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    4/7/2008

    十年

    陈奕迅《1997 - 2007 跨世纪国语精选》。

    《十年》本身个人感觉不如粤语版的《明年今日》。一是Eason唱国语没有唱粤语拿手,就这一点他还比不上学友大哥。二是林夕的国语词写得太过通透,反而没有粤语词那些留白和朦胧。以上两点基本适合这张国语精选的每一首。

    但是还是有拿得出来的,我是指,比如说《爱是怀疑》,实在经典,或者《全世界失眠》。

    Eason大概是最后一个非原创男歌手了吧,出道也十年了。十年前,九七九八,貌似还没听说过他。十年,十年,日子在回过头看的时候才觉得过得飞快。后验概率,仿佛oracle。

    来首轻松点的十年吧。06年11月Mini-Winedown上(不是我)的创作。

    如果不是明年就要毕业

    我不会发现我难受

    怎么说出口 也不过是延期

    如果对于paper没有要求

    敲敲字就像灌水

    成千上万个会议 总有一个地方会收

    牛会既然不能接收

    何不在被拒的时候

    一边流泪一边改投

    十年之前 我们还年轻 不会research

    我们还是一样 睡在学校的架子床

    念过渐渐熟悉的大学

    十年之后 我们是doctor 还可以吹牛

    只是那种难受 体会不到人生的追求

    博士最后难免沦为博后

    自从来到北京MSRA

    才明白我的感受

    不是唯我独有 也为大家所有

    2/3/2007

    What Bill Gates told us

    Rule 1: Life is not fair. Get used to it.
    Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. However, the world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you start feeling good about yourself.
    Rule 3: You will NOT make $40,000 a year right out of high school, and you won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
    Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss.
    Rule 5: Flipping burgers at McDonalds should not be beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping ... they called it OPPORTUNITY.
    Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine.
    Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents' generation, try delousing the closet in your own bedroom.
    Rule 8: Your school may have done away with recognizing that there are winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have even abolished failing grades, and they'll give you as much time as you want to get the right answer on an exam. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
    Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off, and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. You are supposed to do that on your own time.
    Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop, and go out and find a job.
    Rule 11: Be nice to NERDS. Chances are you will end up working for one.
    9/24/2006

    上帝掷骰子吗?

    昨天我一口气读完的一本科普演义,副标题叫做“量子物理史话”,作者是曹天元,好像早年就在新浪连载过。

    量子力学这种东西对于我的理性思维可说是mission impossible,按照哥本哈根派的比喻,没接触之前它就是一个实际的粒子,接触之后反倒变成线性叠加的概率波函数了……不过,还好,值得庆幸的是,量子力学家们理解的也并不比我们多多少,我相信总有人同意猫是不能又死又活的:)

    至于追求严谨科学或者严谨历史的人,这本书或许多有纰漏。但对于各科八卦爱好者来说是非常值得推荐的。至少我看了之后大概明白了许多报刊杂志的常见术语。

    6/8/2006

    Scarborough Fair

    看到一个很强的英译中,关于一首很著名的歌曲:
    Scarborough Fair
    Are you going to Scarborough Fair
    Parsely sage rosemary and thyme
    Remember me to one who lives there
    She once was a true love of mine
     
    Tell her to make me a cambric shirt
    +++On the side of hill in the deep forest green+++
    Parsely sage rosemary and thyme
    +++Tracing of sparrow on snow crested brown+++
    Without no seams nor needle work
    +++Blankets and bedclothes the child of the mountain+++
    Then she will be a true love of mine
    +++Sleeps unawafe of the clarion call+++
     
    Tell her to find me an acre of land
    +++On the side of a hill sprinkling of leaves+++
    Parsely sage rosemary and thyme
    +++Washes the grave with slivery tears+++
    Between the salt water and the sea strand
    +++A soldier cleans and polishes a gun+++
    Then she will be a true love of mine
     
    Tell her to reap it with a sickle of leather
    +++War bellows blazing in scarlet battalions+++
    Parsely sage rosemary and thyme
    +++Generals order their soldiers to kill+++
    And gather it all in a bunch of heather
    +++And to fight for a cause they have long ago forgoten+++
    Then she will be a ture love of mine
     
    Are you going to Scarborough Fair
    Parsely sage rosemary and thyme
    Remember me to one who lives there
    She once was a true love of mine
     
    斯卡布罗集市
    问尔所之,是否如适
    蕙兰芫荽,郁郁香芷
    彼方淑女,凭君寄辞
    伊人曾在,与我相知
     
    嘱彼佳人,备我衣缁   彼山之阴,深林荒址
    蕙兰芫荽,郁郁香芷   冬寻毡毯,老雀燕子
    勿用针砧,无隙无疵   雪覆四野,高山迟滞
    伊人何在,慰我相思   眠而不觉,寒笳清嘶
     
    嘱彼佳人,营我家室   彼山之阴,叶疏苔蚀
    蕙兰芫荽,郁郁香芷   涤我孤冢,珠泪渐渍
    良田所修,大海之坻   昔我长剑,日日拂拭
    伊人应在,任我相视   寂而不觉,寒笳长嘶

    嘱彼佳人,收我秋实   烽火印啸,浴血之师
    蕙兰芫荽,郁郁香芷   将帅有令,勤王之事
    敛之集之,勿弃勿失   争斗缘何,久忘其旨
    伊人犹在,唯我相誓   痴而不觉,寒笳悲嘶
     
    问尔所之,是否如适
    蕙兰芫荽,郁郁香芷
    彼方淑女,凭君寄辞
    伊人曾在,与我相知
    4/19/2006

    大风起兮沙飞扬

    看看大家的签名档先:
    下土乐——这是最直白的
    尘沙漫天——嗯,有点意思了
    白狗身上黄,黄狗身上肿——不错不错,活学活用
    我爱北京,但是不爱北京的天气:(——这是个北京的mm,真矛盾啊
    春眠不觉晓,处处闻车吵。夜来风雨声,黄沙知多少。(原创,all rights reserved!)——这个是偶的馒头同学,不愧是ms的员工啊,版权意识就是好
     
    今天央视的天气预报,我很高兴他们及时推出了一个新的天气符号,既形象又有感召力:
    2/22/2006

    (zz) Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus

    转一篇很经典的paper给大家看看,说不定对research工作会有点启发 :)
    Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
    The People’s Almanac, pp. 1358–9. (Originally published in The New York Sun in 1897.)
    We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:
        Dear Editor—
        I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, “If you see it in The Sun, it’s so.” Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?
        Virginia O’Hanlon
    Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
    Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
    Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
    You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
    No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
    9/10/2005

    A love before time

    从前看《卧虎藏龙》的时候居然没有注意到这么好听的歌曲。
    是当年奥斯卡最佳原创歌曲的提名,谭盾作曲。英文词写得很棒,可惜李玟唱得有点问题。
     
    If the sky opened up for me and the mountains disappeared
    If the seas ran dry turned to dust and the sun refused to rise
    I would still find my way by the lights I see in your eyes
    The world I know fades away but you stay

    As the earth reclaims its due and the cycle starts anew
    We’ll stay always in the love that we have shared before time

    If the years take away every memory that I have
    I would still know the way that would lead me back to your side
    The North Star may die but the light that I see in your eyes will burn there always lit by the love we have shared before time

    When the forest turns to jade and the stories that we’ve made dissolve away
    One shining light will still remain
    When we shed our earthly skin and when our real life begins
    There’ll be no shame just the love that we have made before time
    8/29/2005

    笔记

    我看见天空很蓝
    就像你在我身边的温暖
    生命有太多遗憾
    人越成长越觉得孤单

    我很想飞
    多远都不会累
    才明白爱得越深心就会越痛
    我只想飞
    在我的天空飞
    我知道你会在我身边

    回忆的画面
    记录的语言
    爱始终是你手中长长的线
    载着我的想念
    飞过了地平线
    你温暖的笑脸还一如从前

    回忆的画面
    记录的语言
    你说要我学着勇敢一点
    偶尔哭红双眼
    你一定会了解
    眼泪是我心中另一种完美
     
    口水歌一首,如果不是笔笔唱的,我甚至都没有勇气听第二遍……
    让专辑来得更猛烈些吧!
    7/5/2005

    发一篇我同学的宏论

    大家应该一眼就看出是哪位的手笔了:)所以我就不发表评论了,嗯。
     
    (公开版本)层次论与先进性

        16、7岁的女孩子特别脆弱,只要一个男子展示了他的睿智,女孩子就会对这样的男子仰慕不已。如果男子肯带女孩子去典雅的环境,比如吃西餐,女孩子就会爱上这个男子。这个年龄的女孩子不要求男孩功课,男人年龄,不要求身高,收入,因为她自己也什么都没有。而很多女孩子从16、7岁到后来,没有经历恋爱失败,同时个人文化资历也没有本质提高,所以爱情观就停留在这样的标准上。甚至一些女孩到了25岁,还是这样的观点:要有感觉。其实这不是爱情,对于男子来说,就是讲讲社会经历,西餐加电影和商场,有时候还有车,就俘获女孩了,但是没有涉及感情投入,有如此技巧的也缺少真挚了,参见一个男人的典型经历这个贴子,love版。也有真情的男子和第一层次的女子,开始磕绊,后来一生幸福。女孩大多是无知善良型贤妻良母,感情经历,社会阅历都不多,一生都在第一层次上。这样挺好,但已经觉醒了的,无法回到蒙昧。
        第二个层次是经历过至少一次感情失败,或者阅历增长使然。第二个层次是比拼条件。你看到网上很多要求男生多少身高,多少收入,多少学历的,大多是谈过朋友的,没谈过的也是有些阅历的。这就对了,客观决定主观,只有客观基本和谐,才有可能主观上也和谐。但这些人容易变成为条件论,失去爱情本质。
        第三个层次是志同道合。只有很少数人才需要志同道合的爱情,这需要很高的层次。正因为如此,并不为大多数人所理解。比如找女朋友要求学过高数,找男朋友要求忠于祖国等等。当然,周恩来选择邓颖超,诸宸嫁给中亚棋王当时都不被大多数人理解的。他们的选择是对的。搞科学的人中,高层次的比例比较高,所以教授家庭,院士家庭屡见不鲜。生物物理邹承鲁院士的夫人是院士李林。信息论曾丹的夫人是信号检测钱玉美。老中青皆如此。凡科学家庭,双方事业都还不错,对子女教育也好,人生观,世界观也相近。教授家庭还有很多,白春礼,邹某炎,郝柏林,施文瑜,等等。

        党的十六大指出,我国要创建社会主义和谐社会。和谐社会的基本组成单元就是和谐家庭。如何构建和谐家庭,就要求夫妻双方,恋爱双方在先进性上对等志向上相近。
        先进性的匹配:
        学习先进性。学习的先进性取决于那些思想对你产生的层次性提高。比如微积分相对高中数学是层次性提高。泛函相对微积分又是层次性提高。显然计算方法和微积分是一个层次的。大学语文相对高中语文没有层次性上升。大学物理在思想上仅仅是高中物理结合微积分,仍然在第一层上。而量子,固体是又一次上升。较高层次看待较低层次有全新认识,在学习中增加了学习运用的能力,更加轻易的学会低层其他学科(大家看一下mba课本,看看难不难),较低层次学习较高层次十分困难。大体上,数学物理学生硕士毕业提升了3-4次,而英语,语文0-1次。这就是为什么一个优秀数学系毕业生还相当英语系毕业生(比如托福620),自动化毕业生(深刻的系统观念),反过来,则完全不可能。
        能力先进性。能力先进性是通过不断的处理更加复杂的事务工作而增长的。比如一个人先后组织了班级出游,校级晚会,最后带着山鹰拉飘柔赞助上了雪山。也就提升了三级。
        还有经济先进性,家庭先进性等等。学生主要的是前两个,对于全社会还有第三个也主要。

        其实就是怎样看待各种条件,和客观对主观的影响。新观点的门当户对。
        爱情不是你爱我,我爱你就可以了。汝果欲学诗,功夫在诗外。客观极大程度上决定了爱情的质量和成败。
    6/13/2005

    看完老婆大人

    把篇头的语录抄完整:

    9.

    迁就、容忍、屈服、接纳、
    适应、宽恕、谅解、妥协、
    韧力、认命,婚姻爱情可训练出“十项全能”。

    10.

    一个成功的男人就是能够赚到比女人花得更多钱的人,
    一个成功的女人就是能够找到一个这样的男人。

    11.

    一个女人会为未来担心,直到她找到一个丈夫为止,
    一个男人从不会为未来担心,直到他找一个妻子为止。

    12.

    男人想做女人的初恋情人,
    女人想做男人的最后一个情人。

    13.

    聪明的女人都知道,
    软弱是对付男人最好的战略。

    14.

    男人就算有了一万个女人,
    也希望这一万个女人
    只有他一个男人。

    15.

    女人走投无路的时候会和男人结婚,
    男人走投无路的时候,女人会和他离婚。

    16.

    爱,毋须找出合理藉口;
    不爱,则信手拈来万千理由。

    17.

    爱须冒险,情更伤神,若无两者,何谓人生?

    18.

    为何总是鼓吹爱得要生要死;
    而不可以爱得欢欢喜喜?

    19.

    男人对女人应该多一点爱,少一点了解。
    女人对男人应该多一点了解,少一点爱。

    20.

    女人在任何一场争吵中都会说最后一句话,
    一个男人若继续说话,
    就是一场新的战争的开始。

    顺便bless老弟今年顺利考入理想学校:)

    5/18/2005

    老婆大人~

    无聊到开始看TVB的连续剧了,宣萱的《老婆大人》。故事几乎没什么新意,不过讲家庭生活的戏我比较爱看。

    看完了再写感想吧,先连载每集开头的警句:

    1.

    放下利害、放下尊严、放下身份,
    爱情面前,比法律更人人平等。

    2.

    真正聪明的女人都会知道,她无论和什么男人说话时,
    懂得的事都应该比男人少。

    3.

    男人有权就会变得横蛮,女人要变得横蛮才会有权。

    4.

    最理想的夫妻关系是,亲密而带适当疏离,
    坦诚中保留部分隐秘,既可两情缱绻;又有个人天地。

    5.

    男人都会喜欢听话的女人,但男人若是喜欢一个女人,
    就会不知不觉听那女人的话。

    6.

    女人成功背后多有一个伤她的男人,
    男人成功背后多有一个爱他的女人。

    7.

    做情人的时候,女人会让男人心痛,
    做妻子的时候,女人会让男子头痛。

    8.

    男人认为女人可爱最重要,
    女人认为男人可靠最重要。

    继续期待中……