If nobody notices this, lemme explain. Google search provides a smart option called "search personalization". Google would collect the data of what you have searched last time and try to personalize what you want to see in the later search. Sounds good? NO, check this out.
Summary: Search Personalization makes you see "only what (they think) you want to see", kinda filter that filtrate your vision of the information in the cyber world.
I saw this TED talk many months ago and I just went through it. Later on I found out that Google really did this and it is really annoying. First I use the keyword to search the articles on facebook, however, when I use the old keyword again to search for the same articles, Google's search personalization did their great job by show up the things that "they think I want to see but actually I don't want to see"! Yeah, that article is gone...
If you don't want to lost your previous search result, or don't want to have the Google's filter, this link provides solution to fix it.
http://nwlinux.com/how-to-turn-off-google-search-personalization/
Final Thought: this TED talk is worth enough to spend your 9 min to watch it.
More Final Thought: Nima! You should read this article.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Friday, June 17, 2011
Which direction the world goes.
Recently, I watched the lateset TED talk show about the medical's future. The speaker gave a short touch on the place call "Singularity University". Its name attracted me so much, reminded me of the "Xavier School" where X-Men study. So I went to search engine and started finding what is that place.
Surprisingly, it IS an actual university.
This is the mission statement;
To convince myself to believe in the existance of this university, its location is in NASA Ames in Silicon Valley, which, probably, place where one of my friend interns there.
You have to understand my position first before move to the next line. At my first glance, this university seems to be....fashionable, fantastic, and unreal. It is like a school from the scientific fiction where the genius go and study together to lead the future of the humanity (Sheldon* might graduate from this school). I can say it is....dream.
So whatever the actual mission of the school ($25,000 tuition fee with 25% acceptance. Pretty high, huh?) I think it is the place where the dream come closer to the reality.
Whether this school would drive the future of the humanity or not, but the point is, there are people who intend to do that.
I am looking forward to see how this institute works, where there is around 100 people join this academic each year, and those people could change the life of thousand billion people around the world.
And I am not sure whether this place would bring the leader of the humanity's future, or just expand the gap amoung human's society.
*My favorite character from The Big Bang Theory series.
p.s. As we explore the world, this journey seems to be endless. The world always expand toward the place where we once call dream.
p.s.2 Like the expansion of universe (when the scientists explore the expansion of our universe, it seems to be expanding in all directions with the equal speed, a.k.a, expand around our position.)
p.s.3 the above line is far beyond this discussion.
Surprisingly, it IS an actual university.
This is the mission statement;
"Singularity University is an interdisciplinary university whose mission is to assemble, educate and inspire leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies in order to address humanity’s grand challenges."
To convince myself to believe in the existance of this university, its location is in NASA Ames in Silicon Valley, which, probably, place where one of my friend interns there.
You have to understand my position first before move to the next line. At my first glance, this university seems to be....fashionable, fantastic, and unreal. It is like a school from the scientific fiction where the genius go and study together to lead the future of the humanity (Sheldon* might graduate from this school). I can say it is....dream.
So whatever the actual mission of the school ($25,000 tuition fee with 25% acceptance. Pretty high, huh?) I think it is the place where the dream come closer to the reality.
Whether this school would drive the future of the humanity or not, but the point is, there are people who intend to do that.
I am looking forward to see how this institute works, where there is around 100 people join this academic each year, and those people could change the life of thousand billion people around the world.
And I am not sure whether this place would bring the leader of the humanity's future, or just expand the gap amoung human's society.
*My favorite character from The Big Bang Theory series.
p.s. As we explore the world, this journey seems to be endless. The world always expand toward the place where we once call dream.
p.s.2 Like the expansion of universe (when the scientists explore the expansion of our universe, it seems to be expanding in all directions with the equal speed, a.k.a, expand around our position.)
p.s.3 the above line is far beyond this discussion.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Facebook Chat List on the Left of the homepage????
Distracted!
I'm distracted by the most absurd thing in the world I can imagine of.
The chat list that appeared on the left of my facebook homepage.
As I observed so far, the friends showing there seem to be the people who I chat with the most, also the person who I (unintentionally) stalked him meanwhiles. It is pretty understandable if they are the friends who I chat with the most.
However, there is A PERSON who always be there and I, kind of, desirably don't want to talk to him. I can say I rarely chat with that person. But he is still at the first row of my list!
Distracted!!!!
So I really want to know what the hell on earth bring him to that position (where I have only the people who I feel comfortable to chat with), or at least, how facebook determine the people on that list.
Yeah, I cannot go over this question until I find out the solution.
I'm distracted by the most absurd thing in the world I can imagine of.
The chat list that appeared on the left of my facebook homepage.
As I observed so far, the friends showing there seem to be the people who I chat with the most, also the person who I (unintentionally) stalked him meanwhiles. It is pretty understandable if they are the friends who I chat with the most.
However, there is A PERSON who always be there and I, kind of, desirably don't want to talk to him. I can say I rarely chat with that person. But he is still at the first row of my list!
Distracted!!!!
So I really want to know what the hell on earth bring him to that position (where I have only the people who I feel comfortable to chat with), or at least, how facebook determine the people on that list.
Yeah, I cannot go over this question until I find out the solution.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Mathematic behind TETRIS
Yeah, recently I'm enormously addicted to a facebook game name TETRIS BATTLE. It is just a tetris that you can fight with friends. Without clear reasons, I play it whenever I have free time.
I guess everyone know about how to play tetris. You rotate the puzzles and try to build a complete horizontal line and that line would disappear. The one who have less taller blocks would win the game.
Recently I found this game, tetris 3D.
Oh yeah, I'm in love with something that have 3D interface. Basically, we have to rotate the puzzles in 3D axis and fill in the square surface. Later on I figure out that it is not that fun comparing with conventional 2D....so why?
That's because you are allowed to rotate the puzzles in 3 axis!
Let me explain to you. In 2D tetris, you have only one option to rotate your puzzles (CCW) to achieve all possible arrangement of 2D puzzle. Meanwhiles, in 3D tetris, you are allowed to rotate this 3D puzzles in 3 axis....I do some research, and I find out that we required only 2 axis of rotation for fully rotate the 3D puzzles in all possible arrangements!
Move to lower dimension puzzle, the 1D puzzle. There is only one possible shape of puzzle allowed in 1D, that is the line shape. Therefore, in this 1D tetris, you don't need any rotation to rotate it because the puzzle field would have only one dimension as well--the line field.
So I guess, you required 0 rotation for 1D puzzle. You required 1 rotation for 2D puzzles, and you required 2 rotations for 3D puzzles. And in general, we required n-1 rotations for n-Dimension puzzles. However, I really don't know how to test my hypothesis for more than 3D (and it would be fantastic to see it!)
I really don't know how to relate it with recent knowledge that I have. Maybe it is due to the degree of freedom because the formula is pretty similar (n-1). Anyway, please feel free to leave your discussion.
I guess everyone know about how to play tetris. You rotate the puzzles and try to build a complete horizontal line and that line would disappear. The one who have less taller blocks would win the game.
Recently I found this game, tetris 3D.
It is not exactly like this, but pretty similar (source: http://downloadsoftwarestore.com/software/keyword/55555)
Oh yeah, I'm in love with something that have 3D interface. Basically, we have to rotate the puzzles in 3D axis and fill in the square surface. Later on I figure out that it is not that fun comparing with conventional 2D....so why?
That's because you are allowed to rotate the puzzles in 3 axis!
Let me explain to you. In 2D tetris, you have only one option to rotate your puzzles (CCW) to achieve all possible arrangement of 2D puzzle. Meanwhiles, in 3D tetris, you are allowed to rotate this 3D puzzles in 3 axis....I do some research, and I find out that we required only 2 axis of rotation for fully rotate the 3D puzzles in all possible arrangements!
Move to lower dimension puzzle, the 1D puzzle. There is only one possible shape of puzzle allowed in 1D, that is the line shape. Therefore, in this 1D tetris, you don't need any rotation to rotate it because the puzzle field would have only one dimension as well--the line field.
So I guess, you required 0 rotation for 1D puzzle. You required 1 rotation for 2D puzzles, and you required 2 rotations for 3D puzzles. And in general, we required n-1 rotations for n-Dimension puzzles. However, I really don't know how to test my hypothesis for more than 3D (and it would be fantastic to see it!)
I really don't know how to relate it with recent knowledge that I have. Maybe it is due to the degree of freedom because the formula is pretty similar (n-1). Anyway, please feel free to leave your discussion.
Monday, April 25, 2011
HTE diary: Art of Decision (3)
Oh, last two blogs we talked about how to make a decision, by finding ideas and how to choose the perfect one. However, there is another process that is also a good tool for making a decision, that is how to evaluate the "quality" of that idea.
I accidentally learn how to think like this in during HTE class, when we have a discussion about a business model. Business model is a schematic diagram that you draw for your company about how to get a resource, how to transform it, and who are going to pay for it. Other class calls it business value chain, it is the way that money flow. One of the most important thing for the business organization is knowing their business value and knowing how to create it. For example, at the very first years of Google under the organizing of Larry Page and Sergey Brin, even they gain millions of users but the company doesn't have that much benefit, because their is no business model there.
Once Eric Schmidt comes to Google and restructures the business model of the google by adding AdWords, a small blog of ads on google pages, this tool becomes the most powerful source of benefit of google and help google becomes one of the most biggest company (in revenue) in IT world.
Okey, now let's talk about how we can adapt the business model to evaluate our ideas.
The keywords are "input-process-output".
Input is what is the raw materials that we need for this idea. How to find it.
Output is the goal of our idea. What you get. it is equal to input+value. And value is the most important thing in this process. It is what you would earn from this idea.
Process is how you could transform input to output, including how much does it cost (in term of money, time, intention, people involved).
In my opinion, potent idea is what you can figure out three of these. It is useless to choose how to do it when you don't even "know" how to achieve it. At least you should know what you would gain from doing it, to make sure that it has a possibility to success, right?
For example, I'm thinking about production a short animation and send it to the competition during this summer break. The topic is "miss you miss you so much" which I considered it as easy (I'm so emotional), and what I would gain from winning the event is free air ticket to wherever in the world I want (US!). I might ask my friends to help me about animation technique. Now I have everything ready, emotional feeling-animation technique-free ticket.
This is qualified idea.
However, considering my priority list, friends and relationship is in the second priority. I still have tons of ideas in my mind and some of that relates to my top priority, academics. Therefore, I throw away this animation idea and move to next idea, evaluate it and consider it with my priority list. This is the way I come around with a great idea for this summer. How I make a decision.
ps. So complicated. -_-
I accidentally learn how to think like this in during HTE class, when we have a discussion about a business model. Business model is a schematic diagram that you draw for your company about how to get a resource, how to transform it, and who are going to pay for it. Other class calls it business value chain, it is the way that money flow. One of the most important thing for the business organization is knowing their business value and knowing how to create it. For example, at the very first years of Google under the organizing of Larry Page and Sergey Brin, even they gain millions of users but the company doesn't have that much benefit, because their is no business model there.
Once Eric Schmidt comes to Google and restructures the business model of the google by adding AdWords, a small blog of ads on google pages, this tool becomes the most powerful source of benefit of google and help google becomes one of the most biggest company (in revenue) in IT world.
Okey, now let's talk about how we can adapt the business model to evaluate our ideas.
The keywords are "input-process-output".
Input is what is the raw materials that we need for this idea. How to find it.
Output is the goal of our idea. What you get. it is equal to input+value. And value is the most important thing in this process. It is what you would earn from this idea.
Process is how you could transform input to output, including how much does it cost (in term of money, time, intention, people involved).
In my opinion, potent idea is what you can figure out three of these. It is useless to choose how to do it when you don't even "know" how to achieve it. At least you should know what you would gain from doing it, to make sure that it has a possibility to success, right?
For example, I'm thinking about production a short animation and send it to the competition during this summer break. The topic is "miss you miss you so much" which I considered it as easy (I'm so emotional), and what I would gain from winning the event is free air ticket to wherever in the world I want (US!). I might ask my friends to help me about animation technique. Now I have everything ready, emotional feeling-animation technique-free ticket.
This is qualified idea.
However, considering my priority list, friends and relationship is in the second priority. I still have tons of ideas in my mind and some of that relates to my top priority, academics. Therefore, I throw away this animation idea and move to next idea, evaluate it and consider it with my priority list. This is the way I come around with a great idea for this summer. How I make a decision.
ps. So complicated. -_-
HTE diary: Art of Decision (2)
Last blog we discussed about how to generate the idea by brainstorming. Now we have plenty of idea but we don't know how to choose the perfect one.
As God of Apple once says, "Making the decision to implement an idea is just as important as making the decision not to implement an idea" (not exact words). This is how we can illustrate the importance of making a decision.
And the most powerful method (but not the easiest one) is to set the priority.
As God of Apple once says, "Making the decision to implement an idea is just as important as making the decision not to implement an idea" (not exact words). This is how we can illustrate the importance of making a decision.
And the most powerful method (but not the easiest one) is to set the priority.
Priority is what you value in your life; studying, money, travel, friendship, relationship, work, family, reputation. It varies from people to people, from time to time.
My priority is here;
1. Study and Research
2. Friends and Relationship
I have only two levels of priority in my life. Sound simple, but actually it is one of the hardest thing in your life that you have to figure out. And I think the key of successful people is how they set the priority and do it accordingly. Some people set the priority from the internal need of themselves, for example, want to be rich, so it is money. Want to love and be loved, the priority might be relationship and friends. Other people set the priority from what is goal of their life, for example, my case, I want to be a professor, that's why I rank academics as the top priority.
How to rank it, it is not like "Okey, study is the top priority because I'm student and I have to do it.". If life is that simple, no one gonna fail in the class for sure. So I think the most effective way to figure out the priority is to look back in your past life, what have you done and gave you the most appreciation.
Then rank it as the top no matter what.
I always feel good when I do best in academics, for example, good record in transcript (I'm so proud of it). I can spend a day and a night working for my research paper without being hungry. When my paper is done, I feel even better than I have got a boyfriend or meeting a friend that I haven't met for so long. This example is pretty extreme, I intentionally make it clear to you how the academics comes to my top priority.
Having a priority list in your life is much better in the way that it would simplify your life a lot. When you come up with a dilemma or situation that requires a decision making. Look at the priority list, weight what you would earn from that action and then decide!
There is no right or wrong for the priority. My closest friend ranks her boyfriend as the top priority, family is the second, and study in the third. When I figure out this, I don't feel down anymore when she refuses us to go eat together after the class but instead heading back home immediately. I understand her. Someone even set only one priority in his life, and in my personal opinion, that's so cool.
2. Friends and Relationship
I have only two levels of priority in my life. Sound simple, but actually it is one of the hardest thing in your life that you have to figure out. And I think the key of successful people is how they set the priority and do it accordingly. Some people set the priority from the internal need of themselves, for example, want to be rich, so it is money. Want to love and be loved, the priority might be relationship and friends. Other people set the priority from what is goal of their life, for example, my case, I want to be a professor, that's why I rank academics as the top priority.
How to rank it, it is not like "Okey, study is the top priority because I'm student and I have to do it.". If life is that simple, no one gonna fail in the class for sure. So I think the most effective way to figure out the priority is to look back in your past life, what have you done and gave you the most appreciation.
Then rank it as the top no matter what.
I always feel good when I do best in academics, for example, good record in transcript (I'm so proud of it). I can spend a day and a night working for my research paper without being hungry. When my paper is done, I feel even better than I have got a boyfriend or meeting a friend that I haven't met for so long. This example is pretty extreme, I intentionally make it clear to you how the academics comes to my top priority.
Having a priority list in your life is much better in the way that it would simplify your life a lot. When you come up with a dilemma or situation that requires a decision making. Look at the priority list, weight what you would earn from that action and then decide!
There is no right or wrong for the priority. My closest friend ranks her boyfriend as the top priority, family is the second, and study in the third. When I figure out this, I don't feel down anymore when she refuses us to go eat together after the class but instead heading back home immediately. I understand her. Someone even set only one priority in his life, and in my personal opinion, that's so cool.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
HTE diary: Art of Decision (1)
Engineerings teaches you how to solve the problem--to find the exact solution, but in the reality, situation is different. There is no wrong or right answers, and this is the way it is, making a decision.
I always have a plan to my life, and prefer to have a short term goal. First summer, I decided to focus on my debate club together with doing some research at my university. Next summer is at National Lab. My third summer is internship time and now it is going to be my forth summer, after I graduate, I catch doubt what I shall do.
It is not hard to come up with idea what to do. For the people who always have a trouble with "I don't know what to do.", I can give you an easy keyword;
Watching
This is pretty similar to "how the idea is created" model in my HTE class, what to do is to watching what's going on with other people, for example, your role model is not bad idea. I go doing research during my first summer because my professor once went to internship during his summer time.
More important person to watch, yourself.
Continue the activity or project that you have done previously is also a good consideration. Sometimes, you might have a such a great idea during the school semester and you are such a busy until you can't do it. Think, now you have free time.
However, no matter ideas that come up to your mind, you should have a solid, clear goal there. This is very important because the success of your decision comes when you can achieve your goal.
Now you have tons of idea coming to your head, without evaluation the possibility or the value gain at all. The next step is to select the target idea, yeah, this one is much more cruel than the first step.
Every idea seems to be the best, but you couldn't do all of them no matter what--time, money, skill, or laziness are always involved in human life (I won't talk about robot-like person, he did everything perfect in his perfect life). When I first come up with the this problem with my dad, he told me the way to evaluate it.
And we would talk about it in next blog.
I always have a plan to my life, and prefer to have a short term goal. First summer, I decided to focus on my debate club together with doing some research at my university. Next summer is at National Lab. My third summer is internship time and now it is going to be my forth summer, after I graduate, I catch doubt what I shall do.
It is not hard to come up with idea what to do. For the people who always have a trouble with "I don't know what to do.", I can give you an easy keyword;
Watching
This is pretty similar to "how the idea is created" model in my HTE class, what to do is to watching what's going on with other people, for example, your role model is not bad idea. I go doing research during my first summer because my professor once went to internship during his summer time.
More important person to watch, yourself.
Continue the activity or project that you have done previously is also a good consideration. Sometimes, you might have a such a great idea during the school semester and you are such a busy until you can't do it. Think, now you have free time.
However, no matter ideas that come up to your mind, you should have a solid, clear goal there. This is very important because the success of your decision comes when you can achieve your goal.
Now you have tons of idea coming to your head, without evaluation the possibility or the value gain at all. The next step is to select the target idea, yeah, this one is much more cruel than the first step.
Every idea seems to be the best, but you couldn't do all of them no matter what--time, money, skill, or laziness are always involved in human life (I won't talk about robot-like person, he did everything perfect in his perfect life). When I first come up with the this problem with my dad, he told me the way to evaluate it.
And we would talk about it in next blog.
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