清晰

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知道自己學識淵博的人, 會努力追求其學問的清晰明白,

而想在大眾面前表現自己很博學的, 則會將學問弄得晦澀難懂。

(173節)

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–尼采

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2009.04.11 Saturday ACHK

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

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Researchers have shown it takes about ten years to develop expertise in any of a wide variety of areas, including chess playing, music composition, telegraph operation, painting, piano playing, swimming, tennis, and research in neuropsychology and topology.

The key is deliberative practice: not just doing it again and again, but challenging yourself with a task that is just beyond your current ability, trying it, analyzing your performance while and after doing it, and correcting any mistakes. Then repeat. And repeat again.

There appear to be no real shortcuts: even Mozart, who was a musical prodigy at age 4, took 13 more years before he began to produce world-class music.

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— Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years, Peter Norvig

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2009.01.10 Saturday ACHK

Professor

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But now that we’ve come this far, being a professor (which means having the habit of not being able to stop talking at the right time), I cannot resist telling you something about the rest of physics.

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— p.130 Feynman’s QED: the strange theory of light and matter

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2008.12.26 Friday ACHK

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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

— Robert A. Heinlein

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2008.10.14 Tuesday CHK_2

最大的讚美 Part 1/2

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大學時, 有時候, 天文學會的組員遇見我時有這樣的反應:

“阿鈞呀!”  (語氣就似見到外星人一樣.)

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去年和今年, 有幾位學生見到我時這樣說:

“達明呀!” (又是外星人語氣?!)

或者

“阿Sir, 見到你好開心呀!”

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上星期一, 到商場和以前同事吃午飯. 離開商場時, 遇見學生:

CWM: 阿Sir 呀!

接著, CSY很開心的走過來說: 好似見到明星呀.

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Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.

— Mother Teresa

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2008.09.19 Friday copyright CHK^2