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

Let's turn the world by "Number"(68) Extra:

Seven Questions to follow the "Corona Vaccine Refuser"

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Today, I would like to share with you an e-mail from Ms. M, who is in charge of editing my column, with her permission.

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Mr. Ebata.

Thank you for your confirmation. The article will be published at 11:30.

Yes, this column was long, but it was interesting.

After reading your co-worker's review, I added a note under the table of contents on the first page, "If you don't have time, just read the Shibata Report.

I read your second daughter's review and thought for a moment, in a strange way, that there must be a large number of people who do not have enough fear.

At one time, there was a lot of talk on the news about "fearing Corona correctly," but I think that Japanese people, for whom the number of deaths is quite small, probably cannot feel the reality of a situation in which "more and more people are dying by Corona".

It's not like Italy, where the dead are being trucked in by the truckload, or like New York, where cremation can't be done in time and a lot of bodies are stored in a huge warehouse next to the hospital. The number of infected people has increased rapidly, however, many young people may be wondering, "Is corona really that scary?

The other thing may be that it's hard to imagine how painful and frightening the COVID-19 can be.

In my opinion, I just read this "Appendix 1" and said, "Heee! I really, really don't want to get infected! I'm so scared....

If this had been a pandemic of an infectious disease with a high fatality rate like SARS or a horrible death rate like Ebola, where people bleed to death from holes in the ground, I wonder if people would have taken a completely different approach to refraining from going out and getting vaccinated.

I don't have any friends or acquaintances who are college students. However I would like to ask them, "To be frank, is Corona scary? , if possible,

It's a long story (no need to reply), but I hope you will let Dr. Shibata know how much I appreciate his help.

I'm looking forward to working with you two.

M

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Conclusion: Just be sure to read "Appendix 1" of this column. Especially for parents with children under the age of 12.

Yesterday, I went for a physical checkup.

I enjoy my own "ultra-precise weight management" as a hobby.

Therefore, on the day of my physical checkup, I have a strange habit of feeling pleasure in achieving my target weight with an error of less than 0.1kg (that is, right on the meter scale).

Well, I guess it's a socially accepted "good habit". It's not so much "health management" as it is "health control".

On the day of the event, I had prepared to even calculate the amount of sweating I would have to do to get to the hospital.

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Yesterday was the "afternoon start human health checkup" which I have never experienced before.

When I arrived at the hospital, I was the only participant.

It was good that we could do more and more tests with practically no waiting time, however,

"They made me take a Valium before my turn to be weighed"

This was an unexpected trouble.

"How dare you! This is going to add at least 300 grams to my weight!"

I wanted to scream, but I don't have a strong enough heart to ask for a barium test after my weigh-in.

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The result was +0.1kg.

If it weren't for the Valium, I would have been -0.2kg, which was far to my goal.

However, I am still not convinced.

From next year, I would like to add the "traveling check-up problem" like, "traveling salesman problem" for preliminary consideration.

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By the way, I got 1.5 in both eyes using the "Ebata Bayesian Prediction".

By the way, I can't even read the words on my computer with my naked eyes -- but

An eye test is not something you see with your eyes. "It's something you calculate with your mind.

"After the polls close, a quick election report is like a self-grading program -- someone else's"

I've been lazily watching the election specials that I had recorded.

Reviewing election results that we already know is in very bad taste, but also a pleasure.

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It is also fun to review the predictions of the newspapers before the election and the exit poll results of the TV stations, which we will see after the results are known.

As I wrote over here, I wonder if predicting elections is still "difficult".

Or should I say that it is "great" that the order of seats won by each party has been guessed correctly?

For this election, I was going to check the prediction accuracy of each station and compare them, but it was too much trouble and I decided not to do it.

The "virtual winner" is determined by each station on its own (arbitrary) basis, so sometimes "corrections" are made.

However, no one seems to be very angry about this. Except for the candidates and their supporters, it is enough for them to know the results after the polls open.

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It's a strange thing, but lately "election bulletin programs" have been interesting.

It is especially amusing to see a strong candidate fail to get elected.

However, I get angry when they come back in proportional district elections.

This time, there were two such people (if you are interested, please refer to my past blogs).

"I think, "Why don't we make the proportional voter list by voter's ballot instead of making it by each party?

However, I think that the public would be more satisfied if there was no need to create a proportional list (make everyone on the list number one), and the winners would be chosen in order of the percentage of close defeats.

Well, in terms of running the party,

"A person who may be hated like a caterpillar by the people, but is absolutely necessary for the party"

is existed.

I guess it's kind of like "the company where all the employees were elected and only the president was not.

But I don't think both he and she are the only ones we need in our national government. I'm sure there are many people in the world who think the same way I do.

Maybe that's why this voting system is "the way to go," though.

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Anyway, this election event, in which "party leaders and secretary generals sometimes fail to win"

is really fun.

I hope that you will join us and have fun with us at this event.

In our house, we currently have "five" wireless LAN access points activated.

Our house is not a huge mansion, but an ordinary single-family house.

The reason why this is happening is because my family complains to me that 'the wireless LAN is not connected.

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As I've explained before, I don't believe in wireless LAN communication, especially for remote work, so I use LAN cables to connect all my devices.

Wireless causes "null points," which are points where wireless radio waves interfere and disappear regardless of distance, so there are cases of transmission failure quite often.

In such a case, it would be enough to shift the location a bit or disconnect and reconnect the device, but my family, except for me, does the simplest thing without such technical devices.

"Complaining to me"

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I'm not in charge of managing the wireless infrastructure, and I'm not paid to do so.

Rather, I think I am providing a stable supply of a luxurious IT environment that is unthinkable in a normal Japanese home. Even so, if there is a slight problem, they will immediately complain.

This is the same way the general public deals with the businesses that maintain the infrastructure (water, gas, electricity) in Japan and around the world.

Water, gas, and electricity are, well, life-threatening infrastructures, but that's not the case with home LAN.

If they don't have a home LAN, for example, they can do by without it.

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So, what I did was to pull the LAN cable right up to the table and put a small wireless LAN access point right next to the kitchen table, a thorough "short distance strategy".

The distance is a little more than a meter, I think.

I already thought that this was almost like connecting a LAN cable to my phone.

If it is this close, there is no way for a null point to occur.

But well, it's like having 2.4GHz and 5GHz radio waves irradiated directly into your body.

Even if we find out years later that direct exposure to radio waves in the GHz band dramatically increases cancer rates, by then it will be too late.

But -- well, in that case, I probably won't be too disappointed, since I'll have a million or so compatriots (or hundreds of millions of compatriots around the world) with me.

I have written a similar story here.

"I know you don't mean any harm."

We often find ourselves in these situations.

For example,

- When I clicked on an article featured on a social networking site and it was not available on a paid site.

- When a few graduates of Japan's highest university are having a good time at a drinking party, talking about how they disrespected their home university.

I know the people I've introduced and the people I've had the pleasure of drinking with, and I know that they don't have the slightest desire to 'put anyone down' -- but it's still not a good feeling.

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I am a resident of the Odakyu line, and I often use the Keio line as well.

When it comes to Odakyu and Keio, there is the "attempted indiscriminate murder case".

There are some really irredeemable idiots who are saying stupid things about this incident, such as "passengers should fight back.

We know "now" that "The killer only had a knife.

The passengers could have had gasoline sprayed on their bodies and set on fire by the perpetrators, and maybe the perpetrators had 'explosives' in their possession.

Considering this situation, there is no doubt that "escape" is the best solution (even if it is localized) in that incident.

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The problem is the motive of the perpetrator in this case.

"I did this because I want the death penalty"

This motive makes no sense at all, and there is no way to counter a murderer with such a motive.

I had discussed this area 10 years ago.

This time, however, I thought about it from a different perspective.

That is,

"Self-development of the ability to grasp the behavior of others without malice as malice"

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The first part of my story was "What? Do I have to think about subscribing to someone else's paid news site?" or "Is it wrong to get excited about my alma mater? I can't argue with that at all.

No amount of logic can derive "ask them to stop".

But it pisses me off -- this is a fact, and not a logic.

And these feelings are unpredictable.

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For example -- I know there are people who are uncomfortable reading my columns.

If it is not good enough, I think some people are pissed off not only that my column exists, but that I exist at all.

Of course, I can shout 'unreasonable,' but emotions are always unreasonable.

That's why I often remind my daughters of this.

"There are people who find it uninteresting even to talk about your stories at your campus"

"The more educated they are, the more naive they tend to be about this issue.

"So, be very careful about the topics of your conversations"

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Again, the victims in these cases are 100% victims, and there is no need to give any consideration to the perpetrators.

However, this type of incident will continue to happen.

There will be no fundamental solution.

"To stay away from another person based solely on foresight or prediction based on his or her appearance or behavior"

"Some people may call this 'discrimination' (for example, it is me (Ebata)).

However, we may be living in an age where this kind of ability to foresee and predict will be necessary.

I read "Mind Control" by Takashi Okada.

I learned a lot from the systematic way in which past mind control research has been summarized.

I have been doing research and development on control of machines and systems for almost 20 years.

And it's true that I'm getting more and more interested in "human control".

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But,

"Ebata started to steer to the "dark side" again."

is not true.

In the first place, the "behavioral change" called for in the Corona disaster is "human control" in a broad sense.

However, "behavior change" is fundamentally different from "mind control", which is the practice of fundamentally changing one's beliefs.

Mind control is the process of forcibly implanting a particular thought or idea into a person's mind, after knocking down the environment and way of thinking that the person has had in his or her life.

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Nevertheless, mind control techniques can be used for techniques to induce behavioral change.

(1) Thoroughly limit (reduce to zero) the input of information, and conversely, continue to provide a vast amount of information.

(2) Putting the brain into a state of fatigue by keeping it constantly thinking under high tension.

(3) Keeping them from making their own decisions and keeping them dependent on a specific person.

I felt a sense of deja vu and thought, "Oh, I've seen this story somewhere before", and then I realized, "This is just like the social networking sites and the media in the last two years regarding the Corona disaster.

I think this is true not only for those who continue to reject vaccines, but also for those who are pro-vaccine.

I believe that there are very few people who have made the decision to vaccinate or refuse to vaccinate based solely on their own research, study and beliefs.

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At the moment, I can't use advanced techniques like controlling other people's brains (mind control), but I almost destroyed my own brain once -- with a diet.

Yes, at that time, I was blue in the face when I realized how easy it was to destroy my own brain.

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I once bought a book exposing how the author used fake news on social networking sites to lead Trump to victory in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, but the author's writing style ("I'm awesome") made me uncomfortable, so I stopped reading it.

I'm going to read it again.

However,

"Mr. Ebata. What are you working on now?"

"Yeah, I've been doing a little 'mind control' lately..."

If I say something like that, I think I will be met with disapproval. So, I'd like to think about how to say it.

Today, my wife and I went to our daughter's school festival and saw the outdoor stage where she appeared.

I was given a ticket for the venue, but it was very far away, so I stood near the stage. However, a student wearing a windbreaker from the organizing committee warned me.

I think that for them, 'warning someone personally' was a rather daunting task.

It doesn't mean that there aren't idiots who get upset by being warned.

It was a risky job in its own right.

As far as I could watch, they hadn't allowed a single standing dense condition.

"It is very admirable, I thought."

Oh, by the way, the representative of the demonstration who claimed that "Corona doesn't exist" said, "Do your research and study it...

I have already written seven corona-related columns, which were based on the advice of active doctors, research papers and estimates.

Using the genome (Wuhan version) sequence of the corona spike protein, we also attempted to simulate RNA strand breaks in the virus.

From here on, I would like them to tell me exactly what I need to "look into" and "study".

But that's beside the point.

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So, what I did today was to separate from my wife and walk around the venue by myself for a long time -- I was a bit tired.

By continuing to walk, you can avoid the stagnation of infected air and prevent the development of dense conditions.

I couldn't concentrate on the content of the stage, but I thought it was enough, given the circumstances.

Depending on the host's best efforts to prevent infection, there are many ways for the participants to cooperate.

In the neighboring country, Korea, there is a culture called "dog-eating".

I heard that the controversy has been rekindled by the South Korean president's order to consider banning this "dog-eating" practice.

I remembered that my mentor once sent me this e-mail.

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I, as a rule, have no comment on this issue.

However, I definitely do not agree with the logic that says, "Whales and dolphins are cute, so we shouldn't eat them".

It is a fact that human beings sacrifice other lives in order to survive. And this is something that cannot be helped.

I don't agree that "which lives are allowed and which are not" should be judged on the basis of "cute" or "not cute."

Well, if you go back about 2000 years in the world, cannibalism was a normal thing (even now, it seems that calibarism still exists).

It's extreme, but after my death, there are times when I wish someone would eat the rest of the meat that I used for the body donation and ask me what I thought of it -- even it is impossible in two ways.

Because "I'll be charged with destruction of a corpse, etc." and because "I'm dead and can't ask for feedback.

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I love both cats and dogs.

My family had both when I was a child.

When my dog died, my father said, "I'm sadder than when my own parents died.

I remember crying so hard at that time that I thought I had shed a lifetime's worth of tears.

However, the fact that I am a cat lover and a dog lover is not the same as the fact that I am a dog eater. I have the good sense to say as much.

I once calculated the "price of a child".

Also, I've made an estimate that the more children there are, the more money the government will make.

The calculation is quite simple: the ratio of average lifetime tax revenue to the amount invested per child by the state (13.68 million yen).

With a return of 1.56 times the investment in child care (if that is true), a child is a good investment property.

At least it's much better than keeping your money in the bank.

However, it is the state that can recoup this investment, not our families.

We can also look at it in a malicious way that we are taxed out of our meager household budgets by the state through our children.

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And well -- I've been doing a lot of these calculations.

I don't have to feel 'unfair' about the proposal by the Komeito Party to uniformly provide 100,000 yen in cash to people under the age of 18, which was a pledge made in the lower house election regarding support measures in response to the spread of the new corona infection.

To be honest, I'm thinking, 'Even one million yen per person won't pay off.

Parents are mysterious creatures that want to live life with their children, even though they will lose money if they have children.

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However, my second daughter turned 19 years old this year.

"Bummer!"

I have the feeling.

I once told this story to a friend (a woman) when I was in college.

"I've never been kind to others, and I don't intend to be, so I don't think I'm in a position where I can expect to be treated kindly"

"I always think of myself cowering by a telephone pole in a city late at night in winter, dying with no one to talk to -- like a bag of garbage"

The only thing I vow is that I will never begrudge anyone for not helping me when the time comes.

"I think that's a balanced way for me to die."

"However, I'm thinking that 'cold' is fine, but I'd be happy if my sense of pain, such as 'intense pain' or 'suffering,' is numbed.

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Later, I heard that she had told her parents about it -- I wanted her not to tell about the story to others.

However, her parents said,

"A fine young man"

They had come to appreciate me a lot.

Normally, I would think that I would be evaluated as a 'creepy guy' and told to stop associating with me.

Maybe there are a lot of people who think like me.

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So, in my opinion, those who say "I want to die, but I can't" or "I want to be executed" are "not prepared enough".

In addition, it is 'not enough study'.

The Ebata house is equally far from all the stations, the nearest convenience store is a 10-minute walk away, and the closest supermarket is in a location that I can't muster the energy to walk to -- it's a bad location.

The other day, I checked with my GPS logger and found that there is no possibility of flooding damage because the house is located at an elevation of 76 meters above sea level. However, there is a bank nearby, so the possibility of landslide damage cannot be completely ruled out.

In case you're wondering, I looked at the hazard map and it was not in the danger zone, but 100 meters away is listed as a Red Alert.

However, our house is close to a movie theater.

If I take the back roads, it's about a 15 minute drive to get there.

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In the past, "going to the movies" was a big event, and a celebration.

It was like a card that could be used once or twice a year.

However, my family, with the exception of myself, go to see the late show easily after having dinner .

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The reason for this is the "cinema complex" system of movie theaters.

In a cinema complex, the number of seats in each screen is differentiated, so that films that are expected to attract a large number of viewers can be shown on the screen with the largest number of seats, and films that have been released for a long time or have lost their ability to attract viewers can be shown on the screen with the smallest number of seats.

It is attached to a shopping center and a supermarket, and is located in a relatively large station.

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In the past, in order to see a movie, you had to go to the city center and go to Cinerama, a large venue with a big screen, and of course, there were no Internet reservations, so it was not uncommon to wait three to four hours to get into a movie theater.

And, believe it or not, smoking was allowed in the theater. It wasn't even a separate smoking area.

The sight of cigarette smoke reflected in the light of a movie was the "normal" way to watch a movie.

Some of them were taking pictures of the movie screen with their cameras.

Some of them were taking pictures with flashes, and as a child, I thought to myself, "There are some irredeemable idiots in this world.

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With Amazon and NetFlix, new movies are now easily available on your computer or smartphone.

I think this is a big blow to the movie theaters, but for the producers, it means that they can secure enough income to pay for it.

In any case, for me, I would like to keep the event of "going to the cinema to see a movie" as "extraordinary" in my mind.

With the advancement of hardware and software (algorithms), the champions of Chess, Shogi, and Go have all been taken by computers.

However, it seems that the number of chess, shogi and go fans is not declining.

I don't know much about these gaming trends, but I do know a lot about the subculture (comics, anime, and light-novel).

As I look at these fields, I feel that the content based on these games is rather increasing.

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Needless to say, it may be obvious.

No one can beat a bulldozer when it comes to lifting weights, and no one can run faster than a bullet train.

But that doesn't mean that the Olympics will disappear in the future.

The object of human beings, consisting of the constraints of human ability, effort, beliefs, and other troublesome analog attributes, is an interesting content in itself.

Therefore, the game confrontation between the object and the object would be a "work of art" by itself.

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The other day, I watched the NHK special "2030: A Crossroads for the Future (5) 'AI War: Endless Fear'.

This was to prove that, contrary to the above, "weapons reach their full potential when humans are not included.

When conducted aerial battles (in a simulator) between computer-controlled fighters and pilot-operated fighters, the pilots were defeated in every battle.

There are many factors, but basically, "a fighter without a human being is capable of reckless maneuvering "and turning at accelerations that would cause a human being to faint or die.

In other words, "unmanned weapons can ignore the limits of human survival.

Compared to that, "AI" is a small factor.

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Well, the anime I would like to introduce to you today is "Heavy Object".

This anime, in my opinion, is one of the best in all of me, comparable to Steins;Gate/Zero, but it's not well known.

For engineers of so-called mathematical computation, prediction, and other "so-called" AI, the contents are irresistible.

It also gets high marks for being a fairly accurate portrayal of the 'so-called' AI wars.

In particular, the line from episode 23 of Heavy Object

- War is a primitive human instinct.

- That is why it must be controlled by reason.

- With the symbol of power of The OBJECT, a digitally managed war is not really a war.

- It's a safety device.

made me think deeply about the AI-War.

In view of Clausewitz's "War is a means of diplomacy."

- A so-called AI can fight a battle in virtual space and decide the winner in seconds.

- And if that doesn't settle the score, unmanned weapons will do the fighting in the real world.

If we can achieve such a war with zero human casualties, then we can achieve something like "AI diplomacy based on AI weapons.

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"That's... not bad."

I thought that.

In other words, it is a world where the heroes in that war will be IT engineers like me.

It's a world where those who can't do math, science, or IT are oppressed -- "If you're not a person of science, you're not a person"

It's a paradise.

when I watch my family, or even when I watch foreign dramas on NetFlix, I think

"These guys really do make it easy to connect other people's USB flash drives to their computers"

Our corporate engineers do not easily connect USB flash drives of unknown origin to their computers -- we are trained to do so.

In my case, the first thing I did was to get that USB flash drive, is

(1) To connect it to an old computer that is not connected to the network.

(2) To visually check all the files.

in addition,

(3) To run a virus scan

Finally, I connect it to the main computer.

It's not joking that I'm aware that "USB memory stick = bomb".

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Once, in the middle of an outdoor demonstration, I needed to move a file urgently and bought a USB flash drive at a convenience store -- which caused quite a commotion.

I needed "20 seconds" to purchase this USB flash drive at the convenience store.

However, there is no doubt that it took at least 20 hours, involving at least three people, to get a "Certificate of Physical Destruction" for this USB memory stick and complete its destruction.

To put it bluntly, in our field, "possession of a USB flash drive" is synonymous with "possession of a handgun.

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However, if there is a scene in a foreign drama in which a detective brings back to the station a USB memory stick that he/she has just taken from a criminal and checks to see if the USB memory stick contains a virus.

"No doubt, the perpetrator fled the scene and the case went cold"

I think that.

If a message such as "The staff has confirmed that this USB memory stick is safe" is inserted in a scene of a drama, the drama will be ruined...

I'm thinking about the trivial things.

I am a person who want to overcomes my own sense of discrimination by studying and studying.

However, I am afraid that this heady logic often fails to overcome the disconnect with real-world discriminatory attitudes.

Example 1:

When the old person in aunt's clothes, who looked terrible, obese, bearded, and had a negative sense of cleanliness, sat down next to me eating buckwheat, in addition to that, when my appetite was reduced to zero due to her tremendous, terrible body odor.

Just the feeling of "disgusting" and "uncomfortable" was enough to push my brain performance to 100%, and the concept of "LGBT" was blown away in front of that person.

The "beautiful" world of comics, novels, and movies is very different from the real world, and right now I don't have a medium to complement the distance between the two.

Example 2:

For a long time, I thought that "gay" was the more discriminatory term between "homo" and "gay," but it wasn't until two years ago that I learned that it was quite the opposite.

So, even when the difference was explained to me in terms of logic, I couldn't keep understanding it.

One day, I heard that the word "homo" has the same meaning as the discriminatory term "negro," and I was finally convinced from the bottom of my heart.

Now I don't use the word "homo", but rather "gay" as a unifying term.

However, you can't understand this story unless you understand the connotation of the word "negro".

In fact, when I mentioned the above to my wife, she looked like "what's what?"

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However, I think there are many "heady logicians" like me.

I guess you could call people like me the "LGBT pretenders".

At any rate, the "LGBT pretenders" are only a little bit better than the "people who proudly say they don't understand LGBT".

Unfortunately, I don't think we can expect to find "a way to solve this problem all at once".

I believe that the gap between the "beautiful" world of comics, novels and movies and the real world will be bridged little by little as LGBT people become more and more commonplace.

News sites have been reporting since yesterday that "70% of coronary deaths in the past month were unvaccinated, and 2% of deaths occurred after two doses of vaccine.

And, I'm sure there are people who believe that this news story itself is a conspiracy of the media and the government.

"I believe that government conspiracies are common, but for the conspiracies about coronavirus vaccines, it is impossible because there are no stakeholders"

I've written about it here, along with the results of a simple simulation.

If you are interested, please read on.

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On the contrary, I feel that the backwards conspiracy theory that I forced myself to come up with this time, the "plan to kill non-vaccinated people," is becoming more realistic.

However, this one is also 'weak' as a conspiracy theory.

For example, the day before yesterday, this conspiracy theory was squashed by the government itself, as the government clarified its policy on the 6th wave.

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In general, the "PDCA of conspiracy" is difficult, just for P (Plan), and D (Do) is hopelessly difficult.

Speaking of stakeholders with ample funds worthy of carrying out a conspiracy -- well, I guess it would have to be a "military conglomerate" class.

I wrote a previous column about Non-Fungible Token (NFT).

In that column, I outlined the results of a "technical review of the content of the NFT as explained on YouTube.

By the way, I also added a message saying, 'If I misunderstand them, please let me know'.

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After the column was released, I checked YouTube again and found that all the content I referred to had been removed.

Well,

"Comment: "Don't be stupid."

They may be scared when they read the lines.

Rather, they might resent me for 'humiliating' them.

However, I just said that the technical explanation of NFT is wrong, not that I am denying NFT itself.

I don't think that "the world where NFTs are used as currency will never come".

If I had to describe this feeling in one word, it would be,

"I don't care what the future holds for NFT"

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If someone can make money with NFT and be happy, I will honestly say "Congratulations".

In addition, if no one loses money and becomes unhappy with NFT, I will honestly say "it is great".

Anyway,

My understanding of NFT is that of a native who was shown coins and paper money in an uncivilized land without concept of currency.

Lately, there have been a lot of accidents involving credit card information leaks.

It is unlikely that the Ebata family was spared from these accidents.

However, the Ebata family has not received a single letter of apology, let alone a report of damage, from the source of the leak, but it is doubtful that there was no damage

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The compensation the Ebata family received for the Benesse personal information leak was a single magnetic card worth 500 yen.

After this leak, my daughters received a mountain of DMs from prep schools, vocational schools, and kimono rentals for their coming-of-age ceremony.

There is no longer any way to stop the unrestricted spread of personal information, such as the name and address of our family.

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Of course, even if the price is 500 yen, if 10,000 cases are leaked, it will result in 5 million yen in damages (the number of victims was 3.54 million).

But whether that amount is 50 million yen or 17.5 billion yen is none of our business.

The problem is the fact that we will continue to receive DMs from companies we do not know.

There is no way to prove causality, but the Ebata family is unified in their belief that 'Benesse is to blame.

(To be continued)

(Continuation from yesterday)

In the past, I would have had tremendous psychological resistance to disclosing things like my driver's license photo.

A vaccination certificate is the ultimate in personal information.

But now I'm pretty sure I don't really care anymore.

In fact, I sent in photos of my driver's license and vaccination certificate to complete the app registration.

(However, I don't think I'll have the opportunity to use the services provided by this app in the foreseeable future.)

If this information were to be leaked, it would be the equivalent of all my personal information being leaked.

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However, these days, I am more conscious of "more convenient and easier operation" rather than "risk of personal information leakage.

Registering for such an application is a hassle, so I would like to see vaccination proof linked to my number card as soon as possible.

In my case, I have a card reader connected to my home PC, but now I can use my phone to read the data, so I guess we don't need a card reader.

For those who can't get vaccinated, PCR test results can also be quickly linked to the My Number Card, so that the card can be automatically revoked after its validity period (e.g., 3 days).

This way, there will be less trouble.

Anyway, it is true that my 'awareness of keeping my personal information confidential' is waning.

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The value of my personal information is probably about $500, but for certain targets, it could be worth a lot of money.

Just off the top of my head, I can think of "Bitcoin groups," "diet groups," "internet scam groups," and "artificial intelligence groups.

Also, the "coronary vaccine rejecting groups or individuals" may target me directly.

No, they may not think about "trying to kill me," but I am prepared for them to do something like "throwing garbage in my yard.

If such an incident occurs, I'll let you all know right away -- with security camera video clip of my house.

I've often said that "anger control" is difficult for me.

It is often said, "When anger arises, wait six seconds," but my anger does not have that kind of lifetime.

In my case, my anger stays light for six or sixty days, and sometimes for six years or more.

I have very little anger that can boil over in an instant.

In my case, I have a nasty anger that is persistent, lingering and long, and using my own logic, I can set off a chain reaction of anger that reaches critical mass.

Well, to put it bluntly, I'm aware that 'I'm pretty much the worst.

However, this does not mean that my "self-esteem" will be shaken.

Rather, it increases the sense of denial of others.

It means,

"It is not my fault but the world's fault"

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I'm the kind of person who gets easily "offended" by the text of an email.

That's why I even put out this warning.

However, the only people who would benefit from such a warning are disinterested parties.

In my work, this kind of thing happens every day, and I can't do my job if I'm upset about it.

This is because work is made up of a network of inexhaustible and tedious links.

That advantage can easily be turned upside down by the nature of the work.

Specifically, it depends on who has the "money" to make the move.

No matter how unpleasant a person may be, he or she may one day become a "gold master" for you. As you get older, you realize that this is a normal, everyday thing.

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So, my "anger management" is to look at the face of the person I am angry with as a wad of cash.

The thing we are dealing with is not a "human being".

The wad of cash is talking.

At least I don't have the slightest qualms about following, discerning, accepting, obeying, acquiescing, and getting down on my knees to "the wad of cash"

This weekend is the week before my manuscript deadline, so please excuse the disclosure of the photo on my desk.

I was reviewing the draft of my column for the November issue (to be released at the end of the month), and I thought it was redundant, so I had to delete some phrases.

I've written a lot about those of us Japanese who are just crazy about the TOEIC in Japan, but don't want to go abroad and don't have the ability to use foreign talent

In this survey, I was shocked to learn that children's IT education, which has finally started in Japan, is almost 20 years behind that of the UK and the US, and I was also shocked at the small budget for IT R&D in Japan (*).

Most of the Japanese Nobel laureates have not been enrolled in Japanese universities, and I wonder how they can be called "proud of Japan".

There were a few of my colleagues who started their own businesses (they were all unpleasant, but certainly brilliant), but I haven't heard their names since, and I still wonder if our country was supporting them properly.

I think the only Japanese company that had the potential to be like GAFA was NTT Docomo's "i-mode".

Many times I have seen young researchers' ideas for new Internet services crushed by a single word from a senior executive: "Give me an estimate of the market size and cost-effectiveness," and I have seen them become demoralized, exhausted by Excel calculations.

(To be continued)

(Continuation from yesterday)

The reason why people are not getting their own My Number cards is because the government has not been able to present the benefits. How many years is it going to take to integrate my number card with my driver's license and insurance card? I also wonder if it would be possible to add credit card and SUICA functions to the cards.

I know that in companies where remote work was not promoted even during the Corona disaster, the president alone (not the employees) is basically IT illiterate. I know that it's not that the president "can't" do it, but that he "won't" do it. The reason why the president doesn't change the way he works is because it's too much trouble.

I know very well that IT integration is deathly difficult, so when I build a system, I basically rebuild it from scratch. However I also know that this is because my systems are experimental, and I am comfortable building them independently of organizational structure and internal political pressure.

The fact that the banking system will be shut down six times in 2021 alone is an extraordinary situation. If you really want to realize e-government or public-private partnership, you have to give the head of the system development unit a degree of authority and cooperation that even the president or the prime minister cannot interfere with.

I know that IT illiterates with power are the biggest cancer in system development. Because, anyway, they're like, "I don't know what it is, but just move it! Don't stop! Don't exceed the budget!" How do I know that? Well, you only have to look at how IT-illiterate those politicians are.

That's all.

With telecommuting during the Corona disaster, workers are now often at home all day.

According to my wife, many wives say, 'I can't stand the fact that my husband wears their jersey all day long in the house'.

Ebata: "I think jerseys are excellent, highly functional garments"

Wife: "So, if I asked you to wear a jersey all day, would you resist?"

I gave her an immediate answer.

Ebata: "Not even a millimeter. It's more like a welcome. I don't understand the psychology behind your dislike of it."

Wife: "Then Can I wear my bloomer all day during housework"

Ebata: "I absolutely hate that. I want you to give me a break. But are jerseys and bloomers concepts that can be exchanged equivalently?"

Wife: "I think they're both the same in the sense that they're not everyday garments."

My wife said that if we are talking about "equivalent exchange," then a couple who wears jerseys and bloomers as loungewear can only have "mutual acceptance" or "mutual rejection.

Ebata: "No, I think there's an incomparable difference in the sense of the extraordinary between 'the daily wear of bloomers' and 'the daily wear of jerseys.

Wife: "For me, it's 'equally repellent extraordinary'"

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Both My wife and I know that this discussion cannot be solved by logic.

This is because it is a matter of sensitivity.

However, even differences in sensitivity can be recognized relative to each other.

I feel that bloomers are overwhelmingly unusual, while my wife feels that bloomers and jerseys are equally unusual and repellent.

"The subject who determines the ordinary and the extraordinary is not myself, but others"

On that one point, we come to an agreement, so we do not wear clothes or decorations that are beyond our mutual acceptance.

I mean, I'm not interested in my wife's clothes (except for very unusual matters such as "daily wearing of bloomers").

As a result, my wife just makes a one-sided complaint (demand) about my clothes.

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Wife:"I cannot stand 'long men's underpants'"

Ebata: "My grandpa (father) used to wear 'long men's underpants' as his loungewear.

Wife: "Grandpa is O.K."

Ebata: "Hey! There's a subject-specific standard coming in for "unusual."

Wife: "That's why 'extraordinary' can't be verbalized."

Ebata: "I know that, but we are going to try to verbalize it and make an effort to get closer, even if it's only by 1mm.

There seems to be a lot of fuss about "moe characters" these days -- but I don't want to get involved in anything strange, so I'll keep quiet.

When I finish writing a column, I start illustrating it, which for me is like a "reward" for myself.

Well, I don't expect anyone to be interested in my illustrations.

In fact, there is no way that something that I draw with a feeling of "reward for myself" becomes great.

And, as my second daughter said, "Your illustrations look like something we've seen somewhere else," which, unfortunately, I agree with.

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For me, it's not so much 'drawing is fun' as it is 'being able to use a variety of techniques' with drawing software (I use SAI).

- I just want to cut this part out.

- I'd like to make this character bright a little.

- In this picture, I want to make it a little more black and white.

I like the feeling of being able to do things like that in a snap with draw software.

I may be surprised to find that a wrong operation can produce effects that I never expected.

- It's also interesting to pose myself, take a video, and create an illustration from the captured images.

- It's also fun to take a male character and transform it into a female character.

However, this is just a matter of "technology".

I have never considered my work to be a "work of art".

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I am grateful to IT (computers) for making it possible for an engineer like me, who has no artistic talent, to draw illustrations.

Ever since I started illustrating with drawing software, I have had a deep respect for not only art in general, but also for anime and what is often referred to as "moe" art, and its creators.

There seems to be a lot of fuss about "moe characters" these days -- but I don't want to get involved in anything strange, so I'll keep quiet.

However, I often wonder "Is there any respect for the creator there?

I believe that it is important not to let young people make "painful mistakes".

In the past, there was a department head who believed that the program loading method was no good, no matter how much I explained, and the research unit's R&D was stalled.

Of course, JavaScript, one of the program loading methods, is now capable of displaying the results of complex physical calculations in a web browser, showing them in action.

This is because the speed of networks and the performance of computers have improved to a degree that is unparalleled in those days.

However, the head of the department had made a painful mistake in his research of the "program loading method" when he was young, and had been imbued with negative memories that he could not recover from (or so I was told by others).

Naturally, the department's research took a back seat to the program loading method.

This is true not only for R&D, but also for patents.

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The boss's assumptions are reinforced when paired with memories of failure, and the boss's power to influence his subordinates.

And to be honest, it is also unpleasant to hear that "my failure" was made successful by a subordinate.

What's worse, the boss can "logically explain to the subordinate why it won't work.

After all, they did it and failed, so it's easy.

Thus, pre-born technology will be systematically and fatally crushed without malice.

And I'm pretty sure I'm repeating the same foolishness -- I'm absolutely confident that I'm crushing the ideas of young people.

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The lesson to take from this is, like,

(1)The boss must have the courage of, "I will overlook a subordinate's outburst". And, by letting it go, they must accept the unreasonable results that the responsibility will come back to them.

(2)Subordinates should not report their research to their bosses. Until they succeed in doing so, they need to continue their research under-table in silence and in solitude.

is the antithesis against reporting, communication, and consultation

Bosses must be prepared to forgive their subordinates' arbitrary preoccupations with a wry smile, and subordinates must be prepared to do the research they believe in on their own time (sleep time, holidays).

Communication is important.

However, non-communication is just as important.

If you read this book, you will understand that.

"I don't know where to start" is pretty common.

In my case, it's my monthly column manuscript.

For now, draw as many charts and tables as I can think of, arrange them in a row, and pour text in between them.

Let me be frank.

I'm working on the text without having any idea of how it will turn out.

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However,

"It comes to be like a proper column when I adjust it by changing the position of figures and sentences"

This is the miracle of the writing process in the computer age.

"How did people create materials and works of art when there were no computers?" Just thinking about it makes me respect them more.

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If there's one piece of advice I can give to someone who has trouble with writing, I say to them,

"First, write a hundred lines of ridiculous, bullshit, logic-defying text"

After that, take the text apart and reconstruct it.

The most important thing is to publish your work on the Internet, even if it is not completed.

It is important to realize that you are being ridiculed and laughed at on the other side of the Internet.

In fact, in this diary, after I wrote the "first line," I just wrote random sentences and rearranged them.

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If someone claims, "I don't know about Ebata, but I can write in an orderly fashion from the beginning," I don't believe them, and if that were true -- I hate that person.

We Japanese tend to think that "only Japanese people are bad at English".

However, there are foreigners who are not loved by English language -- probably a lot of them.

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In September of this year, I was remotely presenting and auditing at an international conference.

The event started at 18:00 Japan time and ended at 02:00, which is an unbelievable time, however,

Still, considering that I had to get on a plane, stay in a hotel, have trouble with the menu at a restaurant, and listen to a lecture in my worst condition due to jet lag..., this is a

"Paradise"

In the questionnaire after the conference, I gave a rating of "5" on a 5-point scale when asked if I would like the conference to be held remotely in the future. I also mentioned this in the comments section.

Well, that's beside the point.

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At the conference, I was listening to a presentation by a young researcher (female) from Eastern Europe, who seemed unsure of herself, her voice was quiet, and her argument was not clear.

"Oh, this is a college student. And she's probably the type of guy who was pushed into doing a presentation by her professor.

I've seen it through.

So, as expected, she could not answer any of the questions from the chairperson (the chair of the session).

I experienced a painful time when I heard the chairperson telling the presenters who couldn't answer the question what the word "evaluate" meant, and the air was heavy.

This question period ended when time ran out, but it was a very bad aftertaste.

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The correct answer in this case is

"Even if I don't understand the question, I don't stay silent, I just go on and on with my bullshit answers in bullshit English"

This is practically the same thing as "silence".

However, the effect is that the audience will look at me with "guffaws", "ridicule" and "warm, kind eyes".

Also, "engineers who don't love English" like me can understand my strategy (use bullshit English, push through bullshit answers).

If it goes well, the session will be a lot of fun.

"Let me try a question, if the guy whose English is this bad is asking such dumb questions"

Such feeling seems to coming to the audience, I think.

As a result, the session I attended was so exciting that the delighted chairperson even took a commemorative photo remotely.

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The Engineer Who is not Loved by English" is useful internationally.

Lower the threshold of the "field" as much as possible to make everyone relax.

Of course, you have to be prepared to be a clown in public, but if you have the courage, you can do it.

After that time, no one will remember you.

Our dining table is designed for four people, so the whole family can be seated, however,

After purchasing two partitions for infection prevention, we started attaching documents to the partitions.

My daughters are reading, watching cartoons on their phones, writing reports, drawing, taking remote classes, etc. on the table,

with being cluttered with laptops, various documents, invoices, books, etc.

The maximum number of people at a table is now just "two".

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I had just made pancakes and scrambled eggs, put them on plates and was about to be seated, but the table was already occupied by my wife and second daughter.

I had no choice but to put my plate on the tray.

"I'll eat in my room."

I said, and started up the stairs.

Daughter: "The seats on the second floor are relatively empty.

I: "No! Even the upstairs table (my desk) is full, with program lists, reference materials and books!"

I complained and went to my room.

As I wrote in my article "Disclosure of All Political Organizations Failing to Submit Political Fund Balance Reports Online," I went to the post office and submitted the Administrative Text Disclosure Request Form to Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (formerly Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications).

I'm sure I'll be pointed out as incomplete and I'll have to resubmit several times -- that's less time (and often more) than it takes to create a completely accurate document.

I call this "pinging".

A pinger is a sound wave emitted by an active sonar used by a submarine to locate an enemy submarine or an offshore warship such as a destroyer.

In the network world, the command interface ">ping (e.g. IP address of the other machine)" is used to check the operation of the target machine.

In essence, it is communication that takes advantage of the nature of "when a message is thrown at you, you have no choice but to respond.

Well, I think we can all agree that it's a very annoying communication for the other side -- whether it's a submarine, a computer, or an administrative procedure.

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Well, abusive forms of "pinging" is stalking through phone calls, emails, and social networking sites, however I think

"Well, if I am stalking a government agency, it's our right -- as long as it's done properly."

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As far as I know, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare were kind enough to help me over the phone.

I had only asked a question to The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) in the comments section of the web once, but at that time, I was ignored.

Now, how will the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications respond?

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

Dancing Buzzword-Behind the Buzzword(16) STEM education(4)

The GIGA school concept is not enough, "IT x OT x Legal Mind" is recommended

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In China (the mainland), I heard that the elderly are using their smartphones to the fullest.

The reason is simple.

The government is providing government services through smartphones. It's up to you to use it or not."

They seem to be cutting off people who don't use smartphones by saying the above.

If they can't use a smartphone, they can't live -- anyone would risk their life to learn how to use a smartphone.

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I think this story is pretty brutal -- however, I've been through the same thing in my company.

Companies change their business systems at will, without listening to the opinions of their employees.

At that moment, all the operational knowledge I have accumulated will be thrown away.

I have to start learning again from even scratch.

And those who can't shout out loud, no matter how embarrassing, "Please help me! (within the company) " will die.

There is no honor, no pride.

"Senior citizens crying out in vain." This is the state of the world in which we are forced to use IT systems.

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So, in order to recover from being "the 28th most digitally competitive in the world" (in ways other than this column), we need to make citizens who

- are able to shout out, "Please help me! in a loud voice, and

- are able to reach out to the voice.

So -- please give up, all you elderly people, including me.

"To be a wailing old man". This is the only retirement strategy we have left.