In Progress...!

1/28/06

A Dream to Remember (firstcomet):

Last night I had a dream. I should say a grandiose dream! An entire symphony orchestra was playing in my head. It makes me mad since I do not have the craft to write it down. If I could though, I would have called it the Memories! It all happened in a house with open roofs, so that the nature could play its own part in the tragedies of the resident's life: the clouds, the thunderstorms, and the ever mysteries night sky had added to the paranoia. The walls of the house were covered with full panoply of panoramic posters made of my life events. The main theme of the symphony was a funeral march. But strange enough, I was the only one who could hear it: the crashing of the cymbals, the ever echoing sound of the tympanis, and the ghostly like chorus singing down from the heavens. Ironically, the common vocation of the residents of the house was cosmetics: some waiting to get a makeover under the heavy thunderstorm and some taciturn characters giving the service! What a absurdity at play! And then there was me disoriented, literally running around, staring at people in their faces, searching for a special someone that I had seen earlier. I guess the theme of the symphony was more of nostalgia than a funeral. What a lonely sojourn has been my life! But that grand symphony that after a while I so helplessly found myself taken away with, au contraire metamorphosed the scene into something worthy of eternal recurrence!

1/23/06

Definition:
Bureaucracy is the practice of replacing logic with a rank-base authority as the ultimate rationale.

Three-layers hypothesis:
In any bureaucratic system one has to go three levels up the rank hierarchy to observe the slightest sign of intelligence.

Corollary:
In any bureaucratic system the first two layers could be safely replaced by a machine.

1/21/06

The world's funniest joke:
Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn't seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other guy whips out his phone and calls the emergency services. He gasps: "My friend is dead! What can I do?" The operator says: "Calm down, I can help. First, let's make sure he's dead." There is a silence, then a shot is heard. Back on the phone, the guy says: "OK, now what?"

1. Determine the optimal set of stock price indicators through PCA, PLS.
2. Construct a estimator based on fuzzy logic, neural nets, Kalman predictor to project ahead.
3. Use the actual price versus predicted price to adaptively train your estimator parameters.
4. Cash your money and move on!

1/18/06

From tomorrow I'll be teaching two discussion sections of calculus II. The eternal recurrence will be at work: Two discussion sections back to back! And that's okay... I guess that makes me a Ubermensch!!!

1/17/06

Virtual Drum set!

1/16/06

Adenosine slows down nerve cell activity.
Caffeine binds to adenosine receptors and blocks the intake of adenosine.
The result is an increased neuron firing.
The body thinks there is a state of emergency!
The pituitary gland commands the adrenal glands to release adrenaline.
Adrenaline puts the body in a "fight or flight" state.
With an increased level of energy the human subject is ready to follow her objectives!

To me the culture of Pro Wrestling is very interesting! Becoming a smark; that is a smart mark! A smark is a person who knows this whole thing is "a rhapsody, a comedy, and a play". He might even know what's going on behind the scene, but he still engages himself! To be a smart maybe after all is not that smart. What does it mean to be smart anyways?
Foods for thought: Evolution of Intelligence, Adaptation, Society as the labyrinth we reside in