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Thursday, August 21, 2008
To Zanarkand (YAMAHA Grand Piano)
Much better version than the previous one on a keyboard. It is so amazing to hear sound coming from a Grand Piano, with your own finger operating on it! Feel like a musician now~
到IBM的第一天,跟Mentor还有组里面一个印度大姐聊天。她问我"Where are you from?",mentor和我都笑了,“当然中国啦!从名字就能看出来啊。”。然后她解释道 "Yes, I can tell from your name. But I am not sure because your English is so good, I thought you might be from the States." (当然能看出是中国人的名字,不过我不确定是因为你英文说太好了,我想你是美国人呢。)在美国,这种情况就不要谦虚了,说句"Thank you"就是最礼貌的回答了。 ^_^
整个过程就像一个拉锯战。一开始有个想法,实现之、测试之,分析结果,似乎有点点改进,但远不理想,进一步深入单个的loop invocation,继续发现新的问题…… 有时候所谓的“发现的问题”并非真正的问题,只是一时思考的疏忽,然后把代码改回去推到重来;有时候觉得某个实验现象匪夷所思,耐着性子看前人写的infrastructure的代码,原来其中有个错误误导了实验结果;有时候看到本以为会很成功的改进思路对准确率只有微小的提升甚至降低时,尽管感到如天塌下来般的绝望,却只能定定神,休息片刻再战;有时候思路用尽绝望得无以复加的时候,突然想到了Christianity,will the almighty God guide me through this? ……
半个小时后的现在,本人坐在同一台电脑前,在循环播放的Canon in D major中,怀着混合着各种情绪的心情,敲完了本篇blog。如果还是在电影中,而且还是一部正剧中的话,场景应该在老板下午说的一句话中淡出:当我当年意识到我的导师也不能给我一个确切的答案时,我反倒很高兴,因为我可以做我自己想的,这成了我自己的研究了。(When I realized that even my adviser couldn't give me an exact answer, I felt happy. Because I can do what I want. It really becomes my RESEARCH.) 不错,这-是-我-自-己-的-研-究。
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(请自行配上Cannon in D major的钢琴版,自行滚动屏幕模拟带Staff的Ending)
It was the very first time that I went for skating. Very good experience! I just got the picture from Tom, who took the photo by a traditional film-equipped camera. So I have to wait for him to scan the picture then send to me. Anyway, I personally like this one very much.
Monica Lam is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University since 1988. She received a B.Sc. from University of British Columbia in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1987. She has worked in the areas of compiler optimization, software analysis to improve security, simplifying computing with virtualization.
After the 5-day trip to Los Angeles and the snow skiing and the nice party in Johnben's house, it is finally time to resume my research.
In February, I will go to Salt Lake City, Utah for two co-located international conferences. Their names are HPCA'08 - The 14th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture, and PPoPP'08 - 13th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming. During the later one, I will also do a presentation for a poster that is accepted from my research group. I am so excited about that! It is my first time to attend flagship academic conferences in my area, not to mention doing a presentation on one of them. Thanks for my adviser.
I will continue to carry on my current research. If things are going well and there is indeed a workshop for TLS in ISCA'08 and my paper is accepted there, I will go back to China with FREE flight ticket! I guess this ambition gives me enough incentives to work, even during the winter break!
Disney里面分好多区域,有tomorrow land, fantasy land, frontier land 等等。由于那两天正值周末,人山人海。几乎每个大的经典都排满了人。第一天啥也不知道,就在队伍里面啥排着,不知道还有Fastpass这种东西,非常的没有效率。Disney实在太大了,两天的时间根本就不够用。加上30号那天要看NBA,只能提前离开。下午的游行和晚上的烟火都没看成。出来时才发现,对面还有一个同样面积的游乐场,也包括再门票里面,竟然只能在门口看看了 :( 留下了不小的遗憾~ 只能期待下次咯。
看我和米老鼠的合影!
一下是这两天去过的地方,留作下次参考: 1. Disneyland Railroad 16. Pirates of the Caribbean 21. Big Thunder Mountain Railroad 24. Mark Twain Riverboat 25. Sailing Ship Columbia 32. Splash Mountain 33. Davy Crockett's Explorer Canoes 38. Indiana Jones Adventure 39. Jungle Cruise 40. Tarzan's Treehouse 53. Casey Jr. Circus Train 62. Pinocchio's Daring Journey 63. Snow White's Scary Adventures 68. Autopia 69. Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters 73. "Honey, I Shrunk the Audience" 74. Innoventions 75. Space Mountain 77. Star Tours
1. The World Famous Studio Tour 参观Universal Studios内部的拍摄基地。里面有电视剧Desperate Wives的街道、电影War of the World的客机坠毁现场(当然是虚构的)、King Kong的部分场景、Transformer的部分街道、大白鲨的拍摄模型、Jurassic Park的丛林…… 不可胜数。
2. Special Effects 介绍电影中视觉、音效特技。大量的观众互动,让人简直就置身于电影制作现场中。
Bad luck today! Just missed the air flight! Although get rescheduled by Northwest, but it is in the midnight, which means, I had to wait for 5 hours and spend the new year eve at Los Angeles international airport (LAX).
With nothing to do, however, my T-mobile HotSpot WiFi access becomes really helpful! There are wireless network signals at the airport. Because I have the internet access plan with my cell phone, this plan also gives me access to T-mobile's HotSpot WiFi services. That is the reason why I am writing blogs online right now. IBM's X61s is really power-saving. With WiFi enabled, which is very power-consumptive, the binary life, after fully charged, would last for 6 hours!
Unwise, without internet, I would be born to death!
Anyway, happy new year to everyone who sees this post!
著名的University of Southern California(南加州大学)就在博物馆区的北面,于是,相册中多了该大学的校园景观。由于中午在科技馆里面凑合了一顿麦当劳,吃的及其不爽,于是,晚上便有了区中国城大开食戒的计划。在洛杉矶旧中国城一家叫“渔村”的饭店,吃到了正宗广东菜。顺便提一句,在中国城,粤语比国语吃香。同行的一哥们会粤语,打听、问路全指他了。
CSCI4011 Formal Language and Automaton Theory是一门极端严肃,极端讲求逻辑推理证明的课。课本的名字叫Introduction to Computation Theory,可以说,涵盖的内容是当今计算机科技中最最最基础的定理和概念。这些概念和定理奠定了计算机科学的基石。正因为如此,尽管4011被喻为本科生课程中难度最大的课,但它仍然被列在必修的列表中。
Liberal Educ. Reqs: Meets CLE req of Other Humanities Core
Description: Mus 1051, Class Piano for Non-Music Majors. A beginning course for non-music majors with little or no keyboard background. Emphasis on basis functional skills, such as reading, harmonizing, playing by ear and improvising, along with basic technique, elementary repertoire, and music theory (written). Taught by graduate assistants in an electronic multi-piano lab. Includes lecture, group and individual performance, and some individual instruction. Outside practice is required. Practice rooms may be rented through the School of Music. Text: "Contemporary Class Piano" 6th ed. by Elyse Mach. Mus 1051 covers Units 1-2, including intervals up to a fifth, major scales and key signatures, major and minor 5-finger patterns and triads, and accompaniments using I, IV and V7 chords.
Class Time: 10% Lecture, 90% Laboratory.
Grade: 20% mid exam, 25% final exam, 40% quizzes, 10% class participation, 5% other evaluation. two written projects
Exam Format: Individual keyboard performance (plus some written theory).
Textbook: (真贵啊... 新的课本80美金,用过的60美金)
Contemporary Class Piano, 6th
Mach
$79.95
$60.00
口水中的装备:Yamaha P65MSB 88-Key Weighted graded hammer action keys, comes with stand and bench Amazon售价781美金,运费另计...