One Saturday Morning, A Block Away from Corp Housing

One Saturday Morning, A Block Away from Corp Housing
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Religion

It still makes me sad.

"...This reconciliation with Hitler reveals the profound moral perversity of a world that rests essentially on the nonexistence of return, for in this world everything is pardoned in advance and therefore everything cynically permitted."

- Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

It must be something wrong with the belief or the interpretation, because I still cannot find the alternatives for what we called the justice - You get what you paid.

eWeek Interview

I guess it turned out the best, yet there're some misunderstandings in the article.

If It Ain't Broken, Don't Fix It.

Well, it ain't broken...Yet.

I don't even know what to think at this moment.

Back to Taipei

Now I am back to Taipei to have some medical checkups before I officially start my career. I just graduated from NYU with a master degree in computer science, and now am ready to explore the next level of my life.

Carol broke up with my couple of months ago after series of fights, mostly about how I shall treat her and her family in the future. Somehow I felt that my image on her mind was built in some kind of illusion that I can take care of everything and do everything for her with just good deed. Well, I ain't no saint, so I guess it's just impossible for me to do whatever she wanted me to do in the future. I hate to promise things that I am forced to do, but when it came down to reality, it got even harder and uglier.

I guess this blog is the last peace I could afford on the internet. Most of my friends don't read my English blog after I have Chinese ones; well, obviously I am a better Chinese writer. Carol read one of my articles regarding how I saw the whole relationship and how it ended on my personal board; that made her ver uncomfortable and didn't want to be friends anymore. I am not going to do anything about it; if she meant to do things as the way she preferred, so as I.

WordNet Similarity Matrix

My Project's link

This semester, my project was to design an interface to play around with wordnet.  Firstly, this program finds close words by given search key, ask for the designated meaning of the word, and then find the scores based on WordNet::Similarity. 

I developed my project in Java, so I use these following libraries:

1. WordNet 2.0
2. Java WordNet Library(JWNL)
3. Pure Java WordNet Similarity Library (Special Thanks to Mark A. Greenwood)
4. Tomcat

I had difficulties trying out the original WordNet::Similarity, which is a CPAN Perl module.  My Perl is rusty, and I was unable to find out the way to combine things together.  Here's to the problems I have.

1. Greenwood's Java WordNet Similarity Library
1. Dependency:
1. Inline
2. Inline::Java
2. WordNet::Similarity
1. Dependency
1. WordNet::QueryData
3. WordNet 2.0
4. Java WordNet Library(JWNL)

I installed these packages on CentOS 4.4 and MacOS X 10.4.9, but the package was falling apart.  It was difficult to handle the library dependencies; what was even worse, the configuration was a disaster.  So finally I gave up the original setting and pursue the more directed approach.

There's something similar to my project, which has fancier interface.

H-1B Petition Result

It has been a while since my last blog.  I didn't quit blogging; I just spent more time on my Chinese blogs. 

After I accepted an offer from Yahoo!, the lawyer started the H-1B application process.  Since I have not yet graduated, I am not qualified for master cap.  As a result, when over 150,000 petitions were received at the first two days of H-1B application, I was totally stocked and even planned to go back to Taiwan.  I was then in a merely over 50% lottery to win a quota of 2008.

Eventually I got a quota for H-1B.  Now I am ready to embrace the new era of my life - Career.