The other day, I wrote that I am going to give a lecture about Baysian network with the topic of "panty".

Today, I went to the lecture, and I said the following phases,

- "Therefore, I am going to be set 50% as the "panty" existence."

- "This figure shows the panty's probability is going to be changed by the ex-post condition."

- "Well, please input the value 0.05 in the "Is Panty" column.

During just 10 minutes, I had to call "Panty" repeatedly as for more than 30 times,

Though I was so proud of me, I was obsessed with self-hatred slightly.

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The organizer of this event gave me all papers of questionnaire, and I seemed to get good reputations.

I was relieved that no questionnaire to be described "immoral" existed at least.

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This lecture seems to be held once next month. If you are interested, please feel free to come in.

Today, a new column is released, so I take a day off.

Mr.Ebata's struggling for DIY Home Security System by EtherCAT(5) "

60,000 maids "union?" Communication methods of EtherCAT

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In this column, my comment,

"What's matter even if litmus paper becomes blue or red on earth ?"

It is my wife who said the above,

has existed.

The attachment of my watch wristband is easy to be detached, I took it to a watch store in an appliance store.

The watch hole to attach to the wristband, was likely to be broken, I was recommanded to repair the watch by the mender.

However, the price of my LCD watch was just about 4000 yen.

The repair cost will be more expensive than the prime cost, so the mender at the shop adviced me to replace it.

To tell you the truth, I have already replaced the same watch before.

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Somehow, the old watch continues to show the correct time now,

becasue it is a radio wave watch,

I feel that it is agonizing to leave the watch in my room.

So I want to keep using until the battery is dead.

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So,

Current, I use the watch fixed, pouring in Aron Alpha, the joint part, and the hole, and gluing the wristband to the watch body.

There is no problem even if the movability is lost at the joint.

After that, when the band was frayed, I pulled off the joint by force, and keep adhering and using the newly bought band.

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How to say.. I think that it is common,

I feel that things repaired resourcefully by myself, are lovelier and feel more important than that purchased normally,

and I also feel guilt a little, that I don't contribute to GDP (Gross Domestic Product)

(Continuation from yesterday)

I do not think such "people who can not realize it" are "lazy" or "irresponsible".

This is simply a matter of "environment."

Dealing with the same line, for people who can use e-mail for tomorrow's eating (people who always use e-mail at work everyday) and people who rarely use cell phones, is

"violence"

It is no exaggeration to say.

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However, on the other hand, from my viewpoint, works that do not use IT like e-mails, are "unimaginably inefficient".

Inefficiency conference. for example "do not distribute agenda beforehand", "do not contact the issue in advance by e-mail", "do not issue a reminder of the meeting" and "do not share decisions with e-mail etc." are

for me,

"violence"

It is also no exaggeration to say.

Now I am feeling to be divided into two, between "works (in company) that use IT to the bone's mind, and "works desperately that lack IT literacy (Neighborhood Association)"

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The "theory" like this should be developed on the side of the weak.

I don't have to receive unnecessary criticism.

But this time, I do not be afraid of criticism and I would like to develop "theory" from my point of view of the stronger

"It can not be helped that elderly people do not have IT literacy because they were no chance to get IT education".

I'd like to validate whether the "theory" is true or not.

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As a premise, I (Tomoichi Ebata) has not received "IT literacy education" from kindergarten to graduate school graduation. First of all, please remember this.

(To be continued)

Today, new my column is released, so I take a day off.

Mr.Ebata's struggling for DIY IT Nursing Support System(1) "

Still I work this system just for five domestic users

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When I talked with the editor of a technical specialist book about the story of this "watching system", I was clearly told that “The system of Raspberry Pi is not worthy as a technical article".

I was also responded with "I guess so."

It's too old as a technical issue, and in fact, it is easy to find the same story in books at book stores (They are typical stories in the Raspbeery Pi magazine).

Therefore, this time, without talking about "technology", I tried to describe the slapstick play of system construction in "time chart" basis.

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By the way, this time, the system I built in my wife's parents house, did not achieve its purpose, but left another problem.

That was when my wife and the eldest daughter were returning to their parents' home in visiting of mother-in-law and other procedures.

I got a phone call and I was told by my wife.

Wife: "While we are staying at this house, stop the system"

Ebata: "I haven't watched you"

In addition, it was installed that any people could not use the system.

Wife:"stop it anyway"

Well, it was easy to stop, so I entered a few commands, stopped the system, and told my wife to it.

(To be continued)

I've heard that child suicides have doubled -- and I'm pale.

I did a little research and it looks a little different.

- The number of suicides among elementary through high school students doubled to 59 in August from 28 in the previous year.

- In April-June, when the refrain from going out was widespread, it was down about 13% nationally (but not just the data for children).

My prediction that the school ban would reduce the number of child suicides, was almost correct.

However, the "doubling of suicides in August" was unexpected.

However, the proportion of child suicides is very small compared to adult suicides and tends to fluctuate widely, so we should be cautious about making poor decisions.

But I think that it's not unrelated to the "corona disaster"

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Even before the declaration of the state of emergency, it was predicted that the number of suicides would increase.

But I thought it would be solely an "unemployment problem" and I hadn't really thought about the relevance to "children".

I feel like I've been "totally outsmarted.

I've looked at various media outlets about the suicide of children with corona disasters, but I don't seem to have a very clear reason for it.

In addition to the traditional reasons, they cite "domestic discord due to the Corona scourge," "a chain of celebrity suicides," or "a shift in the 'September 1 issue'" among others.

However, those roots are, I think,

"Rapid lifestyle changes"

Prohibition of going to school, living with parents for long periods of time, and restrictions on friendships (conversations, etc.), are typical "rapid lifestyle changes" and quite shocks, like

"being cut off with a sudden "snapping" sound, and then being abruptly reconnected to another line"

That's a tough one, even for adults who have been forced to make lifestyle changes many times over.

And more importantly, they are children.

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That's not to say that I have a concrete solution, but I have somehow bad feeling about it.

I feel bad to think 'something huge' that I will regret in the future, with saying 'I should have done that at that time', is going now.

I hope I'm wrong.

I have heard that in China, a system is being adopted to record one's background and daily activities on one's smartphone to enhance one's creditworthiness.

The LINE company is also developing an app called "LINE Score".

The contents that are self-registered/automatically registered in this application are

- History (gender, age, etc.)

- Education and work history

- Financial strength (ability to pay)

- Credit (credit history including repayment history)

- Personal connections (social networking sites, clubs, volunteer work, etc.)

- Preferences (hobbies and behaviors in life)

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I see, from now on, we don't need to look for common sense, social norms, or ethics in philosophy or religion, but the computer will decide for us.

Well, this is easy.

- Volunteerism is not about mutual aid or good intentions, but simply about credit counting.

- The accumulation of credit counts will make it easier for you to go to school or find a job, which will give you an additional credit count bonus.

- Any act of defiance against the school or organization counts as a negative.

- The count is reset upon conviction of a criminal offense.

When I write this, I tend to think of it as 'the realization of a computerized society of personal control' in a single step, but such a way of thinking is so "shallow" nowadays that even science fiction movies cannot adopt it.

This also has the huge benefit of "quantifying personal values for individuals".

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For example, some people may focus on the fact that they are in debt, while others may focus on the fact that they are making good on their repayments.

There may even be people who judge too many connections as 'weathervanes'.

Some people may think that someone who has traveled the world is a more useful person than someone with a high school education.

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"I'll never give my daughter to a man who has the right to vote, but won't even vote"

I think there are quite a few parents who think that way.

This is why I think it's perfectly fine to take the stance of "I'm only going to vote to prepare for the future' world of credit counting.

The latest article on "New Behavioral Theory for 'Engineers Not Loved by Money'" has been published.

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Thinking about the "new capitalism" from an engineer's viewpoint

https://eetimes.itmedia.co.jp/ee/articles/2210/31/news054.html#utm_source=series&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20221101

In this issue, I would like to think about "new capitalism".

The trigger was my wife's comment, "I wonder what new capitalism is". As I researched this question, it became clear that it would be hopelessly difficult to implement the "2022 version of the income doubling plan".

From this time on, I would like to use (copy and paste) the e-mail provided by the EE Times Japan editorial office.

After repeated heavy use of my ChatGPT (free version), ChatGPT has finally stopped responding (at this point, I am not sure if this is the cause or not).

This is why I joined the paid version of ChagGPT ($20/month).

I got my wife to pass the budget by saying, 'I can't think of operations and graduation without the help of ChatGPT.

I am not confident writing English (columns and articles) without "Grammarly (paid version)," and I pay for AWS (lightsail) and a provider for kobore.net.

But without these, my daily life would not be possible.

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We are acutely aware that the scope of exploitation by IT/AI is expanding every day.

Worse, the contribution of IT/AI to me is 'immense'.

Still, the above total monthly amount is less than the cost of one drink at the office.

In comparison, the contribution of paid IT/AI to me is no less than 100 times that of a drinking session.

For example, do you have a colleague at a drinking party who can slur my answers to "What's the difference between PD games and guarantee games?"

(Aside from the "Do you talk about game theory at a drinking party? )

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The Day Ebata Lost to AI.

It is difficult to define "when" that is.

For now, I would like to define the day (yesterday) when I started paying $20/month to ChatGPT as its starting date.