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You are all computer scientists.You know what FINITE AUTOMATA can do.You know what TURING MACHINES can do.For example, Finite Automata can add but not multiply.Turing Machines can compute any computable function.Turing machines are incredibly more powerful than Finite Automata.Yet the only difference between a FA and a TM is that the TM, unlike the FA, has paper and pencil.Think about it. It tells you something about the power of writing.Without writing, you are reduced to a finite automaton.With writing you have the extraordinary power of a Turing machine

It is interesting that sometimes language is the restriction to our exploration in science.

 It's kind of hard to imagine how life reaches the end until you are really facing it. It all started in this semester, maybe I shouldn't have been to gym that often (twice a week...??!!). There were ominous signs, like the aching of the left shoulder after exercises, which were totally ignored. It's really pathetic, sometimes, when I feel that I should dedicate myself to computer industry, only to find that I cannot bear the flickering (so does Zoran...we are among one third of the whole polpulation on earch who also share the symptom) and physical pressure. How absurd is the world.

That which may perhaps make such equality incredible, is but a vain conceipt of ones owne wisdome, which almost all men think that they have in a greater degree, than the Vulger; that is, than all men but themselves, and a few others, whom by Fame, or for concurring with themselves, they approve. For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they see their own wit at hand, and other mens at a distance. But this proveth rather tha men are in that point equall, than unequall. For there is not ordinarily a greater signe of the equall distribution of any thing, than that every man is contended with his share.

Just realized how unhappy I have been for the this year. Should finding a girlfriend be the ultimate solution, I will not heisitate to pursue it.

Another summer just ended, a crazy summer indeed.

Too dangerous to deal with so many things at a time. Lucky that I didn't screw up all the things. The stuff I wrote was sold, but at the price of taking another GRE. Wish the killer application kill not only my GRE score. Life is about trading off different things, just like a process scheduler. However, my scheduling algorithm doesn't always give the optimal solution.

Cloud follows me all through the summer. As the eclipse passed, one cloudburst after another. Shanghai is acceptable in general. But I cannot understand their language. It's so funny that the first taxi driver I met insist that I came from Japan. "Hong Kong people speak better Mandarin." he said. Does a person have to speak good Mandarin with a Shanghainess accent? What's more interesting, I was asked to fill in a form called temporary accommodation record for foreigners. For Christ sake I was in my own country with my Chinese passport. I am Japanese to American and some Chinsese people, and Korean to some other Chinese people. Maybe I should really try to pick up some Japanese and Korean in case I want to commit crime :).

Hit this article http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4caedc7a0100f50e.html?tj=1 while surfing on the web. The author has done some great job there on one of his conference paper concerning picture dehazation. The method is embarrassely simple yet extremely powerful. It just happened that I'm doing a independent study with taicl on mesh editing. The method I was implementing http://mrl.nyu.edu/~sorkine/ProjectPages/Editing/ shares some common traits with this one - simple and powerful :). It seems that behind both methods, there are some fundamental properties of the problems that were somehow neglected by the predecessors. Does that shed some light on our problem?