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tango project. that's creativity. a relief. numerous window managers were made to make us think there's no room for enhancement. now we see there still things to work on. we may not agree on the exact details, though. ;)
30 Oct 2005 (updated 30 Oct 2005 at 08:40 UTC) »

book i'm reading:

《晚明史》上卷 1573--1644 樊树志著

黄仁宇说:不要借古讽今。这个话错在两点:第一,如果可以不绕这个弯子,谁又故意要找这个麻烦呢?第二,虽然历史研究是要还原历史的本来面目,但是从历史当中学习这本来就是古往今来一切人的做法。

notepad makes you a better programmer! ^_^

leafpad rocks! emacs sucks! ^_^

宫崎峻的《听到涛声》

看过咯。

愿这部戏永远留在我的心间

25 Oct 2005 (updated 25 Oct 2005 at 16:36 UTC) »

今天我爸收到了网上不知名的人发来的一封电子邮件。里面只有两篇郎咸平最近的演讲稿。

杨小凯一死,郎咸平这样的垃圾不知道谁能制住他了。其实能制住他的中国人大有人在。但是这些人大多不能把自己的言论传过来,或者传出来。不过话又说回来,杨小凯连林毅夫都没能制住。:D

张五常年轻的时候强调案例分析。年老了之后,比如去年针对陈桂棣和春桃的书写的那篇文章,真让人失望。

俺们老百姓就生活在这么个精确选择过的环境里面,不亦乐乎。

25 Oct 2005 (updated 25 Oct 2005 at 08:36 UTC) »
grep-dctrl. this tool is great for searching information on debian packages. personally, i find those browsing tools like aptitude are horrible time sink. maybe just for a debian junk like me. :)

on a side note, the bleeding edge of unstable is in trouble now: (i) acroread cannot work; (ii) openoffice cannot work; (iii) scim cannot input japanese. be warned. :)

bnfc and lhs2tex. two lovely tools in and for haskell.

i failed to find interesting things in programming languages. i learned programming about five years ago. after that i was just wandering in the land of programming languages and failed to find anything of significance.

about two years ago, i began to learn game theory and eventually economics. i think i've found something this time. but it is totally unrelated.

my current project in economics will end soon no matter what. i hope to do some programming work again.

since the previous week, a few more sites i frequent were inaccessible. it may be tech problems. but you can't help yourself thinking other ways. it's like: the tide began to change. :)

mathwriting.ps. Mathematical Writing by Don Knuth et al. the more people read it, the better. :)
13 Oct 2005 (updated 13 Oct 2005 at 20:16 UTC) »

Steven Cheung 张五常在《卖橘者说》says vote by money is the best. My intuition is he is wrong. But I didn't know how to argue. A few days ago, I finally have a theory. :)

I read Karl Popper is against social science. certainly i disagree. but the argument is subtle. i remember when i first read Karl Popper quite a few years ago, i agree with him on this. i study game theory these days. in BusinessWeek, there was an editorial on this year's Nobel economics. the article blasts game theory ``not testable''. i agree. but i can make some change. :)

books by 吴思 are the best economics books i was reading so far. it's deep but it lacks mathematization. contemporary game theorists' work are good mathematics. but often bad economics. this is echoed by S Cheung and 杨小凯. it's interesting time for an economist.

i remember Knuth once said the 60s and 70s were golden times for computer scientists. it's like that for economists now.

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