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陳嘉平

題解與作者 無題

李商隱 錦瑟無端五十絃，一絃一柱思華年

莊生曉夢迷蝴蝶，望帝春心託杜鵑滄海月明珠有淚，藍田日暖玉生煙此情可待成追憶，只是當時已惘然

注重意境 陳嘉平

五年級，高雄人 自我檢視，問題不可勝數，暫且按下不表 羽球、橋牌、單車、電影、音樂

On Number Talks UC Berkeley was sued for gender discrimination

against female in the graduate school admission.

applicants admission rate

Male 8442 42%

Female 4321 35%

The difference in the admission rates was statistically significant.

On Number Talks Through an investigation it was found that the

admission rates for women were actually higher than for men in the majority of departments.

Department Men Women

applicants admitted applicants admitted

A 825 62% 108 82%

B 560 63% 25 68%

C 325 37% 593 34%

D 417 33% 375 35%

E 191 28% 393 24%

F 272 6% 314 7%

Women tended to apply to competitive departments with low rates of admission even among the qualified applicants (such as in the English Department).

Men tended to apply to less-competitive departments with high rates of admission among the qualified applicants (such as in engineering and chemistry).

Batting Average Case

If you were the coach, whom would you have turned to in a do-or-die situation?

# hits # at bats B.A.

1995 Jeter 12 48 .250

Justice 104 411 .253

1996 Jeter 183 582 .314

Justice 45 140 .321

Overall Jeter 195 630 .310

Justice 149 551 .270

On Inference

A lady claims to be able to tell whether “milk” or “tea” is poured first in a cup of milk tea. In all of 10 trials, she correctly decides “milk” or “tea”.

A lady claims to be able to tell whether “Haydn” or not for any page of score. In all of 10 trials, she correctly determines “yes” or “no”.

A lady claims to be able to predict the outcome of the flip of a random coin. In all of 10 trials, she correctly predicts “head” or “tail”.

Which lady’s claim do you accept? If not none or all, why do you accept one

claim but not the others? Do the experiments really make a difference

to you in your acceptance? “No way!” “Yes way!”

On Web 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, . . .

台灣光華雜誌 Del.icio.us Wufoo VuFind Diigo Writeboard Flickr Twitter Stumble Upon Second Life

On EEP

Flexcar U-Pass Information System for Bus Biking Surplus

On Discrimination

Driver License Disabled Bike Riders Notes

On Discovery Rosetta Stone

British Museum

On Languages

Mother Language flexible, comfortable

Human Languages ambiguous could be fun

Programming Languages My first web page with PHP

Math and Science Precise, rigid, headache

On Methodology

“As the Italian captain, Carl Alberto Perroux, was fond of saying, ‘a standard Ford, however much jazzed up, won’t beat a Ferrari.’ ” (The Blue Club by T. Reese)

“A bad approach, however hard one tries, won’t work as well as the right approach.” (analogy)

“A car does not take you to the moon.” (anonymous)

On Professorship

意見很多，而且有時候會前後矛盾 磨練學生 ?

比當教授前要忙十倍 很久沒去電影院 (no country for old men, 2007) 論文、計畫、講義、講稿、開會

容易打哈欠 非關睡眠時間長短 對於長篇大論很快心不在焉

必須謹言慎行 面子、形象問題 說錯話很麻煩 (承認則糗、不承認則心虛 ) 無法敷衍了事

On Myself at LIS

說的比做的多 曾經想過今天演奏直笛

開會幾乎總是遲到 有幾次早到是因為記錯時間

每週到圖資處次數 大於開會次數

話最少的組長 凡事盡心盡力，結果交給上帝