电影与书与绿植
因为代码写的多了，在写文章的时候不由自主会夹带上写代码的习惯。每句话考虑良久，反复确认前后的关联，尽可能去删减冗余的内容，写完后又回过头反复斟酌。可惜写代码与写文章到底不太相同，文章更需要感情的流露和思想的传达，代码则是实现目的的一个过程，更强调严谨和逻辑。美的代码自然有，但是相较于美的文章来说还是少见。文章，如果能多少引起共情，我觉得这样的文章就不差。如果写文章变得像写代码这样，就不免会担心文章挤不出来，反复前后修改之后一气之下删除作罢了。
相较于看电影我更倾向看书。电影需要把所有的内容努力压缩在两个小时内，大多有囫囵吞枣的感觉——起承转合跳不出框子，高潮过后就是心灵鸡汤。尤其是美国式鸡汤，鸡不是散养土鸡，汤煲出来一股浓浓的人工合成的香料味道，不太受得了。最近看了『盲视』，这段时间也许是处于关注科幻小说的心情，对未来（无论是自己的，还是这个世界的）充满了不安和不确定，所以想从他人的想象中寻找到蛛丝马迹。文中提到人无法理解人工智能的思考过程，这已经成为了现实。至于接下来人与『非人构件』的组合而产生人造人的设想，应该是不远的将来——我在世的时间内能达成的。只是不知道会不会有一天人类这个物种为了种群的延续而抛弃掉所谓的自我意识。
Records
I should not have been lingering around for such long time without putting a letter here. Actually, I had written something during this period of time talking about the life I had been spending in Downtown Seattle and the limited knowledge that I had learned about the history of my ex-company and how it impacts the south Lake Union area. This is a question thrown on the website zhihu.com and surprisingly enough, this question was also a question that I asked my interviewer when I was struggling to join my ex-company. The interviewer obviously did not expect to be asked questions like this, but I was at that moment trying to find some answers to it. I would like to know more about this place. And now it has been more than two years since I moved here.
Far from the Tree
The experience of reading the book ‘Far from the Tree’ is profound.
The search for the self-identity is forever the ultimate goal of an alive human being. I indeed discussed about some related issues with my friend on similar topics, e.g., if being gay is an illness or not, if color blindness is a deficiency or are we ‘normal people’ seeing ‘too much’ than we ought to see. Actually it is a quite pleasant and interesting topic when discussing some unique features not that serious in nowadays and especially when they are not occurring to you. I once wondered that if color blindness is due to the deficiency of the eyes or the deficiency of the brain and it turned out that science proves the correctness of the former explanation. However, as we know color blindness is a kind of heritable gene differences from the rest of us, how we argue a ‘correct sample’ out of all different kinds of gene mutations. Correctness is hard to define, yet we are trying to form a standardized reference out of the the great majority. We say that it is the ‘right’ one when most people possess this feature - an obvious double standard when saying that truth always rests in the hands of a few people.
