2018年7月30日 星期一

Suffragette

‘The Suffragette’ newspaper promoted 'the enfranchisement of women, by means of pictorial publication'. Bring the suffragette movement to life with lectures, gallery talks and object handling sessions: https://bit.ly/2OtKx9Y

7 October 1913 edition of The Suffragette


suffragette

NOUN

historical 
  • A woman seeking the right to vote through organized protest.
In the UK in the early 20th century the suffragettes initiated a campaign of demonstrations and militant action, under the leadership of the Pankhursts, after the repeated defeat of women's suffrage bills in Parliament. In 1918 they won the vote for women over the age of 30, and ten years later were given full equality with men in voting rights

2018年7月29日 星期日

guilty of tsundoku or bibliomania


Love books? 📚📘📙📕📗📖📘📙📕📗📚


Tsundoku (Japanese: 積ん読) is acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one's home without reading them. The term originated in the Meiji era (1868-1912) as Japanese slang. It combines elements of 「積んでおく」 tsunde-oku (to ...

transponder


Each Tour rider's bike must have two transponders — one on the fork and one on the chainstay — so the race organizers can track each rider's exact time, to the hundredths of a second.






transponder

NOUN

  • A device for receiving a radio signal and automatically transmitting a different signal.

Origin

1940s: blend of transmit and respond, + -er.

2018年7月21日 星期六

algorithm算法


法恩:数字化工具是透明、民主化的“颠覆者”吗?两本新书提出,现有的算法对边缘群体的人权构成了重大威胁。

BBC World Service
How would you feel if a secret calculation was used to decide whether or not you ended up in prison? That’s what’s happening in the US – and some people are worried it’s resulting in racist treatment.


When maths can get you locked up.
BBC.CO.UK

When Not to Trust the Algorithm - Harvard Business Review

https://hbr.org/ideacast/2016/10/when-not-to-trust-the-algorithm

Oct 6, 2016 - Cathy O'Neil, author of “Weapons of Math Destruction” on how data can lead us astray–from HR to Wall Street.


Data scientist and blogger Cathy O'Neil discusses her new book, Weapons of Math Destruction, examining the way algorithms and data science are making our society less fair and equal.

 U.K. Hems In Cyprus Banks
Nervous about exposure to Cyprus's ailing financial system, British regulators have pushed the Mediterranean island's top two banks to restructure their U.K. arms to allow for greater local oversight.


hem 

発音
hém
hemの変化形
hems (複数形) • hemmed (過去形) • hemmed (過去分詞) • hemming (現在分詞) • hems (三人称単数現在)
hemの慣用句
kiss the hem of a person's garment, (全1件)
[動](〜med, 〜・ming)(他)
1 〈布・衣服の〉へり縫いをする, すそをかがる;((米))〈ズボン・スカートなどの〉すそ(丈)を上げる.
2 ((通例受身))〈人・物・場所を〉(取り)囲む, 閉じ込める((in, about, around, up))
be hemmed in by rules and regulations
規則規定でがんじがらめにされる.
━━[名](布・衣服の)へり, すそ;(一般的に)へり, 縁.
kiss the hem of a person's garment
〈人に〉おもねる.






algorithm


NOUN

  • A process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a computer.
    ‘a basic algorithm for division’
    → algo

Origin

Late 17th century (denoting the Arabic or decimal notation of numbers): variant (influenced by Greek arithmos number) of Middle English algorism, via Old French from medieval Latin algorismus. The Arabic source, al-Ḵwārizmī the man of Ḵwārizm (now Khiva), was a name given to the 9th-century mathematician Abū Ja‘far Muhammad ibn Mūsa, author of widely translated works on algebra and arithmetic.


algorithm這個字,源自於九世紀阿拉伯/波斯的數學家穆罕默德•科瓦力茲彌的名字Mohammed al-Kow?rizm?,據說他首先訂出出十進位算術的逐步演算法則。他的名字在拉丁文中變成Algorismus,英文的algorithm就是由此衍生。

歷史上第一個重要的算法是西元前400到300年間希臘的大數學家歐幾里得發明的。人稱「歐幾里得算法 (Euclidean algorithm)」的方法,可以計算出兩個正整數間的最大公因數(gcd),也就是可以同時整除兩數的最大整數。例如:80 與32 的gcd是16。

最早出現 algorithmics這個字的地方應該是J. F. Traub的書Iterative Methods for the Solution of Equations (Prentice-Hall, 1964)。最先在書中建議把這個領域叫做algorithmics 的是D. E. Knuth: Algorithmic Thinking and Mathematical Thinking, American Math. Monthly 92(1985), 170 - 181,而本書作者率先使用在書名上Algorithmics: The Spirit of Computing (Addison-Wesley, 1987)。《電腦也搞不定:從數學看計算機科學的罩門》第一章注釋

2018年7月17日 星期二

bodycam / body cam, body camera



This bodycam footage shows a cop firing through his OWN windscreen to stop a murder suspect!

body camera
noun
noun: body cam
  1. a small video camera worn on the body, typically used by police officers to record arrests, evidence from crime scenes, etc.
    "the use of body cameras will increase the level of trust and transparency between the community and police"


2018年7月16日 星期一

seat-of-the-pants


"Mr Trump likes to be impulsive, he likes to sort of fly off the seat of his pants," says a former adviser to President George W Bush.



seat-of-the-pants

ADJECTIVE

informal 
  • Of a person: tending to act instinctively, spontaneously, or expediently. Of an activity: done on the basis of practical experience rather than technical knowledge; informal; inexact.

Origin

1930s; earliest use found in Popular Science Monthly. From seat + of + the + pants, after by the seat of one's pants.

twitterpated




twitterpated

ADJECTIVE

North American 
informal 
  • 1Infatuated or obsessed.
    ‘Gus is still hopelessly twitterpated by Lee’
    ‘smiling into each other's eyes, a seemingly twitterpated couple glided past’
    1. 1.1 In a state of nervous excitement.
      ‘CBS execs are twitterpated over this new idea’

Origin

1940s: from twitter + -pated ‘having a head or mind of a specified kind’ (from pate); popularized by the 1942 film Bambi.



twitterpated - Wiktionary

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/twitterpated
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English[edit]. Etymology[edit]. twitter + pated, i.e., having one's pate (“head”) in a twitter (confused). First used in the Disney movie Bambi (1942). Adjective[edit]. twitterpated (comparative more twitterpated, superlative most twitterpated).

2018年7月11日 星期三

The smart money hit the canvas. The long shot got the nod.

The smart money hit the canvas. 

Hit the canvas 
definition
verb phrase To be knocked down in a fight (entry form 1922+, variant 1919+)



“Once I saw a prizefighter boxing a yokel. The fighter was swift and
amazingly scientific. His body was one violent flow of rapid rhythmic action.
He hit the yokel a hundred times while the yokel held up his arms in
stunned surprise. But suddenly the yokel, rolling about in the gale of boxing
gloves, struck one blow and knocked science, speed and footwork as cold as a
Well-digger's posterior. The smart money hit the canvas. The long shot got the
nod. The yokel had simply stepped inside of his opponent's sense of time.” 
― Ralph EllisonInvisible Man


“Once I saw a prizefighter boxing a yokel. The fighter was swift and
amazingly scientific. His body was one violent flow of rapid rhythmic action.
He hit the yokel a hundred times while the yokel held up his arms in
stunned surprise. But suddenly the yokel, rolling about in the gale of boxing
gloves, struck one blow and knocked science, speed and footwork as cold as a
Well-digger's posterior. The smart money hit the canvas. The long shot got the
nod. The yokel had simply stepped inside of his opponent's sense of time.” 
― Ralph EllisonInvisible Man



Older slang, used in cold weather to place emphasis on how extremely cold it is outdoors.

Damn, it's colder than a well-digger's ass!


Posterior 

n. 名詞; 1. 【文】【幽】後部;臀部[C]. He paused a moment to raise his posterior from the chair. 他停頓了一下,從椅子上立起來。

- Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior
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Posterior may refer to: Posterior (anatomy), the end of an organism opposite to its head. Buttocks, as a euphemism. Posterior probability, the conditional probability that is assigned when the relevant evidence is taken into account; Posterior ...



郭恆祺 經過了一個鐘頭的google與比對,我想學長這句話應該是出自於美國知名小說“ Invisible Man"小說中吧?the smart money 我查到的另一義是”老手“,hit the canvas在拳擊術語中是被擊倒而臉撞在拳擊台上(canvas原意是畫布,但我查到另一義是拳擊台的表面),而這段小說的原文我猜應該是一位老練的比賽常勝拳擊手訓練有素,出拳精確,但最後反而輸給另一個本來居於弱勢,最後一陣亂拳打昏(老)師父的yokel(鄉巴佬/路人甲).The long shot got the nod,應該是指不可能贏的人最後取得勝利。

long shot=幾乎不可能發生的事,get the nod=被認可。


以推理方式查典故句比較有效,但單句的話真的常會被猜離本意。

還是要看上下文來解題,我也不一定是對的 ,請參考一下囉!






smart money

noun
  1. money bet or invested by people with expert knowledge.

    "the smart money in entertainment is invested in copyright"
    • knowledgeable people collectively.

      "the smart money in music programming is abandoning pop"



smart moneynoun 
/ˈsmɑːt ˌmʌn.i/ /ˈsmɑːrt ˌmʌn.i/


[ U ] money that is bet (= risked) or invested (= put into something inorder to make a profit) by people who know a lot about a subject:

A lot of smart money is going into the uranium market right now.
the smart money [ S ]

the people who know a lot about a subject:

The smart money always finds a way to win.
Americans like staying near beaches, but the smart money stays up high, away from the crowds and the heat.

If the smart money is on something, or says something, peoplewho know a lot about the situation think it will happen:

There's no doubt that the smart money will be on Williams to repeat last year's success.
And the smart money says that the committee will reject the offer.