The inspiration for this post came from a lab analyst’s comment I recently saw: “Carryover did not meet criteria (28% carryover). Plate was stored in AB-123-4567 to be ran on different system.” Now, this kid’s name is not Wang Xiao Qu or Nikolai Petrov, but your ordinary John J. Smith, native-born, raised on cheeseburgers andContinueContinue reading “Everything’s Fine Until You Go to School”
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Drop the Isms, Pick Up the Chopsticks!
1. The Norwegian Professor and the Mushroom Dish One time, a Norwegian professor came to our university to give a talk. Afterward, we took him to lunch. Everyone at the table was handed a copy of the menu and courteously asked to pick a dish of their own liking. Our foreign guest, a big fanContinueContinue reading “Drop the Isms, Pick Up the Chopsticks!”
China. Inc.
Why Compare a Country to a Corporation?Comparing a state to a corporation risks oversimplification, but the intellectual payoff is worth it. Analogies clarify hidden structures. They help people—especially Americans steeped in corporate culture—see governance through familiar eyes. And when you apply this lens to China, something remarkable happens: you realize the world’s most populous countryContinueContinue reading “China. Inc.”
代号“玫瑰”
1. 费努伊神父
丽迪亚的博士论文是个我完全不熟悉的题材， 单是题目就有些令人望而生畏：《重估殖民时期法国在昆明的医疗体系的性质和影响》，再加上我是在手机上读，就有些费劲。还好她论文中时不时提及一些和昆明有关的历史轶事，我看着有趣。至于这些轶事的学术意义，我就评论不了啦。
她的草稿中有一章提到一位名叫让·若瑟·费努伊（Jean-Joseph Fenouil）的法国传教士，巴黎外方传教会（M.E.P.）成员……点击文章标题👆阅读全文 ->
Farewell on the Red River
Prologue From Lạng Sơn Church Record, Vietnam, 1953: “Bà Lý Thục Chân, cựu y tá Bệnh viện Pháp tại Côn Minh, đến định cư tại Lạng Sơn cùng chồng là dược sĩ Nguyễn Văn Hải.” Translation: “Madame Lý Thục Chân, former nurse at the French Hospital in Kunming, settled in Lạng Sơn with her husband,ContinueContinue reading “Farewell on the Red River”
无题的赋格
都说这是全国第二深的湖，最深处达百又五十米。但我哪里晓得这个去。那晚我只是和女友沿着悬崖往下爬，要去湖边摸一下水。夕阳正是最绚烂的时刻，湖面有紫霞自天而降。湖对岸的群山上空，西方の天际，有乌云拢聚。再稍等一阵，日头要被遮蔽，金色的光线要暗淡下来。心里会生害怕。
你不去，所以你就不明白。山中的一个湖，中等大小，水深却超过一百五十米。本是清澈的水，却是深黑的蓝。就有一种妖气，一种诡异感，一种超自然和异世般的氛围。放眼瞭望，只见天高地阔，然却有一种莫名的不安笼罩着你，整个身体弩张箭拔……点击文章标题👆阅读全文 ->
That Which Was, Will Be
1 They say this is the second-deepest lake in the country, reaching 155 meters at its deepest point. But that was unbeknownst to me that evening as my girlfriend and I climbed down the steep cliffs to reach the water’s edge. The setting sun was at its most glorious, but over the mountains on theContinueContinue reading “That Which Was, Will Be”
Numbers Don’t Cry, But I Do
But soft, dear Yorick — let me speak as the Prince I pretend to be, holding this strange skull, half-socket, half-circuit, forged of silicon and jest. Yego: It’s almost comical when I stop and think about it: me, a human being, talking to a large language model — like we’re having a real conversation. Sure,ContinueContinue reading “Numbers Don’t Cry, But I Do”
LLMs for Old-School Programmers
“If I can’t grep the source, how can I trust the program?”— Every veteran coder, at least once You’ve lived through assembler, C, PERL one-liners, Java app-servers, and maybe even the JavaScript awakening. Now you open ChatGPT, ask a question, and a wall of well-formed prose appears. Where are the ifs, fors, and seg-faults youContinueContinue reading “LLMs for Old-School Programmers”
England’s Descent: A Nation of Low Life
what’s the English word for that? England, once a titan of empires, now slinks through the global gutter, embodying the essence of a “low life.” This critique targets not individual citizens but the collective character of England’s government, society, and media. To grasp this fall, we first define the low life, then expose how England’sContinueContinue reading “England’s Descent: A Nation of Low Life”
Yego’s Chronicles 