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Technology is the result of putting science into action. It is a craft as
well as art. The best application of science is always called the state of art.
Ancient great technologies also artist. For example, the pyramid was built with
the gold ratio that please your eyes. Leo Da Vinci's invention drawings are
undeniable beautiful. Lets look at technologies from a daily life perspective
and see how can we share the life with it.
Special Feature
Latest articles:
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2011.04.03 On April 2's New York Times,
there is an article describing how bad the Fukusima Daiichi nuclear reactor
of Japan,
From Afar, Vidid Picture of Japan Crisis by William J. Broad. It
outlines the forensic science to analyze the situation could be traced back
to 1979's Three Miles Island incident. The analyze reveal how bad the
internal meltdown was using modelling. By feeding the observed fact into a
simulation model, the forensic analysis could provide events by events
sequence, duration of the events and other details such as temperature,
amount, and pressure. The intriguing part of the article is the
methodology used by Micro-Simulation Technology of Montville, J.J., is
simpler than most industry simulations. These modelling techniques serve two
purposes. The first is to provide a safety analysis on the design without
going through the real events. Many industrial certification had going
through physical test to validate the data. For example, the fire resistance
of a material is certified by burning. The strength of a re-enforcement bar
is certified by breaking it. This is not a viable solution for many
industries and scenario like the nuclear or aerospace because the event may
nor may not be reproducible at a reasonable cost. As an alternative, a very
precise and accurate modelling exercise is used. Second is to post-mortem
analysis. Physical post-mortem could be impossible because the actual
evident could be destroyed during the incident. For example, the high
temperature could burn away the liquid and the casing the provide the
telltale of how and what have been happened. This is the place where
simulation becomes handy. All simulations are the combination of using known
equations, statistical model or multimethod modelling. These methods apply
an equation when it is available if not it uses a recomputation of next step
by model what could happen during a minute slice of time that similar to
numerical integration and differentiation in calculus. Will this be the
first step to let the machine to create a virtual world that we rely on?
- 2009.09.06
2010 may be a crucial year for China to transit from high-tech manufacturing
to space technology industry. China has secretly slid from low price
manufacturing by massacring most of them during the 2007 economic crisis to
high tech manufacturing such as BYD which produces battery, cell phone and
other high tech electronics. This is on top of all TV, LCD Display, 3 meter
tire and a long list of high tech manufacturing. China has launched her
space lab program starting next year to launch 2 unmanned and 5 manned space
vehicle to build a space lab by 2015. China Daily's report
Nation strives to launch labs on 2009.09.01 details the plan. The
plan has a very unusual comment. The comment states the success factor of
the plan is hinged on the docking technologies. All Communist propaganda,
publishes the success story and never hints any possibility of failure or
what could be wrong. China is no more using the mass media as propaganda
machine anymore. She has passed this point. During the 1960's space race
created numerous advantage to boost the American's and Russian's
manufacturing industry. Marvellous products such as Velcro and WD40 were
some of the prime example. This time will write China the ticket to world
domination, economically and technologically.
- 2009.08.01
While many intelligent people are debating whether the world (read
United States not even Europe), some of them are alleging China is creating
another bubble. The most prominent evident is the drop of China's 8% growth
so far this year. Some of them (not necessary including the first some)
found the fact that China is getting in the worse of the depression (not
recession) because scores of thousands of business fail and the export of
machinery parts reduced by 21% in last quarter. The obvious point is
contradicting information yet many see it as rapport and believe the
information is consistent. Reports are obsolete when they are published
these dates; so does the statistics. So when we see rallying data it could
be shrinking now in reality. Analysis has to be done on the level that the
foundation does not obsolete by the time analysis has finished. This was not
as a tough job in the past but it is now because the reality has hastened at
the communication speed. Since we are at the web speed, information can be
propagated in minutes, so does the economic. At the beginning of 20th
Century, the economy of grain is determined by the speed of the cable which
relayed by the horse drawn carriage or train. It is at the rate of weeks. If
Binge and others had their internal communication network to beat the
newspaper by tapping right from the mouth of the farmer. So grain situation
at Balkan and Argentina could be received and drove the decision of more
barge sending out or cut the renting of elevators. What remains the same is
the same human brain thinking and meticulous thinking process with great
knowledge background are the key factor to do timeless (within a reasonable
short time) correct analysis. It is more advantages for the people nowaday
that they can update the analysis as new information poured in. In this
cyber age, do not read stale reports. Read fresh or timeless one.
- 2009.05.30
A few years ago, I wrote a research note that concluded the new railway is
communication network:
Railway
Replacement February 10, 2006. The railway carries the physical good
and, of course, snail mail. Entertainment always tags along, circus,
theatre, etc. Nowadays, the communication network provides the mechanism to
deliver intangible goods (i.e. service, e.g. banking, news, and education).
Alongside, we have the text messaging industry, the cell phone, the email,
the movie distribution, etc. A group of ex-Nortel senior executives propose
a plan to save the Canadian company by building a cross country
communication network partnered with Canadian government. Based on my
research, the cross country railway united Canada and promote the growth of
Canadian industries. Today, we have so many soft product that can be
delivered by the communication network, e.g. digital film screening by
Cineplex, this will be another way to help Canada to advance her GDP.
- 2008.07.10
Ancient Greek geeks constructed a mechanical calendar that can compensate
leap year, integrate lunar and solar calendar (similar to the Chinese
calendar) and phases of moon. This wonderful machine is all gears. This
report on
The Antikythera Mechanism: A computer Science Perspective provides a
window to the past for the great brains that helps the evolution of human
technologies.
- 2008.05.20
News are spreading that the lending bankers of the BCE deal as backing off.
So this is a situation how technologies may help to analyze the situation
and to guide the decision making. First of all, we have to identify the
existence of such provision (members of the set) in the contract. If there
is no such provision, so the probability is zero. However, the condition
can apply to subsequence deals that creates a feedback term for the
computation. Since we do not have the contract the most reliable source will
be the rumors we collect. From the Ontario Teachers Pension Fund we hear
that there is no way to back out. The contract was created during the time
of money flood. To ensure no back out, it is possible by simply stating the
smallest set of condition of back out that is null. It is doable. Why the
bankers make the shot if there is no chance to be fruitful? It is the
consequence. It is like computing a series. Each term is depending on the
previous term computed. The Teachers could rely on the relationships with
the bankers for further deals. The sour taste in the mouth would not be a
success factor for next deal. Well, would there be another deal for the
Teachers? If the Teachers completes this deal there would be a long time
before they could cough up more money for any deal because of the debt
loaded transaction and the 'unexpected high number of retirement' at
their expected retirement time. If you trust there will be much better
economy in the near term, bankers can do business with others vulture,
bankers will hard press to break the Teachers.
- 2008.02.14
American is planning to shoot down her spy satellite with a surface missile
as soon as the space shuttle has clear the vicinity. The official press
explains it is for the safety of people on the ground to avoid half tone of
the toxic fuel on board. If not destroyed, it could spread over the surface
of earth. This kind of cover up is unbelievable. For meteoroids of tens of
tones could be reduced significantly during the journey from entering the
atmosphere which will generate close to 10,000 degree heat. Apparently the
American spy satellite fuel has a very high ignition temperature beyond this
and well insulated so a missile is required to spread the fuel in the
outerspace rather than falling down. If that is so, they are creating a much
more bigger problem than what they try to hide: testing of SDI (so call star
war) defense weapon.
- 2006.08.23
China, Russia joint Mars mission
- North
Korean missile test may not fail, 2006.07.04
- Microsoft
® Telecom Inc, 2006.07.03
- Be
aware of phishing 2006.05.29
- Ghost of
IBM PC 2006.02.25
- Google
Becomes an Entertainment Company, Computer Magazine, February 2006
- Railway
replacement & Dow Theory 2006.02.10
- Wind,
Butterfly 2005.12.22
- Win
in a balanced situation 2005.11.29
- Damn
those surveys 2005.11.27
- A
brief history and future of cookies 2005.11.06
- Flu and AIDS
2005.10.16
- Mechanizing
Invention 2005.09.03
- Stem
cell user's guide 2005.09.02
Coming soon ....
- Development of children's EQ and IQ through the introduction of
technologies.
- Rather than chicken first or egg first, is technologies first or
science first?
- Does different form of fine arts use any technology at all?
- Water technology: what is it?
- Is energy engineering another term for geek?
- What is a viable technology? Is there such a thing as gibberish
technology?
- How to invent things? A abridged guide for patent generation.
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