Orlando之旅

圣旦及新年期间，去Orlando度假了10天假，住在自己的房子里。带儿子玩了Disney World,  Sea World, Legoland,  Universal Studio, Kennedy Space Center， 他好高兴。

感觉Sea World和 Legoland 没有南加州的好；Disney World 当然比南加的Disney Land 好； 没有去过 南加的Universal Studio， 不好说；Kennedy Space Center， 南加州没有， 算是让儿子开眼界了。

20th patent

The 20th patent was granted this month:

• Number:  US 8606772;

• Title:  Efficient multiple-keyword match technique with large dictionaries.

I consider this  as a milestone in my  career.

7日神秘高原之旅

第一天     灣區 -- 哈瓦蘇湖;

第二天     倫敦橋 -- 鳳凰城 -- 仙人掌國家公園 -- 土森;

第三天     石碑西部歷史古鎮 - 白沙公園;

第四天     卡爾斯貝巨洞 - 羅斯維爾 - 聖塔沸;

第五天     陶思土坯城 - 奇跡旋梯 - 阿伯克奇 - 天空城市 - 窗石;

第六天     古印地安石窟峽谷 - 濱河賭城;

第七天    拉福林濱河賭城 - 灣區.

Protest in San Francisco on 11/9

According to news,  Chinese American crowds gathered to protest  Jimmy Kimmel and his ABC program  in 27 cities across the United States yesterday.

My family  went to San Francisco to join the protesters.

It was a good event to educate my son to fight for his community as a member, his own right as a citizen,  justice against racism and unfairness as a  human being,.

Hopefully,  starting from now on, Chinese American will no long be a group of  silent people. 

I just read this:
中新社纽约11月9日电 美国华人华侨抗议美国广播公司(ABC)辱华言论的示威活动持续发酵，并在全美引起积极响应。9日，华盛顿、纽约、洛杉矶、休斯敦、旧金山、芝加哥等约20个城市再度爆发声势浩大的抗议活动，美国知名侨领表示，这是美国立国200多年来，参与城市最多、响应范围最广的一次华人抗议行动。

德国和日本

今天读了一篇关于中美两国G2关系的文章... 有一段议论很有意思：

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这个世界上，日耳曼人也是个“韬光养晦”的一流高手，二战以后的六十多年来，德国的政治精英们，仰仗元首把寄生性的犹太金融家赶尽杀绝的余荫，把实实在在的实物经济规模发展成世界前三，同时到处去下跪，到处去还债，让全世界人民都为德国在反省纳粹历史问题上的“真诚与彻底”所感动，从而也得到受害者们的谅解。相比之下，至今还把战犯牌位存放之地奉为“神社”的日本，就是彻彻底底的政治猪猡。

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Provilla and the Gang

There exists   a  PayPal Mafia which consists of  founders of   well-known start ups in Silicon Valley.

How about   a   Provilla   Gang?    When  BX  got some angel investment to start A4 Data Technology a couple of  months ago, and    BP  &  AD  are teaming together to  cook a novel idea,  I am excited to find that  this nice dream is becoming possible.      I'll try  my best for fund raising and establishing business connections for them as my appreciation for their contributions to Provilla.

Best wishes to them!

Twin prime conjecture

The problem of  Twin Prime Conjecture  had been  known only to the math  community until Dr Yitang Zhang was known to the world  in May this year  due to his breakthrough toward this problem.  His story touches  me for his spirit for pursuing truth persistently  &  lonely for about  20 years.

I did not know that  my Pitt math classmates Aiping and Luyang (王鲁燕) were  Yitang's  classmates at Peking University until  I visited Pittsburgh in August ..  they chatted about Dr Zhang's work proudly. I wish I had a classmate like Dr Zhang too. The world is small that I have only 2 connections away from Zhang... That is not what I want to say.

This moving math story inspires me for two thoughts:
1.  Dr Zhang is what the first word of Pitt's motto means:  Veritas.    I hope one can write a novel about his story, and produce a movie or TV series from it.   It is like the "beautiful mind"...  even more.
2.  I started to have an ambitious yet elegant dream:  as a humble math  entrepreneur,  I should  work harder to become wealthy or influential ...  I shall  raise enough fund one day to establish  an academic institute ... it will host 50 great minds like Dr Zhang in math and theoretic physics ....  full time in early stage of  their career.   That would be a great objective for me to do in  next 20 years or beyond ....   that is what is calling me from my heart... that reflects Pitt  motto's 2nd word Virtus.