as solid-state drives’ price dropping and getting more n more popular, some of us may be tempted to buy one for use as SSD promises performance and less heat compared to our usual HDDs. if so, you may be interested to find out more abt SSDs in this report by Nikkei Electronics Asia published early last month. even if u’re not buying one soon, this article can give u a good overview of wat SSD is all abt (:
Music and Life
seen this shared by dear friend tuck soon via fb, watch it first/too? (:
if one appreciates this video, it probably means one is no longer young. if one doesn’t appreciate this video, it means one is either (1) young in terms of biological age (2) not young in terms of biological age and in a state of self-denial. this animation reminds us that life’s not just abt waking up in the morning, go to work, work … work … work …, time’s up leave work go home, sleep, morning go to work again … and the cycle repeats itself and on and on …
if one lives to work, probably you should go back to this story (:
Self-evolving game, anyone?
saw this off /. the “Galatic Arms Race (GAR)“, featuring evolving game content. The spaceship weapon systems, automatically evolves based on player behavior through a specialised version of the NEAT evolutionary algorithm called cgNEAT (content-generating NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies). Check out this video below and take note of the variety of (evolved) weapons (:
how far away can we expect to see an educational game that evolves itself based on our students’ behaviours during gameplay? probably very far *hmm*
the businessman and fisherman story
have seen this story some years back but didn’t get a chance to store it away. there are a few variations of this story, a minor tweak here and there but more or less the same. here’s it:
There was once an American businessman who was sitting by the beach in a small Mexican village. As he sat, he saw a Mexican fisherman rowing a small boat towards the shore and noticed that the fisherman has caught quite a number of big fishes that is known to be a delicacy. The American was really impressed and asked the fisherman, “How long does it take you to catch so many fishes?”
The fisherman replied, “Oh, just a short while.”
“Then why don’t you stay longer at sea and you could catch even more?” The businessman was astonished.
The fisherman simply does not agree. “This is enough to feed my whole family,” he says.
The businessman then asked, “So, what do you do for the rest of the day then?”
The fisherman replied, “Well, I usually wake up early in the morning, go out to sea and catch a few fishes, then I would go back and play with my kids. In the afternoon, I will take a nap with my wife, and evening comes, I will join my buddies in the village for a drink, we play guitar, sing and dance throughout the night. My days are ever so complete and carefree.”
The businessman does not agree with his way of life and offered a suggestion to the fisherman.
“I am a PhD holder graduated from Harvard University, specialising in business management. I could help you to become a more successful person. From now on, you have to spend more time at sea and try to catch as many fishes as possible. And when you have saved enough money, you could buy a bigger boat and catch even more fishes. As you go on, you will be able to afford to buy more boats, recruit more fishermen and lead a team of your own. Soon you will be able to set up your own company, your very own production plant for canned food and do direct selling to your distributors. At that time, you will have moved out of this village and to Mexico City, and then expand your operation to LA, and finally to New York City, where you can set up your HQ to manage all your other branches.”
The fisherman asks, “So, how long would that take?”
The businessman reply, “About 15 to 20 years.”
The fisherman continues, “And after that?”
The businessman laughs heartily, “After that, you can live like a king in your own house, and when the time is right, you can go public and float your shares in the Stock Exchange, by then you will be rich, your income will be coming in by the millions!”
The fisherman asks, “And after that?”
The businessman says, “After that, you can finally retire, you can move to a house by the fishing village, wake up early in the morning and catch a few fishes, then return home to play with kids, have a nice afternoon nap with your wife, and when evening comes, you can join your buddies for a drink, play the guitar, sing and dance throughout the night!”
The fisherman was puzzled, “Isn’t that what I am doing now?”
(copied via http://bluehaert.wordpress.com/2006/05/02/story-the-businessman-and-the-fisherman/ . another version: http://www.thefastlanetomillions.com/off-topic-discussion/20416-businessman-fisherman.html)
so do you want to be the fisherman or the businessman? 忙 盲 忙！
moved on to wordpress
it took me half a day (not continuously doing it every minute though) to migrate the MT storeroom to the WP platform. has been contemplating this move since many months ago and i’ve finally gotten it done (:
have been very satisfied with MT except: (1) every upgrade of platform will cause me to lose all Chinese/unicode entries (turn all content into gibberish) (2) lack of nice themes/templates. so it’s goodbye to MT for now.
i’ve chosen this butterfly theme as i thot this shift resembles the lifecycle of caterpillar to butterfly. it’s a renewal! (:
