to observe, to think, and to create

17 歲那年剛從美國回台灣，就遇到生命中第一個較大的挫折：下飛機兩週後去考聯考，結果 7 科總分才 150 ，連繳志願卡的最低門檻 180 分都沒有。對從小就被父母灌輸，讀到研究所畢業才是正途的我來說，第一次發現生命的軌跡，似乎不如原先預期。 當時面臨的一個問題是：是...

昨天老婆生日，一起推著嬰兒車到我家旁，新開的義式小館晚餐。 這家餐廳剛開，還在「試營運」。先前問過可否做素食 ( 因老婆和我都是 茹素者 ) ，前幾天朋友吃過也推薦。基於好奇，也基於想給開店的年青人一些鼓勵，老婆和我都想去嘗看看。 其實這一區已有些餐廳，...

女兒最近剛滿兩個月，和老婆決定先自己帶看看，暫不請褓姆。這在我和老婆都有全職工作，又無父母協助下，最近還蠻忙碌的。 不過有個感覺是：自己生的小孩，總要自己「負責」 :) 在台灣很習慣 out-sourcing ，例如吃飯可以 out-source ( 外食 ) ，...

最近在閱讀 PayPal 創辦人 Peter Thiel 今年 (2012) 開始在 Stanford 開設的 CS183: Startup 隨堂筆記，收獲頗豐。先前對 Peter 認識不多，不過讀過這些筆記後，對這位前輩深感尊敬，也覺得他除了創業有成，亦是位思考深刻的...

前兩天去了台北市政府對我們申請的「 產業發展獎勵補助計劃 」做報告，頗有感觸。雖說是十分感謝委員最後的支持，及承辦單位極力想協助我們的心，但還是感到許多挫折。 這個補助基本上就是：針對在台北市設立的公司，可提出 proposal 來申請研發相關的補助。政府最多可出到一...

Yesterday I attended a newly formed Taiwanese forum to discuss and study a particular game technology. Participants include both students an...

I was thinking of a very important question last night before sleep: will I keep repeating my mistakes, and tire myself to death without b...

Yesterday I had a great dinner with some tofu teriyaki (I'm a vegetarian). It was fun to see how the cook made the food in front of you...

This morning while jogging, I spotted a homeless sleeping by the river bank of my usual jog route. It was probably the first time I saw a h...

This morning I woke up with a few interesting realizations about why stories are important and why games are important: Stories shape ou...

I've been constantly pondering on the question of how a commonly usable 3D cyberspace might be created on the current Internet. There ar...

Today I had a new theory while thinking about some problems: that behind every problem, there are some fundamental issues/aspects that will ...

Laws of classical physics describe how things will work in a mostly mechanical, deterministic way, absent of any unpredictability. Later the...

A friend of mine was telling me the symptoms of being a social-phobic: difficulty in breathing, discomforts while being with a crowd. As a r...

Recently I've been thinking about why computer-generated virtual environments hold such a big attraction to me. A standard answer I'...

Good and Evil are the forever topics in history, life, and well, humanity. While discussions usually tend to move towards moral doctrines an...

Many problems in science could be formulated as the search of global minimum (or maximum, but we only need to talk of one as the two are ...

Yesterday I went to National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) for Ph. D admission oral exam of the computer science (CS) department. By the end ...

This will be my first blog. I found this service after reading an article in Fortune magazine describing the war between Google and Bill Gat...