Andy Chen | The Magic of Simplicity

English is beautiful? Maybe, I’m not sure about that as a poor-English Chinese. But what I can make sure is some words are beautiful written by the man come from the English speaking countries. That’s one of the reason why I keep studying English. There is one of the best advertisements from Apple Inc. Think different:

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. – Apple Inc.

I think a man who doesn’t want to change the world won’t be great. No matter how many skills he has.

Few years ago, when I was in the university. I saw Peter Norvig’s 21 line python codes of Spelling Corrector. “What cool codes!” I thought.

Yes, it is the most coolest program I have ever read. A perfect combination of mathematic, programming language and programmer.

And I come up with a idea when this summer is coming before buying more T-shirts: why not print my favorite codes on my T-shirts? Yes, codes is our doodle.

I am a lucky man, I got the permission from Peter:

(there is a spelling error in the emails which made me so embarrass… )

You wanna see what the T-shirt looks like?

Here it is:

Peter’s code and his copyright, and the man? Peter? Guido? I’m sorry, but I can’t find their cartoon photos. p(h, e) = p(h)p(e, h)/p(e)? Yes, He is Thomas Bayes.

Do you have your favorite codes? Written by yourself or others? Just share them. One T-shirt is obvious not enough for this summer. (If you want the materials of this T-shirt, just let me know).

And why these codes are my favorite? and why is the man Thomas Bayes ? You will know it if you read the essay.

Maybe you will take this as a storm in a teacup, but what I am going to tell you is the things exactly happened yesterday.

It was middle night when I finished watching Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, so I went to bed and fell asleep quickly.

But you know, serious wounds won’t hurt at the first moment.

In fact, I laughed a lot while watching it without realizing the sadness had get into my heart with dark humor pretended. Then, it jumped out in the morning, make me cried as sadly as a child who has just lost one of his best friends.

It won’t be crazy if you cried for someone who you didn’t know at all. We did it a lot in the cinema.Though I prefer this was a movie rather than a video, Randy passed away in 2008.

God, take good care of him, please!

I am so grateful for the internet and those great universities. These fantastic open courses make me feel that what bullshits I took before.

Anyway, I feel so great in taking these courses on the internet.

Recently I am taking the class of Introduction to Algorithms provided By MIT.

Programming courses are more attractive for me though Justice is a good course. It is such a great thing that enjoy the process of make complex things simple by those great professors.

One of the Professors of this course is Charles Leiserson, co-author of book Introduction to Algorithms, and Erik Demaine(The youngest professor of MIT)。

The first course is :Administrivia; Introduction; Analysis of Algorithms, Insertion Sort, Mergesort

You will enjoy it.

Hello World!