How could you tell who's hacking your machine?

" Under today's circumstances, the person who is laughing and chatting and in general happy mood is likely the one. In today's world, those who live with out stress must have either arranged it so that he is not stressed or have disposed of the distress onto others."


Interesting answer to that question... I didn't think of it, but now that it's said, it seems so right...

I mean, that's not to say that nobody should be happy, but it seems to follow the same line of thinking as "bad people are all so happy, and good people suffer aways'

I could tell the horse really liked her

"""
No, no! not like that, yuck!

The horse was happy when she patted it on the head and when other people tried to touch it, it lifted the head up high so that it couldn't be touched.
"""

narrowly avoiding a misunderstanding.

It Doesn't Pay to be Principled.

Recently, I had an interesting discussion with coworker at work...

At some point, I started saying:

"... well, that's not a very principled way of doing it..." (here in a machine learning/statistics/mathematical sense of being principled, as in the Occam's Razor principle aka MDL, etc., principled as opposed to ad hoc)

and then, realizing some thing... I continued to talk


"... of course I realize that being principled in statistical sense doesn't always pay..."

"...err, of course I also realize that being principled in general doesn't necessarily pay..."

... and finally I realize that what I'm saying makes no sense to be said, which is to say that it needn't be said, as sad as that may be...

"Being principled doesn't pay!"
"Having principles does not pay!!"

I concluded, finally, struggling with my grammar, logic and sanity, my soliloquy to a bunch of ppl some where in some office some Friday afternoon...

A X are alike, and all !X are !X in their own ways.

According to Leo Tolstoy; all happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.


I recently had a discussion about where to buy a house in the bay area with one of my Chinese friends from college times. I mentioned to them that culturally, Cupertino has Asian cultures (according to insiders, 50% Chinese, 50% Indian...). his wife responded to me that she actually prefers to live in Palo Alto, where there are more white people.

"why?!" I asked in surprise

"Because! Diversity is better than uniformity."


This reminds me of a time when the universities and private schools in America offer scholarships to Foreigners in order to diversify their cultural mix and to introduce the Chinese language and culture to their students. At the time, I had thought, wow! What snobby people that they want to collect these foreign people like zoos collect wild life... The better the school, the more exotic and comprehensive the collection...

Now, I feel like we've discovered a corollary to Tolstoy's statement:

All snobby people are alike, and all humble people are humble in their own ways...