Recently I heard the story that there is a "rank" in wedding ceremony.

They said, for example, the rank will become up when college professor is in the ceremony.

"It it true?"

In my case, I invited two professors who managed my study in my college to my wedding ceremony.

They could give me enjoy and intelligent college life even there were a lot of trouble.

(Ishihara-sensei, Todaka-sensei. How have you been?)

Anyway, I didn't think the rank at all.

It is enough.

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It was a time when I was asked as MC of a wedding ceremony.

When I did the meeting before the ceremony,

I was asked to read a congratulatory telegram carefully and considerably.

I thought that it is odd request and I watched the sender name

The title "prime minister" and his name of the day.

I got it.

Well, how to say, I thought it might be a kind of "rank".

However I also thought that more than one thousand telegram with same message was going to be released at the same day,

It was an easy business just to send a telegram to wedding ceremony if the statesperson got political donation.

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Anyway,

It was a matter of personal choice, what kind sense of worth they have.

I didn't do anything about that.

What I did was to read aloud the "telegram from the prime minister" as my given mission.

(Continuation from yesterday)

Well, naturally I got angry with the swindler, and let me down and felt hard.

But when I write about the trouble like as a diary, I become to calm down.

It is said that stress and anger become to be cool, once you write about them.

You write your anger with your way, and you don't care even if it is non-logical.

If your anger wells up again, you add new line of your anger in the previous column.

You repeat the things again and again, you don't come to think of the new phrase.

Eventually you can calm down even when you read the previous columns.

I hope that you try this, because it is easy and effective.

(To be continued)

Yesterday, It was a day of Tokyo gubernatorial election

After checking all of the candidates in detail, and finding no proper person I wanted to vote, however,

I think that I who go a polling station,

am a great person.

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During an election campain, I often think that there is a miracle in the world, when I watch people who gather in a campaign office for the period of the campain, and after win or loss the election.

The level of miracle is higher than that of "weeping statue of Maria".

Because it is an affair of other people.

"Of course, it might be for major part of their interests"

"it might be an order from their company or organization, and they might be obeyed"

"some persons like an election as a festival"

Even so, I think it is actually a miracle for struggling for other people.

(To be continued)

The most famous animation "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" shows the one big paradigm.

Kyubei:"In this country, I hear that a woman is in growth process to adult, is called a "girl" isn't it? If so, you should be called "Puella Magi" because you are going to be a hex."

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This time, I found that someone opened an interesting comment about this released column.

Here is my interpretation.

"My girl friend like a "weak AI" will become my wife like a "strong AI"

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I was very surprised that a new paradigm like above is coming from my work.

On the day my father died, my father came back home for the first time in a month.

That night, I slept together next to my father's body.

I had to keep candles and incense until the wake, however, the funeral company had said "Before going to bed, please turn off the fire", for fire preventation.

On that day, a huge typhoon called typhoon 12 was supposed to hit the this area, but it was not a low temperature, and a hot night.

The person in charge said to me that "please keep turning on the air conditioner all day.

In this hot weather, air conditioners are essential not only for living people, but also for dead people.

It is because I must prevent deterioration of the body.

That night, I set the temperature of the cooler considerably low, and I felt a bad cold feeling.

(I was pointed out by my relatives at a later date, "you should have used a futon for winter")

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I understood that my father's face gradually changed over time.

When I saw his face for the first time, he had a mild face that really felt asleep,

The next day, the carving of his face got deeper, and became a fearless face,

The face with death makeup was like an actor in Takarazuka (probably, I thought the impact of lipstick was great)

"No way"

"His face is not like this"

"This face is not his. I don't want anyone to remember my father with this his face".

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In the room, there was a picture when my father celebrated my birthday in the facility of day service,

I insisted that "No matter what I think, there is only this picture. The background is a light colored pink gradation", and I had my sister convince you.

My father's life was wild, and often struggling. I am afraid that there was few fun time for his life.

However, I believe that he was a person who can smile like this, and there were a lot of happy times that such a smile can happen.

This morning I waked up, my wife was waiting for me, and rush to say "the TV at living room doesn't work"

Well, this was one of daily happening, and In most cases, it will be resolved by turning off the power or restoring it to its default settings.

However,

This time, the tuner of the television didn't work and it could not accept the input from the external input terminal.

The possibility that the computer built into the TV has broken down was coming.

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I mentioned before about the engine control unit (ECU) of a car. Now, most things around us are controlled by computers.

If the cause is by software (program), it may be manageable for me, however I cannot be helped by hardware(microcomputer).

The previous TV could be used as a monitor to display external devices (such as DVDs or HDDs) even if the tuner was broken.

The reason for this happening is that all the TV interfaces are now centrally managed by the microcontroller.

If the microcontroller dies, everything connected to the television will become inoperable.

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At first, I also checked the price of the TV and the repair cost, but I knew the recent TV is cheaper.

A long time ago, a 40-inch TV was over 300,000 yen, but recently I was surprised to know that it could be purchased in the 30,000 yen range.

So I think

"The buying will be cheaper"

(To be continued)

As I've already mentioned (1) here and (2) here, "My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong、As I Expected -- Final" which started in July, and it's turning out to be a great work, as I expected.

I am very happy.

And while I give the biggest compliment to the original author, I'm still jealous.

I don't have anything to say again, especially since many of you have already commented on this week's fourth episode with rave reviews.

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I was reading the last three minutes of the heroine's final three minute monologue at the end of the show on Youtube with "English subtitles" and I was quite shocked.

"That's how they translate it"

This work is unique in that it makes the characters speak with abstracted messages about their emotions.

Naturally, there will be lines of dialogue that do not have a clear subject or object.

So, this time, the use of tenses (present perfect, past perfect), subjunctive past, and auxiliary verbs in the English subtitles of the heroine's message in Episode 4 "really makes sense".

For example,

-"I'm glad my tears have stopped"

The phrase is a good description of the immediate and current situation.

-"I can't be a girl that people feel sorry for"

This is the heroine's use of "can't" as a will to show her "determination".

-"I couldn't ask him he's helping her"

The present progressive tense used here indicates consistent behavior in the present, past and future of "him".

-"But I could never give up, let go, and refuse the way that she did"

This also shows that the objects of the first two verbs are engaged by the last relational pronoun.

-"Now and forever, my teas won't stop"

This includes "meaning," but it's "good! I shouted.

-I wish my teas hadn't stopped then

I think this phrase, "a wish for the (unrecoverable) past," is a great sentence.

In general, grammar/tense is good if you can express a situation, not if you have to use it as instructed in the textbook.

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The problem is -- with this English sentence (assuming, of course, that you understand the background of the story, etc.)

"How many Japanese can "weep"?

At least I don't think I'm going to be impressed at all with the above English phrases because I'm "pulled into the key set of English textbooks".

At the same time, I thought that studying English by using this kind of content (anime and novels) would be very effective.

(I just haven't come up with an approach to it.)

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I wondered how many more years it would take for us Japanese to be able to read and listen to English at a "mental" level.

When presenting my research at a conference, I must first prepare a conference paper.

In most cases, this paper will be checked by various colleagues and superiors in the field, and (depending on the person) will be rewritten about 10 times.

In addition, a patent application for the content of the presentation, must be filed before it can be published, and it must go through about seven levels of internal approval before it can be made public.

At this stage, I'm pretty exhausted.

Finally, I will present my paper at the conference, which will basically be submitted on the Internet website (in the past, I used to send my manuscript by international mail).

In most cases, the website is written in English, and the operation is difficult and returns unexplained errors (sometimes my operation is bad, but sometimes it is a problem with the conference's reception site).

If these problems occur just before the deadline, I will be on the verge of going crazy.

I may or may not get a response from the system as to whether or not I were able to submit successfully -- if not, I can only "hope" that I were able to submit successfully.

If I fail to submit the application, all the previous procedures will be null and void. It might be good, however, just thinking to go around making excuses and apologies to the rest of the company, makes me leave my office

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After that, the paper comes with the result of Accept/Reject and reviewer's review.

While reading the reviews and I'm insanely angry.

Of course, there are people who take criticism seriously, but I am a researcher with a reputation for being shallow, narrow-minded, and cowardly.

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And even if I do get an Accept, the content given in the acceptance result is harsh and difficult, and it becomes effectively a "rewrite of the paper".

However, my rewritten English is not very readable, so I will order another English check.

This time, I requested the order with the reviewer's comments, saying, 'I was terrible blamed by reviewers'.

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Then, I will check the checked paper and finally complete it as a paper.

To be precise, it's done when I am exhausted from the revision process and I've decided that I don't care anymore.

But from here, the road of hardship continues.

From here, there is a very tedious process of "submitting a revised manuscript using the system" and "transferring the copyright to an organization of IEEE".

I failed to follow this procedure before, and almost invalidated the Accept. At that time, the secretariat of the society directly contacted me, which was helpful.

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So, yesterday (Saturday), I completed this procedure and submitted the paper.

How relieved I was after yesterday's procedure is evident from the difference in my weight between yesterday and today (+1kg more).

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However, my work is far from over.

We have to submit our presentation video to the secretariat by August 15, and then we have a dark event waiting for us in September, where we have to do a real-time question and answer session (in English, of course).

I'm sure there are similarities between any job -- most of the work of a researcher is something other than "research".

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As a person who is involved in technology, I think that "patent applications," "conference presentations," and "paper presentations" are all too cumbersome.

I believe that the cause of these,

- Join the OSS team anonymously.

- Presentations at the Comic Market, etc.

- Book sales and technical exchanges through technical book festivals, etc.

may be the reason why engineers are drifting away.

At the very least, I do not find value in the name value of an academic society or a title (degree).

In my mind, the greatest engineer is the one who can make things work.

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By the way, I have been buying more and more textbooks from "Gijutsu Shoten" lately.

To put it bluntly, books from well-established technical publishers (Ohm-sha, CQ Publishing, Corona, etc.) are not very good for me, because

I'm tired of "expensive," "thick," "dense," and "wants to include everything.

I like "50 pages/500 yen" books (textbooks) saying, "Shut up and do it like this!"

For such "thin books", online books (PDF) by Comiket and Gijutsu Shoten (technical bookstore) are far superior for me.

Priviosuly I wrote the DIY camera observation system in my column. At that time, I read a line of Twitter,

"This guy just wants to be proud of his technical capabilities"

Honestly speaking, my impression was "it is typical stupid isn't it?".

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Unfortunately, there are too many "great engineers" around me to be proud of my capability.

They must have read my columns, but they have never given me any comments about the columns.

I feel that they encourage me warmly with a look of "Ebata-san, Go fo it. I stand by you"

For them, the system constructing like this, is literally "Piece of cake".

The reason why I have written the columns including technology information, is that I hope my column is a nodge for the peole who wants to start make the DIY camera observation system.

Whit this level of skill, I have never thought that I wanted to be proud of my capabilities.

I would rather be praised for continining to write the columns, even if I endure to be shamed by the great engineers who seem to be laughting at me.

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On the other hand, I come to think that I cannot find great engineers around me at the office, (neither outside the company, nor on the Internet).

Frankly speaking, I no longer see an engineer who start making before thinking.

Not "Don't think Just do it" (a catchcopy for the movie "Top Gun")

But "Don't think Just make it".

When I spoke to the "rude junior" about this matter, he prefaced the conversation with the words, "I can't deny the fact that..." and then continuned,

"I think you are just obstrucled by your 'weaker connections' ?"

I could not refute it.

At this time of year, TV programs feature resort destinations.

But, to me, it is not a hit at all.

For more information, see "I Thought I Was Going to Choke to Death from Boredom" here.

Others have asked me once or twice, "What on earth do you enjoy doing for a living, Ebata?"

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Speaking of things I've enjoyed in the past few years,

- I had a bite of Uiro with a bottle of tea on the bullet train when I returned home after helping my mother change her gastric bandage.

- I had Cooked fresh fish ordered over the Internet and ate it while watching my father's face as he enjoyed it.

And so on.

If you ask me, "Is that what makes Ebata so much fun?" I think it's a feeble answer myself.

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I, recently, attended a working college, and I've been trying to figure out why I did this (outburst). So I reached the following.

"My father and mother died and left me enough money to pay for my schooling."

I gained resources (time and money) through the death of my father and mother.

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When my father and mother were alive, they were hospitalized, discharged, experienced drastic changes in their condition, and had to negotiate with hospitals, facilities, and city hall. Of course, it was nowhere near the hard work of my sister, who supported me in the front -- but still, I think it was a very stressful day.

At least I didn't have time to think about 'studying in college.

And since I was struggling to make ends meet with tuition and living expenses before I entered the workforce, I honestly wish I could use a time machine to deliver this money to me when I was living in a boarding house.

I think that if I had been able to do that, I probably would not have become the "me" I am today.

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All in all, I am a horrible person.

With the resources (time and money) gained from the death of my father and mother, I am studying in college.

I can say that I am the best parent unhappy child.

And I am not without guilt about it, either.

Even so,

"I feel like my father and mother are the most pleased with my choice now."

Well, that's my analogy and one-sided assumption.