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Day 03

I would iike to change the format of my post into describing a single idea everyday instead of writing all I had done during the day. This time I would like to talk about Mathematics. I listened to a new podcast “Numberphile”, which was usually talked about mathematics by Youtube Video.  In the podcast, It was an interview with English Mathematician, Hannah Fry. Hannah Fry at first wanted to be a hairdresser, but somehow continued her study and got a PhD. Her PhD was about fluid dynamics, modelling formation of water droplet in the wings of plane or F1 racing car. Just after she finished her PhD, she really get exited to work in a aerodproject to design wings for F1 racing car, where she imagined that most engineer would thinking about the phystics, thinking about the mathematics and come up with mathematical equation to find an optimal design for the racing car. In the reality, everything had been covered up in the computer simulation. What was being done is engineer run a simulation software and picking up the image with the least amout of air resistance, “chucking darts basically, really boring” said Fry. She then back to the academic work and had a postdoc about applying mathematics in social studies.This was the part where it was getting exciting. Human behaviour was thought to be complex and unpredictable. In fact, it was not. Hannah tried to model the human behaviour using mathematical equation. She and her team also produced the most amazing study, at least according to her, something about retailer.However, sadly,  no one has read the paper. They somehow model all of the retailers as an continuous line in mathematical system. In my own opinion,I think this mathematic model is very amazing. I am sure that I will check it out later. 

Her mathematician worklife was basically putting up the model equation into computer, when the model does not work, she will cracking up pencil-and-paper mode to analyze the equation. When she got stuck, she would take a walk to refresh her mind. 

Today, she is a very popular mathematician, appering on several events, writting several books, appearing on Numberphile youtube channel, but it is not used to be. She used to be a very nerdy mathematician. Everything was started when she gave a small talk in the club about mathematic model of how disease spread. From there, she got invited from one talk to another talk and finally into the TED talk. After the TED talk, she was told to wrote a book about mathematics of love, to accompany her talk which will be released. And voila, one book into two and three books and she gained her reputation. In spite all of that, she thought having a child hindered her producitivty in mathematics. She mentioned that after everything is settled she really want get back to her nerdy mathematician life again.  In my own opinion, I think she is an amazing mathematician and I will be waiting for her next novel “Free as Bird”. Sorry if there is any mistake by content or english grammar. I am still learning to write a blog. The original numberphile interview was attached in the link below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKCjQWmUwv8

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Day 02

Hej, I am back. Started from yesterday after my first post, I listened to a podcast, TED Interview Podcast, where Chris Anderson interviewed my favorite psychologist, Daniel Kahnerman. He mentioned two concepts in the interview, first which was in his book, “Thinking Fast and Slow”, about System 1 and System 2. The second concept was two selves concept, Experiencing self and Remembering Self. That was the part where I found a connection between Buddhism concept of mindfullness an "Annata-non-self” in science.

At the end of the interview, Chris Anderson asked Danny, If there is one Idea that he would like inject to the mind of all of people, what will it be? And Danny answered this:

“Don’t trust yourself too much. Don’t trust an idea and belief just because you can’t imagine another alternative to them. Overconfidence is really the enemy of good thinking. And I wished (unclear) that humility about our belief could spread.”

After listened to the podcast, I learned some basics of ANSYS. Since ANSYS consist of three step, Geometry drawing - Model input - Meshing, I decided to focus on the geometry drawing using SpaceClaim. Too bad that I didn’t get any solidworks training back then during my bachelor. Anyways, I started by learning the basics tool, selection tool, pull tool, move tool, fill tool, and combine tool. By the way, I learned ANSYS just before I slept and after I woke up. Then I continued to learned svenska. The text I read was about “du” and “ni”. really wished that I could started to write in svenska for my post :). Just before I wrote this post, I continued my online course in edX about Six-Sigma. It was about DEFINE the problem,the first part of DMAIC processes. There was an interesting model called Kano model to map three kind of quality, essential quality, peformance quality and delighted quality. By the way, today I cooked basic stir fry, leek with yellow and red onion stir fried with rapeseed oil with little of sugar, salt and soy-sauce, for my dinner together with an egg.

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Day 01

Hey, It is my first time writing a blog. This blog purposes to keep track of daily activities. Hope that it can sustained for a long time.  This morning, I cleaned my room as well as modify its layout. Hope that it could be more beneficial than the previous one.I also made a spaghetti with cheese sauce and coriander. The cheese sauce was made by making bechamel sauce and mixed with Cheese. It tasted wonderful. Too bad, I didn’t take the picture. Will do it next time. After that, I learned some svenska, part A, Chapter 9 of the book that was entrusted to me by a Chinese friend. I also started to learned six-sigma, by taking an online edX course and finished for chapter 1. I haven’t listened to any podcast yet, but I will note that on the later post. 

Let’s call this a day.