Author: 胡翌霖

Thought, History, Poetry — One of the Explanations of This Version of the Categorical Scheme

Site Matters2010.12.16
Thought, History, Poetry — One of the Explanations of This Version of the Categorical Scheme
For the new classification scheme and why I call it “categories,” see “Categories and Hypertext Scholarship in the Network Age.” The present structure was built up while I was moving house; it has not yet undergone any deeper reflection or polishing, and is merely its roughest version. It will certainly keep being adjusted in the future. By the way, since copying the category structure when a blog is imported or exported is the most troublesome part and difficult to handle, when I make minor tweaks on the main blog, the sub-base and the backup probably will not be updated in sync right away; I’ll likely only synchronize them when there…
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2010年12月16日
Blogcn Really Does Have Log Review After All

Site Matters2010.12.15
Blogcn Really Does Have Log Review After All
This is precisely why it can only serve as a subsidiary base. Yesterday, after the import was finished, I didn’t look too closely. Today, when I checked, I saw that the number of posts under each category had dropped quite a bit. Going into the backend again, it was plainly supposed to have 871 blog entries—so why were there only 641? I went in once more and, sure enough, Chinese-style WordPress is just different: in the entries there was an extra column called “Under Review,” and there lay my missing 227 posts… I suppose they were screened out according to keywords and some algorithm. Even after a day they still…
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2010年12月15日
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…
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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…
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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…
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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:…
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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…
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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
The Way of Balance and Breadth — From the Philosophy of Science and Technology Conference Back to the Yangzi Lectures

Philosophy & Thought2010.11.28
The Way of Balance and Breadth — From the Philosophy of Science and Technology Conference Back to the Yangzi Lectures
The first Beijing-area Graduate Student (Innovation) Forum in philosophy of science and technology was finally done and dusted. Although I didn’t really contribute much, I was nevertheless given the title of chair of the academic committee; before the event I was responsible for reviewing submissions, and during the conference I was in charge of chairing one session and taking part in the comments. What I had originally been assigned to comment on was suli’s paper, but suli seems to have suffered some kind of accident all of a sudden (bless him/her), and didn’t come today, so there was no chance to say anything. A bit of a pity. Based on…
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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…
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2010年11月25日