More deceptions to come

Some additional thoughts on that...
This is deceptively nontrivial.
double negative will always get'ya

This is deceptively repulsive.
so it is any where from neutral to attractive

It's deceptively useless.
Tofu is deceptively stinky--it's stinky, but not really.

This is deceptively funny
so... it isn't funny?

This is deceptively vague.
is it a deception if it is not vauge?

He is deceptively cool.
well, so he's uncool then?

That's deceptively awful.
so... not awful, but still can be pretty bad.


So when x is deceptively y, y must at least be the case in appearance if not in other ways. and if it speaks of appearance, then contradiction is created.


Deceptively intuitive, unintuitive, and counter-intuitive.

I deceive thee

Brain twister, think quick, when you see this, what do you think it means? A, B, or C?

"The pool is deceptively shallow"

A.) The pool is shallow.
B.) The pool is deep.
C.) Can't decide on the initial pass.

Jeff Nunberg speaks of this example in his book Going Nucular. It's actually fairly interesting, at least to my brain.

So if you think A.) then you are saying that the perceived shallowness is deceptive, and that it's actually shallower than you see. If you chose B.) then you're thinking the perceived shallowness is false in the other way, that it is deeper than it seems. From my reading, Nunberg's commentary on this is, well, for lack of a better expression: deceptive. Nunberg's sample were spread between the choices 1/3 each. If you are of choice A or B, you may think that the other 2/3 are stupid .

Okay, okay, so maybe after repeating several times, you've chosen A, or B... Try this one:

"This person is deceptively intelligent"

Are you smart? or Dumb? (So if he's deceptively dumb, then he's obviously intelligent and appear dumb, but if he's deceptively intelligent... then, he's dumb?)

I want to say that shallow is somewhat neutral in normal language usage for this to be a problem... but if we say that out loud
"That thing's certain characteristic is deceptively neutral"
"That thing's certain characteristic is deceptively extreme"
It is immediately clear that what we mean is "not neutral", and "not extreme" (aka neutral) respectively.

The weather is deceptively mild. (Actually the case in bay area)

So this means, to pathologize the problem, we need to find a concept that has no clear counterpart. For instance, if we say something is deceptively something precise, it maximizes the alternative:

"That girl is deceptively 5'6""
yields almost no information. But this doesn't always work.

"That girl is deceptively 18"
seems to have connotations. The connotation is not clear (too old? not old enough?), but it clearly says more than the height statement.


For the psychologists:
"That tent is deceptively green."

For the philosophers:
"This statement is being made deceptively."

And of course, for all CS people,
"This blog is deceptively deceptive."

What you lack in faith you more than make up for...

by your stupidity
with your intelligence
with your poverty
by your wallet
in your pants
under your belt
in sex
in calories
in tans-fats
in recklessness
in fame
in incentive stock options
in tardiness
in retardation
in evilness
with your programming skills
with your logic
in male hormones
in female hormones
with pheromone
with disbelieve
with your oddities

Another prayer (Randy Pausch's favorite)

Favorite (Hmmm, ff is barfing on that word, wants me to spell it favourite. weird)
Watching ABC tribute to the recently dead Carnegie-Mellon professor Randy Pausch says his favorite prayer (though not openly religious) is the Serenity Prayer:

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

......., I'm such an Eeyore.... (where as Pausch was tigger. hehe)

about divorse and unhappy separations

Robbin Willimas:

"Ah, YES, diverse, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet."

I recently observed this sentiment, though, not knowing he said that before:

Why don't you just stab my heart from my asshole straight away!! That would be much less painful!

the getting of downs

A modern metaphor for an all out conflict, a counter part to The Godfather's "Going to the mattress" oughta be: "Going off line."

As in "THAT'S IT!!! We're going off line this time!!"

leno jokes

Why do seagulls fly over the sea and not the bay? because if they did it would be baygulls.

The chicken and egg are lying in bed, and the chicken says: well, that answers that question.

A guy goes into a doctor's office with a broccoli in one ear, and carrot in the other and a potato in the nose.... and the doc says.. you haven't been eating right.

copied from bai's page

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some quotes in the mist of drowsy recovery

quote from here."双手劈开生死路，一刀割断是非根“
(sorry if this is a repeat... hehe, still chuckling at it for some odd reason)

a moment from Patch Adams, something about looking forward to an long sleep, the blissful, lonely, unburdened, and hopefully undisturbed long sleep..."

sigh, leave it to a good actor to make that sound right... "the long sleep..."

more insults

"I'm the dumbest person on this side of the earth"

Which side is that?

"The outside"

ohh, so...., let see, u're not comparing with the dead people? Mmmm,
....
[several hours and hundreds of miles later]

ohhh... hehe, I just got that... the _out_ side! hahahhahahaaaa, took like 3 hours to get that one. heheheee

I'm holdin' out for something better

NSA asks a really smart Will why he shouldn't work for NSA....(imdb quote)

"""
Will: Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.? That's a tough one, but I'll take a shot. Say I'm working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people I never met, never had a no problem with get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Oh, Send in the marines to secure the area" 'cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number got called, 'cause they were pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie takin' shrapnel in the ass. And he comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them, but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. And they're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back of course, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive, so he's got to walk to the fuckin' job interviews, which sucks 'cause the shrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starvin' 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure fuck it, while I'm at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president.
"""

aphrodisiac

The PC version:

African-American-disiac

geeky

Vegetarian guy who don't know what he's doing around girl tells a joke:

"Once, I got served a plate of vegies and half a worm at a restaurant.
So, it wasn't so bad, because the semi-worm was stir fried on both end, so I knew the other half wasn't in my stomach"

[[girl is speechless]]


"Well, you know,..., there's the joke about which is better when eating an apple: half a worm or a whole worm."

the guy tried to explain... not thinking, obviously

"because, half a worm would mean he ate the other half..."

The girl recovers, and mubles: "Well, in that case, you should look at the apple and check to make sure it doesn't have holes... because that's a great predictor for if it has worm inside or not."

[[guy speechless at the sudden turn of events...]]

nlp things

NLP folks:

"I wonder why we never used the English section of SAT/GRE/LSAT/GMAT standardized tests for training and evaluating Question Answering systems?"

(Actually, recently saw powerset.com demo which had some kind of extraction/Q&A type results... Seems like the right bar is very similar to answers to reading comprehension questions from these tests: Read several paragraphs and state facts from the piece.)

An Altruistic Intellectual Working Models

Some years ago, late '04 I think, I wrote to some friends(almost all of whom have their advanced degree by now) about an intellectual work model that is without identity and monetary reward (but not without individualism nor identity). I admit that it's kind of childish, but it goes something like this: (and I apologize to my own blog if I've already posted this before)

"""

• Researchers are given secure and secret access to a research forum under uninformative pseudonyms.
• Each person may be allowed to have more than one identity, but they cannot change the name once it is established.
• They discuss/produce with each other under pseudonym.
• They will share ideas, data, analysis, and perform simultaneous and instantaneous peer review--but entirely anonymous.
• Posts are read-only. Corrections can be posted, but original public posts are kept immutable.
  
• In order to guarantee anonymity, one approach is to use trusted reviewers (voted by democratically based on past behavior). These trusted reviewers will receive all discussions and summarize into either notes, or short write ups.
• All significant participants to a piece of research(poster, scripts, paper, book, code, algorithm, ASCII art, etc., etc.) are listed as an author/owner(using pseudonym).
• Reputation is established purely based on collective recognition of past timely contribution and clarity of explanation. External reputation is also established by external recognition--see later point on that.
  
• The ultimate empirical approach by blinding participants to irrelevant aspects such as: race, sex, height, age, language, geographic location, time zones, financial status, government backing, religion, left/right handedness, balding or not, eye color, B.O. hidden agendas (so optimizes intellectual output without regard to the underlying motivation because past experience indicate some of best research come out of very racist and very evil scientist--thus the "mad scientist" cartoon caracture)
• This intellectual work organization can participate in the larger scientific community by submitting work (with pseudonym affiliated with this organization) to established venues.
• Larger work can be published as books but following conventional publication review, editorial and approval process. Money goes toward the organization for future research.
• Patents belong to the organization and the anonymous authors. It's licensing is managed by authors who will come to agreement via small amount of private discussion and public declaration of decision.
• Some small number of public servants must be delegated to implement outward facing aspects of the operation.
  

"""

silly TV moments

"If you're looking for your Bee's Wax, none of it is over here."

"It's not madness I feel from you, It's sadness...."

heheee, been watching too much soap lately...

七步诗

曹直写，魏朝

煮豆持作羹，
漉菽以为汁 .
萁在釜下燃，
豆在釜中泣：
本是同根生，
向煎和太急。

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漉菽－－音鹿叔

You are only as young as

"the women you feel."

什么什么观

人民网十大观：宗教观 民族观 民主观 人权观 主权观 伦理观 价值观 人生观 宇宙观 文化观

有用的有
人生观：What's life about?
价值观：What's Valuable?
世界观，宇宙观：What's the world/universe about?
审美观：What's beautiful?
伦理观，社会观，家庭观，种族观：What's Society about?

XX观: What's good/evil?


还有呢？
What else is there to life?

radio

"
A:Why does robinhood rob from the rich?
B:Because there's nothing to take from the poor

A:I hit your cat
B:uhh, I don't think so, what did it look like?
A:... kind of flat and runny
B: I meant before you hit it!!
A: ... uhh, scared (?)


Romans: We conquored the world.
Greek: We invented math
Romans: We invented sex
Greek: yeah, but it took the french to introduce it to women

"


oh hehe, say this horsy's name real fast
"hoof hearted"