記得當年花爛漫 - 施淑
在講完杜甫<樂遊園歌>感慨深長的結句：「此身飲罷無歸處，獨立蒼茫自詠詩」之後，葉老師突然從唐朝轉過身，在黑板上抄了一手沒有標題，沒有作者，只注明「近人作」的七言律詩：
慣于長夜過春時，挈婦將雛鬢有絲。夢裡依稀慈母淚，城頭變幻大王旗。
忍看朋輩成新鬼，怒向刀叢覓小詩。吟罷低眉無寫處，月光如水照緇衣。
這首讓我邊抄邊覺怪異的詩篇，慣於講詩時跑野馬的葉老師卻異乎尋常的未多作講解，只教我們注意詩中的意象，比較詩末結句與千年前杜甫的感懷。而這首讓我直覺不尋常的、謎樣的「近人作」的詩篇，直到後來我到加拿大讀書，才在圖書館裡赫然發現是魯迅紀念一九三〇年代被國民黨虐殺的左翼作家柔石的詩。
直到這之前，直到我終於了解葉老師為什麼會在一九六〇年代台灣的課堂上突然抄寫魯迅這首意象陰森。語感淒厲的詩之前，我都不知道經常披著她那身珠灰色的風衣，意態雍雅，神情自若地出現在校園和講台上的葉嘉瑩老師，竟然是一九五〇年代台灣白色恐怖的受害者。
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翻譯的現代小說中，她最喜歡的是卡夫卡的<絕食的藝術家>，接著又說，她認為能跟這篇小說的痛苦絕望比並的是俄國作家安德烈夫的<紅笑>。這是我第一次聽到這個作家和這麼奇怪的篇名。幾年後，我從魯迅的文章讀到他把安德列夫、波特萊爾、王爾德放在一起，稱他們是「世紀末的果汁」，是五四後在黑暗中摸索的中國新文學作家的文學資源。
Saturday, October 10, 2015
Wednesday, August 5, 2015
The Classification of Finite Simple Groups
Stephen D. Smith, Michael Aschbacher, Richard Lyons, and Ronald Solomon are the last four mathematicians who master in original proof of Enormous Theorem. This theory is about symmetry, representing the cores of forms, laws, and mathematical objects that remain unchanged under transformation. In the modern physics, the enormous theory plays a vital role - spanning classical Newtonian to string theory illustrating how its laws are intertwined with symmetry, that the Standard Model was finalised the confirmation of the existence of quarks, and and more recently the Higgs boson (2013).
* The Standard Model of particle physics is a theory concerning the electromagnetic, weak, and strong nuclear interactions, as well as classifying all the subatomic particles known.
* 1972 Gorenstein proposes a 16-step program for classifying finite simple groups
* Emmy Noether determined the conserved quantities for every system of physical laws that possesses some continuous symmetry.
Reference:
1. The Classi cation of Finite Simple Groups
2. Emmy Noether's Wonderful Theorem
3. Perspectives on Higgs Physics
* The Standard Model of particle physics is a theory concerning the electromagnetic, weak, and strong nuclear interactions, as well as classifying all the subatomic particles known.
* 1972 Gorenstein proposes a 16-step program for classifying finite simple groups
* Emmy Noether determined the conserved quantities for every system of physical laws that possesses some continuous symmetry.
Reference:
1. The Classi cation of Finite Simple Groups
2. Emmy Noether's Wonderful Theorem
3. Perspectives on Higgs Physics
Sunday, August 2, 2015
ねじ曲げられた桜―美意識と軍国主義
被扭曲的櫻花 美的意識與軍國主義
- 關於神風特攻隊-
一九四三年（昭和十八年）五月十__日，田邊在京都帝國大學面對爆滿的聽眾，發表了在今日被認為是惡名昭彰的演講，聽眾裡也有即「學徒出陣」遠赴前線的大學生。田邊讚揚「個人對國家的貢獻」，並且認為這才是改革社會的手段，但是對於在台下聆聽的同學而言，田邊所提倡的主張將會在現實中導致學生遠赴前線，並戰死沙場。
如果分析學生們所閱讀的作品，可以發現活躍於十八世紀後半到二十世紀初期之間的作家，大都曾經受到各種浪漫主義思想的影響（這類浪漫主義在十八世紀後半席捲了德國、法國、俄國）。在希特勒登上全力大位的前一年（一九三二），日本的浪漫派雜誌創刊，這本雜誌激進地將浪漫主義和國粹主義結合在一起。日本浪漫派的先驅者保田與重郎宣告了馬克思主義的終結，並宣揚浪漫主義即將帶來新的篇章。
與納粹政權下的德意志相同，日本也有部分知識份子和藝術家與國粹主義密不可分。今天我們有時會認為參與浪漫主義的運動者們有自己的「陰暗之處」，不過真正重要的是浪漫主義強調美的價值。這是因為年輕人將美的價值投射到自己的理想主義和愛國心之上，使自己的犧牲得以正當化，成為源於高尚動機、追求美好目標的行動者。
年輕人之中也有馬克斯主義者。這些馬克斯主義者不只針對已被物質主義會資本主義腐化的英國、美國，即使是對自己的國家，也抱持著為了破壞一切而獻身的覺悟。他們熱切盼望，在古老日本崩壞之後的灰燼中，會出現如鳳凰重生般的新日本。攻隊員之中，也有人認為烏托邦就存在於艾伯特。史懷哲的人道主義之中。
除此之外，還有虔誠的基督教徒。這些基督徒中，有人在最後一次出擊時代著聖經同行，也有人在最後一夜吟誦讚美詩歌 --- 雖然明知在基地嚴格檢閱制度之下是危險的行為。即使不是基督徒，也有人熱衷於閱讀基督教相關讀物，這是因為在現代日本，知識上最有影響力的領導人物是基督徒，不過也不只有這個原因。基督教是「死後」的宗教，人的精神和肉體在死後會變成怎樣，是基督教關注的焦點 ; 相反地，日本的宗教是「世俗的」宗教，是以現世的利益為中心，所以年輕人在探尋「犧牲有何意義」的過程中，選擇了靠向基督教。
如果認為他們的知識活動只是單純地信奉西方的高級文化（High Culture)，或是嘗試超越這些文化，那就大錯特錯了。在日本人用來吸收西洋文明的根基中，存在著中國的知識傳統，許多領域經年累月受到這方面的影響。六世紀傳入日本的儒家思想以新的形勢復興（特別是在一八八〇年代時)，並且提供了堅固的基礎，讓日本在此時形成的意識型態特別重視忠義和犧牲，因此，日本才具備了成為現代軍事民族國家的種種條件，而且，這個民族國家以國民的犧牲作為前提。在十七世紀傳入的朱子學 --- 尤其是陽明學 --- 特別重視個人的新的主體性，因此可以作為日本吸收康德個人主義時的精神基礎。
- 關於神風特攻隊-
一九四三年（昭和十八年）五月十__日，田邊在京都帝國大學面對爆滿的聽眾，發表了在今日被認為是惡名昭彰的演講，聽眾裡也有即「學徒出陣」遠赴前線的大學生。田邊讚揚「個人對國家的貢獻」，並且認為這才是改革社會的手段，但是對於在台下聆聽的同學而言，田邊所提倡的主張將會在現實中導致學生遠赴前線，並戰死沙場。
如果分析學生們所閱讀的作品，可以發現活躍於十八世紀後半到二十世紀初期之間的作家，大都曾經受到各種浪漫主義思想的影響（這類浪漫主義在十八世紀後半席捲了德國、法國、俄國）。在希特勒登上全力大位的前一年（一九三二），日本的浪漫派雜誌創刊，這本雜誌激進地將浪漫主義和國粹主義結合在一起。日本浪漫派的先驅者保田與重郎宣告了馬克思主義的終結，並宣揚浪漫主義即將帶來新的篇章。
與納粹政權下的德意志相同，日本也有部分知識份子和藝術家與國粹主義密不可分。今天我們有時會認為參與浪漫主義的運動者們有自己的「陰暗之處」，不過真正重要的是浪漫主義強調美的價值。這是因為年輕人將美的價值投射到自己的理想主義和愛國心之上，使自己的犧牲得以正當化，成為源於高尚動機、追求美好目標的行動者。
年輕人之中也有馬克斯主義者。這些馬克斯主義者不只針對已被物質主義會資本主義腐化的英國、美國，即使是對自己的國家，也抱持著為了破壞一切而獻身的覺悟。他們熱切盼望，在古老日本崩壞之後的灰燼中，會出現如鳳凰重生般的新日本。攻隊員之中，也有人認為烏托邦就存在於艾伯特。史懷哲的人道主義之中。
除此之外，還有虔誠的基督教徒。這些基督徒中，有人在最後一次出擊時代著聖經同行，也有人在最後一夜吟誦讚美詩歌 --- 雖然明知在基地嚴格檢閱制度之下是危險的行為。即使不是基督徒，也有人熱衷於閱讀基督教相關讀物，這是因為在現代日本，知識上最有影響力的領導人物是基督徒，不過也不只有這個原因。基督教是「死後」的宗教，人的精神和肉體在死後會變成怎樣，是基督教關注的焦點 ; 相反地，日本的宗教是「世俗的」宗教，是以現世的利益為中心，所以年輕人在探尋「犧牲有何意義」的過程中，選擇了靠向基督教。
如果認為他們的知識活動只是單純地信奉西方的高級文化（High Culture)，或是嘗試超越這些文化，那就大錯特錯了。在日本人用來吸收西洋文明的根基中，存在著中國的知識傳統，許多領域經年累月受到這方面的影響。六世紀傳入日本的儒家思想以新的形勢復興（特別是在一八八〇年代時)，並且提供了堅固的基礎，讓日本在此時形成的意識型態特別重視忠義和犧牲，因此，日本才具備了成為現代軍事民族國家的種種條件，而且，這個民族國家以國民的犧牲作為前提。在十七世紀傳入的朱子學 --- 尤其是陽明學 --- 特別重視個人的新的主體性，因此可以作為日本吸收康德個人主義時的精神基礎。
Think Fast Slow (edit)
Zajonc offered an eloquent summary of his program of research:
* Overconfidence: As the WYSIATI rule implies, neither the quantity nor the quality of the evidence counts for much in subjective confidence. The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little. We often fail to allow for the possibility that evidence that should be critical to our judgment is missing - what we see is all there is. Furthermore, our associative system tends to settle on a coherent pattern of activation and suppresses doubt and ambiguity.
*Framing effects: Different ways of presenting the same information often evoke different emotions. The statement that "the odds of survival one month after surgery are 90%" is more reassuring than the equivalent statement that "mortality within one month of surgery is 10%". Similarly, cold cuts described as "10% fat." The equivalence of the alternative formulations is transparent, but an individual normally sees only one formulation, and what she sees is all there is.
*Base-rate neglect: Recall Steve, the meek and tidy soul who is often believed to be a librarian, The personality description is salient and vivd, and although you surely know that there are more male farmers than male librarians, that statistical fact almost certainly did not come to your mind when you first considered the question. What you saw was all there was.
Halo effect
Halo effect is a cognitive bias in which an observer's overall impression of a person, company, brand, or product influences the observer's feelings and thoughts about that entity's character or properties. It was named by psychologist Edward Thorndike in reference to a person being perceived as having a halo.
The consequences of repeated exposures benefit the organism in its relations to the immediate animate and inanimate environment. They allow the organism to distinguish objects and habitats that are safe from those that are not, and they are the most primitive basis of social attachments. Therefore, they form the basis for social organisation and cohesion - the basic sources of psychological and social stability.WYSIATI:
* Overconfidence: As the WYSIATI rule implies, neither the quantity nor the quality of the evidence counts for much in subjective confidence. The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little. We often fail to allow for the possibility that evidence that should be critical to our judgment is missing - what we see is all there is. Furthermore, our associative system tends to settle on a coherent pattern of activation and suppresses doubt and ambiguity.
*Framing effects: Different ways of presenting the same information often evoke different emotions. The statement that "the odds of survival one month after surgery are 90%" is more reassuring than the equivalent statement that "mortality within one month of surgery is 10%". Similarly, cold cuts described as "10% fat." The equivalence of the alternative formulations is transparent, but an individual normally sees only one formulation, and what she sees is all there is.
*Base-rate neglect: Recall Steve, the meek and tidy soul who is often believed to be a librarian, The personality description is salient and vivd, and although you surely know that there are more male farmers than male librarians, that statistical fact almost certainly did not come to your mind when you first considered the question. What you saw was all there was.
Halo effect
Halo effect is a cognitive bias in which an observer's overall impression of a person, company, brand, or product influences the observer's feelings and thoughts about that entity's character or properties. It was named by psychologist Edward Thorndike in reference to a person being perceived as having a halo.
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Should remember the days
Regular exercise is an excellent way to boost your mood, and also it triggers endorphins release.
Saturday, July 4, 2015
Twelve
Double x 400 (2 roll)
(HC-110)
B : 18.8 ml / 600ml
Developer time : 6.5 min
Fixer :
- ONE WAS NOT BEEN TAKEN
- MOUNTAIN CLIMBING
Trix 400 (5 roll) + Double x 400 (1 roll)
B : 18.8 ml / 600ml
ISO : 400
Developer time : 4.5-6 min or 7.5 min | 6.5 min
Fixer :
- Bibo parachu
- Japan
Trix 400 (2 roll) ISO : 1600 1000(＋->1600)
B : 18.8 ml / 600ml
Developer time : 16 min
Fixer :
one failed
Double x 100 (1 roll)iso: 100 +1 >> 200
1. 20℃ water :
2. HC-110 : 5 mins
1. 20℃ water :
2. HC-110 : 5 mins
Developer:
18.8/600mL
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Record#1
Most candidates in the list were all about SC or EE, so I would say this is an another case that I don't realise my situation, just like applying wrong position in graduate degree five years ago. Okay, this second mistake should be avoided in the following years. cheers.
Friday, June 26, 2015
I'm wasting time, but it isn't my heart it isn't my fault.
I don't take degree for granted, but still I know I've wasted a lot of time wondering about what I want, and it comes out differently every time. This is not the worst time though, I'm just sticking in decisions. Maybe because the eagerness doesn't trigger determination, or maybe I just ...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
JunkWare
Our first template for garbage: " garbage is organic. It's formless and it stinks" (and Feud added: this what money is to us, shit) Organic is a wonderful product whose consumption requires its destruction.
We are embedded in our trash - there is no easy way to leap beyond it and build a utopia without garbage, to address the contradiction between the world's limited resources and our seemingly unlimited ability to manufacture trash. its production is rooted in survival, represented in every culture, and magnified by economic success. To purge the earth of garbage would be to destroy our own reflection.
We are embedded in our trash - there is no easy way to leap beyond it and build a utopia without garbage, to address the contradiction between the world's limited resources and our seemingly unlimited ability to manufacture trash. its production is rooted in survival, represented in every culture, and magnified by economic success. To purge the earth of garbage would be to destroy our own reflection.
- John Knechtel, Trash
Ernst Mayr might have first enunciated the new notion of "programmed purposiveness." In a November 1961 paper entitled "Cause and Effect in Biology: kinds of causes, Predictability, and Teleology Are Viewed by a practicing Biologist," he adopted Pittendrigh's term, but offered a key precision:"it would seem useful to rigidly restrict the term teleonomic to systems operating on the basis of a program of coded information." This was a particularly from the functioning of a program that appeared prior to the purpose: in other words, purpose is here a descriptive rather than a prescriptive notion. This is exactly in tune with cybernetic redefinition of purpose as programmed purposiveness, and as such it had a crucial consequence for the ontology founding the research program of molecular biology: it enshrined the metaphor of DNA qua program.
" Genetic regulation is not carried out by proteins only, but rather by very complex networks where noncoding RNAs. (i.e., transcribed but not translated DNA sequences) play the key parts." Now, you guessed it: noncoding RNA are the transcripts of formerly considered junk DNA.
Sunday, March 8, 2015
Arrow Paradox - VOP14
It's an argument by Zeno. When you analyse the trajectory of an arrow, the arrow moves through its starting point and the midpoint between the starting point and the target, and then from this midpoint to another midpoint between its current position and the target. If you follow this logic, there is an infinite number of midpoints between the starting point and the target, therefore no matter how far the arrow travels it will never reach the target itself. This paradox can be explored from the mathematics and philosophical perspective.
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Tame me
"Please--tame me!" he said.
"I want to, very much," the little prince replied. "But I have not much time. I have friends to discover, and a great many things to understand."
"One only understands the things that one tames," said the fox. "Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me . . ."
"What must I do, to tame you?" asked the little prince.
"You must be very patient," replied the fox. "First you will sit down at a little distance from me--like that--in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. But you will sit a little closer to me, every day . . ."
The next day the little prince came back.
"It would have been better to come back at the same hour," said the fox. "If, for example, you come at four o'clock in the afternoon, then at three o'clock I shall begin to be happy. I shall feel happier and happier as the hour advances. At four o'clock, I shall already be worrying and jumping about. I shall show you how happy I am! But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you . . . One must observe the proper rites . . ."
"What is a rite?" asked the little prince.
"Those also are actions too often neglected," said the fox. "They are what make one day different from other days, one hour from other hours. There is a rite, for example, among my hunters. Every Thursday they dance with the village girls. So Thursday is a wonderful day for me! I can take a walk as far as the vineyards. But if the hunters danced at just any time, every day would be like every other day, and I should never have any vacation at all."
So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near--
"Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry."
"It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . ."
"Yes, that is so," said the fox.
"But now you are going to cry!" said the little prince.
"Yes, that is so," said the fox.
"Then it has done you no good at all!"
"It has done me good," said the fox, "because of the color of the wheat fields." And then he added:
"Go and look again at the roses. You will understand now that yours is unique in all the world. Then come back to say goodbye to me, and I will make you a present of a secret."
"I want to, very much," the little prince replied. "But I have not much time. I have friends to discover, and a great many things to understand."
"One only understands the things that one tames," said the fox. "Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me . . ."
"What must I do, to tame you?" asked the little prince.
"You must be very patient," replied the fox. "First you will sit down at a little distance from me--like that--in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. But you will sit a little closer to me, every day . . ."
The next day the little prince came back.
"It would have been better to come back at the same hour," said the fox. "If, for example, you come at four o'clock in the afternoon, then at three o'clock I shall begin to be happy. I shall feel happier and happier as the hour advances. At four o'clock, I shall already be worrying and jumping about. I shall show you how happy I am! But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you . . . One must observe the proper rites . . ."
"What is a rite?" asked the little prince.
"Those also are actions too often neglected," said the fox. "They are what make one day different from other days, one hour from other hours. There is a rite, for example, among my hunters. Every Thursday they dance with the village girls. So Thursday is a wonderful day for me! I can take a walk as far as the vineyards. But if the hunters danced at just any time, every day would be like every other day, and I should never have any vacation at all."
So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near--
"Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry."
"It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . ."
"Yes, that is so," said the fox.
"But now you are going to cry!" said the little prince.
"Yes, that is so," said the fox.
"Then it has done you no good at all!"
"It has done me good," said the fox, "because of the color of the wheat fields." And then he added:
"Go and look again at the roses. You will understand now that yours is unique in all the world. Then come back to say goodbye to me, and I will make you a present of a secret."
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