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audited continuous finance, investment

found continuous finance very close the the combination of probability, stochastic process, mathematics modeling which i learnt in college.

a lot of unfamiliar jargons in investment.

talked with Rong.

Start on WIL again.

Need to come out with a paper within one month. How should I plan it?

Software developers do spiking and prototyping in the first iteration.

Should I do some prototyping for research?

Never hear researchers do that. But perhaps I’m not really a researcher now. I’m just a paper writer.

courses. 3 in succession. great teachers.

planning how to set up servers for the group in the future.

The reason for i didn’t update the blog yesterday is: I’m a little exhausted The cause for that is, again, the ever energy draining emacs.

i got to know it when taking the data structure course of Zhu Zhongtao in Tsinghua. He is crazy for emacs and he was demonstrating it in the class room everyday. For a long time I worship those hardcore hackers. I myself also spent a lot of time in it. But now I ask myself: what is the advantage emacs gave me in helping me SOLVING PROBLEMS?

It helps when occasionally I need to ssh into a unix/linux server or linux embedded system(Well, most embedded systems can’t afford emacs by the way).

It provides me something for everything so I don’t need to spend the hell lot of time to find and install and maintain a tool every time I try a new language.

Multi-window and multi-frame sometimes help.

But that’s All. Don’t tell me how cool it is to spend a whole lot of effort to make emacs assist you in browsing and programming object oriented source. Don’t mention your long precious .emacs file to make gnus working for gmail plus rss plus whatever. Don’t even mention your newest achievements on adding various panels and windows for emacs: it’s born for command line.

Why the hell should I spend that much time to know so much details of a software in order to use it? It just makes no sense. Stallman did a pretty good job in writing this software. But why should users all over the world to go through the effort he spent on this? Look at the new group of emacs. It contains often the most messages. And most people are just asking how they can tweak their chars and buffers in emacs one way or another. Isn’t it obvious useless repetition?

Why the hell should people put so much effort in enabling old emacs-lisp to deal with everything? Lisp IS out-dated for application development in graphics window and internet era. And it IS so again the wisdom of unix to try to do everything not so well in one program.

It’s a tragedy for programmers to adherent to one software, one os, one platform in such a degree. The only thing a programmer should adherent to is problem solving, which, require in its natural, constant adaptation and pursuit for new things.

I’ll still use emacs as a better replacement of notepad. (Not even sure if it’s better than gedit in some cases.) And that’s all. Adios, Zhongtao.

Emacs is like Stallman. They are all tragedy figures to me in that they were born pioneers, and uncompromisingly moved to their goals only to become the hindrance in the trend at last.

So many pioneers end up like that by the way…

sensor programming.

did my first review of paper.

sorry being so harsh, man.

meeting of structure sensor project.

got to finish it within this week.

Physical_economics

I never really understood why economists can measure the well being of a society by numbers, especially, the number about money. I always feel a lack of reality when looking at those numbers. The stock market of NASDAQ is even more confusing. I believe the number of money and stock are based on physical reality of individuals their interaction and the environment. And I don’t have either the time nor the faith to investigate the implication of the stochastic process of stock market. And on the other hand, the understanding of the physical reality of industry is important for me, and many students with a science and tech major. What’s more, the mathematical-physical technique would also be useful for us as well. (But, speaking of that, the stochastic analysis of traditional economics/financing is also to us… But still I prefer a sense of physical implication.)

Buffet is a practitioner of “Determining the real value of a stock”. He does this by investigating the people and the strategic situation of a company, other than stock price fluctuation. Isn’t that the “physical reality” of a company? Although I’m not in a position to say that I understand either Physical economy or Buffettology very well, I have a feeling that maybe they can be combined together in a certain way, to provide a practical technique for engineering/technology people to gain substantial insight about the industry.

I take zero responsibility for the words above:)

sensor programming

took 3 classes.

found that the mobile phone cable i bought is the wrong type for my phone.

sensor programming. Mmm… I can get it done now.

here people blame apple’s closed system strategy again. if you prefer audio than text, you can listen to this. i phone is, again, a closed platform. Even its carrier choice is limited: a two-year contract with singular. I’m not surprised with this. It’s not because of the crazy personality of Jobs or the self-esteem of Apple, it’s just because that the companies is built up and has been run this way for so many years that the whole system in the company can’t work in another way. Bill Gates commented the i phone plan: “they never get it.” But I think he knows very clear that Apple doesn’t have the kind of engineers and business people experienced with “messing up” with a whole bunch of hardware / software partners and squeezing the profit out of they. In turn Microsoft doesn’t have the engineer and business man to design an innovative, complete and elegant end device and to run a closed strategy to reap the profit exclusively from it. Well, you can always hire somebody else, but the people a company hire have to always fit the way the company is currently running, especially at the crucial point of competition.

So, for this reason, I don’t think we can expect much from apple opening its product. Is it a bad news for startups and freelancers interested in next generation mobile devices? Not really. Big players can’t change their way of business, and what’s good for us in that?

1. Their strategy will gradually become outdated.

2. They collide on each other.

And those two creates a gap in the market for new comers. Hasn’t Microsoft thrived in the gap between IBM and Apple?

Reported to Rong about the sensor project. I need to finish it quickly. (Damn! I’ve wasted a lot of time again)

Went to medical care for hemorrhoids. Have had too much spicy food since I started to cook for myself……

Attended by physician, went to pharmacy store, tried the treatment, cooked for myself, had some sleep… It’s already 7:30.

On the way back to the lab, I met Rong and said “Good evening” to her. I sensed there was something wrong but thought it might be because she was too cold to walk in such a weather. But when I got to the lab Soji told me that I missed the first class of the semester, which is offered by my adviser, Rong.

As I logged into the computer, Rong’s email is there waiting for me…

Cheers.

… Got myself back to work.

investigated tinyOS code.

watched movies…

Damn I’m struck by inertia agian. Damn it!

sensor programming went shopping for the week with Cunqing again watched movies…

sensor programming watched movies…

the more i read, the more i find that some articles are so good that i have to put it here to remind myself for it and also to share it with others.

This article validates my idea that changes will and should be made to the innovation ecosystem:

got up very late.

good to see Shirack and Flow again , and also Zena and Andria. We went to the UH basketball game against Memphis.

watched a movie about the origin of globalization. Once again found that history is constantly repeating itself. Right before the depression, the star stock in Wall Street is those of the radio telecommunication companies who came out from nowhere, just like nowadays internet companies. How are we going to survive another depression? How are we going to survive another war?

Never mind. Let’s enjoy the game.

Got back to work again. Backlog updated.

went to a porcelain store with Jack, with the hope to provide them a website.

found that they came from Jing De in China, and they’re merely doing a introducing their goods here, and will be leaving in a few days.

began to be interested in international trade and international out-sourcing, in a micro-scale, of course.

read more the bio of Edison. His D&B model should be incorporated in nowadays research group practices.

watched movies.

demonstrated sensor project and discussed future development with Rong.

so many beautiful girls in the gym working out. met Dr. Song in the swimming pool. Sensor programming.

played basketball with Chinese friends here.

work out! loose weight!

sensor programming.

missed Cunqing’s drive to super market. Had to take the metro to HEB. So many things to carry…

TinyOS 2.0. Schematics of tmote. It reminded me of Xin Zhang: he was doing schematics and boards all day.

sensor programming.

started the second iteration of sensor programming.

i need to improve a lot in adaptive planning. regulate my own trial of new things with planning and efficiency.

fresh air, BBQ, sunset, fire ring, night in the forest, sun rise, forest trails

Xiaoting, Jack and me went camping at brazos state park from Dec.31, 2006 to Jan.1 2007

here’s the video

here’s the photo

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rest

rest

camping!

camping!