more science than engineering.
2nd, I'm not interest in politics. 08 maggio All The Good Ones Are Taken"All the good ones are taken." This is used to describe when trying to find spouses, the ones you prefer are likely to be with others already. It happens universally. We have similar saying in Chinese too.
However, this could also be used to describe the situation in research. All the problems you can solve, have already solved by someone else. It's really hard to come up something new, something contributing, for a master student.
I am trying to carry on another person's work. This guy developed an efficient, unique algorithm for an open problem ---- or at least I thought it was. To begin with, I tried to study the background first. I searched previous papers to get some inspiration. Guess what? I found that his work is not new. The same algorithm was published in the year of 1981, even earlier than I was born. I suppose it's a careless mistake made by him.
Well, since the committee didn't realize this, I would just be nice and keep it as a secret. I didn't mention his name. Unless you are in the same department, you cannot figure out who he is.
You see, that's what I'm talking about. Since tons of people are already working in the same field, it's hard to create new thing. If you are working on a neat math problem and you have a O(nlogn) solution, I tell you, you'd better double-check the library. My experience says all the good ones like those kind are taken.
Another thing. I don't understand why I am doing all these. We have people called theory group. Shouldn't it be their job? |
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