If the person whose age is almost same as me write program codes now, their boss might warn them not to stop doing them.

Senior engineer should work for new system proposal, project management and other upper flow processes.

So, when I was found me to write program, I am ashamed as an engineer alike I watch adult site in a company.

Dear young programmers, who write and write many program every day with laughing.

The time is coming that you are not allowed to do the job.

But the world is yours until the time. You could enjoy the time to your heart's content.

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Now I am working for the check the program that was developed by foreign research body. So I have to

build the programming environment, write the test program, and compile and execute the program.

"Damm! That is not senior engineer's work, but I have to do it. I have no choice.

So I am making the programming environment now.

However I execute the test program on cross-platform environment, the target program seemed to be written by GUN C/C++.

"Damm! Not JAVA? My computer assets are only this windows7 box. No money. But I need the cross-platform developing environment.

So, Now I am doing

GCC and GDB environment on Windows7 OS (and Debug on Meadow)

If you could understand the above terms, you should an old senior engineer.

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People in software field should complain with saying "What are on earth you thinking!"

No, No, No, I am really in trouble too,

with smiling.

What present did we feel happy to be given from our parent ?

Bicycle, baseball bat, doll, comic... Smart phone will be lined up in the future.

In my case, It was a stabilized power supply whose specifications are 12 voltage, 4.2 ampere.

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When I was a junior high school student, ham radio had been called "a king of hobby".

The purpose of ham radio is to enjoy chatting with unspecified hum operator in the world.

As far as you hear the above, you might think that it is same as SNS in the present.

However, in fact, the examination of ham radio was difficult (became easier, after that), and we had to study from electric circuit of radio to the law of radio in order to get the license.

When I passed the examination in fifth grade elementary school pupils, I was proud of the license.

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When I became junior high school student, my parents gave me a portable ham radio set. But the set needed more than eight dry-cells, and I have to spend most my allowance for them.

A stabilized power supply, that generates direct-current power from domestic electric power, was too expensive for a young high school student.

I used money given as a gift at the New Year, and went to a seedy electric store to buy a stabilized power supply. But after that, the operator indicated a skewed my voice during the operation. After I checked several issues, I confirmed that the quality of the stabilized power supply was awful.

I claim the returning to the store, but in vain after all. I had never done such a sad and regrettable experiment before that.

(To be continued)

This weekend, I went to ski alone.

My wife called my attention not to ski course outside.

Indeed, in Japan, a few people tried to ski in closed course, distressed and deceased every years.

However, to begin with, there is no such courage for me.

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Apparently, my family, including my wife, think that I am a reckless skier, however,

honestly speaking, they misunderstand me.

Certainly I fell down in a vertical direction from the summit of the ridge line, and jumped from the cliff whose height was about 10 meters.

However, both two were just accident.

Although it is extremely rare, some accidents happen "in order to return to live, sometimes a jumping is only way.

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I am a common skier in a secure ski trails managed by human being, even if I am in flashy trouble.

(Continuation from yesterday)

I afresh noticed

"It is enough to do well to others"

as a matter of common sense.

People in Taiwan gave me calm days without any warning and cautions.

Doing well for people, people thanks us, and thanking people, we can do well for people

I have got a feeling about this ordinary loop for a long time.

We can grasp it as an ordinal physical law, not taking on morals and religions

It is the principle of conservation of energy, for both to thank and to be thanked.

Well, it is not bad.

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So, I think that people in Japan are going to do well for anyone.

For example,

To those who come to sightsee from China and South Korea, and are puzzled by getting on the train from Enoshima station towards Enoshima Station,

What we can do is to just tell them to go back to Sagami Ono station and get on the Hakone Tozan Railway from the Odawara station at the end.

English is not needed. it is enough to show the route map in the train with your fingers.

I heard that my senior daughter(SD) had listened in the lecture of an alumna at her college, and the alumna had told

"I decide what I should do now with calculating back from my future dream"

Hearing the story, I said just "hm".

SD: "What do you think about this story?"

Ebata:"To tell you the truth, I think it is "laughable". Or "rudeness", "foolish" or "tale-teller""

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SD:"Whey do you think so"

Ebata:"To begin with, the story is nonsense. Who can know the future? Moreover "calculating back from my future dream"? It is kidding."

SD:"So?"

Ebata:"I doubt if she knows "indeterminacy principle", or "behavioral psychology". Maybe she doesn't know "low of large numbers", "statistics" and "probability" at all. If she doesn't knows them, she is "unintelligence". If she knows them, she is "fool".

SD:"...."

Ebata:"Basically, What the person who urged "I accomplished my dream" is just their garbled personal history, I think"

SD:"Garbled personal history ?"

Ebata:"First of all, I doubt if "it" was a really "the dream they had accomplished". If it was true, they can open the evidences. It must be very easy. However I have never seen such the evidences before"

SD:"...."

Ebata:"So, about the present state of theirs, that is difficult for others to accomplish, they called it "my future dream", I think"

SD:"So?"

Ebata:"In addition, they overwrote all their archives in their mind, as their conventional history, I think"

(To be continued)

When the editorial department of EE Times Japan offered me a series on "work-reform", I was quite confused.

I was not sure if I could put this theme on the series, "Let's turn the world with numbers."

Well, I can continue the series, however I am in trouble with the less of data.

The less data is, the more difficult to analyze with statistics or to create a simulation.

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So, I thought, "what other people are doing?", and I tried to review the editorials.

Anyhow as a "reading thing", from the viewpoint of an engineer, they were

"Terrible"

There are a lot of criticisms from the point of view of technical writing, but this time I will omit that.

However, even if I focus on the "data" perspective,

It is wildness that there is no numerical data, or Even if there is, they will put huge numbers into one phrase.

The "data" has been treated as "even elementary school students' free research is not so bad."

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I tried to assemble data of books of others in my head, so I understand the reason.

They can not write graphs or tables with that data.

They only take out the appropriate representative numbers and simply list them.

For example, to write a line graph, they need at least two points of data on the same dimension (the plane of X and Y axes). However they don't show even that.

Well, even if there is, at best, it will be a very boring graph with only one line(Still, it must be useful in terms of seeing the scale of the data).

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In other words, writing a graph or table conversely lowers the credit of the column (and thus the trust of the author's intelligence).

"They do not use graphs" is the best strategy for them.

(Continuation from yesterday)

The word "corona fatigue" seems to be popular, but I haven't changed much.

Even in the same building, there are some changes, such as using a telephone conference system, but there are also some benefits, if it is a meaningless meeting. Because I can do internal work (for example, writing a diary),

Well, we Japanese has the concept of "scheduled harmony" and "synchronization pressure", so we must not ignore such a meeting.

Teleconferencing is a very useful tool for coordinating things around you.

So, I think, "when it comes to video conferencing. I am in trouble"

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To the mind of people who can only act with someone, It may be a difficult time these days that there is a request to ban going out to prevent transmission of COVID-19,

For me, "it's easier to move alone", so "going out requests" are not a benefit, but a disadvantage.

For internal operations, the remote office environment was in place before this panic began.

Home programming environment is enough for program creation.

To build a system, a cloud (AWS, etc.) is enough (well, I can manage them because it's for research purposes).

On weekends, when I'm focused on something, I'm basically one person.

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It is said that there are benefits, for person whose attributes are "social life", "gloomy person", and "party animal"

"In order to entertain themselves, they who have to assume the existence of others are "weak""

Of course, it may be desirable to have such "positive" qualities (though I don't need it).

However, in addition to this,

"Whatever the world says, no matter what they think, You can act alone and entertain yourself"

I think that if you can have the qualities of such a "lone", you will have a sense of security (I don't know if you can be strong).

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It is wasteful to say that "corona fatigue" and so on.

Now, you should think of it as an opportunity to establish and nurture an "lone" within yourself.

Speaking of what you can do with "lone", reading, watching movies, jogging, climbing mountains, and others are good. The content doesn't matter.

The important thing is to keep the "engine that drives "myself" anytime.

The torch relay for the Tokyo Olympics has begun.

Some people say that the decision to hold the Olympics in the midst of the Corona disaster is the same as the Japanese government's decision in the past to enter the Pacific War.

However, with regard to the Pacific War, there is a strong aspect of public opinion that "led to the war.

Therefore, I feel uncomfortable with this logic.

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"Considering all the hard work these athletes have put in, the Olympics should be held."

However, I personally do not share this view.

If my daughter is an Olympic athlete, I might go so far as to appeal directly to the IOC commissioners (or even kidnap, imprison, or blackmail her).

However, I do not know any athletes who would compete in the Olympics.

And I'm not the kind of person who is capable of sympathizing with a stranger's situation.

For me, the details of my job for the next term, my second daughter's tuition, the repayment of my loan, and the results of my physical examination are much more serious issues.

I am so uncoordinated naturally, so I'm not interested in sports in general -- I even have an aversion (for irrational reasons) to certain sports.

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In conclusion, I support the holding of the Olympic Games for one reason only: I would like to "see" the Olympics held in this situation (corona disaster).

I think it is unimaginably difficult to organize this Olympics.

Even though I can't empathize with the athletes, I can offer my heartfelt sympathy, support, and cheers to the people in charge of organizing the event.

And regardless of its success or failure, I believe that this Olympics will become a new Olympic model, the "Tokyo Model".

I don't think it's a problem if the Olympics are smaller than Japan's national games, or if they are held on a smaller scale, or if there are no spectators, or if the number of participating countries is in the single digits.

In the future, I would like to see the competitions held in different countries using a real-time network, so that competitions that require individual or team competition can be cancelled.

I'm not saying that we should go back to the ancient Olympics and make it "one event," but frankly, I think we should be prepared to go that far.

Well, I know it's not that easy to talk about this event since there are various commercial interests involved.

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In the first place, I believe that global pandemics similar to this Corona will occur again and again in the future.

Now that I've studied the mutant virus, I have a feeling that 'that's exactly what's going to happen every four years or so.

If so, then the "Tokyo Model" should be a great use case for the Olympics and other major events in the future -- regardless of their success or failure.

If the Olympics are forced to go ahead, 10,000 people a day will be infected, which will not only cause a collapse of medical care, but also an exodus from the medical field, and many people who do not need to die may die.

Some of them may be me and my family.

As a result, I may regret re-reading the contents of this diary.

But -- or maybe not.

After all, we can't know until we try.

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Then I'll prioritize my current feeling of "I want to see it".

Success is not the only "achievement" -- I know that very well.

I am disappointed in the reality that "even in the age of the Internet, information control by the state is possible.

About 30 years ago, I had a philosophy called "World Peace on the Internet.

However, instead of world peace, I am witnessing the "daily use of slander and libel through the abuse of anonymity" and "the use of political parties as tools to incite the people" through e-mail, bulletin boards, and social networking services.

This was the first setback.

And now the "World Citizen on the Internet" philosophy is being spectacularly destroyed.

The second setback, to rave reviews, is underway.

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I used to do research on telecommunication networks, so I know the following

Information does not come from the cloud; rather, it is more like the image of a "water pipe."

Every country has something like an IPX, a "main valve" through which domestic and international information is routed.

I knew that we could easily create a "state of information seclusion" as long as a power controls IPX.

"Well, any government do not that"

I thought I was being carefree, but I really was carefree.

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For example, the Chinese government has perfected a brilliant "information control system" on that vast continent.

In fact, when I was in Guangzhou, China on a business trip during the Senkaku Islands issue, I was severely affected by this system.

I once had a hotel security come to my room because I couldn't access a Japanese site (my web management system), and I said, 'It's a communication problem, I need you to look at it.

I looked at his expression as he looked into the computer -- a bitter smile on his face -- and instantly knew what was going on.

The Russian government also seems to have achieved a block on the inflow of information from abroad.

I believe that considerable high technology, human resources, and costs are involved.

As an IT engineer, I have a level of respect for that task --- leaving aside the pros and cons of this.

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If I have a third setback, it is "falsification of history".

Now that the Russian government is a party to the war, it is, in a sense, natural for the Russian government to control information in order to gain public support -- the pros and cons aside.

The problem is postwar.

Today, even at the civilian level, information about the war is accumulating.

If this is made public after the war, the current government would normally fall -- I think.

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Incidentally, "historical falsification" is an important task of state power.

Japan also has a "Nihon Shoki" (Chronicles of Japan), a "great book of historical falsification" that is the foundation of our country today.

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The problem is that this "falsification of history" is achieved through IT.

This is what is called "Tiananmen Square Incident" search is not available.

If this is the case, then it is also going to be quite possible that the search cannot be done for "invasion of Ukraine".

After all, 'information is destined to be controlled by the state.'

"World Citizen on the Internet"

is nothing more than "Ebata's bedtime story," which will be confirmed in due course, after all.

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So, if our country were to become a party to a war, would the Japanese government also control IPX?

I am negative on this hypothesis.

It seems to me that information from abroad does not spread well in Japan.

This is because our country has a strong firewall of "Japanese citizens who are not loved by English".

I do programming, whether it is for work or as a hobby.

And there are two things that separate "programming I like" from "programming I hate".

"Specifications and delivery date"

is.

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If I add functions as I wish with my own ideas without any deadline , programming can be called "entertainment".

Probably, it is the same feeling that so-called gamers, including not only netgames but also Go, Shogi, etc., have when they play games.

Well, I don't know because I am not a gamer, but I think that since the world is so enthusiastic about it, perhaps "games are great fun".

I may be missing out on life because I don't understand the value of the game.

Well, let's put that aside.

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On the other hand, if someone else dictates the specifications and there is a deadline, programming turns into "hell".

Well, I guess it's the same in any job.

Well, a program that I created for my "entertainment" can turn into "hell" when it is converted into a job.

"Am I "entertaining" to generate "hell"?"

Sometimes I feel sad when I think about it.

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However, I stand in the same position as in "one kitchen knife, wrapped in bleached cotton...",

With a single piece of home-made programming code, I'm going to get the "money" from the research fund.

I live a senior life without honor day by day.

The other day, I don't know if it was a lightning strike or what, but I had a power outage for about a minute.

Of course, my PCs were also instantly blacked out.

Of course, all the files being created, etc., were wiped out, but still, when I could confirm that the entire system had rebooted.

I folded my hands and muttered 'Thank you, God' to the sky.

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I am not running a server or DB, so purchasing a UPS (uninterruptible power supply) seems like a bit much.

Well, one server has been working continuously for the last ten years.

The "Ebata Family Monitoring System" was also supposed to have been damaged.

When I shut it down, it would not usually restart, so I repaired things manually.

This monitoring server had one Wifi port available, so we also created an access point for experimental use.

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Around 1990, a theory was that programmers retire at age 30 (true).

This theory was a worldview in which a programmer's job was grueling -- overtime, all-nighters, load work, thin pay, and overwork -- and, indeed, it was like that.

If you ask whether the situation has changed now, it has not.

A program is a real pain in the ass because it is affected by the development environment, machine specs, and other software packages, regardless of the programmer's ability, and "when it doesn't work, it doesn't work no matter what you do. It is better to solve the problem by getting down on our knees and investing money and human resources.

Nevertheless, using OSS and better development environments has become much more manageable compared to the past.

And with generative AI as a partner, I feel that 'the retirement age for programmers has virtually disappeared.

If I ask the AI to create the first code in Japanese, it will generate the code for me. Once I understand the code created by the AI, I can modify it as I wish.

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Recently, I have been using it in a rather odd way.

For example, when I ask ChatGPT, "What is a multinomial logit model?

"Used in statistics and machine learning," "Extensions to logistic regression," "Extensions of logistic regression..."

However, this message doesn't make sense to me.

But when I ask ChatGPT to "try to make a simple program in the Go language for the multinomial logit model,

(Omitted)

It can make the codes like that.

I can get a quick overview of the "multinomial logit model" by reading this program (no need to run the program).

It is as if the time required to understand the mathematical model is accelerated by about 10.

Technical books are too dull to read.

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Well, I know that not many people use it this way. Still, in my case, with the help of "Generative AI + Programming Language," I hope to manage for the foreseeable future, even after I retire.

Though I still work in programming, I'm unsure if enough young people have programming skills.

There is a time limit until dementia sets in, but "hope" is "hope.