Monday, April 29, 2024

用鼻睇嘢

 From Edwin:


阿仔今日話自己對眼同個鼻都睇到嘢(之前都講過,但我唔明)。佢嗰陣喺度試緊單住眼睇嘢。之後我諗諗吓突然明點解佢會噉講,係因為binocular vision將兩隻眼嘅visual experience結合成一個unified experience,而中間overlap嘅部分正正就好似喺個鼻度「睇出嚟」噉。

[下面開始係無聊嘅延伸諗法]

我好似未曾試過噉諗,但如果單從感覺去諗,阿仔呢個詮釋有一種直接而合理嘅地方。如果單純用視覺作直覺判斷,大概真係好似渣古噉,視覺係由喺頭部由左至右無間斷噉「射出嚟」,而唔係由分隔咗嘅兩隻眼噉射出嚟。

但當然如果我地要測試呢種直覺咪合理,可以試下合埋對眼,就會發覺個鼻唔會「睇出嚟」。

但問題又唔係咁簡單。如果我合埋對眼後,發現自己睇唔到嘢,我點樣conclude到係對眼睇嘢而個鼻真係冇「視覺」?

可以想像幾個情況:

人唔識得單眼睇嘢,亦冇辦法用任何方式去遮住其中一隻眼(當冇手冇腳)。即係話一係就兩隻眼都開,一係就落隻眼都閂。而又假設我地連鏡都冇,睇唔到自己塊面係點,噉嗰個人會點諗自己嘅視覺?大概幾難得出自己有兩隻眼為視覺器官呢個結論。好可能佢會覺得個頭中上方有一大範圍係有睇嘢功能(亦即係類近阿仔嘅「鼻都睇到嘢」結論)。

而就算佢有鏡,佢都未必得出視覺由眼而出嘅結論。佢喺鏡度當然會睇到有兩隻眼,但齋睇到面上有雙眼唔會令人斷言眼係用嚟睇嘢。

如果呢個人想試係咪真係睇眼有視覺功能,佢可以試合埋眼。「合眼睇唔到,開眼睇到」 - 仲唔係眼用嚟睇嘢?但呢個做法都唔得。我地無從判斷自己係咪合緊眼。

點解噉講?可以試想單從感覺去睇,咩叫合眼?你控制頭中上方嘅某啲嘢開合,感覺到有少少肌肉郁動,然後就睇唔到嘢 - 呢三點都唔會令人覺得係specifically合緊雙眼。如果我冇見過塊面,可能就以為係成個範圍嘅開合。

而就算有鏡都好,當你合埋咗眼,你就已經睇唔到嘢,睇唔到「自己合埋眼」呢個事實。

不過噉講,鏡係其中一個工具令我地開始可以明白眼係用嚟睇嘢。如果我可半開半合噉睇嘢,就會睇到半合眼係影響到視覺,所以推斷眼部同視覺有關。而且鏡中睇到轉動眼珠而視覺會改變都係另一原因我地會估眼睛同視覺有關嘅另一原因。

但我覺得就算有呢個test,都不足以證明「鼻」係睇唔到嘢,只係帶出兩種conflicting嘅直覺。「明明我得一個vision experience,點會由兩隻分隔嘅眼而嚟?」而如果你純粹依賴直覺,我覺得visual experience嘅證據係prior to 你之後用嘅test。我地無法否認得一個visual field,但我地可以否定係用對眼嚟睇嘢呢個推斷(可以有other hypotheses)。

又如果嗰個人而家識得單眼,佢會發現閂咗一隻眼會少咗一部份vision,旦另一隻眼又會少另一啲vision,而閂曬兩隻眼就冇曬vision。噉係咪就證明係眼睇嘢呢?我覺得都唔得,原因同上,你總可以有其他hypotheses - 譬如個眼同鼻兩者都可以睇嘢,都唔一定contradict上面嘅觀察(下面會提出)。

噉件事開始變成討論hypotheses testing搵出criteria去判斷咩係啱。但件事都唔係咁簡單。「只用雙眼睇到嘢」合乎我地嘅「實測試」,但有啲違反平日最常嘅直覺(i.e.唔覺得視覺係由兩個sources而出);「用鼻都睇到嘢」嘅結論符合平時日常用視覺時嘅直覺(i.e.成個vision field都睇到嘢),但同實驗似乎有少少唔相符。噉點算?

我地一方面可以話直覺係錯嘅,一方面可以話個實驗結論係錯嘅。但如果視覺本身就係我地需要解釋嘅嘢,你話視覺直覺係錯會令到成個研究miss the point。噉或者再諗,明明合埋眼會睇唔到嘢,係咪都依然支持到合乎直覺嘅「鼻都睇到嘢」諗法?

要加ad hoc hypotheis去解釋唔係好難,譬如話合埋眼時會不自覺「合埋」鼻嘅視覺,又或者鼻嘅視覺係要靠眼嘅視覺為輔助之類。總會可以保住「鼻都睇到嘢」呢個講法。

噉「用鼻都睇到嘢」就會變得合乎直覺之餘,又唔necessarily falsify by 實驗。而相反「只用雙眼睇到嘢」仍然係違反直覺。(係要去到有一大堆唔同嘅研究發現binocular vision,眼有photoreceptive cells,個腦可整合資訊....etc 我地最終先可以make senseof呢啲講法點解唔違反直覺,但呢堆嘢係好後期先發現同埋係好龐大嘅資訊量嚟。即係要兜一個好大嘅圈先返到直覺度。)

講到呢度,好似係講緊如何判斷「解釋」嘅可信性之類嘅講法。但重點唔係喺度。只係想講,我地覺得視覺係由雙眼而出呢種解釋/諗法,大概唔係嚟自視覺或身體直覺而已,亦唔係嚟自簡單嘅身體實驗。

阿仔話「個鼻睇到嘢」其實係一個對自身嘅phenomenon準確嘅形容嚟。

噉點解我地大部份人都會覺得個鼻係睇唔到嘢,而係對眼。我覺得最基本係言語文化所造成。係我「教」阿仔話:係眼先睇到嘢,鼻睇唔到。而係教科書「教」我話,睇有photo receptor、腦可以統合感官..etc 。而呢堆「知識」係教出嚟,唔係淨係自身做試驗、觀察、感受出嚟。

再諗時諗到,當然可以用手去遮住個鼻(aka雙眼中間)睇吓會發生咩事(呢個可能係最有用嘅自身實驗去判斷鼻真係睇唔到嘢)。但有幾多人會用呢種方法先接受「眼係睇嘢鼻睇唔到嘢」?至少阿仔聽完我話「鼻係睇唔到嘢wor」後,似乎就冇再研究落去。

結論係,連最身體嘅直覺嘅解釋可能好多都係從言語從他人而得。

但有個問題係我未諗清楚嘅

「用鼻都睇到」、「淨係雙眼睇到嘢」固然兩個都係對視覺嘅解釋嘅hypothesis。兩個都最終解釋到直覺(當人你知道binocular vision嘅理論,就會知道其實兩隻眼都可以generate到一個vision field。)

問題係我覺得兩者同直覺嘅關係有唔同。

前者係接近直覺(而唔係解釋直覺,雖然佢都有解釋直覺嘅功用),後者係遠離直覺但可以解釋直覺。另一個例子係:地球唔郁係接近直覺,而日心說則係解釋直覺一樣。基本上一切科學結論最終都係做緊「解釋直覺」 - 砌一大堆嘢去解釋直覺但唔可以離開直覺。

如果有分別,我地都可以問,點解要用遠離直覺嘅解法而唔用接近直覺嘅解法?更何況嗰啲遠離直覺嘅解法對絕大部分人(包括我)好多時只係語言傳授而嚟?


「魔鬼誘惑」

 

見到呢啲故仔有少少心噏

明明講多啲穌耶可能可以避免佢跳。

亦都係點解我不斷提呢個聖經故仔。

Sunday, April 28, 2024

Statistical "Laws"

I just realized it's the same fallacy -

To believe a statistical observation codified as "law" applies in every situation.

This is the intellectual cause of discrimination and bias, and it is also the same mistake made by people who don't believe magic is possible.

Interesting huh.

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also a comment I wrote around the same time:

*from a subjective perspective*, when all you need is N=1, frequentist probabilities make a lot less sense, and noise from the long tail dominate.

Where is space located?

https://youtu.be/tdv7r2JSokI?si=m0yrIfWIy3RBBTtO&t=4781

The Schrödinger equation doesn't have to be messed with. All you have to do is locate yourself correctly in the wave function. That's many worlds. - The number of worlds is Very, very, very big.

Where do those worlds fit? Where they go? - The short answer is, the worlds don't exist in space. Space exists separately in each world. So, I mean, there's a technical answer to your question, which is Hilbert space, the space of all possible quantum mechanical states. But physically, we want to put these worlds somewhere. That's just a wrong intuition that we have. There is no such thing as the physical spatial location of the worlds 'cause space is inside the worlds.

And I was listening to this one also, almost back-to-back:

https://youtu.be/J_g_duRzWfk?si=p5SIRGw73FsG9C5K&t=2455

Yeah it is all a projection of our Consciousness. We're not we're not in physical reality physical reality is in US.

While it's really easy to confuse the more unintuitive concepts of quantum physics with abstract concepts like consciousness, the analogy here seems to hold pretty well, since the only thing that explains why we subjectively "perceive" one world as opposed to all the world comes down to some version of "consciousness"... And it is this consciousness that holds the world.

In short, the former statement was a somewhat objective interpretation of reality, and the latter is a subjective interpretation. Both seem to be quite true to me.

Relativity

 "The whole point of relativity is to say there's no such thing as right now when you're far away." -- Sean Carroll.


Friday, April 26, 2024

Emergency

It's common for scientists especially physicists to describe a law of nature, and proclaim everything is subject to that law, and the law is capable of explaining everything. They also often add a curious disclaimer, saying that although that is theoretically possible, nobody actually derives (for example) the ideal gas law from the Schrödinger equation, or derive organic chemistry from atomic physics, because it is too complicated to do so.

Despite the fact that nobody actually did it, people still *believe* that those handful of equations are all there is to the laws of nature.

But we really don't know whether that's the case.  Until we have actually derived all physical phenomena from such first principles, we cannot really say with confidence that we know what we think we know. It's more of an assumption as opposed to a well established fact backed by evidence.

What if those laws don't scale like we thought they would? What works for 10 particles might not work for 100 particles, and what works for 100 particles might not work for 1 000 000 000. Why are we so sure that complex organic chemistry only depends on the known atomic physics, and not something new that happens when interactions become much more complex?

This is perhaps the classical argument against reductionism, and it is more of a philosophical objection than a real suggestion that scientists have got it all wrong. But modern physics is indeed oblivious to its over-reliance on reductionistic approaches, to everyone's detriment.

Given my hypothesis that magic could hide and manifest in complexity (so that the smoking gun could not be found, at least not easily), it seems to me that if scientists are really serious, they should actually spend more effort in excising these magical dwellings from the theory, instead of leaving it to assumptions.

Thursday, April 25, 2024

BSides Hong Kong

閒置無事,見個 event 又唔使錢,就走咗去 BSides Hong Kong 聽咗下午幾個 session。

第一個個 session 個標題睇落好勁,咩 LLM injection,原來標題黨,花咗 90% 時間講 2022/23 年嘅 LLM 入門知識,再用咗兩分鐘講 LLM injection,感覺上係大學 present 水平。見講者係個 Deloitte 後生女仔,我走去八卦問下佢哋係咪有嘢用 LLM 所以搵人去做呢啲研究 (或者起碼派人手去學...),原來佢哋都係好初步嘅狀態,整咗堆 GPU server ,但冇咩特別應用。(我估可能係有少部份人內部當 ChatGPT 咁用啦。似係想 sell 客但唔通真係會 sell 到咩⋯ 向 Microsoft 買唔好?)

第二個 session 終於有啲非教科書內容,講 Chrome Extension。聽聽下有啲眼瞓,但感覺上都係講下 manifest v3 嘅 security features。係知多咗啲嘢嘅。理論上我係諗緊整個 Chrome Extension 去 click click 翻譯 H 漫生肉,係應該要知嘅。 Anyway...

第三個 session 勁嘢嚟,條友 Demo 點樣用 RPi Pico 去 intercept 粒 TPM 嘅 BitLocker encryption key。原來 Windows notebook 一般流程係個電腦 boot 起就自動自覺 send 條 key 俾個 OS。我知道呢件事之後覺得好神奇,因為我部 MacBook 冇可能會咁樣出事。諗諗下應該係 Microsoft 冇控制個 BIOS (or equivalent) 搞到佢要先 decrypt 咗個 HDD 之後先問密碼。所以除非 BIOS set 密碼否則冇用。(咁唔可以有個 bootup partition 問咗密碼先咩? well, 部門政治呢家嘢⋯⋯

之後就已經五點,我 skip 埋最後嗰個 talk (講點樣低成本搵 bug bounty,算啦...),搵咗間粉麵舖食咗個麵就返屋企。

Llama

一年之後,望返轉頭,發現 Zuckerberg (同 LeCun?) 決定公開 Llama 嘅決定真係影響深遠。

作為第一個唔是垃圾嘅公開 model (或者係 Llama2?),佢算係「做爛市」迫到全世界除咗最頂尖嘅 model 都變公開。公開 model 變成風潮,所有除咗 OpenAI 同 Anthropic 嘅公司都有公開 model,包括最大嗰幾間。

當 S&P 500 最大嗰十間公司有一半都做咗,美國就好難立法規管話咁樣做唔得。

TikTok 立法禁咗
Big Tech antitrust 如火如荼
但我仍然可以喺 Huggingface download 啲幾十GB嘅model嚟用 (呢刻仲run緊執緊粵典啲錯英文),隻軟件仲係要叫 llama.cpp

個宇宙真係待我不薄。

靈感

平時靈感就係靈感,大概就係忽然諗到啲有趣嘅嘢咁。

作為 9upper 當然對靈感呢家嘢唔陌生。

但,呢幾年有時真係駁到啲靈力嗰陣,會有種⋯⋯ 壓力式(?) 嘅靈感。未至於「靈動」,自己個人仍然係 in control,但會有種(真實、當時可以驗證[詳情略])感覺:如果由得呢個感覺自己發揮,會駁通到非物質嘅靈界力量。 大概係一種 We Connect 嘅感覺。

或者咁講,個連線駁通同shut down嗰陣,會感到個差異,同埋好難搞錯佢係乜嚟。

好似之前冇提過,特此一記。

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Ossification

 Seen on HN: 

"I am wondering how many more rounds of consolidation are left until there is no more space to innovate and we only have ossified rent-seeking entities in the IT space."


Context: "consolation" here means being bought out by a larger company after building a great product.

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

隱几而坐

《莊子》其實係咪真係人類「睇得明」嘅嘢嚟?

當然啲字有傳承嘅解釋,但啲人真係睇得明㗎咩? (所以可能要撈埋郭象莊子注一齊讀先得,如果佢都講唔通即係其實真係唔會睇得明 https://ctext.org/library.pl?if=gb&res=5376)

淨係「隱几而坐」呢四隻字我已經搞到一頭霧水。

先睇本義,「隱」字應該係「收埋」咁上下嘅意思。喺呢個語境下本身係 make sense 嘅,因為可以係收埋張凳,坐地下咁嘅意思。亦同後世打坐嘅方法一致。

但傳承解釋似乎係「隱者穩也」或「隱者憑也」。「隱者穩也」都明,但唔通順,尤其後面一再重申「今之隱几者,非昔之隱几者也」,更加係唔知講乜。至於「隱者憑也」,我一時搵唔到理據,可能係因為《孟子》有句「隱几而臥」,咁可能真係要解「靠住張凳訓著咗」咁嘅意思。

個問題係,好地地做咩個個都寫「隱几」?貪得意?真係一個謎。

由於近排研究緊魔法,都會涉獵到啲傳統修練技巧。莊子講打坐冥想,梗係盡量想明佢講乜 (唔似得啲文人解咗啲字就算⋯ [反正佢哋都唔會攞嚟練功...])。咁「隱几」即係點坐法真係好重要,尤其係佢輕輕帶過就轉移話題,好似冇咗下文咁。唔知係咪又俾人 cut 走咗⋯ 篇嘢講冇兩句忽然話鋒一轉講天賴,然後就變晒啲抽象嘢。(呢個人相當有嫌疑!!係咪成卷修練內功嘅竹簡夾帶私逃咗!!)

本身點解會痴起條根睇《莊子》係 Threads 有人講起「道家打坐肯定係抄印度」,我隨手引咗嗰段齊物論話「可能唔係抄呢」。然後我心思思想睇下佢實際有咩內容,就變咗咁樣。

最最最搞笑嘅係,由於睇唔明《齊物論》嘅「隱几」嘅打坐姿勢,查完一輪冇結論,無奈之下走去重操故技諗下係咪音譯⋯⋯ 屌你吖,「隱几」同 "Yoga" 真係啱音。然後「今之隱几者,非昔之隱几者也」就忽然解得通。

你話係咪開玩笑。


Monday, April 22, 2024

最近脆真係好強。你可以話係演算法,不過我比較相信係提高咗「隨機率」之後,宇宙算法終於可以趁亂出手干預。

回憶

諗緊以前(2019 年之前)啲嘢

原來嗰陣都幾癲

以前讀書嗰陣睇 case 係覺得件事唔關事,係抽取 legal principles 咋嘛。但睇某幾年嘅終審法院(?)判案,睇嚟睇去啲 case 都係同自己有少少關聯,本身呢樣嘢都痴線。

Thursday, April 18, 2024

Subjective Truth approves of itself

 // If a theory (either an axiom, or logic framework, or a combination of both) proves itself, do we call it "consistent" or "tautological"? //

I put the question to a bunch of LLM models and they all seem slightly confused... (and so am I)

Inclined to think the answer is "neither", but what is it about self-approving theories that feels so exciting?

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Anyway, subjective truth approves of itself.

The problem with fear

It seems that the problem with fear is that it is by definition not a problem that can be “solved”

So a neutral description of the situation is that there is a strong belief in a negative outcome, and no causative route of mitigation or avoidance through action. The cosmic laws will manifest because the belief is there, and there is no action to mitigate or avoid it.


Wednesday, April 17, 2024

the love hypothesis


If we disregard the over-complicated and self-contradicting ideas that comes with the cultural baggage of "love", and only drill into the core concept,

it seems that it goes deeper than what one could have expected.

It explains free will.
It explains why ALL beliefs or perspectives are valid. (which explains why a bunch of wild human ideas seem to explain the cosmic universe). 
And also explains why sometimes it seems not so --

because to attract love one must also be in a state of lovingness.

Ideas or forces of separation seem to be rather adequate in explaining how some perspectives become invalid, or how people end up realizing themselves to be in "error".

Perhaps not even isolation explains it, but rather, the *tension* and *contradiction* between attraction and separation. (It's obvious that pure separation does not actually create contradictions -- there's nothing else to contradict with.)

If the hypothesis holds, then it's only a matter of exercise on how to translate common ideas like 'greed', 'jealousy', 'fear'(?) into these terms and we'd probably have a rather good working theory.

:-/




 It feels like I'm somewhere on this curve now.

Sunday, April 14, 2024

Barbie

Oh noes even Barbie reads like a spiritual revelation… the incarnation theme from the everlasting spiritual world of Barbie land is so hard to miss….

The self discovery theme and the I am… “Ken”

The dualities introduced by the “real world” vs singularities… death, male/female, happy/sad emotions

The idea that a person in the real world could influence her - as above so below


Saturday, April 13, 2024

解經

基於「所有觀點都係啱」嘅宇宙法則,一啲冇人睇得明嘅書,應該真係可以用任何方法解讀。

咁就解釋咗點解《易經》可以用嚟占卜(好似係)、《聖經》有排陣密碼(好似係)。

至於有啲嘢貌似「真係啱」「真係錯」 (eg. 地球係圓/平)⋯ 我諗呢個反而係需要解釋嘅嘢嚟。點解「錯」嘅嘢唔可以係「啱」?可能係集體意識判斷咗啲嘢嘅對錯,喺呢個 MMORPG 入面,個人意志好難推翻集體嘅共識 (但 Flat Earth Movement 示範咗一個 valiant attempt 係咩模樣)。但如果啲資訊本身都冇人明,就真係可以隨主觀意願闡釋,(唔知係咪都睇個人「神力」) 宇宙好似會盡量配合。


Discussion synchronicity



我有時對住啲唔熟嘅人都有呢個問題,開始有個 hypothesis 係啲心靈感應問題,大概係大家啲 intuition 有幾 in-sync 之類...

(如果唔關事嘅話我都會幾 surprised... 我係親身見識過人嘅同步率係可以幾準....

Thursday, April 11, 2024

The fuzzy solution to dualism

Given a choice, if the process to resolve it takes more than constant time C to resolve, just "randomly" pick an answer since it doesn't really matter which to pick.

This obviously works for things in daily life. (We can probably formulate many hypotheses on why spending longer is worse.)

The question is whether this works for more serious stuff, eg. legal disputes, political debates, etc.

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The complement to this fuzzy approach is to precisely carve out the pieces that we are relatively sure is correct. In every bitter dispute about general ideology, there is on every side an extreme that the other side can agree to. Start from there and carve out pieces until it doesn't work any more. In those actual areas of dispute, just apply the fuzzy solution.

That might actually work well enough for many things.

(The obvious problem is that once you move away from the extreme-extreme, the extremists from the other side start disagreeing. So can we conclude that battles are fought on the ideological "frontlines" because game theorists rather have support from with extremists on "their side" instead of doing the reasonable thing?)

P=NP if god helps us

"P=NP if god helps us" is obviously true (it is not so evident for many other complexity classes, eg. I don't think it's obvious that P=EXP if god helps us...)

The framework of subjective truth provides a mechanism.

That might explain why it is so hard to prove (might need to involve magical-physics) or disprove (disprove god exists or willing to help).

Of course, this hinges on the formalization of randomness, and I suspect at least to prove P!=NP we must not allow the formalization to involve any god-like events from happening...

私は ここに いる

「私は ここに いる」原來係 "I am.... here"

ehh 好難解釋

神就係 I am (eg. Exodus 3:14)

"I am... here" 大概就係人類覺醒自己嘅神聖嘅正解。

人同神唯一嘅分別就係有主觀,即係位置(同方向...)。

所以 "I am here" 呢句真係好強大,難怪可以就咁一句就得到神力。

走去美國睇日蝕

走去美國睇日蝕,基本上真係得閒得滯先會咁玩。


上回講到去埃及,望望下啲古蹟就有呢種既視感:


咁所以梗係要喺「約束の日」睇埋個日全蝕啦。



目的地係德州柯士甸,揀呢度主要係因為順便參加一個活動 (由 https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDemystifySciPodcast 主辦)。有啲三唔識七嘅人陪一齊睇日蝕,好過自己一條友走過去 on99。

行程三日三夜,另加兩日飛行時間,唔係屎忽痕真係唔會飛咁遠走去睇。

話說美國「日蝕帶」呢幾日爆人,出發前見到張咁嘅圖:


到咗酒店,櫃枱話呢幾日本身係 book 爆咗嘅,點知早兩日天氣預告會密雲有雨,然後就好多人退訂 :0) Anyway 我到嗰陣 (~7:xx am) 天色大概係咁:


下晝陽光好咗。

由於美國冇啖好食 (除非你真係好鍾意食 fast food),所以去咗超市買啲嘢拎返酒店填肚。見到啲奇怪嘢:

唔知係咪俾大肚婆食。


行[*]去個 event 路上,見到呢啲奇怪嘢,唔知係咪用嚟證明美國有言論自由⋯



第二日 (日蝕當天),天氣都唔差,係啲雲有少少密。留意到路邊啲草地開好多花。猜想芙莉蓮啲花田大概都不外如是(?)⋯






日蝕喇~ 有人帶咗支無敵大炮嚟,望入去係咁嘅:



不過佢最勁係呢下:



我啲鏡頭冇咁勁,淨係睇到呢啲:




(土炮到⋯


都算影到吖。 

全蝕嗰下係咁樣:



唔知點解,望住呢個畫面,忽然有種奇妙嘅感動。

同埋原來全蝕嗰下係黑唔晒嘅,大概係日落之後仲有餘暉未完全入黑嗰種感覺。同埋圈同唔圈,真係差好L遠,難怪全蝕一完咗就⋯





話說,全蝕嗰下雖然有薄雲,但算係睇得好清楚。某程度上有少少雲仲開心,見到啲動態。

之後就變咗厚雲,想睇埋佢下場 (還原) 都冇得睇:




第三日:成日匿埋咗喺酒店。本身諗住睇下 Austin 有咩做,點知除咗話有啲酒吧同啲 club 嘅樂隊唔錯之外就乜柒都冇。不過好彩冇出街,成日橫風橫雨兼落雹:




最後食完啲超市食物 (麵包、芝士、肉) 之後,叫咗個美國名物《左宗棠雞》:



佢除咗啲米飯 "al dente" 之外都唔算難食。

然後瞓埋第三晚就飛返香港。得 48 分鐘轉機,好彩閘口算近,又唔使再過安檢。有驚無險。

由 LAX 坐到 HKG 都仲有啲有趣嘢。

第一就係坐窗口位睇晒加州全境咁滯。 架飛機由 LA 上空飛到差唔多 SF 上空,我坐右邊窗口位仲有機翼冇阻,沿路睇晒成個州。由海邊到 Sierra Mountains 都睇晒 (遠處的確係隱若見到雪山嘅雪)。

Highway 1

加州真係好撚靚

最後佢未到 (其實應該係睇唔清) 金門橋就轉向東。 SF 個位見到雲層從金門橋嘅位「踴」入去個灣 ("三藩市灣")。



留意返其他位(下圖)就見到,太平洋啲雲大致上係唔會吹入加州岸邊啲山脈,所以湧晒入金門橋個位。所以 SF 天氣同 Bay Area 其他地方好唔同,長年都清涼/濕凍。「夏天」七月去 SF 記住帶多件風縷,短袖嘅話唔好彩真係會凍僵 (千祈唔好齋信天氣預告,除非你喺 15C 毛毛雨大大風嘅情況下都可以從容著短袖...)。SF 流傳一句名言 (作者佚):"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."



圖解:留意啲雲嘅覆蓋範圍嘅邊界大致上就係海岸線。雲伯伯似乎唔係好鍾意爬山⋯

喺機上無聊冇嘢做又未眼瞓,睇咗套 Barbie。估唔到佢講女性主義講得咁輕鬆,搞到我差啲覺得佢重點係講輪迴轉世... (結局咪就係 Barbie 呢個精神概念轉生成人囉![屌原來又係異世界...])

然後就發生咗我好巧合咁,好似冇因果關係咁,叫醒咗隔籬個男人,去廁所⋯ (見另 post)

It must be a coincidence

Flying from LAX to HKG.

Sitting at the window seat

Man on aisle seat sleeping since takeoff 

3 hours into the flight and intending to sleep, but feel some urge and want to empty the bladder before settling to sleep (just in case)

Wondering whether/how to wake him up without being rude. Man seems perfectly asleep and hasn't changed posture since takeoff.

In desperation, tried to "commune with non-physical forces" to ask for help to get him to wake up.

The intuitive answer was: OK just knock 3 times on the on in-flight entertainment screen (at the back of the chair) to signal the time when you want to wake him up

After 30(?) minutes of waiting, I felt restless (and more urgent), so I knocked 3 times… no reaction. I knocked three times again… then the man just wakes up all of a sudden.

We both went to the toilet, and while I am typing this, he went back to sleep again (apparently).


I feel like this should be "AITA for waking a fellow passenger up by asking non-physical forces to wake him up instead of tapping on his shoulder"?

Wednesday, April 3, 2024

中東七味粉溝可樂

GPT-4: 
  1. "السبع" (al-sab'a) - which means "the seven."
  2. "بهارات" (baharat) - which means "spices."


上星期去埃圾,喺當地啲超市買咗一 pack 叫「Seven Spices」嘅嘢返嚟。

然後返嚟亂咁試,發現溝落啲可樂度啲味道幾得意。

Tuesday, April 2, 2024

眉心

諗返好似都一段時間眉心冇壓力了。

可能過多排啲 mana 回升返,或者可以搞下啲大啲嘅項目。

「如是我聞」

以前唔明點解佛經要加呢句
最近我自己啲紀錄,好多時都只係可以利申「如是我聞」。
至於係唔係真,有好多嘢真係好難驗證。
確認係真嗰啲當然可以省略,或者加返句「我實實在在的告訴你們」。

Monday, April 1, 2024

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Note to self.

Given that, it is clearly possible for me to receive messages from wherever,

because I have repeatedly done so,

the silence I mostly feel these days, seem to be, that there is no urgent need for such a channel to be used.

Occasionally I feel presence, and they are silent.

Of course, I also put up a big DND sign, so I shouldn't be surprised that my wishes are respected, given that I seem to be mostly a Good Boy...

Egypt





事後睇返,我仍然有少少瘟神體質。導遊不斷喺度估啲商店有冇印過個價錢表,冇印過嗰啲基本上就係送咗 30% discount 俾我哋咁滯。

話說呢位導遊さん真係超鍾意小動物,一邊帶隊一邊帶咗好多貓糧狗糧俾浪浪食。喺宏加達有個出海去小島嘅環節,導遊當日被告知平時(佢)去開個島臨時唔去得,要去新嘅島。佢茫然若失,問嗰度有冇貓? 因為佢袋咗成pack貓糧本身諗住去餵貓。

去到最後我同佢講:我諗到點樣寫你嘅 feedback 喇:「我哋導遊對貓貓狗狗仲好過我哋!」