2021年10月28日 星期四

Sputnik moment









China’s Weapon Tests Close to a ‘Sputnik Moment,’ U.S. General Says
By David E. Sanger and William J. Broad

Gen. Mark A. Milley said China’s testing of a hypersonic missile “has all of our attention.”

China's hypersonic missile test 'close to Sputnik moment', says ...

https://www.theguardian.com › us-news › oct › chinas-...
6 hours ago — The launch of a Sputnik satellite by the Soviet Union in 1957 stunned the world and fed US fears that it was falling behind technologically in ...


米利將軍提到“斯普特尼克時刻”，意在引起對很久以前的冷戰仍存在記憶的一代人的共鳴。斯普特尼克1號是蘇聯在1957年發射的一顆衛星。它在華盛頓引起了恐慌，認為蘇聯在太空競賽中處於領先，並導致約翰·F·肯尼迪(John F. Kennedy)總統宣布美國將成為第一個將人類送上月球的國家，在不到十年的時間內就實現了這一成就。但它也助長了核軍備競賽，這在蘇聯解體後的過去30年裡才得到遏制。

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2021年10月26日 星期二

text analysis/ text mining/ text analytics

 


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Text analysis, also known as text mining, is the process of automatically classifying and extracting meaningful information from unstructured text. It involves detecting and interpreting trends and patterns to obtain relevant insights from data in just seconds. ... Another term you may have heard is text analytics.Nov 13, 2019
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2021年10月17日 星期日

metaverse元宇宙

 

Facebook Inc plans to hire 10,000 in the European Union over the next five years, the social media giant said on Monday, to help build the so-called metaverse - a nascent online world where people exist and communicate in shared virtual spaces.


元宇宙（英語：Metaverse）一詞由前綴「 meta」(意思是超越)和詞幹「 verse」(通過逆向構詞法從「宇宙（universe）」得來)組成；簡稱：MVS;這個詞通常用來描述未來網際網路迭代的概念，由連接到一個可感知的虛擬宇宙的持久、共享的3D 虛擬空間組成。[1] 廣義上的元宇宙不僅指虛擬世界，還指整個網際網路，包括增強現實的整個範圍。[2]

歷史[編輯]

這個詞是在尼爾·史蒂芬森在1992 年的科幻小說《潰雪》中創造的[3][4]，其中人類作為化身，在一個使用現實世界模擬的三維虛擬空間中與彼此和軟體客戶端進行交互。 [5]史蒂芬森用這個詞來描述一個基於虛擬實境的網際網路後繼者。 [6]類似於元宇宙的概念很早就以各種名稱出現在賽博朋克小說類型中，最早可以追溯到1981 年的中篇小說《真實姓名》。史蒂芬森在《雪崩》的後記中表示，在完成小說後，他了解了《Habitat》 ，這是一款類似於元宇宙的大型多人在線角色扮演遊戲。


The word "Metaverse" is made up of the prefix "meta" (meaning beyond) and the stem "verse" (a back-formation from "universe"); the term is typically used to describe the concept of a future iteration of the internet, made up of persistent, shared, 3D virtual spaces linked into a perceived virtual universe.[1] The metaverse in a broader sense may not only refer to virtual worlds, but Internet as a whole, including the entire spectrum of augmented reality.[2]





The metaverse is having a moment. Coined in Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson’s 1992 sci-fi novel, the term refers to a convergence of physical, augmented, and virtual reality in a shared online space. Earlier this month, The New York Times explored how companies and products including Epic Games’ Fortnite, Roblox, and even Animal Crossing: New Horizons increasingly had metaverse-like elements. (Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has been discussing his desire to contribute to a metaverse for many months now.)


In January 2020, an influential essay by the venture capitalist Matthew Ball set out to identify key characteristics of a metaverse. Among them: it has to span the physical and virtual worlds; contain a fully fledged economy; and offer “unprecedented interoperability” — users have to be able to take their avatars and goods from one place in the metaverse to another, no matter who runs that particular part of it. Critically, no one company will run the metaverse — it will be an “embodied internet,” Zuckerberg said, operated by many different players in a decentralized way.


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2021年8月2日 星期一

woke, wonk, “Woke” culture i


Until a few years ago “woke” meant being alert to racial injustice and discrimination. Now the word has a completely different meaning
"I get a sense among certain young people on social media that the way of making change is to be as judgemental as possible about other people."


“Woke” culture is a subculture from America that focuses on social justice-related, anarchist, or leftist issues, such as
  • microaggressions (offensive phrases that make others feel excluded),
  • police actions against Blacks,
  • high rates of poverty driving Blacks, Native Americans, and Latinos into poverty,
  • attacks against Muslims, or suspicion against them by associating them with the terrorists who use similar beliefs,
  • and some degree of environmentalism.
The “woke” part of its name is from the slang phrase “stay woke”, which means “to be aware of an issue”: in this case, it is various issues affect...
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"Tarzan’s a dude who lives in a treehouse and talks to apes. He lives in Africa and has no black friends... To borrow a term I use very, very rarely, Tarzan is not 'woke.' He’s easily the least woke fictional character other than C. Thomas Howell in the movie Soul Man. I don’t care if you put the entire cast of Empire in Tarzan. I’m not interested."

King of the bungle: Why Tarzan will never be OK
Edgar Rice Burroughs’ character has inspired more than 50 films, but their out-of-date approach to the ‘dark continent’ leaves them fatally flawed
THEGUARDIAN.COM|由 DAVE SCHILLING 上傳

Woke
Being Woke means being aware.. Knowing whats going on in the community

(Relating to Racism and Social Injustice)
Person 1: Stop bringing racism into everything
Person 2 : Your clearly not woke

Definition of wonk
noun



  • 1 North American informal, derogatory a studious or hard-working person:any kid with an interest in science was a wonk
  • a person who takes an excessive interest in minor details of political policy:he is a policy wonk in tune with a younger generation of voters
  • 2 Nautical slang an incompetent or inexperienced sailor, especially a naval cadet.
Derivatives


wonkish

adjective

Origin:

1920s: of unknown origin


wonk
n. Slang
  1. A student who studies excessively; a grind.
  2. One who studies an issue or a topic thoroughly or excessively: "leading a talkathon of policy wonks in a methodical effort to build consensus for his programs" (Michael Kranish).
[Origin unknown.]

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2021年7月5日 星期一

bikini, burqini (or burkini), Speedo

75 years of the bikini? They were actually around much earlier – then forgotten about. The proof can be found in the Villa Romana del Casale, on the Italian island of Sicily: In a mosaic depicting ten athletes, sometimes known as the 'bikini girls'.
The co……
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可能是顯示的文字是「 DW w Bikini Girls Villa Romana del Casale, 4 AD 」的圖像


The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Named after an A-bomb testing site on a remote Pacific atoll, the bikini has had a history and reputation deserving of its name. Learn more about this swimsuit’s history on Bikini Day in this Met Timeline Essay.

“Simply defined, the bikini is an abbreviated two-piece swimsuit with a bra top and panties cut below the navel. Broadly defined, the bikini represents a…
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"最高行政法院裁定Villeneuve-Loubet市的布堅尼禁令需要暫緩執行後，該市市長稱不會執行裁決，會繼續執行禁令。理論不涉及該裁決的其他各市都表明，布堅尼禁令仍然有效。"



It's only fair...
Some French scholars of Islam consider it absurd to conflate the burkini with hard-line Islamism, not least because the latter would not permit women to bathe publicly in the first place



Why the French keep trying to ban Islamic clothing
It may appear bizarre, or frivolous, to argue that women should bare more flesh
ECONOMIST.COM


Bikini or burkini? Burkinis have come in for a lot of criticism lately. But Shaimaa Khalil think's that's unfair.



Why burkinis are a good thing
They're banned from some French beaches - but Shaimaa Khalil approves of them.
BBC.CO.UK


【第一位大庭廣眾穿著比堅尼的是⋯⋯脫衣舞孃！】
／1946年，法籍設計師Louis Réard在巴黎推出了一款由三塊布和四條帶子組成的泳裝，這種世界上遮掩身體面積最小的泳衣，通過胸罩護住乳房，背部除繩帶外幾乎全裸露，三角褲衩盡量上提，最大幅度地露出了胸、腰、臀、腿。
由於穿上後近似全裸，當時巴黎的許多專業時裝模特都對這種泳裝望而生畏。然而，一位名叫Micheline Bernardini的脫衣舞孃卻勇敢地向傳統觀念挑戰。在一家游泳池邊穿上比堅尼，讓記者照相⋯⋯／



1940年代比原子彈爆炸還震撼的發明：比基尼進化史｜關鍵評論網
1946年前，「比基尼」只是一個地名，那一年上半年，女人只敢穿著立領的…
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Speedo International Ltd. is a manufacturer and distributor of swimwear and swim-related accessories based in Nottingham, England. Founded in Sydney, Australia in 1914, the industry-leading company is now a subsidiary of the British Pentland Group. Wikipedia



倫敦地鐵「沙灘身材」海報爭議新巿長：審查廣告防損民眾自尊
英國減肥藥廠Protein World去年在倫敦地鐵站刊登海報，海報中有一名身穿比基尼的女模特兒，標題寫着「你準備好去海灘的身材了嗎？」有民眾質疑廣告 ...
A burqini (or burkini; Arabic: بوركيني‎‎, portmanteau of burqa and bikini) swimsuit is a type ofswimsuit for women. The design is intended to comply with the Quranic instruction for Muslim women to dress modestly.[1] The suit covers the whole body except the face, the hands and the feet, whilst being light enough to enable swimming. It looks rather like a full-length wetsuit with built-inhood, but somewhat looser and made of swimsuit material instead of neoprene.[2]
In August 2009, a woman in France was prevented from swimming in a public pool wearing a burqini, amidst ongoing controversy about Islamic dress. The action was justified by reference to a law that forbids swimming in street clothes.[3] In August 2016, the mayor of Cannes banned the swimsuits, citing a possible link to Islamic extremism.[4]



















A brief history of the bikini – and the garment's surprising Roman origins

On this day in 1946, the modern bikini was unveiled by a French engineer (seriously) named Louis Réard. Here we look back at the history of the essential summer holiday accessory...
Strange origins


Believe it or not, bikinis actually date back to Roman times, when the skimpier alternative to the toga - featuring a bandeau top - was thought practical for ladies playing ancient sports. However, along with central heating and chariot racing, the garment slipped from view for centuries.


On this day in 1946, the bikini swimsuit was introduced by French designer Louis Reard at a popular swimming pool in Paris. [“Bikini,” Wayne Theibaud, 1964, oil on canvas.]









bikini 1 

Pronunciation: /bɪˈkiːni/ 



NOUN (plural bikinis)

A two-piece swimming costume for women:Karen put on a yellow sun dress over her bikini[AS MODIFIER]: a bikini top
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Origin

1940s: named after Bikini, where an atom bomb was exploded in 1946 (because of the supposed 'explosive' effect created by the garment).
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  • In 1946 the USA exploded an atom bomb at Bikini, an atoll in the Marshall Islands in the western Pacific. Not long after, a scanty two-piece swimming costume caused a sensation on the beaches of France. Its effect was so great that the French called it the bikini. The word seems to have appeared first in English in a US newspaper, the Waterloo Daily Courier, on 26 June 1947. In an article on swimwear it reports: ‘The French, it seems, have a new suit planned that is about twice as wide as a piece of string. It's so explosive that they call it the Bikini.’
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