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Ticket to China and return
Posted August 17th, 2008 by MgcclIn case anyone was asking...
If you try to assassinate me and fails, it would be great for my essay for MIT.
Essay A Tell us about an experience which, at the time, really felt like "the end of the world" -- but had it not happened, you would not be who you are today. Describe the process through which you discovered value in the negative.
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Is the world periodic
Posted August 16th, 2008 by MgcclAll variable used are positive.
Suppose the state of universe in one instant of time x is f(x).
Is it possible to find a t where f(x+t) = f(x) for all x?
I had this question in my mind today. because if that is true, then travel back in time can be just traveling to future.
But second law of thermodynamics says it's not possible.
Humm... but that law also means we are all going to be converted into entropy... and our existence would be really... eventually... meaningless.
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Way too much Facebook usage.
Posted August 13th, 2008 by MgcclMan... I have to stop.
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In search for a middle name
Posted August 11th, 2008 by MgcclIt's a common knowledge that many China born people don't have middle names.
Sucks for me. Today I have been enlightened by someone who showed only her middle name on Facebook. I should get a cool middle name and screw my last name.(Because no one can pronounce it right and I'm sick of that happening)
I tired to use the name "Burrito" because it's easy to feed on and have lots of nutrition.
REJECTED!
It's time for a true self search and find what middle name really suits me.
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What is Chinese people?
Posted August 8th, 2008 by MgcclOlympics!!
I don't care about sports.
What exactly make people Chinese?
I have asked many people and most don't have the same definition for Chinese and some don't even have a definition for Chinese. Even Wikipedia don't know if for sure!
Some common interpretation of Chinese:
1. Citizen of PRC and/or ROC
2. People whose offspring of Chinese people
3. People whose offspring of Zhonghua minzu
1. I can't believe all Chinese citizen can accept if a Japanese(how to define Japanese??) person become Chinese citizen and refer himself as Chinese.
2. The second one is clearly a recursive definition without the base case. and define a base case is not likely to fit usual needs.
3. It's a bit better because Zhonghua minzu is more rigorously defined by ethnicity, but the definition make people say "WTF". Some people with Russian heritage are part of Zhonghua minzu, but not others.
Is there a function f(p) that result 0 when one is not Chinese and 1 when one is Chinese?
There is no such universal function.
Assumptions:
At least one can find 2 people have different views on what is considered Chinese.
Set are determined by characteristics.
My theory for the set of Chinese people.
There is a certain set of characteristics to determine a set. Call the set of characteristics C, each element c. One of the element is excluded from the set(see below) for details.
W(c) is the weight of an c, can be negative.
V(c,p) equals 1 or 0. 0 means the person p in consideration doesn't have the c.
A person is considered to be Chinese when
Sum of W(c)*V(c,p) > x (which is THE characteristic of the set Chinese, and it's not part of the set C.)
1. W(c) is different for each individual because different people have different views
2. so is x.
A person at a different time(1 second ago) is considered different as that person. so A can think B is Chinese today, but it's not Chinese tomorrow.
Conclusion:
Chinese people cannot be rigorously defined without first find W(c) and x, which depends on the person who evaluates if a person is Chinese or not.
There can only be a function f(p1,p2) that result 0 when p1 think p2 is not Chinese. and 1 when p1 think p2 is Chinese.
But that doesn't mean there isn't any universal Chinese, there might be a person p, where f(x,p) always result 1, where x can be any person. But if such p doesn't exist. Then if we take the intersection of all the considered Chinese for x, we get a empty set.
Then that means there are no such thing as universally recognized Chinese people. Chinese people don't exist!
Of cause, one can define a universally recognized Chinese person is recognized as Chinese by x% of the population, but now, x is depend on different people, and thus require another level of universally recognized universally recognized Chinese people... and it will go on and on...
Can anyone prove a universal Chinese person exist when universal = all population in the world recognize him as Chinese at the year 2008. Btw, the word Chinese here has no meaning, it is a symbol in a formal system refer to a set that no one can define rigorously.
Thus Chinese people is a ambiguous term. It's just an isomorphism for something else we can't define.
Maybe this can be generalized to almost every word in existence.
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