陳穎青
已故史學大師巴森在畢生巨著《從黎明到衰頹》中描述過程式設計師，說他們將是新世紀的神父，世界都要遵循他們的編碼行動，就像中世紀的人都要聽神父的話過日子一樣。
新世紀的前二十五年真的是這樣，我們的生活幾乎全在編碼的世界裡運行，只是沒想到大部分神父都要失業的日子這麼快就來了。
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ELON MUSK 解釋了他經營公司的五步驟演算法：
「首先，讓你的需求不那麼愚蠢。你的要求絕對愚蠢……如果一個聰明人給你提出這些要求，那就特別危險，因為你可能不會充分質疑它們。”
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Starbase 的這次訪談中，ELON詳細闡述了他從電動車到火箭等各種產品的運輸方法。
以下是他從沃爾特·艾薩克森傳記中完整引用的“演算法”：
1. 質疑每一項要求。每項要求都應該附上提出要求的人的名字。你永遠不應該接受某個要求來自某個部門，例如「法務部門」或「安全部門」。你需要知道提出該要求的真正人的名字。然後，你應該質疑它，無論這個人有多聰明。聰明人提出的要求最危險，因為人們不太可能質疑它們。即使要求來自我，也要始終這樣做。然後，讓要求不要那麼愚蠢。
2. 刪除任何你能刪除的部分或流程。你可能需要稍後再添加它們。事實上，如果你最終沒有重新加入至少 10% 的流程，那麼你刪減的還不夠多。
3. 簡化和優化。這應該在第二步之後進行。一個常見的錯誤是簡化和優化不該存在的零件或流程。
4. 縮短週期。每個流程都可以加快。但只有在完成前三個步驟後才能這樣做。在特斯拉工廠，我錯誤地花了很多時間加速那些後來才意識到應該刪除的流程。
5. 自動化。這放在最後。在內華達州和弗里蒙特工廠，我犯了一個很大的錯誤，那就是一開始就試圖自動化每個步驟。我們應該等到所有需求都經過審核、零件和流程都刪除、錯誤都解決之後再進行自動化。
ELON 分享了一個代價高昂的例子，在特斯拉 Model 3 生產線上反向執行此流程，優化了一個甚至不需要存在的零件。
優化一個不該存在的東西，可能是聰明的工程師最常犯的錯誤。每個人在高中和大學都接受過這樣的訓練：你必須回答問題－收斂邏輯。你不能告訴教授你的問題很蠢，否則你會得到很差的成績。你必須回答這個問題。所以每個人，在不知情的情況下，基本上都戴上了這件精神緊身衣，開始努力優化這個根本不應該存在的東西。
影片來源：@Erdayastronaut (2021)
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OUTSIGHT was a bold plan to bring together and give mescaline and/or LSD to fifty to a hundred of the world’s pre-eminent minds, including Einstein, Jung, A. J. Ayer, and Graham Greene. The intention was that “of changing the intellectual climate,” as lead instigator Osmond put it to fellow organiser, Huxley. The greater intention was that of changing Western civilisation, away from “the materialist way of life” to one where a transcendental dimension was registered, not by faith but by experience and experiment. –
「OUTSIGHT」是一項大膽的計劃，旨在召集五十至一百位世界傑出的思想家，包括愛因斯坦、榮格、A. J. 艾耶爾和格雷厄姆·格林，並向他們提供麥司卡林和/或LSD。正如主要發起人奧斯蒙對組織者赫胥黎所說，其目的是「改變知識界的氛圍」。更大的目標是改變西方文明，使其擺脫“物質主義的生活方式”，走向一種超越維度的文明，這種超越維度不是透過信仰，而是透過經驗和實驗。 ——
The race for the broad adoption of the technology is just as important as the one for artificial general intelligence, argues Britain’s former prime minister in a guest essay
沙漠中的核電廠與DATA CENTERS
A new high-speed rail line linking Xi'an and Chongqing is rising fast. How's it built? Think massive LEGOs, only heavier, faster, and far more precise!
去歷史博物館看了「台灣蘭花百姿」，展品是不錯，但是說明待加強。
像這樣的展你停留幾秒還是幾分鐘?
你只有看到有蘭花的銅板，然後解說牌直接寫著素心蘭、美玲蘭…就結束了。
其實每種花能成為國幣都有故事，美玲蘭就是嘉得利亞蘭，因宋美齡喜愛就以她的名子直接命名美玲蘭，這種蘭花的興盛與達人李金盛有關。
所以啊！你要靠自己做功課
A single Google search can involve over 1,000 computers working together to deliver results in just 0.2 seconds. According to Google Fellow Jeff Dean, this massive
parallel processing is possible because Google stores its entire search index in memory across thousands of machines. When you type a query, the system instantly distributes the task across hundreds or thousands of servers, each handling a small part of the job.
This setup allows Google to scan billions of indexed pages, rank them using complex algorithms, and return the most relevant results almost instantly. The process relies on technologies like distributed computing, caching, and machine learning to optimize speed and accuracy
【學界不能缺席】
各行各業都有人挺罷免，包括演藝圈的譚艾珍與李恕權，以及企業界的洪三雄與徐重仁。我期待學界也有大咖跳出來表態。台灣人正在寫歷史，學界不能缺席！
Sentimental Education (1869) by Gustave Flaubert is a piercing, disillusioned portrait of a generation’s romantic and political failures, wrapped in the glittering
ennui of 19th-century France. The novel follows Frédéric Moreau, a young man of modest provincial background who arrives in Paris with grand ambitions—to become a great artist, to experience passionate love, to shape history—only to fritter away his youth and inheritance in a haze of indecision, half-hearted affairs, and missed opportunities.
At the heart of the novel is Frédéric’s obsessive, unrequited love for Madame Arnoux, an older married woman who embodies an idealized, unattainable femininity. Their relationship—stretched over decades, marked by near-misses and emotional paralysis—mirrors the broader futility of the 1848 Revolution, in which Flaubert’s characters participate with a mix of fervor and apathy. The barricades rise and fall; political ideals dissolve into corruption or bourgeois complacency; and Frédéric, like his friends, ends up middle-aged, compromised, and wondering where all the passion went.
Flaubert’s genius lies in his clinical yet lyrical dissection of human self-delusion. Every character is flawed, often hilariously so: the pompous hack writer Hussonnet, the boorish businessman Dambreuse, the cynical artist Pellerin, who spouts empty theories about art while producing kitsch. Even Madame Arnoux, the supposed moral center, is revealed to be as much a projection of Frédéric’s longing as a real person. The novel’s most devastating moment comes in its final pages, when Frédéric and his old friend Deslauriers reminisce about their youth and reduce their "greatest" romantic adventure to a farcical, botched visit to a brothel—a metaphor for the hollowing-out of their dreams.
A scathing critique of Romanticism’s excesses and the bourgeoisie’s moral bankruptcy, Sentimental Education was initially met with bafflement but is now recognized as one of Flaubert’s greatest works. Its influence stretches to modern literature—from the existential drift of Kafka’s protagonists to the ironic detachment of Bret Easton Ellis’s Glamorama. For all its cynicism, though, the novel pulses with a strange, melancholic beauty, as if Flaubert both despises his characters and mourns for them.
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為什麼要罷免羅智強，四能報號外緊急出刊，讓這些作家學者告訴你。
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