People used the word “ecosystem” to describe sectors or networks of online marketing, digital investigation, criminal justice system, AI, bitcoin, cryptocurrency, blockchain, fintech, NFT, etc. …
Curtis Cate, The Atlantic. Charles de Gaulle: The Last Romantic. November 1960 Issue.
[…] “The facts may prove me wrong,” Charles de Gaulle one day declared to his Finance Minister, Antoine …
Since 2013, questions were asked:
[…] A judge hears a case and accepts one party’s version. That party provides a convincing submission. The judge lifts, makes some modifications, and …
Erevnitíspoid watched 2 videos.
[…] A simple act of caring creates an endless ripple.
[…] The first one is in Thai with English transcription.
[…] A business man decided to buy a …
Education is not the learning of facts. It’s rather the training of the mind to think.
[…] —— Albert Einstein
[…] The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
[…] —— Thomas …
Some villagers did not understand English. They received a tape cassette from England. The village head summonsed Yufen Chun to do an extempore translation. They also got a newspaper clipping from …
Professor Patrick Henry Winston is best known for teaching 6.034 (Artificial Intelligence) at MIT. He was also renowned for his wildly popular IAP (Independent Activities Period) talk, “How to Speak”. …
Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more science than a heap of stones is a house.
[…] —— J. H. Poincaré
[…] Video 1 is a seminar, …
Life Vest Inside is a 5013 non-profit grass-roots organization based in New York City, United States. It prevents social issues such as bullying, depression, and substance abuse from materializing by …
The Appeal Court practice direction of 2012 clarifies the practice and procedure governing the citation of legal authorities and applies throughout England & Wales, including the Crown Court, …
“I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy; we fought ourselves. And the enemy was in us. The war is over for me now, but it will always be there, the rest of my days. As I’m sure Elias …
How to write and host a blog?
[…] Alison Hill and Marek Czernek gave a very useful step by step guide. Herebelow is a summary mainly leading to a domain name provided by the “Rbind Project”. …
The goods news for technical experts may be that the commercial software is increasingly being designed to conduct analysis tasks and automatic domain knowl- edge and expertise. For instance, . . . …
My friends, remember this, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
[…] ——— Victor Hugo / Les Misérables
[…] 朋友們，你們要記住，世上沒有所謂的雜草，也 …
It’s not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It’s the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of …
The video of Admiral William McRaven’s address at the University of Texas at Austin to the Class of 2014 is available here.
[…] A Chinese translation by 洪曉慧 of the speech is available here. …
On September 11, 1959, Frank Serpico joined the New York City Police Department as a probationary patrol man.
[…] On 3 February 1971, he pretended to make a drug purchase and attempted to make …
在齊太史簡 In Qi, it was the Grand Historian’s bamboo slips [that told of Cui Zhu’s assassination of Duke Zhuang];
[…] 在晉董狐筆 In Jin, it was the brush of Dong Hu [that attributed blame to Zhao Dun …
William L. Watkinson, The Invincible Strategy, in The Supreme Conquest and Other Sermons Preached in America, 1907:
[…] But denunciatory rhetoric is so much easier and cheaper than good works, …
Why do you use “prologue” and “epilogue” to start and end a blog?
[…] It is because life is like a play. They remind readers not to take the contents of this “blog” seriously.
[…] 你為什麼用「 …
This is the story of an academic researcher who identified a massive error in her own published work. She realised that she had reached the wrong conclusions because of the error.
[…] Julia …
Can a MSc student ask another person to correct his mistakes in “presentation, grammar, spell, etc.”?
[…] Students and professional proofreaders posed similar questions on the internet. The …
Keymed (Medical & Industrial Equipment) Ltd v Hillman & Anor [2019] EWHC 485 (Ch) (11 March 2019)
[…] The former CEO of Olympus, who blew the whistle in 2011 on a massive accounting …
Can a master of science degree student finish his final year project report within 5 months?
[…] The project report is more than a pre-requisite for his graduation. It is a learning process to: …
Editing tips from the Yale University Center for Teaching and Learning
[…] Writing tips from the Yale University Center for Teaching and Learning
[…] Writing clearly from the Yale …
I started to teach in the programme for the Postgraduate Diploma in IT Forensics (PgDITF) in 2009. The HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education (HKUSPACE) offered the programme. HKUSAPCE is …
A good report tells us the truth about its research; but a bad report tells us the truth about its author. —- modified from G.K. Chesterton, Heretics.
[…] Dr John Morley, University of …
The title came from the 2013 cover story of The Economist, How Science Goes Wrong.
[…] Reproducibility and replicability are hallmarks of good science. In 2019, the Committee on Reproducibility …
Kuo-wei Wang. Poetic Remarks in the Human World1:
[…] From the ancient time to the present day, all those who have been highly successful in great ventures and in the pursuit of learning must …
The Berlin Wall separated the East Berlin and the West Berlin from 1961 to 1989. The Berlin Wall was more than 140 kilometres long. In June 1962, a parallel fence was built some 100 meters father into …
Data Protection Principles and its exceptions are difficult to understand, at least for some people.
[…] Unfortunately this piece of legislation [Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance of 1996] has …
The answer is because we virtually must, to gain access to the laboratory of human experience. When we study it reasonably well, and so acquire some usable habits of mind, as well as some basic data …
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
[…] Is there any thing whereof it may be said, …
In R v Jones [2007] 1 AC 136 (HL), Lord Hoffmann explained the roles of parties in relation to the acts of civil disobedience. In that regards, His Lordship said:
[…] Who guards the guards …
“Accuracy, fairness, professionalism—the pillars of journalism took root in the U.S. and Britain, spread around the world, and remain the standard. In the U.S., the press retains qualities of a …
The Middlesex University offers the MSc degree in Electronic Security and Digital Forensics in Hong Kong, in collaboration with the School of Professional and Continuing Education, The Hong Kong …
The Middlesex University offers the MSc degree in Electronic Security and Digital Forensics in Hong Kong, in collaboration with the School of Professional and Continuing Education, The Hong Kong …
The Middlesex University offers the MSc degree in Electronic Security and Digital Forensics in Hong Kong, in collaboration with the School of Professional and Continuing Education, The Hong Kong …
The Middlesex University offers the MSc degree in Electronic Security and Digital Forensics in Hong Kong, in collaboration with the School of Professional and Continuing Education, The Hong Kong …
The Middlesex University offers the MSc degree in Electronic Security and Digital Forensics in Hong Kong, in collaboration with the School of Professional and Continuing Education, The Hong Kong …
The Middlesex University offers the MSc degree in Electronic Security and Digital Forensics in Hong Kong, in collaboration with the School of Professional and Continuing Education, The Hong Kong …
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
[…] In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried …
To postdoctoral researchers, PhD turned entrepreneurs and PhD students, I recommend the words of Grant Snider:
[…] If you are lucky, you will find something you love doing.
Others will take …
“Held, (1) the test to be applied when considering applications for restoration to the medical register was the same as that to be applied when considering the restoration of solicitors to the Roll of …
It is all beauty in the eyes of the beholder.
[…] Alexandar Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur. Business Model Generation.
[…] Sean Chen. Startup 2.0: Startup Manual for Enginners. …
“When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”
[…] — Wayne Dyer
[…] Cited by Her Ladyship YA Datuk Nallini Pathmanathan, Court of Appeal Judge, Malaysia, in …
Life is complicated and it is difficult to put it simply.
[…] “I who am poisoned with the blood of both,
Where shall I turn, divided to the vein?
I who have cursed
The drunken officer of …
“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
[…] — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: the Hound of the Baskerville, 28 (ebook pub. 2016)
[…] …
A researcher on the road from the framing of a research question to the publication of the manuscript may be led astray by pitfalls.
[…] In their paper, Nine pitfalls of research misconduct, …
“Dr Smith, we are happy to accept your superbly written paper for publication in the Journal. Tell me, who wrote it for you?”
[…] “Dr Smith answered: ‘I am so happy that you found my paper …
In 1660, Boyle published his landmark book, New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring of the Air and its Effect. In the book, he described the first controlled experiments of the effects …
Researchers and students spend a great deal of time reading scientific papers.
[…] In 1988, a group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology wrote a classic paper to give …
“In deciding whether this particular applicant’s history of academic misconduct should lead to a decision that the applicant was unfit to be admitted to the bar, the court considered:”
[…] “In …
A sought admission to the Bar. His application was objected.
[…] A was an employee of the Legal Aid Commission. He was a senior Administrative Officer. During his employment, he studied the …
Authors wish their works to be distributed or sold. As authors, they are the owners of the copyrights in their works. They have the exclusive right to do the following acts:
[…] to copy the …
“Typography matters because it helps conserve the most valuable resource you have as a writer—reader attention. Attention is the reader’s gift to you. That gift is precious. It is finite. And if you …
“Thus, we consider this case against the background of a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well …
“Great cases, like hard cases, make bad law. For great cases are called great, not by reason of their real importance in shaping the law of the future, but because of some accident of immediate …
Generally referred to as the Noble Eightfold Path (Ariya-Atthangika-Magga).
[…] It is composed of 8 divisions (factors):
[…] Right Understanding (Samma ditthi),
[…] Right Thought …
“It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a …
“He who receives ideas from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening mine.”
[…] — Thomas Jefferson (1743 - …
“What any teacher can teach, is far less than Google. I told the students, “I do not have new knowledge to teach you. Rather, I hope to learn from you some new knowledge.” Research is not working for …
“If you search for the truth, you would not try to win by every method possible; and when you have discovered the truth, you do not need to worry about losing.”
[…] — Epictetus (50 - 135)
Three black humour have long told the differences between a first degree and a graduate degree.
[…] The first humour is:
[…] Bachelor degree: the teacher gives you the questions and the …
Gary King. 2006. “Publication, Publication.” Political Science and Politics, 39, Pp. 119–125.
[…] Gary King is the Weatherhead University Professor at the Harvard University. He also serves as …
Florian Markowetz. Five selfish reasons to work reproducibly. Genome Biology, (2015) 16:274 - 277.
[…] Stephen R Piccolo, Adam B Lee, Michael B Frampton. Tools and techniques for computational …
I have created XeLatex templates for:
[…] PhD Thesis for studying at the Department of Computer Science of The Hong Kong University, Pokfulam, available here.
[…] MSc Project Thesis for …
This is my first blog. This is my first post. I regreted that I started so late. In 2000, the late Professor Samuel T. Chanson told me to start a blog. I did not. In mid 2007, I created a blog by Hugo …
Who was “Yufen Chun” in ancient China?
[…] His family name was “Chun”. His second name was “Yufen”. In the English world, he was sometimes wrongly named as “Chunyu Fen”. An example is the …
‘The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday.’
[…] – Erwin Schrödinger (1887 - 1961).
“A disrespectable eunuch had inscribed above the entrance to his house, ‘Let nothing evil enter in.’ ‘How, then’, enquired Diogenes, ‘will the master of the house be able to get inside?’”
[…] — …
‘The theory of karma is the theory of cause and effect, of action and reaction; it is a natural law, which has nothing to do with the idea of justice or reward and punishment.’
[…] — Walpola …
‘A judicial trial is not a search to ascertain the ultimate truth of the past events inquired into, but to establish that a version of what occurred has an acceptable probability of being correct.’ …
‘Justice is best measured not by outcomes in specific cases, but rather by the procedures that produce those outcomes.’
[…] — O’Connor, S. (2009). Balancing Security, Democracy and Human Rights …
‘Why spend your life letting other people manipulate you just to get a name and reputation? Why not let your life be guided by your own heart and live without the burdens of fame and recognition?’ …
‘But, be that as it may, those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again, to teach to others what we know, and to try with what’s left of our lives to find a goodness and meaning to this …
‘Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.’
[…] — Friedrich Nietzsche, …
‘It’s not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It’s the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock …
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