A Computer Scientist

To young programmers, like me, I willingly recommend Emacs, one of my secrete development toolset, to be a real programmer. If you use Emacs as your development tool, you will have a feeling of being omnipotent. You can control everything. This feeling is really important, because it derives active development for your own purpose. In litterature it is called domain specific language 0r development. Without explicitly saying anything about domain specific language, you will be familiar with it, naturally. We are young enough to try to understand every details about all programs and abstract them for later purpose. In that purpose, understaning your development tools, you might access everyday, is also important to be competent programmer. It do not mean choosing ready-to-use Visual Studio is the hell, but choosing difficult way given both of easy and difficult ways could sometime the easest way to be successful at the end. Remeber we are young, do not restrict your potent only within the Visual Studio.

I made my gundam for about 10 hours. I bought it when visiting Japan to take a GRE examination. I put it off until having the last summer vacation. I love to design and make robots as hobby. However I am sincerely worrying, as a job or study, whether Robotics really fits to me. Anyhow this is my first trial to make Gundam Figure! Great fun!

What the professor really means? by J.Timothy Petersik.

You’ll be using one of the leading textbooks in the field.
=> I used it as a grad student.

The gist of what the author is saying is what’s most important.
=> I don’t understand the details either.

The answer to your question is beyond the scope of this class.
=> I don’t know.

In answer to your question, you must recognize that there are several disparate points of view.
=> I really don’t know.

Today we are going to discuss a most important topic.
=> Today we are going to discuss my dissertation.

We can continue this discussion outside of class.
=> 1. I’m tired of this – let’s quit
=> 2. You’re winning the arguement, let’s quit.

Today we’ll let a member of the class lead the discussion. It will be a good educational experience.
=> I stayed out to late last night and didn’t have time to prepare a lecture

Any questions?
=> I’m ready to let you go.

The implications of this study are clear.
=> I don’t know what it means either, but there’ll be a question about it on the test.

The test scores were generally good.
=> Some of you managed a C+.

The test scores were a little below my expectations.
=> Where was the party last night?

Some of you could have done better.
=> Everyone flunked.

Before we begin the lecture for today, are there any questions about previous material?
= > Has anyone opened the book yet?

It’s been very rewarding to teach this class.
=> I hope they find someone else to teach it next year.

As physicists’ pedantic term for ‘bullshit’, they use “Not even wrong.” Since the scientific breakthrough happened in 1950, String Theory has been a main stream among physicists. The author wants to announce publicly the fact that string theory is gloomy storm and cow eating money. I don’t know much about physics especially quantum physics and high energy. However I am also sharing the idea that the atmosphere of spending overwhelming amount of money only for String Theory is not good indication for other fields in physics. Not only for construction of particle accelerator but also managing of it requires unimaginable amount of money. Importantly, the String Theory do not expect any results of real world experiments. Instead, the government should support other fields and researchers.

Anyhow, I lovely recommend this book for computer scientists because it briefly explains the history of mathematics and physics. Mathematics and physics sometimes are against each other, but both of them were improved a lot when they help each other. The thoroughness of mathematics and experiments of physics are also necessary skills for computer scientists. Thus I am thinking of majoring mathematics as second major during graduate study at MIT. To be real computer scientists, scientific proof of algorithm, usually math, is crucial for me.