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2014-04-07 "It looks like an extreme hell"

""Ten minutes" was a story of experience trauma, which I failed to make initial group last year.

"I don't understand what you are telling me"

"Unless I join or enter to my favorite group within ten minutes, I have to belong to an unlike group for a week."

"For a week?"

"There are many events, for example, orientation, physical, explaining courses for a week."

"Yes."

"If I want to move to another group, I have to wait for a week."

"I see."

"Even if the girl I don't like is, I have to spend time with her for a week."

"It looks like an extreme hell"

"Right? So I have to make or join to my favorite group in ten minutes."

"You have to make a new party in ten minutes. It must be considerable task"

"A new party?"

"You don't care that. Anyway I could understand why you wear such a dark black aura in this morning."

"This year, I could a friend in not my original group but in friendly group, so we could be joyful each other.

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"Let me ask you?"

"What?"

"Is it rough for you to take time in your youth?"

"I don't know. No other youth in my life."

"I assume you that your future time in adult must be easy. You can become coming-of-age."


2015-04-07 To tell you the truth, no matter how we try a new seasoning for the low quality material, we cannot find a dramatically improvement.

I operate NAS based on Windows shared file system in my home network, but I have been irritated at the low file transmitting speed.

So, last weekend, I spent three hours and make a new NAS system using light Linux OS whose name is "Puppy Linux".

I was very moved that a desktop of the low spec. PC whose memory size is only 512M worked crisply.

Thus, I was excited that the throughput os NAS became to be improved dramatically.

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I have just finished the experiment of the throughput.

The result is bad, except for my expectation.

To tell you the truth, no matter how we try a new seasoning for the low quality material, we cannot find a dramatically improvement.

The above is true.

No matter how an engineer who is not loved by English try to study English hard...(Omitted)


2016-04-07 "Does the Internet make us happy?"

I am a person who think that anywhere is good for me, as long as mail-order services is abailable even if no busy shopping streets and no department stores are.

On the other hand, my wife insists on saying "I cannot live my life without department stores".

Ebata:"No department store existed two hundred years ago"

Wife:"But They exist now"

For her, my hypothesis seemed to be meaningless.

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The other day, I had lunch with the president and the manager of a maker company and the editor of my column.

When I broached the subject of

"Does the Internet make us happy?"

All members except for me, said "Yes".

"So, what of the Internet make us happy?"

All members answered "it is convenience".

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I didn't ask them more that

"Does the convenience make us happy?"

The convenience makes us happy. Dialogue is useless.

If it is not logical, the dispute is going to be finished with the question "which is better for you, everyday you burn firewood for cooking or the bath, or not".

(To be continued)


2017-04-07 "agent of abuse"

(Continuation from yesterday)

In a school which children gather, who like studying, both children and teachers can make a positive feedback for the reason of "studying is fun".

However, many children whose guardians want you to be a tutor, dislike studying.(except for children who has a high-minded)

Therefore, what you get the children to study is "abuse" itself. After all, tutor is, so-called, an

"agent of abuse"

I think that.

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However, not all tutors are going to be "agents of abuse".

If you meet a child who has high-minded to improve results but is sluggish growth now, it might come to a challenged part-time job for you.

So, one advice from me, as a predecessor.

"Please let my children "like studying" "

If you are asked from a guardian of a child, you should run away as soon as possible.

If you are blinded by your greed and take responsibility for the mission, you will trigger gruesome negative feedback involving your children, parents, and yourself.

However, if you have empowers of a religious guru who can mind control the believer's mind, this story becomes different.


2018-04-07 "They are stupid."

Some people will read this my diary after several years, so I will explain the background.

When I wrote this diary, there is "Ou-Sumo", which is a national sport in Japan, (However, I don't know that is really a sport or a shrine festival)

And,

In a rural tour held between Grand Sumo Tournaments, when a person who breakdowned at the sumo ring and a WOMAN entered the ring to help the person, the P.A. announcer spoke out "GET DOWN FROM THE RING IMMEDIATELY".

(If you could understand the above phrase, I would explain it. "Sumo-ring" is a sanctuary, so women cannot enter the ring, because all women are unclean creatures.)

In addition, after the woman got out of the ring, much salt was spattered.

(If you could understand the above phrase, I would explain it. The act of "sprinkling salt" is one of the rituals for paying shit (injury) in priests etc.)

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When I came home, my senior daughter was furious with this news.

"They exposed the Japanese shame all over the world"

However, I have already ended such a phase 10 years ago. Even when I heard this news, I did not feel anything.

For me, handling is the same for both "Japan Sumo Association" and "Japan High School Baseball Federation".

"They are stupid."

This is fine.

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Or, my vector of interest is in the opposite direction.

"What are they still expecting "sumo" that has been betraying us so much ?"

How to say, I cannot find any good example, however,

"A woman who continues to give money to a kept man"

I cannot wipe away the image.

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By the way, although it is not known unexpectedly,

It is famous that "Japan sumo wrestlers' victory and defeat table) is a practice problem of detection for mathematical statistics fraud detection.

(If you input the words "Sumo", "Mathematics", "Mathematics" or "Statistics" in google search engine, you will come out soon)

Even Japanese high school mathematics teaches "statistical hypothesis test" (I have memories I learned).

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If I can find the significance of existence of "sumo event", I think that the point is that

"Materials" that we can learn "Statistics as a practical university to discover familiar fraud"


2019-04-07 To begin with, I don't think the job description of"AI engineer" exists.

(Continuation from yesterday)

To begin with, I don't think the job description of"AI engineer" exists.

In addition, I confirm that it is a paradoxical prove that persons who don't feel unpleasant sensation or sense of discomfort don't understand "what AI is" at all.

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Last night, I worked for

- inventing a method to reduce 160 billion "states" to 84 million "states",

- linking the dynamically expanded "states" in the memory space, huge pointers with C/C ++ language

- implementing a reverse reward routine for Q-Learning learning, and completing simple debugging,

I could not sleep well last night by the code running wild in my mind,

"Change your life for 10 consecutive holidays. It will make you an AI engineer"

I feel the biggest "scammerous odor" in the above ad phrase.

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However,

if the phrase of "Change your life for 10 consecutive holidays. It will make you an AI engineer" is true, this is a great invention of the century, not to say the technological revolution.

I have no choice but to apologize and submit my head for the great invention of this century.

So, let me suggest one propose from me.

Could you invite me to the event (training etc.) as a reviewer, if you work for an event company ?

As a technical writer, I write an event article-of course. of course, it is "free of charge".

Thank you for your consideration.


2020-04-07 "The former Governor of Tokyo, who is not an IT engineer, would have spoken without knowing the details."

"A system that collects about 100 million questionnaire data on SNS, inserts it into a DB (database), and aggregates, can be created on even my personal computer at home"

"The former Governor of Tokyo, who is not an IT engineer, would have spoken without knowing the details."

Probably, I think that this kind of system construction can be done in one day.

Such as recording about 100 million records, can be processed by a script language and the data aggregation can be completed in a few minutes by a single operator.

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This time, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare implemented

"A nationwide survey conducted by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare using the free communication application "LINE" to combat new coronavirus"

is "unusual jackpot system", I think.

Because, this system

can process data for users, as well as system managers, quickly, cheaply, and easily.

can secure anonymity.

is easy to collect meaningful answers (uninterested humans will ignore it if they take time to enter wrong answers)

In this way, this system can collect data of tens of millions of people at a low cost. Such a “delicious system” is rare.

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By the way, I ran a simulation of 300 million people on my home computer 10,000 times in a row, and it took about 14 hours.

In other words, data processing for 300 million people is completed in about 0.5 seconds.

If someone ask me whether memory writing by simulation can be considered as similar to DB writing, I can say that recent DB writing may be faster than memory writing (It is true)

Writing and searching with 100 million DBs by LINE this time could have taken a few seconds if the total CPU time was used.

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The former Governor of Tokyo may have had the image of "several dozens of people print data results and hit calculators" in data aggregation.

But that image is not correct.

"Aggregation operations and documentation were completed within a few hours by one engineer."

I estimated that.

That's because even an engineer, like me, can complete about 100 million lines of SQL processing in this time.

The performance of big data and SNS message processing these days has sometimes surprised me even on site.

So his remarks could not have been helped.

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Nevertheless, if he is saying something that is not his specialty, it is better to spend a little time researching it himself or asking an expert before speaking.

We should be especially careful when criticizing something or someone.

I write this diary with my self-awareness.


2021-04-07 "Dad, give me the security code for the credit card"

In the Ebata household, I, as the patriarch, spend most of my waking hours staring at a PC display, while most of my family members are on their smartphones, listening to music and watching videos.

This is a typical family that is not a "nuclear family", but a "nuclear individual".

However, the living room is always noisy.

That aside.

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One day, on "LINE" application, I received a message from my second daughter.

"Dad, tell me your birth date"

I gave it to her.

"Dad, give me your credit card number"

I thought it was a little strange, but I entered the number. This is because our family has a centralized payment system for Amazon and Netflix.

"Dad, give me the security code for the credit card.

At this moment, I was convinced that I had allowed a third party to enter my LAN and that I had been maliciously spoofed.

I hurried downstairs to the living room and said to my second daughter, "Something is happening on LINE!" I said.

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Apparently, she needed to register with her parents' credit card to apply for the University Co-op, so she had inquired about it.

Ebata: "What? You have to fill in the security code on the analog form? (It's quite common in online contracts)"

Wife: "It's normal these days.

Well, it was my mistake this time, but I think that 'making inquiries without properly explaining the background' is also not good.

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I don't put my credit card number or security code in my emails, let alone on social networking sites such as LINE.

Any information pushed on the Internet is, in principle, 'someone could be watched'.

I'm sure of it. After all, I've watched them before.


2022-04-07 Newcomers who are required to be broadminded enough to associate with people of all sorts for the sake of working out a compromise.

"A manager who has led a project team with ambitious objectives" and "a programmer who can compute the data in front of him/her in any way they wants."

Which has more market value and which has a larger market size?

I have been thinking about this for a long time.

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Makiko Uchidate's novel, "The Finished Man," is one of the greatest "horror novels" of my generation.

"Academic background from Japan's highest academic institution and a high career at a prestigious company become the biggest obstacles to re-entering the workforce after retirement"

The story appears in the book.

Even the protagonist of this novel says, 'I'll do any job,' but the president of the small business firm hesitates to hire him at every turn.

I understand their feeling very well.

Even they would not like to be told how to run their companies.

However, I believe that seniors who want to be rehired will do what they are told, with no intention of meddling in the management of the company.

However, the people on the field make the conjecture.

Is this "reverse discrimination" or "elite discrimination"?

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If I were the president of a small business, what kind of senior would I want?

- humble, energetic, and even a little bouncy in some ways, like a rookie.

- Change direction quickly if someone pay attention to them, and if achieve something that leads to money without being too obvious, don't blow it out of the water, just go about it nonchalantly, and don't even try to get you to pay attention.

- Study it quietly, and if don't understand, honestly bow down to the young man and ask him to help.

- Robust, both mental and physical.

I would want such "seniors".

In the future, both newcomers and seniors will be measured by their "readiness to work," and we seniors are expected to be role models, like

Newcomers who are required to be broadminded enough to associate with people of all sorts for the sake of working out a compromise.

I think.

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"A manager who has led a project team with ambitious objectives" and "a programmer who can compute the data in front of him/her in any way they wants."

Which has more market value and which has a larger market size?

I do not know about market value.

However, I think the largest market is for "seniors who can quickly complete tasks that are assigned to them.


2023-04-07 "The company that does't or cannot say "No", whenever asked to move something"

Seniors workers have an image of being "window-dressers".

But now I am outside the window -- an "outdoor construction site".

As a worker, when I see elderly craftsmen working hard at road and building construction sites, I want to rub shoulders with them, sing with them, and have a drink with them -- really. (I am currently in my fourth year of sobriety).

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To put my current job in a nutshell, I am the sole proprietor of a company called "Ebata Software Development, Inc."

However, at this company, (1) I make the order specifications myself, (2) I decide the delivery date myself, and (3) maintenance after completion depends on my own mood. From the perspective of other software outsourcing companies, this is the kind of work that would make them "furious.

Therefore, the company is not ordinary one.

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This situation may be brought about by a severe shortage of labor.

This is because a large number of engineers are sent in at the new hire stage, who can talk about "upstream processes" and "concepts," but have no experience in creating things.

That's why I can't let go of my "kinezuka" -- my "kinezuka" is now in tatters.

Frankly, I believed that 'when I become a senior, I will be displaced by young people who will use up all the new technology.

However, when we open the lid, we find that not only construction sites and system development, but also the whole of Japan is relying on "seniors" (a disastrous situation).

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Well, this is not so much "their (the newcomer's)" fault, but rather "the employer's (the company's)" fault.

It doesn't matter if it's a hobby, study, or part-time job, I still don't know how a guy who has never put together a system on his own can build things.However the application guidelines certainly say that.

Programming experience is not a requirement for employment."

Well, it is true that it is no good if one can only program, but I highly doubt that a person without even programming experience can talk about systems.

I detest excessive fieldwork, but it is very difficult for me to accept a person who has never built a system (or even a web page) from scratch by themselves as a member of the manufacturing community.

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So, was Ebata able to program when he joined the company?

In fact, my programming skills at the time I joined the company were about the N80-BASIC level, so called "just working".

I think the real coding started after I joined the company -- so my skills at the time I joined were the same as a young person today.

The rest is just personal ideological differences.

I believe that "not moving" is the same as "not existing".

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However, "Ebata Software Development" is not a company that only needs to do programming.

The company was asked to create a 20-page presentation in an hour, write a research report in a day, crush a software subcontractor's program malfunction, present at a conference, calculate budgets, place various orders, take university classes, give lectures, and so on. --

Howeve, it is

"The company that does't or cannot say "No", whenever asked to move something"


2024-04-07 (3) The public's understanding of the sciences is worse than before.

Here is a conversation I had with my second daughter the other night.

Me: "I think the terms 'science' and 'liberal arts' are still around, but are the two still at odds with each other?"

Second daughter: "The word 'diversification' is getting blurred, but I don't think it changes the fact that 'science college students' are 'living in hell.'"

Me: "Well, even when I was a college student, science students thought 'liberal arts = stupid,' and liberal arts students professed that 'science = professional stupid.'"

Second daughter: "People in the humanities don't understand 'how great it is for a person in the sciences to advance to the next grade normally without any retention.'"

Me: "Well, at the time, I thought they didn't know that 'science majors are doing bi-weekly experiments and reports on the thesis-level work of humanities majors.'"

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Once, in college, I conversed with a humanities friend (female).

"I stayed up all night for three days to finish my thesis!"

But I remember I didn't know what to say to this phrase.

(1) "Heh, that's easy and nice"

(2) "Well, that was tough"

After all, that kind of all-night work was a regular occurrence every other week in the Faculty of Engineering.

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In conclusion, I guess that's what I'm saying,?

(1) The opposing concepts of science and humanities are about to be erased

but,

(2) the hell of the sciences remains,

Therefore

(3) The public's understanding of the sciences is worse than before.

The second daughter summed it up.

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Incidentally, the current science and humanities composition of the Ebata family looks like this.

Me: Science (Master of Engineering)

Wife: Humanities (English Literature)

Eldest daughter: liberal arts (in the Faculty of Psychology)

Second daughter: Science (in the School of Architecture)

(However, psychology is also the study of statistics, so I think I have a liberal arts background similar to a science background.)