Gary Greenberg: The beautiful nano details of our world

- Beautiful Science. What we can see in very very small scale.
- The grain of sand are beautiful
- Three dimension microscope: easy to loose focus on small scale, need to take many different picture. And put them together using a program.

- "To see a world, in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower.
Hold infinity in your hand, and eternity in one hour." William Blake

(Photo from Gary Greenberg TED speech)

Benjamin Zander: The transformative power of classical music

- Classical Music
- The impulse is reduced; 6-> 11 years one-buttock playing
- Maybe it's not the audience, is the player

- One-buttock play, is the vision

- Why I am clapping, 7th grade kids said: "Because we were listening"

- How would you be, talk for "moving everybody love classical music" vs.  "moving 3% -> 4% to love classical music"

- My job is silence, and to awaken possibility with other people.

- If the eyes are not shinning, you get to ask: "Who am I being, that my players' eyes are not shining?"

- Definition for success: how many shining eyes around me?

- "I will never say anything, that couldn't stand at the last thing that I have ever said."


Takeaway:

That is how a video about passion should be, the speaker should be so full of passion, that there are many spillover on the audience. A evangelist that can't wait to convert everyone into.

I can't remembered a more passionate TED talk.

Malcolm Gladwell：The strange tale of the Norden bombsight

- It is machine that spent US$ 1.5 billion in WW II to developed (as compared to 3 billion in Manhattan project)
- A device to drop bomb from the air with precision (in practice).
- Only works Cloudless sky, low speed, low attitude.
- 750 acre chemical plant, 85,000 bombs only 10% lands, with 16% didn't go off.
- Many gadgets that claims to be Norden bombs, but it actually means very little: it solves the wrong problem.
- Droid killing in war was 95% effective, but suicide bombing increase 1000%.

Takeaway: 
Be flexible, change your way of attacking a problem. Be careful of metrics and KPI.

Ryan Merkley: Online video -- annotated, remixed and popped

Using HTML, JS, and CSS. That is a project that I can/should try.
http://mozillapopcorn.org/

Marco Tempest: A cyber-magic card trick like no other

"Magic makes possible today what science will make a reality tomorrow. "

Technology advancement will sure change magic. In this case, a poetic combination with Augmented Reality. 

Hard Question: Can there be a case where using technology will diminish the sense of surprise in a magic performance?

I mean that the audience know that we have been showed incredible things on through the screen. WIth aftereffect, I can hardly think of anything that haven't been on a movie. 

That is probably why when the magician made some breakthrough w/ the hardware and software, the audience is unimpressed: "that is interesting, doesn't the iPhone already does this?"

The following is another performance by the same magician.

Which I personally think that has less surprises.  (Though I know it is technically difficult).

Coscup 2012

鑒於自己即將轉換跑道，應該要多認識這一個領域的人才對；畢竟寫出好程式的秘訣之一，就是多跟其他的設計師多聊天。

Talk with other programmers; read other programs. This is more important than any book or training course.

多謝鄭翰霖的邀請，我就在有一天的晚上匆匆忙忙的回到電腦前，準備在一開放的時候搶先報名。

當然吸收到了一些新東西的發展，不過收穫最大的，還是親眼看到一些 Hackers 級的人物，讓我啟發非常多。倒是跟現場朋友交流的部分，還是有一些太被動了；幸好現場有遇到許瀚昌帶我認識一些 Mozilla Taiwan 社群的朋友。

人物啟發的部分：

• 長時間養成精湛的技術；Jserv 用了15 分鐘的時間製作了一個作業系統的核心，邊 Coding 邊解說。從我聽起來，他從大學輟學 coding 已經有十年的時間了。還有一些其他的前輩，也是在很早以前就開始了。我相當欽佩他們，某種層面也是給我一個建設，說前方還有很長的一段路要走。
  
• 感恩以及分享的精神；我也稍微能體會 Open Source 的概念：當一個人花了非常長時間解決一個問題之後，有一些研究心得跟成果。便把這些結果，整理成一個套件、文件、或一個演講。幫助之後的人，不需要花這麼多的心力。這樣的分享精神，有時候穿越了賺錢的需要。 這周末，當然看了很多神人級的人物，都不吝於分享他們的經驗。
  
  其實真的令人感動的，是一些相比起來比較＂正常＂的人，也非常樂意在台上分享比較＂小＂的事情：純粹希望幫助大家可以省點時間。
  
  自己現在剛開始在學習寫程式也有這樣子的感覺：很訝異怎麼會有人願意花時間建一整個範例回答別人的問題，或著是整理一整篇文章。在使用這些東西的時候，我誠心的感謝這些人，也期許我自己有一天可以饋這一個世界。
  
• 自由的追隨著自己熱情；Kamm 的 3D 列印，Imamura Noritsuna 用腦波控制的機器人用晶片控制家電，Jserv 建一個新酷音。同時覺得他們怎麼挑這麼奇怪的 project 來做，另一方面，又非常羨慕他們的自由。畢竟偉大的發明，都是從不起眼的小地方開始的。唯一的衡量標準，或許就持續跟著自己的興趣走。
  
  The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow.   
  
  clkao帶著一個脊椎骨架來到現場，因為他剛從飛行傘上掉下來。我覺得他是最自由的人了。

• 有一些駭客居然在公司/ 學校工作；這一點對我來講是值得深思的，或許，這是他們可以持續專注在程式的方法：有一個固定，有彈性的工作。
• 偷聽的水準很高；中午吃便當的時候，就算不說話，也可以偷聽到很高品質的對話。環境真的很重要。

後續值得再繼續追蹤的一些新技術：

• 可以進行Big Data 分析的 Open source 工具
• 小米機
• 傾斜式的 3D 列印
• Ubuntu
• OpenSuse

TED: Hannah Fry: Is life really that complex?

A very interesting speech  about using Mathematics in real life.

In the past there was two kind of extreme problem that were possible to solve ( bench-marking Einstein):
- Very few object, with low interaction. [Ball A hits Ball B]
- Large quantity of object, where interaction nullify. [Large quantity of atoms]

 Math is now possible to let us work on some problem in between:
- Mitigation of people in Europe -> Gravity Model (Distance & Opportunity)
- Burglary, once break, will happen more often, until police came dynamics hot spots->  Chemical reaction where Leopard gets its spots
- Riot:

1. Decision to Riot, more people know, more people get infected-> virus spreading model
2. Pick Riot site, take somewhere near, unless good cause-> consumer model for local shopping
3. Interact with Police, less encounter as possible-> predator and prey pattern

Combining all together, you can build a model that predict riots in city.


Next Step: 
Where I can find more of this kind of research? 
It will be interesting to collect different pattern of Nature. And use Google correlation.