Clear things up

August 9th, 2008 at 21:51 · Filed Under Blogging, Days in My Life, Education 

I wrote an article earlier today and after I have gone through it again this evening, I found some statements which some readers might have misunderstood. The reason I write this post is to clear things up so that the aforementioned article will not be misunderstood.

No one has given me a tick off or spark. I found my inspiration while working to help some undergraduate students to plan and secure scholarship for their graduate study abroad.

I wrote another post much earlier about Ada tasking on multi-core and received couple of comments yesterday. I have been a mentor to dragon and apparently she knows more than me about distributed computing with Ada. It is not about pride but an assessment to my knowledge which needs to be upgraded. I then got a bigger inspiration after I read some papers about distributed computing, quantum computing, computational physics, computational mathematics etc. These papers or articles have fascinated my imagination and of course have excited my long sleeping inspiration. Hence, a powerful spark has enlightened my stimulus.

As in the comment, the baggages which I mentioned were certainly not people around me. What I meant was that I was ready to let go many things like changing my car to a smaller car so that I could liquidate some fund for aid. What I meant was that I was willing to let go material things I was owning or longing to own.

I will be very sad if people has misunderstood my intention and purpose so I decide to write this post to clear things up.

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3 Responses to “Clear things up”

  • 尉迟书贤 on August 10th, 2008 16:02 1

    Your intention is good but unnecessary. This is critical writing although it is not a technical paper. So, your posts require critical reading skill and ordinary readers without this skill will not understand or will have wrong interpretation. Although some people may misunderstand your writing, you don’t want your life to be read like an open book. Anyway, it is still a good intention.

    Take some time and effort to understand quantum computing. This is an interesting and exciting field and still has plenty unexplored areas. Integer factorization, quantum cryptography and Lamport signature will be interesting future. Great potential and still has many unresolved problems to be investigated further. Quantum computing papers are very interesting. Even if you don’t go into this field, it is worth reading after all.

    书贤

  • Adrian Hoe on August 11th, 2008 22:51 2

    Thanks. But it is still early to choose. I am just at the early stage of decision. After all, I have to take some courses first to reactivate this old piece of junk mind. It is slow at absorbing new information and certainly not as good as those young people.

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