Echo.2

今天去看了 Diarios de motocicleta 。一部很漂亮的電影，雖然沒有各式各樣花俏的劇情，但南美的風光帶領著觀眾一同走過革命偶像年輕時走過的里程。看完電影後，不禁想著這半世紀前的旅程，和這半世紀來人類的歷史有這甚麼樣的關係？又想著有多少人一生能有一次這樣的旅程。幾件簡單的行李，和一個朋友，去面對旅途上的不可預知的命運。是不是每個人的心中都渴望著這樣一趟可以改變生命的旅程？

Lie Girls…
This is very funny, although it seems only for men as most games for politics. Maybe, most election campaigns are just months of political porn for men.

Electric currents boost brain power (news.nature.com headlines)

也許好好看幾本好書的效果更好吧！

自動補完（auto completions) 的功能是在命令列下提高工作效率的一大幫手。例如，在 bash 下可以用 tab 去自動補完命令，檔名，路徑等，解決了使用命令列介面時需要憑記憶打入完全的指令或是一長串的路徑及檔名的缺點。自動補完的功能能讓命令列的使用者迅速的找到相關的指令與檔案，對工作效率的提昇不在話下。雖然在 OS X 下，可以用命令列下的 open 命令加上自訂補完的功能來執行應用程式，但這還是多了一道打開 Terminal 的手續。 在 OS X 的 GUI 下，Quicksilver 及其他類似的應用程式能像命令列下的自動補完功能一般，幫助使用者迅速的執行應用程式，及尋找其他的相關資訊。

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Inability to perceive one’s own loss function can have disastrous personal consequences in other ways. Consider the case of Ramanujan, whom many would consider to be, in one particular area, the greatest mathematical genius who ever lived. His death at age 32 was probably the result of his own ridiculous dietary views. He refused to eat the food served in the Hall at Trinity College, Cambride (although it was undoubtedly more wholesome than any food he had ever eaten before coming to England) and tried to subsist on rotten fruit shipped from India without refrigeration.

A strikingly similar case is that of Kurt Gödel, whom many would consider the greatest - certainly best known - of all logicians. He died of starvation in a hospital with the finest food facilities, because he became obsessed with the idea that the doctors were trying to poison him. It is curious that the greatest intellectual gifts sometimes carry with them the inability to perceive simple realities that would be obvious to a moron.

– quote from E.T. Jaynes “Probability Theory”

我很希望這報紙上對中國的評論不是真的，但中國歷史上的確應付奴才的機會多過和平對話的經驗。有智慧的人實在不該重演舊歷史。

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在米國這次大選第一次辯論後，我們小鎮上的電影院也有話要說。這次這家電影院的評論是 “Congratulations to John Kerry for exposing Bush as an incompetent moron in debate!”

MarsEdit 看來是不錯的 Blog 編輯器，不過還不確定 MarsEdit 的中文相容性，所以來 post 一下試看看。測試結果：雖然可以 post 中文，但沒辦法保持 UTF8 的 encoding，MarsEdit 會把 UTF8 變成像 緟 等等的 HTML Entity，還不是很完美。

Well… 發現是自己白爛，在 Marsedit 中的 Weblogs setting 有 options 可選擇要不要 encode.

這是前陣子到愛丁堡一遊時看到一齣喜劇的海報。