t*******n 发帖数: 4445 | 1 来自主题: PsychoAnalysis版 - 赶不去的忧郁 Have you guys heard of this joke?
On seeing a glass 1/2 filled with water--
Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
Optimist: The glass is half full.
Psychologist: How does the glass feel about the water? |
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i*****a 发帖数: 7272 | 2 agree...but i found too many self-indulged pessimists |
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l*****r 发帖数: 7130 | 3 Just finished Ender's Game.
I suspected the novel was written during the cold war era with the world war
seemed imminent, the author felt very pessimistic about the future of
humanity. He thought human were bound to self-destruction because the evil in
people. Even the good people didn't deserve to be happy because there were
just so much evil among us. However, he wanted a solution for the human kind.
That's why he imagined some organic, well-intentioned being, keeper in the
homecoming series a |
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l***a 发帖数: 5114 | 4 最近翻出阿西莫夫作品全集来重看,真挺有意思的,不仅囊括了他最早期那些名不见经
传的短篇,还有自己写的“创作感想”。看到TRENDS那一篇,居然发现他在1938年(当
时他还在读大学)成功预测成两件事:1)1940年第二次世界大战,2)1970年,人类登
月。
两件事都只差1年而已!
我一直觉得那个SF黄金时期的创作高峰,后来者很难翻越……
下面附TRENDS 的原文。
TRENDS
John Harman was sitting at his desk, brooding, when I entered the office
that day.
It had become a common sight, by then, to see him staring out at the Hudson,
head in
hand, a scowl contorting his face—all too common. It seemed unfair for the
little bantam
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g*****l 发帖数: 15 | 5
~~~这就是说似乎也是不要的,hehe
有没有不要民主的理由呢?hehe
那是不是先有独裁,然后才因之有了民主?或者可以这么理解:若未出现过独裁,民主(民
之思想)也就无从产生了?hehe
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~pessimistic 了一些吧
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怎样才算真的明白呢?什么是大差别呢?hehe
怎么会呢?现实生活中,再具体一点儿,民主社会中,也有这样的人呀!hehe
每次看主张民主,都会有人说,
~~这是搞与不搞的事情么?hehe
~~~那谁最理解他们真正需要什么呢? hehe
~~~~~oh,他们至少还知道自己不喜欢
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x******n 发帖数: 8550 | 6 交作业P78 49-53
49 梁昌年,吴雅楠, 鲍敏琪(p78) by xianyunn
无疑,基金会是一件很有意义的事,其宗旨是非常神圣的。这是我们的出发点与信心所
在……
--梁昌年,SOSCEF会员(弗吉尼亚理工学院)
Undoubtedly, our Foundation has engaged in an immensely meaningful endeavor,
and its aim is a sacred one. These are where our starting point and
confidence lie.
- Changnian Liang, Member of SOSCEF (Virginia Tech)
◇记得在基金会成立之初,会员们曾经为给基金会取个合适的名字争论了好半天。后来
经过投票,终于决定取了现在这个名字。中国的教育真的危机到需要“救援”这个地步
吗?而且需要象我们这样一些身在海外的学生或工作了的人,在紧张的学习或工作当中
为此忙来忙去吗?说实在的,我有时也会这样怀疑地问自己。但不时地,从过去老师的
来信,从父母的来信和从国内... 阅读全帖 |
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x******n 发帖数: 8550 | 7 交作业P78 49-53
49 梁昌年,吴雅楠, 鲍敏琪(p78) by xianyunn
无疑,基金会是一件很有意义的事,其宗旨是非常神圣的。这是我们的出发点与信心所
在……
--梁昌年,SOSCEF会员(弗吉尼亚理工学院)
Undoubtedly, our Foundation has engaged in an immensely meaningful endeavor,
and its aim is a sacred one. These are where our starting point and
confidence lie.
- Changnian Liang, Member of SOSCEF (Virginia Tech)
◇记得在基金会成立之初,会员们曾经为给基金会取个合适的名字争论了好半天。后来
经过投票,终于决定取了现在这个名字。中国的教育真的危机到需要“救援”这个地步
吗?而且需要象我们这样一些身在海外的学生或工作了的人,在紧张的学习或工作当中
为此忙来忙去吗?说实在的,我有时也会这样怀疑地问自己。但不时地,从过去老师的
来信,从父母的来信和从国内... 阅读全帖 |
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S*********o 发帖数: 1334 | 8 具体看看你转引的这篇文章,更是可笑,眼点与眼睛的差别被简化成三层tissue的逐渐
变形,眼睛的复杂结构哪里能这么简约的。真是纸上谈兵,想什么说什么。
文中谈到“If you have a 99.009901% chance of survival without the eye, it is
not that worth “developing it.” 这是论文使用的参数吗?这一点都不合理,相
对于有眼睛来说,没有眼睛的生存率应该是100%,因为现在也有很多生物没有眼睛的,
他们并没有什么生存的劣势。
关于变异回归,我的问题不是遗传率量化的问题,而是如何量化的问题,不应该是一个
固定的遗传率常数,一个变异的遗传率应该与该变异的量度成反比的,而且是非线性的
反比关系。
of
magnitude
100 without the improved eye would survive. Selection pressures vary, though
it may be difficult to assign numerical figures to real situations, b... 阅读全帖 |
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s***u 发帖数: 1911 | 9 zt
How much can a Christian sin and still say he or she is a Christian? Every d
ay? Every hour? Constantly and continually? As a regular practice of life? J
ust how much can a Christian sin and still say they're a Christian?
There are two general extremes on this issue of "How much can a Christian si
n?"
VIEW #1 "Christians Can't Sin."
On one extreme are those who argue a real Christian can't sin, because being
delivered from sin is what being a Christian is all about. These folk argue
that if y... 阅读全帖 |
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g****m 发帖数: 996 | 10 Religion and Psychiatry
Irvin Yalom
宗教与精神病学
欧文亚隆
The American Psychiatric Association awarded Irvin Yalom the 2000 Oscar
Pfister prize (for important contributions to religion and psychiatry.) Here
is his acceptance speech delivered at the American Psychiatric Association
annual meeting in May 2000 at New Orleans. A version of this lecture has
been published in the American Journal of Psychotherapy (number three –
2002)
美国精神卫生协会将2000年奥斯卡菲斯特奖颁给欧文亚隆,奖励他在宗教与精神病学方
面做出的重要贡献。下面是他在2000年5月新奥尔良举行的美... 阅读全帖 |
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c****p 发帖数: 6474 | 11 达尔文的眼睛
方舟子
原载《牛顿-科学世界》2002年第1期
九·一一恐怖主义事件以及随之而来的反恐怖主义战争使得“塔利班”的
名字家喻户晓。人人都知道塔利班是一个伊斯兰教的原教旨主义组织,但很多
中国人不知道,基督教同样有原教旨主义组织和信徒。据统计,大约三分之一
的美国人属于原教旨基督徒。原教旨基督徒坚信基督教《圣经》上的每一句话
都准确无误,而且必须从字面上理解,因此他们必然要反对进化论。与自由派
基督徒不同,原教旨基督徒热衷于传播自己的信仰,在美国掀起了一次又一次
的反进化论风波,也热衷于拉人入教。到美国留学的中国人几乎毫无例外都会
遇到传教士,而且以原教旨基督徒为主。由于中国留学生以理工科出身为主,
或多或少学过进化论,进化论也就成了原教旨主义者传教的最大障碍,因此他
们做了大量的宣传,散布了许多谣言、谎言攻击进化论。同时,原教旨基督教
也注意在中国留学生当中培养传教士,一位笔名为“里程”的华人就是其中较
为著名的一位。此君毕业于北京大学生物系,1981年在中国科学院研究生院获
得硕士学位,第二年赴美留学,在1987年获得密歇根州立大学博士学位,在
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a**u 发帖数: 8107 | 12 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
runsun (runsun) 于 (Fri Dec 18 14:14:14 2009, 北京) 提到:
美国加州2009.8.29
D:科学家说数十亿年前金星曾像地球有海洋但干枯了,部分原因是金星太接近太阳,它
有水存在可能表示那里曾有物质生命,今日科学家相信,金星有微生物存在,金星是否
曾像地球能长养生命?
M:是,它过去是,它曾是美丽的星球,现在已不再是,那里完全没有生命了,没有任何
生物,很遗憾。
D:那里过去曾有生命,他们看起来像我们吗?
M:是,是,他们看起来像我们。
D:火星,地球和金星为何都有类似人类的众生居住,我们有类似的祖先吗?谢谢M。
M:我们只有一个祖先那就是上帝,有些变成堕落天使,他们看起来类似我们,是因为我
们有类似的功德,包括我们银河中的火星,金星等星球,只问我们银河中的不要问太远
的星球,否则我就不用出定了。虽然你的问题很简单,但我要查证,需要一些时间,为
了地球的生存我们也都很忙,所以我得牺牲你们的要求,一直拖到今天,我好不容易才
排进今天的行程里。
D:谢谢M
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n********n 发帖数: 8336 | 13 Carl Rogers/Quotes
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can
change.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and
change.
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a
destination.
When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am
optimistic.
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no
standard by which to judge it.
In a person who is open to experience each... 阅读全帖 |
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e********t 发帖数: 12 | 14 sounds very pessimistic in such occasion.:( |
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P**********n 发帖数: 6311 | 15 1、I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I
stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
开始我直接求上帝赐辆自行车。 后来我琢磨上帝办事儿不是这个路数。 于是老子偷了
一辆然后求上
帝宽恕。
2、I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather.. Not
screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.
我希望能像爷爷那样,安静地在睡梦中死去…… 而不是要像他开的车上那些惨叫滴乘
客一样死法啊!
3、Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and
beat you with experience.
你永远不能战胜一个纯SB,因为他会把你的智商拉到跟他个水平,然后用丰富的经验打败
你
4、The last thing I want to do is h... 阅读全帖 |
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m**********e 发帖数: 2808 | 16 A friend emailed me an article stereotyping English men as the best husband
candidates and wished me good luck. Though an Anglophile, I dissented:
My impression of the English men are that they are generally eccentric,
gossipy, rude, drunk, and above all, most are ugly. There are some very
beautiful South Asian guys around, but still, they are eccentric, gossipy,
rude, (though not drunk as they are muslim), and above all, they are
chauvinists and won't take care of their kids. I do find many fam... 阅读全帖 |
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k****a 发帖数: 7077 | 17 你是pessimistic和merose到家了,可能一个地球都找不到个你喜欢的地方。
不过武汉的确让人depressed。 |
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w***n 发帖数: 4358 | 18 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
wowowowo (life is a journey) 于 (Mon Mar 28 13:35:09 2011, 美东) 提到:
今天早上我突然发现这几年来每次都是这样,回去之前开心得不行,兴奋得几天睡不好
觉,特别特别开心的感觉,一直到下飞机都是不由自主的面带微笑。刚到国内的时候就
浑身长刺,看啥都不顺眼,火气特别大,过几天麻木了就开始无所谓并且融入抢位子插
队大声吆喝的人群,然后依依不舍地回到美国,但下了飞机我都要长喘一口气,终于回
来了,还是米国好啊,干净安静有秩序云云,全是发自内心的。
这种心态是不是特别不适合海归?
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sweetww (甜麦圈) 于 (Mon Mar 28 13:52:17 2011, 美东) 提到:
哈哈 写的真好
恩 不适合 特别是最后一句
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w******n 发帖数: 692 | 19 Too pessimistic. If you don't have high expectation, you won't feel
disappointed. First of all, ideal human relationship is not anyone's
possession. If you own it, you are lucky. If you don't own or lose it,
that is also reasonable. |
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a*****l 发帖数: 27 | 21 Sounds like I am very pessimistic this evening, since I am going to say
something negative again. I hope I am not discouraging you again.
However, success of managers are not purely determined by their knowledge.
What you are talking about is "explicit knowledge", but it is the "tacit
knowledge" that makes a difference. For example, many ERP projects or Total
Quality Management failed. They all are considered great at that time. Only
great managers did them successfully, and the reason is that t |
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m***t 发帖数: 4509 | 22 i need an optimistic perspective, coz this is such a pessimistic world! |
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s***r 发帖数: 1121 | 23 1. investpedia has a simulation game in which you can trade options.
2. Rule of thumb: buy a call (put) if you are optimistic (pessimistic) about
the underlying stock.
3. There are many strategies you can use. The basic one: protective put.
Search black swan of the stock market - you will see many.
4. In fact, most speculators just trade options as any other financial asset
. |
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l**t 发帖数: 6971 | 24 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/opinion/mona-simpsons-eulogy-
A Sister's Eulogy for Steve Jobs
I grew up as an only child, with a single mother. Because we were poor and
because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like
Omar Sharif. I hoped he would be rich and kind and would come into our
lives (and our not yet furnished apartment) and help us. Later, after I’d
met my father, I tried to believe he’d changed his number and left no
forwarding address because he was an... 阅读全帖 |
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w********2 发帖数: 16371 | 25 Previously-released data from NPD on U.S. Mac sales for January and February
have demonstrated relatively anemic year-over-year growth, with January
sales tracking only 1% above the previous January's performance and February
sales coming in 4% higher. Still, analysts have suggested that ongoing
growth in international markets could compensate for stagnation in the U.S.
market as consumers continue to wait for product updates. Consequently,
analysts have generally been holding firm on their pred... 阅读全帖 |
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m******t 发帖数: 2416 | 26 Aren't you guys too optimistic about the technology, and thus
too pessimistic about our jobs? 8-)
I agree with your vision on future software teams, but I'm afraid
you overlooked one key word in your own vision - "experienced".
A team of *experienced* programmers led by a very good architect?
That would be a dream team. And when was the last time you work
with such a team? The groomy reality I'm living in is, you have to
work with bunch of mass-produced MS's who just started learning how
to p |
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t*******e 发帖数: 684 | 27 ORM上手不难,学好不易。ORM也不仅仅runtime生成sql statement,完全可以生成
precompiled queries. ORM也可以invoke stored proc, 还能自动把结果map成
entities. ORM也没有强迫schema必须从application source code生成。Batch data
processing有各种各样的ETL工具可以处理,hibernate本来就不是干这个的。至于
transaction isolation的例子,本身就有问题,为何要在runtime更改txn isolation
level? 用个pessimistic locking就可以了。况且不是所有database都可以在runtime
改txn isolation level的。
Statement” |
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l*********s 发帖数: 5409 | 28 ^__^, ok ok, I will move toward the dark side a bit as per your request.
ps. a while ago our teacher joked that good programmers are by nature pessimistic and obsessive. You probably is a Big Bull, //congbai once |
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y***d 发帖数: 2330 | 29 所以,还是需要你这样的乐观形象来熏陶,天天奔几个吧,要不都 depressed 咋办
pessimistic and obsessive. You probably is a Big Bull, //congbai once |
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s***r 发帖数: 1121 | 31
Too low. At least you need a GMAT > 700. For Chinese students, > 740
should
be expected.
My GPA in graduate school is 3.51.
This is OK. What is your math/statistics background? I have seen
many applicants with MS in math/statistics/physics or even PHD in
physics/
maths....
6 years banking work
Not really helps.
No
It is OK.
Overall, I am pessimistic about your application. |
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s******o 发帖数: 298 | 32 New research is giving both optimistic and pessimistic forecasts for the
chance of finding life on Jupiter's moon Europa.
by Vanessa Thomas
Since planetary scientists began to realize that the Galilean moon Europa
might harbor an ocean of water underneath its icy surface, they have dreamed
of the possibility that aquatic life might thrive there. A pair of space
scientists believes there is plenty of biotic material on Europa to develop
life. But another researcher counters that the thickness of |
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n********k 发帖数: 2818 | 33 no way, maybe I am a bit pessimistic none of these can be that simply, my
personal belief is each neurological
diseases is as messy as the cancer situation...and the fact is we barely
know much about it...BTW, I am not a
circuitry person, so don't speak for that but more from molecular/genetic
point of view... |
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w******a 发帖数: 1527 | 34 Well said.
But if frustrations happen all the time in the experiments, how can I see
the hope? I am a pessimistic anyways. :'( |
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K******S 发帖数: 10109 | 35 that's still leukemia.
Even for CML and Gleevec, we didn't cure it. we just control it with drugs.
Maybe I'm too pessimistic.
in
from
cancers |
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n********k 发帖数: 2818 | 36 Of course, I wouldn't be pessimistic either if I had someone's records and
pedigree...hehe...when are you planning to hire? maybe consider me:)))... |
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d*****r 发帖数: 2583 | 37 "(3)可以在城乡结合部找一些高中毕业的、认真负责的小姑娘来做没什么技术含量的
technician,因为离家近工资较其期望更高所以一般都很认真负责,比研究生做得还好
,因为人工便宜,加上额外福利也不高,所以性价比超高。但关键还是要选好人,用对
了就非常省心。这是另一双赢合作的例子。"
This is why I am pessimistic about the direction of current biomedical
research and education... |
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d*****r 发帖数: 2583 | 38 systems biology is still at the stage of collecting data, you can visit Dr
Laufferburg's lab at MIT, you will have some idea of this data farm stage.
At best is to play with some simple toy model and make some small system in
cells and try to fit the toy model. Nothing generalized now.
bioinfo is more for the statistical analysis of genomic data.
nothing fancy so far. I am also pessimistic. |
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L*********y 发帖数: 322 | 39 It is inappropriate to use this incidence as evidence to show that 生物之路
是死路一条. Although the job market for bio becomes more tough these days, i
know many smart bio ppls succeed in getting decent jobs either in industry
and academia. So please don't be so pessimistic! |
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P****d 发帖数: 564 | 40 不知道有没有什么quantum dots之类的东西,每电一下,就改变一次状态。最后拿出来
读一下。
人脑本身又是个大问题,不能做完实验直接捣碎。
I once heard from one of the mater minds behind the human genome project,
who I have a lot of respect for (not Lander, he's more of a showman than
scientist to me), that we tend to be over optimistic on short term goals but
over pessimistic on the long term ones. So I do have a lot of hopes for
BAM -- not in the grandiose goal itself, but I think it will drive a lot of
technology development in the process that will change... 阅读全帖 |
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N******n 发帖数: 3003 | 41 LZ posted his sad story at MedicalCareer broad few months ago. It is also
bad for his boss to do this unprofessional trick to him. Maybe the
pessimistic outlook of biological research further exaggerate the bad
situation of current postdoc market. So many PI have to think of every
possibility to cut the expense and save money for themselves. It is the
greedy nature of capitalism. |
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O******e 发帖数: 4845 | 42 我推荐大家都读一下这篇文章:
http://www.pnas.org/content/111/16/5773.full
全文:
By Bruce Alberts, Marc W. Kirschner, Shirley Tilghman, and Harold Varmus
By many measures, the biological and medical sciences are in a golden age.
That fact, which we celebrate, makes it all the more difficult to
acknowledge that the current system contains systemic flaws that are
threatening its future. A central flaw is the long-held assumption that the
enterprise will constantly expand. As a result, there is now a severe
imbalan... 阅读全帖 |
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s*****l 发帖数: 1844 | 43 Very pessimistic about pharmaceutical industry if there is no breakthrough
in drug discovery. Too many challenges nowadays, harder regulation,
increasing R&D cost, patent expiration, pipeline drought etc.
Before Pharm industry made good money and people like to invest to this
sector, but nowadays, conservative people are reluctant to invest in pharma/
biotech industry. R&D will gradually move to small biotech, research
institute, and universities where the compensation will be worse than that
in |
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d****y 发帖数: 1671 | 44 Civil has been like this in US for quite some time, at least 20, 30 years or
more after last construction spree. It should be balanced by now if it
ever can be. Kind of pessimistic on this one. |
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c**b 发帖数: 474 | 45 alternatively, you can take the most pessimistic view as said by cnmb "人生
就像狗屎粘白糖,虽然本质上脏臭,但还是时不时给你点甜头让你觉得活着也不赖“。 |
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j**v 发帖数: 86 | 46 I can tell people who are pessimistic right now that I'm in this field (4th
year PhD) and I found a very good job, although my field more specifically
is SLA (more research oriented and applicable to other foreign languages).
Other Chinese classmates more specially in the TESOL field are also getting
interviews.
Of course I don't want to mislead anyone. There's of course hope, the rest
depends on yourself (and some luck too). And I'm biased 'cause I love what I
do. (right attitude is the prerequ |
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s******e 发帖数: 207 | 47 In nature, EE is manufacture industry, CS is service industry.
US labor department has a pessimistic outlook for EE jobs in America for the
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e***a 发帖数: 32 | 48 I think life is never easy. For those ppl who went through this path well
before our knowledge of the existence of this career, it must be very hard for
them too. I believe if we work hard enough, we can do it too. Enother issue
is, I hope when I graduate which should be four years later, the market is at
least better than now.
Based on my observation, you are one of the pessimists here. Actually I am too
and I also think this is the biggest drawback in my personality, for
everything, not only |
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d****g 发帖数: 164 | 49 I think you guys are a little too pessimistic with polymer science. There are
always some interesting problems if you are really interested in the science.
Generally speaking, I feel that american scientists are more interested in new
technology or they have to follow the hot topics to get funds. Whereas europen
scientists seem to have the previlege to do what they are really interested.
There are always hot topics at different time, but I am sure that only those
really interested in their work |
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