Category Archives: amaths-wars

Paul (octopus)

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Paul (hatched January 2006) is a common octopus living in a tank at a Sea Life Centre in Oberhausen, Germany, who is an animal oracle and now retired predictor of football matches, usually international matches in which Germany was playing. He came to worldwide attention with his accurate predictions in the 2010 World Cup.

2010 FIFA World Cup

Paul’s accurate choices for the 2010 World Cup, broadcast live by German news channel NTV, endowed him with celebrity status.  Paul predicted the winners of each of the seven 2010 FIFA World Cup matches that the German team played, against Australia, Serbia, Ghana, England, Argentina, Spain, and Uruguay.

Paul correctly predicted the outcome of the semi-final, by choosing the food in the box marked with the Spanish flag. German supporters drew hope from his incorrect choice for the Germany versus Spain match in the UEFA Euro 2008 but were disappointed.

Paul maintained a 100% accurate record during the tournament by correctly predicting Spain’s victory over the Netherlands in the final.

— Wikipedia on Paul (octopus)

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2010.07.13 Tuesday ACHK

Time and money

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A few days ago I realized something surprising: the situation with time is much the same as with money. The most dangerous way to lose time is not to spend it having fun, but to spend it doing fake work. When you spend time having fun, you know you’re being self-indulgent.

— Paul Graham

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2010.07.11 Sunday ACHK

Physics 2

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Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

— Blaise Pascal

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2010.07.06 Tuesday ACHK

Experimental error

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Today’s experimental error is tomorrow’s new theory. If you want to discover great new things, then instead of turning a blind eye to the places where conventional wisdom and truth don’t quite meet, you should pay particular attention to them.

— Paul Graham

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2010.07.04 Sunday ACHK

Rinus Michels

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Marinus (“Rinus”) Jacobus Hendricus Michels (9 February 1928 – 3 March 2005) was a Dutch football player and coach who was named “coach of the century” by FIFA in 1999. He played his entire career for the club Ajax Amsterdam, whom he later coached, and was a member of the Netherlands national team both as a player and as manager.

Michels became most notable for his coaching achievements, having won the European Cup with Ajax and the Spanish league with Barcelona, and having had four tenures as coach of the Netherlands national team, whom he led to reach the final match of the 1974 World Cup and to win the 1988 European Championship. He is credited with the invention of a major football tactic known as “Total Football” in the 1970s.

— Wikipedia on Rinus Michels

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2010.07.01 Thursday ACHK

Total Football

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“Total Football” is the label given to an influential tactical theory of association football in which any outfield player can take over the role of any other player in a team (save the goalkeeper). It was pioneered by Dutch football club Ajax from 1969 to 1973, and further used by the Netherlands National Football Team in the 1974 FIFA World Cup. It was invented by Rinus Michels, a famous Dutch football trainer/coach (who was the coach of both Ajax and the Netherlands national team at the time).

In Total Football, a player who moves out of his position is replaced by another from his team, thus retaining the team’s intended organizational structure. In this fluid system, no player is fixed in his nominal role; anyone can be successively an attacker, a midfielder and a defender. The only player fixed in his nominal position is the goalkeeper.

Total Football’s tactical success depends largely on the adaptability of each footballer within the team, in particular his ability to quickly switch positions depending on the on-field situation. The theory requires players to be comfortable in multiple positions; hence, it places high technical and physical demands on them.

— Wikipedia on Total Football

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2010.06.30 Wednesday ACHK

偉大o既藝術家

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當乜野人都唔搵我做野，我就知道，我係一個偉大o既藝術家，在生o既時候係唔會獲得應得o既尊重。

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唔止咁，我重偉大過偉大o既藝術家，因為我知道，我死後都唔會受到尊重。

— 黃子華

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2010.06.29 Tuesday ACHK

Isaac Newton

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To do really great things, you have to seek out questions people didn’t even realize were questions.

You only get one life. Why not do something huge?

And you know more are out there, separated from us by what will later seem a surprisingly thin wall of laziness and stupidity.

— Paul Graham

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2010.06.28 Monday ACHK

魔間傳奇 3

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I’m the last survivor of a dead culture. And I don’t really belong in the world anymore. And in some ways I feel I ought to be dead. I have certainly wished I had killed myself when I was born.

In terms of effect on the world, it’s very good that I’ve lived. And so I guess, if I could go back in time and prevent my birth, I wouldn’t do it. But I sure wish I hadn’t had so much pain.

— Richard Stallman, inventor of the Copyleft

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2010.06.26 Saturday ACHK

Being right

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Inactivity as intelligent

* We don’t get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we’ll wait, we’ll wait indefinitely.

o 1998 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting

— Warren Buffett

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2010.06.25 Friday ACHK

英雄

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英雄，很多時會被他所救的人殺死。

所以，千萬不要做英雄。

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或者，做了英雄，也千萬不要給人知道。

— Me@2010.02.20

— Me@2010.06.24

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2010.06.24 Thursday copyright ACHK

鄭大世

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鄭大世（1984 年 3 月 2 日－），出生於日本的朝鮮民主主義人民共和國和大韓民國特殊雙重國籍的足球運動員，現效力於日本 J 聯賽的川崎前鋒隊，是一名前鋒。

— 維基百科

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2010.06.23 Wednesday ACHK