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[Archive] Keke Forum Lecture 64: How to Solve the Underdetermination Problem—A Case Study of Cushing’s Defense of Hidden Variables

Life & Notes2008.12.26
[Archive] Keke Forum Lecture 64: How to Solve the Underdetermination Problem—A Case Study of Cushing’s Defense of Hidden Variables
http://hps.phil.pku.edu.cn/bbs/read.php?tid=882 Time: Friday, December 26, 2008, 3:00–5:00 p.m. Place: Academic Lecture Hall, Center for Science and Society, Chengze Garden Speaker: Bai Tongdong, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Xavier University, USA Topic: How to Solve the Underdetermination Problem—Using Cushing’s Defense of Hidden Variables as an Example Commentator: Liu Huajie Although I couldn’t really raise any questions, and Monday’s report can’t really continue along this line, today’s lecture was quite interesting. What I found interesting was not the topic itself, but rather the many inspirations that Professor Bai mentioned in passing during his talk. As for the topic, my reaction was rather like that of the journal office supporting orthodox quantum mechanics—although…
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2008年12月26日
At Last, I Have Some Confidence in Translation

Life & Notes2008.12.22
At Last, I Have Some Confidence in Translation
Wu Lao-shi’s translation assignment has remained untouched to this day; it will probably get fully underway during winter break. The reason I’ve dragged my feet for so long is, of course, first that my foundation in both English and phenomenology is too weak; second, because of my incurable laziness and old-fox style of doing things. But there is also an indirect factor: I simply cannot stand typing out words from my own pen that make no sense. If it were an English-to-Chinese translation in an English exam, then of course I could quickly write down a load of gobbledygook, just as in a politics exam I can more or less…
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2008年12月22日
An Explanation of the Progress of My Pursuit of mm

Life & Notes2008.12.17
An Explanation of the Progress of My Pursuit of mm
In one sentence: there has been no progress. On the Progress of My Search for a Girlfriend In one sentence: there has been no progress. There are very few applicants, but there are indeed several—at least three, in fact—mostly second-year master’s students. It seems second year is a delicate period… The applicants before this were basically all frightened away. In the previous article I already said that I merely adopt a very ordinary cool indifference; I would never pretend to be anything in order to scare people off. On the contrary, the so-called methods of frightening people amount to nothing more than laying bare my true characteristics. Judging from previous…
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2008年12月17日
This Week’s Music: Boccherini — “Serenade on the Way to Madrid” (Long Live Vacuum Tubes)

Life & Notes2008.12.16
This Week’s Music: Boccherini — “Serenade on the Way to Madrid” (Long Live Vacuum Tubes)
Newman’s MP4 really is awful. Though it’s nice that it can play lossless files, there are simply too many lossless files that explode with clipping; by experience, one can generalize that APE is usually more prone to clipping, and the higher the quality of the music, the more likely it is to clip. But the “Antique Vacuum Tube String Baroque” album I downloaded recently is a counterexample—it is both APE and ultra-high quality, yet it plays with remarkable smoothness…… This is also the first time I’ve clearly heard the difference between lossless and MP3. I don’t even know exactly what this vacuum-tube microphone is, but it really is different! This…
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2008年12月16日
A reclusive thinker, an otaku thirsty for knowledge (an image test)

Site Matters2008.12.06
A reclusive thinker, an otaku thirsty for knowledge (an image test)
http://match.lansin.com/zy.html Seeing Mist do it, I tried it too. Mist had gotten the test from ZW. ZW’s result was “a workaholic with soaring ambitions,” Mist’s was “a reclusive operator,” and mine was “a reclusive thinker.” Sure enough, pretty reliable! Very reliable! Of course, this kind of test is useless for my self-understanding; it’s just for fun. The evaluation itself also seems pretty amusing. Although it isn’t entirely true—especially since I don’t like making advance plans—still, among the tests I’ve encountered before, this is probably one of the most reliable ones~ (Especially when you combine the results of those two people, it really is accurate~) —————————————————————— Image evaluation result Your type…
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2008年12月6日
My Biological Clock Has Been Abnormally Disrupted Lately…

Life & Notes2008.12.01
My Biological Clock Has Been Abnormally Disrupted Lately…
I say “recently,” but in fact it’s been bad ever since this semester started… The key problem is that the class schedule this semester always seems somehow out of harmony… ——Classes on Monday and Tuesday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., on Thursday from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., on Friday from 9 a.m. to 12 noon, and the occasional or not-so-occasional Keke Forum on Friday afternoons. At first glance, afternoon classes seem most suited to me. I can get up at noon and go straight to school; after lunch I can read for a while and then go to class, and after class I can even have dinner before…
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2008年12月1日
This Week’s Music: BWV 1051 (Brandenburg Concerto No. 6) (and a Few Casual Thoughts on Listening to Music)

Life & Notes2008.11.29
This Week’s Music: BWV 1051 (Brandenburg Concerto No. 6) (and a Few Casual Thoughts on Listening to Music)
http://www.lirazelscastle.net/choir%20royal/Concerto%20No.%206%20in%20B%20flat%20major%20I%20[Allegro].mp3 Although the effect of the new MP3 player is not ideal, in basic terms it is still quite good. After testing, it seems that only some music files produce obvious popping noises during playback, while others can be played smoothly. Broadly speaking, the Flac format is better than APE, but some MP3 files are very choppy. I bought a pair of headphones that cost about as much as an MP3 player, and indeed there is a difference! I only hope they will live a long, long life. The MP3 player is truly a marvelous invention (of course, its earlier ancestor was the Walkman), and it provides a way…
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2008年11月29日
Miscellaneous Notes on the Daguang Festival

Life & Notes2008.11.12
Miscellaneous Notes on the Daguang Festival
Compared with the previous two years, this year’s Guanggun Festival was quite enjoyable. Of course, nothing good actually happened; it was just that I was in an especially good mood. Lately I’ve been in a very good mood all the time, and that is one of the motives behind my post soliciting a mm. What excited me most today was receiving the new MP3 I bought a few days ago. Originally I had bought it as a birthday present to myself, but unexpectedly it still arrived a little late. Oh well, let’s count it as a festival gift~ The old MP3 of mine actually hadn’t broken, it just had a…
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2008年11月12日
This Episode’s Music: Mussorgsky – A Night on the Bare Mountain

Life & Notes2008.11.07
This Episode’s Music: Mussorgsky – A Night on the Bare Mountain
http://course.szu.edu.cn/yinyue/xinshang/jiaoxiangyue/bjjc/mussorgsky/s15-57.mp3 It’s been a long time since I last posted music. Why? I forgot. Anyway, let’s pick one~ I’ve posted two pieces of serious classical music in a row, so this time let’s change the flavor and go with something eerie~ Halloween has already been over for a week, but let’s just barely count this as seasonally appropriate~ http://www.xici.net/b340764/d38035860.htm The fantasia *Night on Bald Mountain* was originally named “The Night of St. John’s Eve on the Bare Mountain.” It is a famous work by the Russian composer Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky. *Night on Bald Mountain* is a single-movement programmatic piece, with narrative and pictorial qualities; its structure is free, close to…
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2008年11月7日
The Hard Drive Broke…

Life & Notes2008.10.23
The Hard Drive Broke…
Among all hardware, the thing one least wants to see break down is undoubtedly the hard drive—especially a hard drive on which one has already installed all sorts of software and drivers, saved countless files, materials, music, and photos, and made no backup whatsoever. One simply does not want it to fail, no matter what… and yet… and yet… Within the warranty period, anything else can break; at worst, you just get it replaced. Other hardware is usually first repaired if possible, and only if it cannot be fixed do they give you a new one. Only hard drives do not really have a “warranty” so much as a “replacement…
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2008年10月23日