April, 2008

How to save millions per year for your newspaper?

 

Dear CEO of XXX News:
 
I am writing in regard to an automatic news article writer (NAW) that can  save your company millions of dolloar per year (see appendix below for peudo code). The basic idea of NAW is to be able to automatically generate news articles with comparable quality to news articles written by actual human reporters by your company.
 

大草原和越野车:谈谈科学的硬壳(上)

到非洲撒哈拉沙漠以南辽阔的大草原(Safari)上旅行可能是很多人的梦想。在电视上大家可能看过这样的镜头:纯净高远的蓝天之下,水草丰美的草甸之上,大群大群的野生动物随意倘佯,与坐在越野车上的游客咫尺相邻,兴奋的游客们有的照相,有的惊呼指点,好不快活。不过,如果知道这些游客在上车前受到的警告,可能有人就不会觉得有这么快活了。

嫉妒教信的是假道么? 一个教义的分析

面对嫉妒教徒(1)的所作所为,很多人很疑惑,为什么这些自称以耶酥为楷模的人群,
行为上和耶酥所教的往往是背道而弛呢?我现在说的行为,并不是指个别嫉妒教徒的恶
行,而是在嫉妒徒中普遍的存在的,在外人看来是虚伪的行为。一个极端的例子,就是
前美国新教福音派领袖Ted Haggard。而不那么极端的例子,读者如果留意,就可以在
身边找到。正如甘地所说:"我喜爱你们的耶酥,只是太多的嫉妒徒和耶酥实在太不像

Suspending to RAM on Debian laptop

I am tracking Debian sid on my Thinkpad laptop, a few months ago it started to use pm-utils and broke suspending to RAM (sleep) functionality. Basically, the machine would go to sleep then immediately resume.
It turned out that this problem can be easily fixed by creating a file /etc/pm/config.d/local, and put in a line

SUSPEND_MODULES="e1000"

The reason is that pm-utils by default does not unload Ethernet card module e1000, so the machine would be waken up by Ethernet card activities.

显微镜下的数学

显微镜下的数学 Mathematics under microscope (电子书下载)是本数学家写的
从认知角度看数学的书,挺有启发性的。

数学和心理学的联系,应该要比和物理学的联系还要紧密,还要更自然:数学是心理产
物(Mathematics is the study of mental objects with reproducible properties.
p.IX),而心理学是研究心理产物的产生过程的。如果对心理产物本身都不了解,如