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Prof用了大概两个小时,洋洋洒洒的十页笔记,证明了一个data structure的amortized run time complexity。我正在回味着这种数学的逻辑美。这时,一位中国移民(btw, 这里我要插一句,我也是中国移民, no offence) 问了一个“总结性”的问题:我们应该从中学习到什么,或者说您考试的题目将如何针对这个证明过程来考。Prof傻了,愣了一阵子,不好意思地说:I am only contributing to the education, not trying to teach u sth and test u on.

我并不针对问题本身,因为我相信,no such a question is an stupid question。但如果你还隐约觉得我有看不起这个问题的成分,那我就承认好了。

记得在Death Psychology的第一节课上面,Prof问大家学这门课的目的,坐在最前面的三四十岁的几个先生女士,说他们到了这个年龄,身边的人或者父母一辈,都已经体现衰老,甚至死亡。他们想通过学习Death Psychology,帮助自己亲友甚至自己的孩子,正确积极地去理解死亡这件事。

如果根据老佛洛伊德的理论,我自己是这样理解求知的,求知为了好奇心的是id(本我),求知为了自我完善而达至最后与人为善的是superego(超我),那么首先考虑考试题目会怎么出的就是ego(自我)了。人大部分时间都是用靠ego活着的,纯粹的id和superego是不容于世的,因为世俗人习惯用世俗的眼光看这个世俗的世界。聪明的中国人打心里明白这一点。所以中国人到哪里都很吃得开,世界没有哪个角落是中国人活不了的。

引申出来的现象就很有趣了,还是老佛的理论,id是顽强而具冲击力的,时刻想冲破ego,而要活得更体面,ego要耗费人的大量精力,去打压id。对比傻乎乎的老外,中国人(甚至亚洲人)愁眉苦脸眉头紧锁苦不堪言的外表,除了来源于战争和几代人对生活的危机意识外,或多或少,都是整天ego打id,打累了。

555~~~想倒倒小便池都没门,我容易么我

Just saw a neat idea at YorkU about a urinal. It’s said to be "no flush", or waterless.

The idea is simple and convincing, should not be too hard to market in China. Kind of thinking of what role I should be in such an export case? an agent, or a merchant? export the finished product or only the major part, or even just the tech portion?

But after googling, I find out that the technology is already deployed in China, and passed some sanitary standard in BJ. The product was shown at some sanitary exhibition in GZ at the mid of last year as well.

No matter the consideration of information part or the labor part, now, I don’t bother to think of doing it from Canada.

继续留心,继续观察吧,我就不信我找不到“时差”。