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2015-03-27 They gave me the money easier.

(Continuation from yesterday)

I didn't talk this story, but my parents might have noticed me, looking blue.

I was asked the reason by them, and I explained about this accident. After that they asked me how much I needed to get the power supply.

When I answer the price of the power supply provided by a famous company which covered the two times ampere of the radio, they gave me the money easier.

I was very happy.

Though I don't remember when I was given the radio, I have a vivid recollection that I confirmed the supply and radio went well.

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Ham radio was one of the expensive hobbies, because each machine and device price was high.

My family was be in necessitous circumstances, and it was difficult for me to ask my parents something except for commodities.

So I continued doing all kinds of things to save money, for example, lifting up a cheap antenna on the roof, and make connectors of cable by myself.

In order to realize "talking to person far off", I studied telegram and Morse code, and got the license.

In the frequent band I have ordinary used, the radio wave went thought ionized layer and reached to the space. But in the quite short time in summer season, a ionized layer (Sporadic E layer) happened and it could reflect the wave.

At the moment, the wave continued reflecting between the layer and ground, and it reached far away.

I cannot forget a memory, that I could decode the characters "NAHA OKINAWA" from Morse code.

(To be continued)


2016-03-27 "It is no problem to eat too much, because I exercise too much."

About two years ago, my family went skiing, so this "one person sky" is after an absence of a few years.

The cycle of "one person ski" becomes rapid, because I don't have to think about other members, and do it by myself.

In addition, I can try only my favourite courses of ski place, and the total consumed calories become bigger.

So, I know that these event make me blind.

"It is no problem to eat too much, because I exercise too much."

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Fu,Fu,Fu. It is too optimistic.

Now I am a mathematical diet of world authority(self-designation).

I have already made it clear that "One-day exercise" doesn't impact on the weight.

So I don't eat much, even if I go to a expert ski course more than 20 times.

So, my body weight, although there may be reduced, can be no possible increase.

I was convinced that.

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This morning, I was screaming on the scale.

"+1.5kg"

What is what on earth?

Of course, I am familiar with "weight error" however, this value exceeds the error range so far.

Smorgasbord of last week's wedding anniversary, the weekend effect without exercise, and others is not enough to explain this weight.

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Events that deviate from the everyday significantly, like "one person skiing" as extraordinary, have something that upsets "my body" as precision machine.


2017-03-27 Those who have abandoned are abandoned.

Recently, I am looking for a used smart-phone that has no voice communication function(No SIM card).

I don't have an intention of "I want to put smart-phone into place", but begin to think "I will get into trouble if I remain undone it".

For younger, the speed of Japanese input method of smart-phone becomes really redoubtable.

This speed might be rather faster than that of input for my PC.

In addition, the population of smart-phone users is overwhelming now.

When I become older and oral communications becomes more difficult, I think that a smart-phone might be a last method.

This thought might come to me because I commit both care and nurture.

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My hypothesis is "smart-phone becomes substitute for a board of the 50-characters".

Contrary, people might deal with people who cannot use a interface of smart-phone

Have I taken care of people who could not use push-phone service, FAX, PC, e-mail, and web-browser, and shown alternative methods, for example analog, printing and other services ?

I am afraid that I have not done.

If someone points out that I left some people who cannot use e-mail our of communication, it cannot be helped that I say "YES".

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However, I don't think that it is "severe".

Perhaps abandoning those who can not take it into daily life even when "paper", "pencil" or "telephone" has appeared, I believe that civilization has developed.

The development of technology and the paradigm shift of civilization always flows to "easy", however, it is unavoidable that a certain amount of "hardship" should be needed in order to reach that "easy".

"Youth" cannot feel as "hardship" against the power and speed, and I used to be on that side once.

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Anyway, life is designed in order to match each other.

Those who have abandoned are abandoned.

Still, even though it is inevitable to be abandoned, I think we can choose the extent of being abandoned.

Therefore, at the beginning, I have to go back to "Japanese input of smart-phone".


2018-03-27 "You ... are you still edgy ?"

Today, new my column is released, so I take a day off.

"Over the AI(11) ---- beyond a reach of our imagination of AI"

Continuing guessing artificial intelligence -- like a "politician" who submit to authority

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In this column, I talked that I was doing the coding of Reinforcement Learning in the mind for a game of "Fifth Eye".

When was it done?

"sutra chanting" in the middle of this funeral of father in law.

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Is it "unscrupulous"? - It will be "unscrupulous".

However, is it "unfaithful" to let the participants listen to unintelligible unacceptable sutra?

I think that it is an important service to properly translate the contents of that sutra into meaningful messages and bring to them.

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"You ... are you still edgy ?"

That's right.

My edgy diseases is incurable.

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So, I had to say

"I am sorry, my father"

However, I listened to the monk's thankful(?) sermon properly.


2019-03-27 even if the paradigm shows you "unpleasant world".

(Continuation from yesterday)

Even so, if there are past data or future prediction analysis (for example "easy regression analysis"), they might be helpful for the readers. But nothing is doing.

It means that "they don't know how to use the EXCEL(spreadsheet)", before "luck of basic math literacy", or "contempt of data".

For example, the annoying operation of "plotting a graph on cross-section paper" is available using not only PC but smart-phone.

From the viewpoint, I think junior school students are going to use smartphone as a "calculator" more and more.

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On another note,

Now, "to bring smartphone into junior school" becomes an object of public concern.

I also think that "to use smartphone in school, as a communication device" should deserve careful and thoughtful consideration.

Even if it is true, this problem comes to resolve to cancel the communication function of smartphone. For example, there are technologies,

- "Jammer" that cancel the communication around a specified area,

In addition, if a school installs a private wireless LAN environment,

- "Redirect" that makes all the Internet communication pass through the school server.

The school can make common cause with carriers, and disturb.. correction.. restrict or monitor the students access. (They have already been possible)

Moreover, a school should installs the IT infrastructure positively and strategically, and use IT as a education tool. These activities will make everyone happier.

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I think that this is engineer's karma that try to resolve anything by using "technology", however, I also think that these knowledges lose nothing by doing.

Maybe, the time is coming that we have to accept a new paradigm of "a human being is at one with a small calculator (smartphone)".

even if the paradigm shows you "unpleasant world".

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Let's go the board.

Data is not all.

Data is just "pre-processing".

Therefore the theory of columns without "pre-processing" data,

is "incredible" for our engineers.


2020-03-27 If I sort out the results of this simulation, I may be able to watch an insane and nasty (virtual) reality.

Before, I wrote a diary "I'm worried about whether or not to simulate the infection of coronavirus (COVID-19)"

In fact, I've been working on creating a simple simulator (C/C ++) using a virtual city traffic simulation (railway and bus only) as a hobby for the past year or so.

Currently, as many (virtual) humans as the ordinance-designated cities can be moved on my personal computer.

However, I thought that it would take a little more than 2 hours for a simulation of 20 hours a day, so it couldn't be used easily.(For an one hour future prediction, 10 minutes is enough)

And the bottleneck of this simulator is "moving".

In the U.S. presidential election, I don't have to move people to polling places. In this simulator, 100 units of trains and buses, and tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of people move at a stretch and must track them in seconds.

To be honest, when I start calculating this simulation, I feel like I can hear a scream from my computer.

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So, when I thought, "It is difficult to use it as a simulator as it is" "I wonder if a day's simulation can be done in about 20 minutes" and about remodeling, this new corona infection disaster occurred.

I've been playing with a variety of predictive techniques so far, I could not predict the spread of the new corona infection disaster.

The current reality is far from reality.

Also, with this simulator, I can't do simulations of school closures, or simulations of midnight Shinjuku and Shibuya drunks.

All I can do is a city traffic simulation in a virtual city on the premise of commuting to work.

In this simulation, throwing in a certain number of corona infected people and roughly determining the infection rate according to the riding rate, I can watch the number of infected people increasing just keeping turning the computer.

By the way, because of me, deaths according to age will also be counted.

If I sort out the results of this simulation, I may be able to watch an insane and nasty (virtual) reality.

(It's very unusual, however) I thought, "I don't want to see the simulation results"

(To be continued)


2021-03-27 As a matter of fact, I am a truly "heartfelt" person.

As for my "abject indifference" to clothing, my wife seemed to have given up on that after two years of marriage.

My wife may see me as being in the same category as the men talked about in "Otaku" & "Akihabara", but this is actually not correct either.

I think they have their own particular way of dressing like that. They are wearing such (what?) clothing because they are particular about it -- maybe.

However, I have my own particular way of thinking about clothes.

It is not "design" but "function.

Specifically, (1) cost, (2) durability, (3) comfort, and (4) reusability.

Cheap, Wearable for a long time, not easily frayed or torn, not constrict the body, not feel uncomfortable, keep to range of motion of the body, not uncomfortable when trying to fit any kind of clothing.

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I buy a lot of my clothes from Amazon.com, especially jeans, which I order 100% from Amazon.com (it means "from China").

However, I have to "hem" the jeans myself after it arrive.

I don't have any hand-sewing skills, nor do I know how to operate a sewing machine (we don't have one in the first place).

So, I have been relying on "hemming tape", but this also peels off as time goes by. It doesn't last more than a year.

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To begin with, it is when I put on your jeans that I notice that the hem is falling apart.

I get dressed five minutes before I go out, so by the time I notice the hem crumbling, it's too late.

However, rethinking what to wear is a "hassle" or honestly a "pain" for me.

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Therefore, I recommend "wood glue".

(As I have already mentioned several times, I am also trying to restore dishes with wood glue.)

I apply wood glue to the fallen hem, and temporarily fix it with staples.

Then I go out -- an hour after I leave the house, it will stick and it's enough to remove the staple needle by hand.

For example, I remove a stapler from a station bench.

The bond is applied to the inside of the jeans, so there are no appearance issues.

(If I have to apply it on the outside, I can paint over it with an oil-based magic marker of the same color as your clothes. It is so-so)

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I've already reported on my use of wood glue.

Recently I am trying it for

- Jacket with holes in the pockets

- Windbreaker with torn back

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My family calls this kind of behavior of mine "poor-looking" which is a misnomer in two ways.

First of all, our family has always been tight on money. So This is not "poor-looking" but "poor"

Secondly, how do I consider it easy to dispose of an item just because a part of it (hem, hole, etc.) is missing?

I wonder if there is any love in your mind"

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I am an engineer who builds home security systems with parts I pick up at junk shops in Akihabara.

I am not convinced that parts that is still functional enough to be used them not fulfilling their purpose.

As a matter of fact, I am a truly "heartfelt" person.

I'm a misanthrope, though.


2022-03-27 In any case, if there is a "strangely shaped administrative district," whether it is a state or a municipality, it is a good idea to suspect "political strife (or war) in the past" first.

I have long thought that Tsurukawa, Machida City, Tokyo, where I used to live,

"resembles the Crimea Peninsula".

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Comparing the maps,

"Kodomo no kuni" and "Sebastopol"

"Midoriyama Futsal Park" and "Eftparia"

I feel they apply.

Well, Tsurukawa has no sea (Black Sea).

Not only the Tsurukawa district, but the entire Tama area seemed to have a very "unnatural topography" for an administrative district of Tokyo.

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So, I did some digging, I found the following line.

"On April 1, 1893, the three Tama areas (Nishitama, Kita-Tama, and Minamitama) were transferred from Kanagawa Prefecture to Tokyo Prefecture in order to secure a water source and control water quality for Tamagawa Josui, Tokyo Prefecture's water supply"

However, I thought 'Isn't that logic a bit of a stretch? (absolutely impossible for Tsurukawa area)" So I looked further and found it.

"It is believed that this was a measure to weaken the influence of the Liberal Party by transferring the three Tama areas (Nishitama, Minamitama, and Kitatama), which had been the center of the Liberal Civil Rights Movement, from Kanagawa Prefecture to Tokyo Prefecture."

See? I knew it!

And, it seems that

"At the time, the Liberal Party members of the prefectural assembly strongly opposed the transfer to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government"

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I looked into it further--

Ishizaka Masataka (1841-1907), the supreme leader of the Mittama Liberal Civil Rights Movement, was first elected to the House of Representatives in the first general election (Kanagawa Prefecture primary election, Kanagawa Ward 3).

However, he was elected for his third and fourth terms in Tokyo's 13th ward.

In other words,

"The government was trying to cut off the opposition (Liberal Party) by forcing them to change their constituencies"

This seems to have been the purpose behind the transfer of the Tama area to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

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In any case, if there is a "strangely shaped administrative district," whether it is a state or a municipality, it is a good idea to suspect "political strife (or war) in the past" first.


2023-03-27 "the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII was also determined and implemented like this"

Basically, I believe that 'there is nothing the state (power) can't do if it wants to.

For example, if I am targeted for assassination by the state, my death is certain.

Even if I were to turn back an assassin, the state would send the next assassin.

Unless the state changes its policy, the assassins will be sent back again and again, and there is no way to escape them.

The current furore about the "Chinese government trying to extract personal information from TikTok" is still beyond a suspition.

However, if the Chinese government wants to do it, they "will" do it.

This is a definite matter.

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On the other hand, the fact that information was extracted by the Chinese government has not yet been revealed in the previous case of Huawei's telecommunications equipment.

(Since at least the technical verification should have been completed, it is possible that it is being kept undisclosed to the public and is being used as a bargaining chip between governments.)

Anyway, the United States is a country that can assume that there are weapons of mass destruction, launch a war on its own without a UN resolution, completely collapse its system, and then say with impunity, "We searched but found no weapons of mass destruction.

And I still remember the bitterness of the "Super 301 economic sanctions" unilaterally imposed on Japan in 1989.

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I was watching the US hearings on TikTok on the news, and I am sure that

"the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII was also determined and implemented like this"

Now and then,

"Once they identify someone as an enemy, they can do whatever they want, without regard to laws, evidence, or anything else"

I think this is the DNA of the U.S. government.


2024-03-27 "I guess it must have been difficult for women who wanted to study in the old paradigm of "women don't need to study."

It is nice to know that the programs I have created, whether in my company or on the Internet, are being used to help other people (to make a living).

But I don't boast, saying, 'This is something I (Ebata) made.

I cannot do such a dumb thing in this technical field.

I don't know about the rest of the world, but the OSS (Open Source Software) has helped me in the software world.

Some OSS development requires at least one person, while others need 20 or more.

OSS developers do not say, 'This is what I made. At least, I have never heard that.

I cannot thank all the developers of the OSS, so I am using it with gratitude in my heart.

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The greatest reward for those who make things is that "the thing works.

The above may be similar to "defeating the last boss" in games (I don't play games, so I'm not sure).

Both 'working things' and 'defeats the raspberry' are ultimate subjectivity.

There is no third-party perspective there.

The evaluation I get from someone else is objective, but (I don't know about anyone else, but I) don't care about objectivity.

The "working things" and "defeating the raspberry" can be summed up in one word: "a means of amusing oneself.

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I once asked my wife the difference between a "cabaret-going husband" and a "husband who puts his time into programming that may or may not make money."

I have devoted myself to work and research (including programming) on all days, including weekends and holidays, for the past year and a half since I have been at the university. I don't remember going out. I have canceled all drinking parties.

Ebata: "Despite the differences in motivation, I don't think there is any difference in terms of 'immersing oneself in one's world and entertaining oneself' as a result."

Wife: "I'm not sure, but I think it's a question of 'am I angry or not? I don't get mad at my husband, who works tirelessly daily to juggle work and school."

Ebata: "Does that mean there can be 'an angry wife'?"

Wife: "I think so. But it's hard to discuss 'cabaret' and 'business and academics' on the same level. It's just too bad an example to compare them."

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With my wife having this conversation,

"I guess it must have been difficult for women who wanted to study in the old paradigm of "women don't need to study."

strangely, however, I was convinced.