Category Archives: amaths-wars

Self Reliance 12

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An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, Monachism, of the Hermit Antony; the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called “the height of Rome”; and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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2009.12.01 Tuesday ACHK

The third impromptu

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Fourth presentation (The third impromptu), about dreams

1. “Ah” from 14 (in Project one) to zero (the pauses do not count)

2. The evaluator did not understand my speech

3. My overall appearance was too serious (?)

— Me@2009.11.26

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2009.11.28 Saturday copyright ACHK

Holographic Spacetime

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July 10, L T M Meeting

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神明的存在形式.

李: 我們的阿賴耶識可能是祂們的行宮.

我: 神明的存在形式可能是software. 而我們[的腦]就是祂們意識所用的hardware.

神明意識和我們大腦的關係, 就好像我們大腦意識和腦細胞的關係.

李: 正正係我既諗法.

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神明預知未來?

李: 祂們不是完全預知未來, 又不是以科學知識預測未來.

我: 兩種可能性都唔係, 即係點呢?

李: …

我: 會唔會係事物之間有一些我們不知的connection. 祂們感受到.

就好像有針刺我的手, 我感覺到痛.

李: 可能.

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— Me@2009.07.15

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2009.11.26 Thursday copyright ACHK

David Griffiths

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I have never felt the need to “sell” physics,

and efforts to do so under the banner “physics is fun” seem to me demeaning.

Lay out our wares attractively in the marketplace of ideas and eager buyers will flock to us.

— David Griffiths

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2009.11.23 Monday ACHK

IELTS 5

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Score

9.0   39 – 40
8.5   37 – 38
8.0   35 – 36
7.5   32 – 34
7.0   29 – 31
6.5   26 – 28
6.0   22 – 25

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7.5   Overall

8.0   Listening
7.5   Reading
6.5   Writing
8.0   Speaking

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三十年來, 第一次 English Speaking 考得好.

— Me@2009.11.20

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2009.11.21 Saturday copyright ACHK

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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You won’t — I really believe — get too much out of reading it. Because you won’t understand it; the content will seem strange to you. In reality, it isn’t strange to you, for the point is ethical. I once wanted to give a few words in the foreword which now actually are not in it, which, however, I’ll write to you now because they might be a key for you: I wanted to write that my work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one.

* On his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, in a letter to Ludwig von Ficker (1919), published in Wittgenstein : Sources and Perspectives (1979) by C. Grant Luckhard

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2009.11.18 Wednesday ACHK

IELTS 4

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I have forced myself to think in English since October.

I have just found that my Cantonese is less fluent.

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That’s amazing.

— Me@2009.11.05

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2009.11.12 Thursday copyright ACHK

IELTS 3

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Just after turning off the recording,

the examiner asked,

E: What do you take IELTS for?

I am applying for a Master degree in Physics in the Netherlands.

E: What is the grade required?

6.5

E: How is your Listening today?

I think I have made 5 mistakes.

E: That’s ok.

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He was very nice today. I think I have passed.

— Me@2009.11.07

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2009.11.11 Wednesday copyright ACHK

A time to fear

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Time Theory of Fear

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Do the thing you fear, the fear disappears.

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If you do not do something your fear, that thing remains in your future.

Future implies possibilities and uncertainties. The fear is due to the uncertainties.

But once you have started the thing your fear, the thing is already in your present.

The uncertainty is much less.

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The fear before an exam is greater than the fear during the exam.

The fear before an announcement of exam results is greater than the fear after.

— Me@2009.11.07

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2009.11.10 Tuesday copyright ACHK

IELTS 2

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IELTS Speaking Principles

1. Regard your examiner as a noble friend.

2. Say something interesting and useful to your friend.

— Me@2009.11

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2009.11.09 Monday copyright ACHK