it's been a few years. but I thought it might be a good time to restart this since I've been writing chunks of nonsensicals on my computer anyway. it's not like I have anything to hide but I also don't want to put them on fb.
so I suppose this is going to be a long post of short statements/arguments from what my college collection that cannot be properly categorized further (cuz I can't give well-defined morphisms lol)
we need the snake game on microwave screens
bonobos use sex as resolutions for conflicts;
human use innuendos to express anger/conflicting thoughts or emotions. Ape much?
we should have expandable and modular automobiles in the market as a commodity
we already have developed successful business and service models, but we need to make a migratable physical model to expand the market to all people that purchase not luxury vehicles.
richard ford (jun 26, 2012) on Colbert Report- novels are about the consequences of the human behavior, not the behavior itself. In Beloved, the narratives focuses on how setha lives up to the consequences of her "thickened" love and attempts of escape from the sweet home, rather than just telling the story her escape followed by the "killing".
would I still want to do all the things that "distracts" me if I can be absolutely certain of my ability (achievement-wise and socially-speaking)? i.e. if I know that I can absolutely able to write music like great musicians, would I still want to write music? if I know that I can absolutely be a great painter, would I still want to do it? it seems that human desires have a strong correspondence with the cognitive dissonance of "you think you can but you don't know for sure until you try, therefore you gotta try". uncertainty is crucial to curiosity, which drives interests and motivates actions.
Therefore a potential upside for a strongly homogeneous society is the ease for specialization since everyone can agree they start from the exact same blank slate (so only epi-"genetically" different). But naturally specializations would gradually make its members to grow apart over time, and would this be the reason why death/reproduction is a good idea? (lisa you are tearing me apart!)
pillow chairs with armrests man _=/\
have a flexible electronic paper t-shirts into ones with patterns/logos of liking.
"magic book" a 100 page full size electronic paper display book that can be transformed into any book with the familiar paper hardcopy feel (why not since we've got magic posters/mirrors already. just need it to be even thinner)
21~22 consonant 11 vowel in Viet
26 consonant 30 vowel in Madarin
22 consonant 20 vowel in English
cool story bro
以其所知喻其所不知，而使人知之
“事实如此”的实然命题（佛/哲、印欧）
“应该如此”的价值命题（墨/名、春秋战国）
In order to find the beasts, you have to find the beast in you.
且沐者，去首垢也；洗，去足垢；盥，去手垢；浴，去身垢。
after watching the snowboard short film WHITE-NOISE... I realized that we need to have people to make video game footage from quadrotors and/or headmount gopros so that everyone can enjoy an HQ video game about snowboarding with some insane level of realism. someone's probably trying to do this right meow.
everyone should fight on the paper, but unite in the fields
越爱思考，越爱性“本”恶。
假定所有人天生自私，而绝大多数人遵纪守法，又有很多履行道义之士，那么可以说所有“性善”的人必定有一个相似逻辑推导：为了自身的社会利益，不能被发现有不道德行为（level1），不能做对社会有危害的事（level2），要积极为社会做贡献（level3）。
而爱思考的“善者”多会把此逻辑具象化，以做到自省，与自我提升、改进；爱思考的“恶者”则一来不赞同此逻辑或发现短期利益的诱惑实在难以阻挠而决定做有违道义的事；不爱思考的人多只通过某种渠道接受某种他定的价值观而不做改进。所以有人会说自己就乃性本善（不爱思考者），有人会感到自己性本恶（爱思考者）。
doing a word search from library checkouts, although inefficient, usually results in more breadth and understanding of the subject as the inquirer had to (at least) skim/filter through much more extra information
tactical t-shirt
front-notebook pouch - expandable into reading friendly angle
back-MSR Dromedary Bag - with hose come out at drinking angle in front
secure (grassroot) radio navigation network
tx power OC tx velocity
fully anoynomous
broadcast (spreaded) tx location <=> use tof of spreading code and received locations to localize
problem lies with how to resolve multiple access
[note from 2014: I should read much more on the current development of multiple target multi-sensor tracking and data fusion]
diffusion is a (mere) statistical phenomenon
=> social equality (diffusion) can only be enhanced when risky behaviors (thermal jitters) are encouraged
nice poem:
雨声长空荡涤清，远山初出未知名，
夜來江上为钩月，时有惊鱼掷浪声。
滥觞
sci-fi idea1
a future where people patent physical skill sequences and trade skills in a sense similar to certain video games, due to ability to document neuro-sequences and then translate into training enhancements or even genetic supplements (focus on the ethics, hopefully demonstrate a discrepancy between producer and benefinary)
sci-fi idea2
assume survival till the end of Sun's major sequence, invent some crazy tech/strategy s.t. we need to move the earth to survive the rad giant phase.
I: maybe at a different part of the galaxy s.t. we can use planetary manuvers
II: explosions
with only a body armor that recycles pee, and replaces daily solid wastes, and supplies nutrients through soylent(TM?) [note from 2014: is that still a thing?], you can have a disgustingly efficient and disgusting life
a hyperlapse type project, whereby a paranoma ball camera with trackers, batteries, and security systems is released into either a very populated area or let drift in a river.
soliloquy:
青砖筑路，白石堆墙；小子歌谣，群翁把钓。
all heil the roche limit
Education rid us of arrogance piece by piece. When you realize what an abysmal being you are in comparison to the universe (and all the previous genius), the only thing left to do is to educate others. And doesn't this totally sound like a pyramid scheme?
economics tells me that speculation is productive/beneficial as far as smoothing the market risk(t). Then since specialization increases productivity and efficiency, we should have specialists in speculations. However, since the productive corporations themselves can and do speculate (they can either get an internal market assessment department that specialize in speculating related costs and products, or outsource to an external agency), why do we want companies that profit solely from speculations (not through their speculative services provided)? maybe one reason is that will help to reject monopoly and monopsony in trading and trading activities only.
what would happen to male and female relationship if the pleasure and purpose (reproductive) of sex is deprived.
the key to not being seen is to be unsuspiciously conspicuous
there is no good people or bad people. What we have are people who think and people who don't; people who see right now and people who plan ahead; people who behave smart and people who act clumsy.
运气，抓住了就是机会；没抓住就是后悔。
the cycle of success:
training/empowerment of self
=> self confidence and competence
=> ability to demonstrate superiority and dominance
=> bringing in more associates who stay as colleagues
=> larger network
=> bigger achievements
=> highly motivated to train and empower oneself cuz u da boss
perforated vinyl sheet glass house
a novel about competition and collaboration in a sci-fi senario of people racing to get their mind stored in immortality jars
the ultimate business strategy: play off of others' insecurity and false security
do we have a complete simulation of human hormone interaction system
need of being important v. need of being appreciated
experience v. expertise
the way of lowering potential energy: 道无所不在，水无所不利，避高趋下，未尝有所逆，善处地也；空处湛静，深不可测。
"the fanatic is perpetually incomplete and insecure" and thus uses uncompromising action and personal sacrifice to give meaning to his life
devil is more essential than the devine in fanaticism
plunger style (that sucks to the ceiling) lecture recording quadcoptor
there needs to be a picture book on higher mathematics definitions
it is fascinating to note how despite the many similar outlooks on life and relationships, I can feel so irrevocably disconnected with woody allen films.
would specialization necessarily bring out the 高出不胜寒
stupid flash game: spread "poop" over the walls of a sewer/tunnel system. give limited poop balls located at various places and you can manually moosh it to the wall. and you can solve mini puzzles from time to time to get guns to explode the poop balls around to make a huge mess.
spherical wheel drive vehicle using maglev technology [note from 2014: apparently some engr students did a similar thing (spherical wheels but no magnets) for a motored bike as their senior design and start-up a while back. don't know what that's turning out.]
ambient beat matching music player so that neighbors' loud bass can never bother you again
short story expanded on the novel ideas from "before midnight." Title: "( the human) conditions"
filled with pairs of contrasting "mental conditions" of extremely different characters e.g. thinking too far-ahead vs. nearsighted, remembers everything (bad) vs. super forgetful (of good things) vs. constant Deja-vu (captain hindsight). ......
and somehow plot twist at the end to show it was the same person (and everyone) all along
I'm a thief (of movies) and an idealistic BS generator
utilities of productive idiocracy
if the criminals cannot get their way easily due to the nonexistence of idiots with wanted products, then criminals will become smarter and smarter and make it harder for smart people to spot them.
rage comic concept:
sit in chair, working on computer
"it's so dark in here, I'm getting sleepy... gonna open the blinds."
blinds next to bed, can't reach
stand up and pull very hard
reaction force land on bed faceplant
"now it's just a perfect position to fall asleep, but it's so bright in here"
"FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU"
watching 朗朗 in this music production film/video, his great optism, confidence and passion made me think maybe my deire to contribute actually "impoartant" (in a way that I interpret) work to the world is more of a form of hubris and gluttony than being responsible. Because the fact is no matter how little I think of what his accomplishing is influencing our grand antropological struggle in this universe, he is definitely make a smedge of impact. And to think that what he's doing is not "important" or how I want to/ can be more "important" is no different than thinking I'm "better" and/or more "capable."
is there a correlation between people who can speak/write french well easily and geniuses at using complicated abstract mathematical concepts? To me, doing every single French hearing exercise on Duolingo is like doing a proof: you always have to use limited (and usually very subtle) audible clues to decipher what 300 other inaudible things that need to be written down... yet it's so logical and "obvious"
if you are sad enough, everything would become hilarious
what would happen if the "skin" of a fluid interaction surface moving along with the fluid? Assuming no slip condition, if there is two rotating core that arranges the wing like to tank tracks stitched up upside down next to each other, then we can reduce the fluid skin friction problem to a mechanical dry friction problem.... it's probably going to create more problems than the ones it solves, but should worth an experiment
my slow ascension to pure math left me with more "life" skills (e.g. prgm) than my avg. math colleagues
The one truth that holds for eternity is that nothing is eternal. (Only thing that does not change is change itself.)
we are just a bunch of tiny dots jittering on a slightly larger tiny dot circling a slightly larger one...
There are things that you enjoy greatly when you are doing it, but when you pause or finish, you say "fuck!" There are also things that you yell "fuck!" (maybe not out loud) continuously while doing it, but when you pause or finish, you say "yeah that's right. I've done it!"
The first brings you addiction, while the latter brings you achievement.
The problem is not that no one can be perfectly rational, but no one wants to be completely rational.
what follows extreme ecstasy is usually acute depression
it actually make sense natural selection -wise for more "stupid" people to procreate more often. With less intelligence, you are relying more on chance and luck that your offspring will grow and survive/succeed. With more intelligence, you are more confident that your offspring will become relatively sucessful thus you don't want/need to deal with the complications of having many children.
so I don't want friends that talks about meaningless bs like how many good booty they saw all day - there goes 30% - and I also don't want people who want things from me - another 30% - of course I also despise people who love math/science/history not - 10% more - then there are people among the rest who are generally awesome and have too many friends to care about me - minus 5% - finally the peeps that are extremely introverted - bye-bye 4% - now what's left is my pool of potential friends. I'm lonely. [note from 2014: I was definitely being too harsh on the BS statistics. but I also forget about their overlaps. oh well]
There are only two good traits that anything can have; either it's useful or it's beautiful.
learning about the technologies of "correlated magnetics" truly demonstrated how "think about small things deeply" can be very productive. [note from 2014: I have used the array of magnet arrangement when I was trying to hang heavy stuff on a fridge before. But I never got to generalize the idea.]
cynicism is the worst gift of intellect.
Change (always) comes from within. (came up when contemplating how impossible it would be for me to bring changes in Modern Chinese social structure; I'm an outsider now.)
you can learn the most from the people who are most dissimilar from you. Yet the natural, self-reassuring human tendency is to live among a similar group for protection.
write a passage/poem in the perspective of a "banished" fly. background: I heard a fly soaring in my room, natrualich it is very annoying and 我费劲心机 caught it in a cup. in the process I noticed that it has very slow reactions comparing to normal flies (many near-misses yet the fly did not dodge). so I conjucture he is relatively old. thus I decided to spare his life but being a humanist human I have to prioritize my own comfort, thus I repelled it (third R from Veep ha) to the balcony. long behold today I notice a fly just quietly hanging on the outside of the 纱窗 of my room, chillin' in sorrow. Thus I conjure again that it is the same old fly who think the "God monkeys" had banished him away from his "home" and powerless in finding a way back in, he quietly sits on the outside and watch and try to remember his childhood as a nat inside the room.
frankfurt school in sociology: enlightenment rationalism brings disenchantment to the world. in turn the world become modernized, bureaucratic, and secularized. but there seems to be an inherent humanistic desire for re-enchanting creeds ( which rings a bell with the concept of creating our own humanist emergent theory that is compatible with naturalism from Sean Carroll's talk).
wow, so I've seen at least 7.5 weeks continuous worth of films and have 12 days worth as my watchlist. [note from 2014: don't even want to think about how much tv I've seen]
are you ambitious and want to control shits? go explore and find new shits to claim! The ambitious type is precisely not the type you want to be in charge of old established shits.
Universities seek prestige rather than quality.
Universities choose professors the way some men choose wives -- they want ones that others will admire. [note from 2014: I do not think I wrote these]
the better a system is, the less drive for its improvement exists.
As Upton Sinclair noted long ago, “It is hard to get a man to understand something when he is being paid not to understand it.”
the true wisdom and beauty of Rip Vin Winkle is that it revealed the general incentive structure for all but especially cunning dishonesties. Personally I have just realized that I am a habitual lier on many respect. I lie about small and seemingly insignificant facts and I get people convinced by appealing to their self-interest rationally that (1) no one wants to believe a relatively arduous and "smart" and extremely candor person like me is being deceptive and (2) it would cost them too much should they try to figure out the content of my claims. I also lie to my parents from time to time (e.g. not message them and claim that I was too busy) without noticeable pushbacks for that it is their self-interests to believe that they have an honest son who's honest to them and doing what they want me to do (succeed in school/life).
alcohol does not make you lose control. it makes you to relinquish control.
the only weapon against human "depravity" is material "depravity"
wake of a body moving steadily in deep water is always 2arcsin(1/3) [note from 2014: whoo internet]
you can't not be afraid of what you don't understand; you can't not be afraid of what's more powerful than you
(birds on my balcony, me; me, murderous psychopath;...)
concentrate philanthropy, diversify investment: the key cause for the difference is that the former requires (and hopefully will be) building trust while the latter trust should be tangent (for rational beings in an ideal ownership-oriented world)
death of the romantic
shows the necessary victory of reason and the realistic. the unnatural but humanly attraction of romance, the wordless, ethos, da feels, and its death. with an ending where a son finally in all of silence at dawn, heard all of the trouble of the mother's day-ly troubles (or maybe they got into an argument earlier?) and saw the seasoned feet of her, wanting to give out a nice foot massage. yet the mother stopped him, rightfully so, for asking if he's hungry after all/for her athele's foot/for it is time for his medicine/for he needs to take a shower. And then the son quietly answered "not hungry", got up, washed hands, took pills, but silently sat down and went into thinking. background: the young son is sick, a strong proponent of reason, rationality over all else; the mother wants romance as every other human. the ending is meant for calling the dual nature that romance is in every human, but even the romantic goes for reason eventually.
仅读庄子片面之言我觉得惠施并非诡辩家，只可怜他没有遇到euclid或者其他有作为的数学家、哲学家点化/交流而没有成大器。终成传统极度实用主义和自傲求胜一心顾名交叉下的败者。
至大无外，谓之大一；至小无内，谓之小一。无厚，不可积也，其大千里。日方中方睨，物方生方死。我知天之中央，燕之北、越之南是也。一尺之棰，日取其半，万世不竭。
(from 2011)
tested hypothesis: in finding a real-time sol'n of a quickly evolving dynamic system, only depth first search make sense. then smaller stepsize yields more precise result, and higher clock frequency results in better adaptability. Therefore moving like a penguin on crack (jerking really fast) is the quickest way to move through a huge crowd.
famous fish n' chip
jump jive and wail
it's pretty evident that my learning performance has been directly correspondent to how much I like the instructor. so with this relationship bijective, does me being horrible at self-studying an indicator that I hate myself?
i am so little but I want so big
I don't want to be specialists; they got the picks (for their expertise), but not the kicks (of diverse challanges).
Brownian Milkshake: (soy)milk with (coconut) brownie chunks
punny buns
isn't metaphor just a metaphorical simile?
Does finding something uninteresting (hate-able, resentful, disgusting) much easier than finding passion a proof making me a passimist/hater or everyone else?
sometimes the cheesiest thing is the easiest thing
historically speaking, the prevalence of patriarchal stage of civilizations could entirely be caused by the simplicity of manhood biologically speaking. [physical strength can only explain very brief periods of male dominance as most world leaders throughout history are not the man with biggest muscle (albeit probably have the biggest whips/armies)].
All that the (straight) men have is a desire to penetrate and impregnate. while on the other hand, [I believe] being a woman is much more complicated and exhausting biologically speaking (you have to have planning skills for weird shit of bleeding periodically. you got ALL the equipments for breeding offsprings. you got to experience great pain in doing so physically. you are more emotionally complex in find relationships. the list goes on and on). Thus the lack of complex purpose give men a lot more extra vigor to think about and do great (and stupid) things. With practice makes the perfect and Voila! men become secularly (yes this include religion... the inability to directly communicate to deity with proof makes it a human activity) more sophisticated.
hot fresh muffin/brownie with cold yogurt inside
does technology bestow mediocracy?
why more "intelligent/empathetic" person would be more likely to be sad/depressed than angry/full of hatred is that empathy and intelligency usually result more discerning qualities and make an individual to internalize tragedies/faults/guilt since nothing bad happen to a person without the person doing something (albeit could be tiny) wrong. The ones who are incapable of seeing through the cause and effect chain originated from self become the classical angry mob and turn to destruction of other rather than self-loathing. Ofc the real heros and the intellects would in turn move self-loathing into motivation for self-improvement, and become great instead of depressed.
there are only two ways to do good art: either you explain everything correctly or don't elucidate at all. Unfortunately only the first way is allowed in mathematics, but fortunately both are accessible to mathematician writing books. (mathematics is not art, but doing it or expressing it is.)
welcome \neq appreciation.
