Monday, November 22, 2010

Random ...walks? no, thoughts. -- (o don't remind me of stochastic process )

Due to a particular reason I had a strong feeling that "time plays a big joke on the life" yesterday but I cannot remember the reason and the feeling at all now...

Went to bed at midnight and woke up at 4 in the morning. Insomnia? Often feel sick when I just finish a big meal. The installment for bad lifestyle starts. I need to take care of myself. I still have the ambition to taste around the world!

It seems that scientists and scholars like to define everything. Sometimes they give a definition in the form "something is the thing that people generally consider to be that thing" and thus according to the "rigorous" definition, commonly accepted definition is correct.

2 comments:

  1. 抱歉,我没太注意你是学什么专业的。你说的倒是很像我自己的专业——力学。因为力学不是物理学,所以更关注的是不同物质在相同模型下表现出的共性。
    比如我自己熟悉的流体力学,通常套用连续“流体”介质的模型。但事实上,最常研究的气体,在小尺寸时就开始表现偏差了,而反过来说液体,如果是瞬时作用(时间极短)就会表现出部分固体特性。特殊环境下,比如液体张力作用强时,易流性(一个模糊概念)就不一定成立。(我一同学拿张力主导的现象类比气体,还上了央视。我当时觉得那个丢脸啊!)
    说这么多是因为我遇到过研究生也好、专家也罢,仅仅认为是那样,所以不认可我关于实测数据的分析。而其实他们抱持的观点我也同样抱持过。多思考、多查证,在专业能力上才能走得远。当然,我说的是能力,不是际遇……

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  2. 哇好专业。。膜拜一下物理大牛。。。其实这个感想是看了几个社会科学的演讲看出的。。感觉所谓的社会“科学”喜欢把一些人们习以为常的概念给定义一下,蛮无聊的。。科学要好得多,不过感觉很多时候理论上探讨的都很不实际。我学的(数学)本来就是纸上谈兵的东西所以不敢妄言。。。

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