Year: 2010

Initial Setup of the Suixuan Sub-Base Completed

Site Matters2010.12.15
Initial Setup of the Suixuan Sub-Base Completed
http://philopsychy.blogcn.com/ After blogcn merged with the original yo2, it recently started trying out WordPress. I happened to have an old blogcn account; after digging it out, I found it still usable, so I immediately upgraded it to the WordPress platform. With import/export XML, I quickly copied everything over. But I ran into two problems: first, each imported XML file could be no larger than 2M, so I had to split it into more than ten batches before I could move everything over. Second, after the transfer, the category system became somewhat scrambled: every subcategory was duplicated into two versions—one set with zero posts but retaining the original hierarchical structure, and…
blog website
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2010年12月15日
Categories in the Internet Age and Hypertext Scholarship

AI & the Future of Technology2010.12.14
Categories in the Internet Age and Hypertext Scholarship
WordPress-based blogs have countless advantages: backup functionality, easy maintenance, a wide range of mode choices, and abundant room for expansion. Apart from the legendary drawback that they seem to consume comparatively more server resources, they are really beyond criticism. For me, apart from the crucial ability to be backed up, WordPress also offers another crucial revolution compared with the Yaiku blog: namely, a revolution in the way categories are arranged. This revolution looks trivial at first glance: it is simply a shift from the original linear, segmented model to a many-to-many correspondence. In other words, on Yaiku, each post belongs to, and belongs only to, one folder, whereas under the…
technology scholarship Aristotle internet
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2010年12月14日
Blog Relocation Effective Today

Site Matters2010.12.10
Blog Relocation Effective Today
I’d been thinking about moving away from Ycool for several years. Ever since the emails I sent to Ycool’s customer-service mailbox reporting bugs and making suggestions all sank without a trace, I began to keep an eye on other blog service providers. But I never found a suitable place. Domestic blog hosts were either too weak in features or too strict in censorship, while the foreign blogs that should have been reachable were all behind the Great Firewall. Of course, more crucially, I care about historical continuity and unity, and I’m unwilling to sever all my old posts and start over from scratch. Yet moving all the old posts over…
blog website Chinese
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2010年12月10日
The Practice-of-Medicine Model as the Modern Significance of Traditional Chinese Medicine — Reflections on Zhang Daqing’s Lecture

History of Science & Scholarship2010.12.10
The Practice-of-Medicine Model as the Modern Significance of Traditional Chinese Medicine — Reflections on Zhang Daqing’s Lecture
Today Teacher Zhang Daqing talked about the modernization process of Chinese medicine; yesterday’s class on “What Is Science?” happened to also be taught by Teacher Zhang, on the transformation of medical paradigms past and present; and tonight’s discussion class was about the modernizing problem of Chinese medicine. Taken together, let me talk a bit about my thoughts. What Teacher Zhang referred to as the modernization process of Chinese medicine was not the modernization of Chinese medicine itself, but rather the process by which Western modern medicine was introduced. The concept of “modernizing Chinese medicine” is different from “Westernizing” or “scientizing” it. Modernization first of all means a kind of boundary-drawing:…
philosophy science modernity medicine
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2010年12月10日
The Capitalization of Technology — Reflections on Han Qide’s Lecture

Culture & Public Commentary2010.12.02
The Capitalization of Technology — Reflections on Han Qide’s Lecture
Today we invited Professor Han Qide to give a lecture on “Reflections on the Value of Medical Technology Development.” This series of lectures in the course seems to have rather a lot of topics related to medicine, but there is a reason for having more rather than fewer: after all, the medical field is the place where the complex relations among science, technology, the humanities, ethics, society, politics, and so on are most concentrated and clearly embodied. Although many of the related issues had already been heard in previous lectures, Professor Han still brought quite a few fresh examples and viewpoints. What Professor Han focused on was the development of…
technology culture value capital
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2010年12月2日
Hello, World!

Site Matters2010.11.28
Hello, World!
This is the first blog post automatically generated when the blog was opened. The original text is kept here as a record of history. “Words and images outlive us.” ——————————————————————————————————————— Welcome to Aixiezi. This is your blog’s first post. Edit or delete this post, then begin your blogging journey on Aixiezi. Please record carefully every moment in life that moves you, every moment worth cherishing, treasuring, and savoring in retrospect; please use words and images to record those people, those things; please believe that words and images outlive us. Here are some links you may be interested in: Hide the ads in your blog Enable the personalized style upload feature…
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2010年11月28日
Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry in Biology—Thoughts on Chang Zengyi’s Lecture

History of Science & Scholarship2010.11.25
Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry in Biology—Thoughts on Chang Zengyi’s Lecture
Today, Teacher Chang Zengyi lectured on “biology driven by physics and chemistry,” discussing the concepts and techniques that physics and chemistry have brought to the life sciences, and introducing the contributions to the life sciences made throughout history by many scientists with backgrounds in physics and chemistry. What Teacher Chang said was relatively superficial; it did not bring out the deeper connections between mathematics, physics, chemistry, and the development of the life sciences as a discipline. In fact, the reason the life sciences were able to develop so extensively under the push of physics and chemistry was not that, by historical accident, there happened to be some interdisciplinary scientists who…
science Scientific Revolution mathematics determinism
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2010年11月25日
On Reform of the Gaokao Guaranteed Admission System and the Jiaozhou Road Fire

Culture & Public Commentary2010.11.22
On Reform of the Gaokao Guaranteed Admission System and the Jiaozhou Road Fire
China’s education system seems to be reforming ever more in the wrong direction; the cancellation of the Olympiad recommendation system is regrettable. Of course, the Olympiad system really did have problems. A competition originally suitable only for a tiny number of top students in math and science ended up being forced by too many people crowding into it, and that is bad. As for the widespread imbalance in students’ strengths caused by the Olympiads, that is another issue, which I will discuss later. Measures such as banning Olympiad competitions in primary school and competition classes in middle school seem insufficient to put an end to the craze for Olympiad math….
China commentary education sociology
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2010年11月22日
Bioethics and Legal System Building — Reflections on a Lecture by Zhang Daqing

History of Science & Scholarship2010.11.18
Bioethics and Legal System Building — Reflections on a Lecture by Zhang Daqing
Today Teacher Zhang Daqing talked about the birth and development of bioethics, introducing many of the ethical dilemmas brought about by modern medicine. What I paid particular attention to was the relationship between bioethics and legal system building. Teacher Zhang said that the development of bioethics in the West has, to a very large extent, been worked out through one lawsuit after another. In China, by contrast, this area is still quite lacking. Teacher Zhang encouraged hospitals and doctors to dare to “eat lawsuits”: when facing things that, although they violate existing rules, ought to be insisted upon on ethical grounds, then they should be done—even if one loses the…
China science law life
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2010年11月18日
Media and the Externalization of “Knowledge”

AI & the Future of Technology2010.11.15
Media and the Externalization of “Knowledge”
Reply to a netizen’s question: Why did knowledge change from a “virtue” into a “power”? Is it possible to reveal the root of this shift from the perspective of media? This is a great question ~ and it really can be revealed from the perspective of media. Roughly speaking, the media through which knowledge is displayed move from the age of oral speech, to manuscripts, and finally to printed books. In the oral age, the only or main way knowledge could be displayed was through speech; knowledge was displayed in lectures or debates. In such a situation, it is easy to imagine that the display of knowledge was always tied…
technology culture media knowledge
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2010年11月15日