Life In General – James Lin's Blog

See a NASA Physicist’s Incredible Origami

James Lin — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 12:25:59 +0000

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ4hDppP_SQ

What is water hammer

James Lin — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 11:18:40 +0000

Quite interesting to learn about plumbing.

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoLmVFAFjn4

Feeling of the day…

James Lin — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 22:35:49 +0000

The Master replied: “You perceive this immense structure and are disturbed that it has no rational purpose. Can you not take amusement from its endless gyrations? Do you not enjoy the untroubled ease of programming beneath its sheltering branches? Why are you bothered by its uselessness?”

What I think Yellow NZ can do – Part 2

James Lin — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 00:00:23 +0000

APIify our SMEs, allow them to accept orders, bookings, enquiries etc etc via the API platform. Provide them with dashboards, insights based on well formatted data from API calls.

What I think Yellow NZ can do – Part 1

James Lin — Sun, 15 Oct 2017 20:15:26 +0000

Everyone knows Yellow NZ has a sunset product – directories. We also know that Yellow NZ has a lot of connections with SMEs. It can utilise this advantage to venture into areas that actually help these SMEs to do their business, such as providing a platform for ecommerce, booking, trading etc etc, which ultimately creates… Read More »

Idiot thought of time and 4th dimension

James Lin — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 06:07:58 +0000

I was waiting for my train and I went into deep thoughts, I started to think about 3 and 4 dimensions, like I posted earlier, if you live in 4th dimension, looking at 3 dimensional world is like playing a video of 3D objects, and the “playing a video” is what we perceive as time.

My hypothesis (not being a scientist and without doing any search) is that time is merely a concept of a counter, which is different to the chronological sequence counter “CSC” (I just made this term up) in 4th dimension.

In an analogy, our world is like a running program try its best to keep track of time internally during execution, this is encapsulated and sealed within the 3rd dimension. If this running program cannot conciliate with the system clock (CSC in 4th dimension), that means the running program will eventually out of sync.

I am not aware of any ways to conciliate with the CSC nor how to measure CSC at first instance.

It seems to me “time” does not live in 4th dimension but merely our conception.

Orcon connection problem fixed

James Lin — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 07:25:28 +0000

So today I checked the connection again and whoa, it’s been fixed! See graph below. It only required a few angry phone calls and emails to get it sorted.

Last day at GrabOne (NZME)

James Lin — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 22:14:04 +0000

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You care more about learning than what other people think about you.

James Lin — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 21:32:21 +0000

Excerpted from the following article: The 2 Mental Shifts Highly Successful People Make

Some of the highlights:

There are no bad teams, only bad leaders.
Confidence is a direct reflection of past performance
You care more about learning than what other people think about you.
Seek first to understand… then to be understood
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Teamwork appears most effective if each individual helps others to succeed, increasing the synergy of that team; ideally, every person will contribute different skills to increase the efficiency of the team and develop its unity.

In a Darwinian sense, most people compete with others on their own level. Those seeking rapid growth compete with others who are far advanced, what Josh Waitzkin calls “investing in failure.” An even higher order principle is collaborating with others who are far advanced of your current level.

For instance, if you want to get stronger or faster really fast, exercise with people in far better shape. If you want to do incredible work, work with more talented people than you. If you want to become a better person, date or marry someone “up.”

Time is the enemy of the privileged few. Cost is the enemy of the masses.

James Lin — Sun, 05 Mar 2017 09:02:46 +0000

Stumbled upon an youtube video: Why Planes Don’t Fly Faster

Turns out making travel cheaper is way more important, very well said at the end: “Time is the enemy of the privileged few. Cost is the enemy of the masses.”
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1QEj09Pe6k