I wrote here about how the root of Bitcoin's value is in exchange for the consumption of large amounts of electricity.

In the last month, I have seen an increase in the number of articles discussing Bitcoin from the perspective of the SDGs.

I've seen 1BTC drop 1 million yen in a day "twice", triggered by a massive sale by the CEO of a certain venture company, and now it seems that 1BTC = 4 million yen.

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When I first started writing about Bitcoin, the price was about 1.2 million yen per BTC, so even with twice million yen drops, Bitcoin has continued to rise in value.

On the other hand, China, Europe and the U.S. seem to be moving in the direction of tightening controls on crypto assets (virtual currencies).

Currency control is the cornerstone of a nation's economy, so it's not hard to imagine how an entity like Bitcoin would be depressing to those in power.

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"Bitcoin and the new coronavirus are very similar"

I think that.

Things that pose a threat to the nation will be eradicated by the nation.

The mRNA vaccine and other products that are "just right" for the new coronavirus are the result of the U.S. "360-degree drug discovery research and development" funded by the national budget.

I, personally, estimated that it would take four years to complete the vaccine, so I can say that the speed of the vaccine far exceeded my expectations.

I was reminded once again of the power of nations, especially the United States.

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On the other hand, if Bitcoin also becomes a threat to the nation, I think the nation power will not keep quiet.

In particular, there is a precedent that the nation has already overlooked the credit market and made it 'uncrashable'.

In comparison, the size of the Bitcoin market is small enough in the context of the overall credit market. In other words,

"Now, we can destroy it."

If the power side thinks that way, it's only natural.

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Therefore, if I were to consider a survival strategy for Bitcoin, I would use the following information, which can be found here

"A Return to the 'Petit Bourgeoisie Bitcoin'"

might be good.

I don't know whether that's possible now or not now.

My senior daughter, who had even referred to the main character of the anime "Super Cub" as "my little sister," until the other day, is saying now,

"She's not so pretty"

Ebata: "Why?"

Daughter: "A beginner should not be so familiar with motorcycles. She need to make more mistakes and grow as a rider"

Well, I think it's good to have various ways of viewing and opinions.

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I also used to use an off-road bike to get to college.

I have never looked for "coolness" in a motorcycle.

What I was looking for in a motorcycle was portability and fuel efficiency, and the major issues were "cold protection" and "snow damage".

The city I lived in, which was located in the extreme north of Kyoto at the time, was a serious issue. When it snowed, the buses also stopped running.

My life was really in danger when I collapsed in my lodge with a high fever on the day of the snowfall.

In a dazed state, with snow falling through my raincoat and into my body, I rode my 125cc motorcycle with both feet to the. I was really great.

Anyway, I did whatever I could to protect myself from the cold.

There were windshields that could be attached to off-road bikes, but they were too small to be useful for keeping out the cold.

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The final form I've arrived at, was

"Putting on ski clothes, gloves, and getting on the bike"

I parked my bike at the campus, put my ski clothes in a plastic garbage bag, and carried it around the campus.

My character of "not caring about such things at all" supported my life as a motorcycle commuter.

"Sapporo District Court rules for the first time in Japan that same-sex marriage is against the Constitution". When this news came out, my first action was to search the court's case database.

Because I want to read the sentence without foresight.

As I've said before, the text of the ruling is interesting in itself, without any lofty motives such as "primary information is important"

If you look at the information in the media, it will be "spoiled" and less interesting.

Unfortunately, at that time, the sentence was not yet reflected in the DB.

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So, even though I'm a little late, I've just read the judgment and I'm laughing... not burst laughing,

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However, the knowledge that homosexuality is one of the mental disorders and should be prohibited was accepted until around 1980, and it was also widely shown in the field of education.

One of the reasons why the majority of people in the relatively older age group of 60 years old and above have a negative opinion about same-sex marriage is that such knowledge was accepted and as a result, negative opinions and values about same-sex marriage have been formed among the people.

In light of this history, the fact that there are not a few citizens who have such negative opinions and values is a circumstance that the legislature can take into consideration when exercising its discretionary power.

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Ebata's (malicious) translation ↓

(1) Old guys and old ladies will never understand same-sex marriage.

(2) Nevertheless, given their voting power, Diet members will not be able to ignore the presence of the old guys and old ladies

(3) Considering (1) and (2) above, we have to understand that the legislature is not moving in the direction of 'recognizing same-sex marriage.

# Well, I am aware that I am in the category of the "old guys".

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However, the only difference between heterosexuals and homosexuals is the difference in sexual orientation, which cannot be chosen or changed by a person's will, and there should be no difference in the legal benefits that can be enjoyed by persons of any sexual orientation.

Nevertheless, homosexuals are not provided with the legal means to enjoy even some of the legal effects of marriage.

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Ebata's (malicious) translation ↓

(1) But, the only difference between heterosexuals and homosexuals is "difference in sexual orientation", and they are not responsible for it, right?

(2) Isn't it strange that we treat this as a beneficiary of the institution of marriage, as if there are only two choices, "1" or "0"?

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In addition to these circumstances, and in light of the fact that there was no judicial decision on the constitutionality of the lack of a system for same-sex marriage, it must be said that it was not easy for the Diet to immediately recognize that this provision was in violation of Article 14, Section 1 of the Constitution.

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Ebata's (malicious) translation ↓

(1) I think it's a bit pitiful for the Diet to unilaterally assume that 'the Diet is at fault' under such circumstances.

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As described above, the Court finds that there is no reason for any of the plaintiffs' claims.

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Ebata's (malicious) translation ↓

(1) Therefore, the plaintiff's claim for damages under the State Redress Law is dismissed.

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"Huh? The plaintiff lost this case?"

We might be able to read it as above.

However, a (final) judgment takes effect from the entire text of the judgment.

In this judgment, this part of the judgment is very important.

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The refusal to provide homosexuals with the legal means to enjoy even some of the legal effects of marriage is beyond the discretion of the legislature, and to that extent violates Article 14, Section 1 (equality under the law) of the Constitution.

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It is important to note that the Sapporo District Court declared that the above state of affairs, where there are only two options, "1" or "0," is a violation of the Constitution.

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I think that this ruling has not been finalized yet.

Even if the court decision is finalized with this content, if the government continues to fail to enforce the law on same-sex marriage and the system, the "negligence of the Diet" will be recognized, and every lawsuit after it is finalized will result in a decision subject to the State Compensation Law.

If this is the case, the plaintiff can decide that it would be better to let the judgment stand without filing an appeal.

On the other hand, the defendant that won the case, the "State," should not be able to appeal to the higher court.

However, in this ruling, the Sapporo District Court did not find any violation of Article 13 (respect (dignity) of the individual, the right to pursue happiness and public welfare) and Article 24 (freedom to form family relationships and equality between men and women) of the Constitution.

I haven't been able to follow up on how this trial is going to go (I'm working on it).

I will let you know when I know more.

A few years ago,

"Running away is a shame, but useful"

the comedy-drama of the title was a big hit.

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I'm currently brainstorming several times on various inventions, but to be honest, I'm out of ideas and dizzy.

"Criticism is necessary, but it makes me angry"

I'm wondering if anyone would like to make a drama about IT researchers.

"You were laughing hysterically in your room around three o'clock this morning. So I woke up. What were you watching?" My wife asked me.

I was watching the movie "Yukio Mishima vs. the University of Tokyo Zenkyoto: 50 Years of Truth" on Amazon Prime.

Well, it was really fun.

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This movie was released in April last year, but due to the declaration of a state of emergency against the new corona infection, all the movie theaters in the Tokyo metropolitan area stopped showing it.

I was wondering if I go to see a movie theater in a rural area, but I understood that "Tokyo residents" were "uninvited guests" in Japan at that time.

This time, it was available on Amazon Prime, and I jumped right on it.

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Well, it was one of the most exciting documentary films I've seen in a long time.

I found Yukio Mishima to be a very fascinating person, and I liked his humor and witty way of telling stories very much.

I was also impressed by the logical and calm response of the representative of the Zenkyouto of University of Tokyo (well, there was also someone who didn't).

Also, the comments from the people and experts involved at the time, inserted in the middle of the video of the discussion, were a great help in understanding the content of the discussion.

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So, my impression was,

I think I understood most of what Yukio Mishima was arguing, but I could only understand about half of what the representative of the University of Tokyo Zenkyoto was saying.

The terms used were "difficult". Rather, I couldn't understand them.

The biggest problem was that we could not objectify (what they call "things") what the representatives of the University of Tokyo Zenkyoto were saying.

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I listened to both of their arguments while creating a UML (Unified Modeling Language) class diagram in my mind.

Yukio Mishima's talk was based on the natural state of the world -- there are objects, objects (things) have names, names describe the function of objects, objects have a duration -- in object-oriented programming, based on real-world objects.

In contrast, the representative of the University of Tokyo Zenkyoto seemed to argue that it is negative (counter-revolutionary?) to give a name to a changing tangible object (thing) and limit its function. It seemed to me that they were arguing that such a stance is negative (counter-revolutionary?), and that it even hampers the approach to finding a new meaning for open zones.

# I think I'm probably right in my understanding of the above, but I wonder if I'm wrong?

As it turns out, according to a representative of the University of Tokyo Zenkyoto, I thought,

"I (Ebata) don't think I can program the open area of the University of Tokyo campus with an object model"

This means that (at least for me) "I cannot design an open zone" according to the specifications required by the University of Tokyo Zenkyoto.

On the other hand, I thought that Yukio Mishima's world view could be programmed using the object model.

Perhaps the Zenkyoto people at the time might ask me to criticize myself, saying, "Approaching a revolutionary worldview from an engineering perspective is itself a counterrevolution!"

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And so, if you are a publisher who would like to write a book whose title is

"Yukio Mishima vs Todai Zenkyoto with Object-Oriented Programming"

Please contact me.

Well, I think it's definitely "no".

Daughter: "I was surprised to see that when I searched for 'suicide by jumping into a train,' your column came up as the third one on the top page"

I remembered her telling me that, so I gave it a try.

It's really coming out.

According to the editorial staff, the PV count of this column goes up every time whenever "a suicide by jumping into a train" happened.

Maybe today, the PV count is still going up.

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What I did was a computer simulation, using simple equations of motion.

After all, it is just a "jumping" experiment in a computer.

If there is such a need for this column, I think it would be a good idea if the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or a consortium of railroad companies conducted a demonstration experiment using animal carcasses (or meat lumps of similar composition) and disclosed the data.

It would also be necessary to set up about 20 high-speed cameras on the side of the tracks, shooting at frames of 1/100 to 1/1000 of a second, to record the reality of the suicide by jumping into the train.

Of course, those images would be shocking and could cause PTSD.

I believe that the method of disclosure must be handled with great care and caution.

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After my death, I have given permission for my body to be "utilized (transplanted)" way only.

However, as the person who wrote this column, I think I need to ask them to seriously consider using my death body as a demonstration of "jumping suicide".

This is a serious matter for me.

At the end of "Numbers: The Case Files of a Mathematical Genius, Season 2, Episode 16, "there is a scene where a son who works for the FBI and his father who is a retired architect have this conversation.

Son: "You extremis"

Father: "Government dog"

After exchanging a few words, they grinned at each other.

"Oh, I like it. I admire this kind of conversation"

I watched it with thinking that.

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If my daughters became police or self-defense officers, this is the kind of conversation I wanted to have with them.

Daughter:"Convert to conservatism"

Me:"This police spy"

And then they clink their whiskey tumblers at each other --

Unfortunately, I think the chances is not coming in the future.

When you participate in an international conference, there will be an "optional tour" or sightseeing tour during the conference.

Well, international conferences are usually held in famous tourist spots, so it's a kind of "reward" for the presenters who have been busy to death preparing their presentations before the conference.

I'm not sure if such "optional tours" exist in the Olympics or Paralympics, but normally the athletes could have enjoyed sightseeing in the host city.

Of course, this time, the Japanese government will not allow athletes and the press to freely walk around the country, but...

In my opinion, an "athlete" or "press" is essentially a challenger.

Maybe they'll show up in Asakusa, Ginza, Shinjuku, Shibuya, and Akihabara.

If they can end up with "zero" in spite of tens of thousands of visitors to Japan, I believe that will be the "great achievement of the OLYMPALA".

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Maybe it will never be zero.

Every day, the escapades of "athletes" and "press" is going to make the pages of newspapers and weekly magazines.

(1) Is the "athlete" or the "press" to blame for breaking the rules?

(2) Are the governance controls of the Olympic host committee to blame?

will be problems.

I'm afraid that the Japanese government will force the offending team to leave the country -> will worsen relations with that country -> will break off diplomatic relations.

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Well, my predictions have been off, so I'm not too worried.

I once predicted that the US presidential election process would plunge the country into civil war. And I had made a wild prediction that the United States would plunge into civil war during the presidential election process, and that the leading states would declare independence.

But, well, I guess some of the predictions came true when 'there was an attack on the US Capitol by sympathizers of the defeated president.

In the anime "Super Cub #10" episode, there is a scene where the main character drives the Cub through the snow with normal tires.

Driving on snowy roads is dangerous even for cars. However, in the case of motorcycles, it is a "confirmed fall" hazard.

But, well, even if I know that, there are times when it is unavoidable.

For example.

"From the college laboratory where I arrived in the morning in sunny weather, I have to pass through the city of Kyoto in heavy snowfall at 3 a.m. on my way back to my lodgings"

Snow in Kyoto can be very troublesome for motorcycle riders.

In a word, it's snow that doesn't freeze easily, and maintains a very ideal (and the worst for motorcycle riders ) ice burn for several days.

In my case, I was carrying a 9kg laptop computer "PC-9801LS" (list price 886,000 yen) in a sack every day (it's true), so it was practically impossible for me to move around without a motorcycle.

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I bought the computer with a list price of 886,000 yen in cash with a part-time job -- while earning money for school and living expenses.

My university life was filled with no romantic events, but (as I have already mentioned many times) I never thought of myself as an unlucky person.

"The days are full of hard work, and I don't have to think about anything else". That's all I could say.

I consider myself lucky that my "alone" nature and my "technology-loving" nature mesh surprisingly well together.

Aside from that.

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When I was a senior in high school, after taking the entrance exam for Hokkaido University, I wandered around Hokkaido by train for almost two weeks in March.

I spent my days repeatedly buying a loaf of bread and pouring it down with water, while using a round trip ticket to visit various parts of Hokkaido (or rather, almost all parts of Hokkaido).

(Somehow, this meal itself is similar to the main character in the anime "Super Cub".)

During the journey, I saw

"a running motorcycle with blowing away snow in a blizzard"

from the train window.

The technique of the rider of that bike was truly amazing.

- While anticipating the movement of the bike as it is swept away by the snow,

- Without slowing down,

- Drafting the bike from side to side,

- Driving easily on roads with deep snow

- An old man in farming clothes

In fact, he was running alongside the train, which was a great speed.

"Oh, my God, he is so cool"

I clung to the window and kept watching the old man driving the Cub.

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Whenever I remember that scene, I still think of the line from Porco Rosso (the anime "The Red Pig"), "That's what cool is".

"Teleworking needs a lot of patience?"

I think it's based on my own special environment, and my arrogance.

I have always used a keyboard within three days until I was 19 years old.

Computer is now a part of my body.

So, I don't feel pain in teleworking itself.

This news of "Many people are furious about teleworking policy during the Tokyo Olympics" seems to be a different argument from a problem about IT literacy.

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The majority of jobs in the world can't be completed only by computer & remote work.

Looking at the data, 12.5% of workers do not use computers, but this doesn't means that 100% of work is computer-based.

Those who do not use computers 100% of the time are high among part-time workers (33.7%) and sales and service workers (25.2%).

However, since actual work is a hybrid of computer and non-computer work, the ratio of "work cannot be accomplished by telework alone" should be much higher.

Even if you think about it normally, telework is not viable for cleaning, customer service, line manufacturing, supermarkets, security, hairdressers, housekeeping, inspection, moving businesses, nursing care, farming, fishing, construction, and sales clerks in general.

As far as I can see from the data here, the "ratio of the working population that cannot be established by telework alone" is about "70%", which is the majority.

I just happen to be in the minority.

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So...

"Many people are furious about teleworking policy during the Tokyo Olympics"

is not a media demagogue, but a quantitative "many people" based on the data.

I couldn't get any video from the surveillance camera I had installed in my house and left it for a while.

The other day, I finally found the time to fix it.

In our house, I initially suspected a broken LAN cable, since I have passed LAN cables from window to window, outdoors.

Holding my laptop, I climbed up a ladder to the ceiling of the entrance, disconnected the LAN cable module of the installed camera, and tested the connection with the laptop to confirm the connection.

I was impressed with the durability of the LAN cable.

I had already left my flat LAN cable exposed outdoors, tucked in window frames for more than 10 years, and the cable was still alive.

Now that the "failure of the surveillance camera" was confirmed, I decided to replace it with another camera.

This camera has been working outdoors for 10 years, so I believe it has served its purpose well.

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I did some research and found that the first year of production for this camera was 2004.

Naturally, this camera does not implement TLS (https) or SFTP, which are now common sense measures for secure communication.

I'm a little worried, but well, however, it's not a problem, as long as they don't break into Ebata's LAN.

The Ebata family's PC server has now been moved to the cloud, and there is no server that can be used as a stepping stone.

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Well, I never thought I would see a future where browsers would criticize me by name for 'unprotected communication' when I access a server that is not TLS-enabled.

Recently, it has become troublesome to even find the IP address of my home PC easily because Windows 10 does not respond to pings.

Virtual environments such as Docker and cloud packaging such as AWS have also entered as network elements, and in general, it is difficult to work on building and maintaining network systems these days.

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Recently, I heard that a company has announced a policy of "making network integrators a business.

To be honest, I didn't know what it was at first.

At least, I thought that building IP networks was in the realm of SIers(*).

(*)A company that undertakes a variety of tasks ranging from software design and operation to consulting (SIer)

But now, building an IP network has become a hassle.

I believe that from now on, there will be a new type of job called "NWer" (an abbreviation of Network Integrator), not "SIer". I think it may be the time when "NWer" will exist independently from software development.

In the Ebata family, I had bought (or re-bought on my own) personal computers for my daughters before the Corona disaster occurred.

With such good fortune, my daughters were able to instantly adapt to remote classes.

However, the situation changed when my second daughter entered university.

"PC's computing power is too poor"

My second daughter will now need to perform complex calculations of structural dynamics systems on a computer, so a computer that can do word processing, spreadsheets, and telework is not going to cut it.

The reason why I bought an 880,000 yen computer for personal use when I was a student was because I wanted to occupy a computer (at that time, computers were expensive and not something that each person could have) and also because the calculation power was poor.

(At any rate, today's Rasberry PI has more computing power than the mainframe in the university computing center at the time, but such comparisons are meaningless.)

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This time, my second daughter asked me to select a computer.

(1) Specifications to be able to calculate complex structural dynamic systems.

(2) Must be a notebook PC

When I heard this much, I thought that this was the only "gaming machine" that I could find, and when I told my second daughter the results of my selection, she told me of an additional requirement.

(3) It should be small enough to carry around with you, as it will be used for lectures at the university.

This (3) requirement broke my estimate.

If she is trying to get computational power, desktops are the cheapest and easiest way to go.

However, Note PC have poor computing power. It has to be a heavy laptop (e.g. gaming machine).

This is a complete trade-off.

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I've come to the conclusion that

(1) Thinking about the PC you will buy when you need to calculate structural dynamics in earnest.

(2) Buying a PC that has been owned by several friends and has a good reputation.

This was such a "backward-looking policy"

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Assentation -- Whether it is a PC, OS, application, or development language, this is the most important policy.

Why does GAFA reign as the unchallenged platformer?

It's simple.

This is because of the large number of users.

The other day,

I wrote that I was watching the movie "Yukio Mishima vs. the University of Tokyo Zenkyoto: 50 Years of Truth" on Amazon Prime.

So, I'm getting interested in "Mishima literature", but before I watched the movie whose title is

"11.25 The Day of Self-Determination: Yukio Mishima and the Youth"

so,

"All at once, I felt blank"

I think, "I don't need any extra direction, just the documentary footage and narration".

I found out that "United Red Army: The Road to Asama-Sanso" was also directed by the same director, so I decided not to watch it.

I know about the Asama-Sanso incident to the extent that every time I go home, I look through the book "United Red Army of Soldiers" that I keep on my parents' bookshelf. That's why I think, "I would be very angry if it was staged in a strange way.

Well, everyone has their own preferences.

It just wasn't right for me.

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I need your help.

I have the movie "The Tokyo Trials" on DVD, so if there are any films about Yukio Mishima or the United Red Army that have been edited for documentary footage like "The Tokyo Trials," please let me know.

Also, I would like to ask for the ones in which the All-Academic Congress, the National Committee of the Revolutionary Communist League, the Revolutionary Communist League of Japan, the Revolutionary Marxist Faction, the Revolutionary Workers' Association, etc.

Well, you know, the theme is "internal strife".

I'd like to do some research, and I'd like to get a quick grasp of the general feeling of these exercises from the video.

Disposing of the materials (sometimes containing personal information) used for column reviews and other documentation is a vexing problem.

In the past, I used to burn these materials in my yard using paint cans, but recently I have stopped, considering the inconvenience to our neighbors.

(I looked it up and it seems that it is not "absolutely prohibited" (Law Concerning Waste Disposal and Public Cleansing, Article 16-2, Paragraph 3))

Well, incineration is a hassle.

So, recently, I have been using the "two trash cans" method of disposal.

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It's as simple as this: tear up the documents that have served their purpose as finely as possible on the spot, by hand, and throw what's left in your left hand into the left trash can, and what's left in your right hand into the right trash can.

And the garbage from those garbage cans is put out on separate garbage collection days.

For credit cards, it is necessary to cut the IC chip, name, and card number with scissors multiple times.

(For hard disks, etc., after physical formatting, I remove them from the computer, tread them down with car tires, and then dispose of them in non-combustible garbage.)

Well, even this may be a comfort. In the first place, even if you go through the garbage of the Ebata family, you won't find much confidential information.

I think it's better to stop the garbage collection(*) of the Ebata family.

(*)One of the IT terms.

I have bought all the comic books at the same time several times.

It's usually a birthday present for my daughters.

"Banana fish"

"The Life of Professor Yanagisawa, Genius"

"Him and Her situation"

And, well, the list goes on and on.

I am not so sure that I like all of those comics that I have purchased.

For example, "Him and Her situation" was well received by my family, except for me.

However, I had seen Anno's anime "Him and Her situation", so I was expecting the positive feeling, and I could not accept the comics.

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For the past two years, I've been watching the anime Fruits Basket (2019).

Watching this anime broadcast, I found the new interpretation (creation) of the twelve zodiac stories in this comic so interesting that I am considering buying all the volumes at once.

I did some research and found some great stuff.

"30 million copies in circulation worldwide"

I think that this may become a classic work.

Lately, I've been unable to say "I'm not feeling well" easily.

Probably because it would be a big deal.

However, I've been stuck at work lately, which has caused me to have insomnia, and it's true that I'm not feeling well.

In the past, when this happened, I would report to my supervisor or leader, saying, "I'm sick at work, insomnia, slight fever, and not feeling well.

I once sent a text message to the office saying, "I couldn't walk straight when I woke up this morning, so I'm taking the morning off today".

I just reported it correctly.

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Currently, if I were to say that I am not feeling well, I would be the first to suspect a new coronavirus infection.

Well, I think that's right.

Rather, we need a society and a company that works on the premise of suspicion.

If I am suspected of having a new corona infection, I don't mind at all.

If I were to be discriminated against the infection, I'm going to expose the incident to the world with the real names of all the people involved.

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The tedious part is probably the follow-up communications and reports that are requested from all sides.

"I can't stand it when I'm sick and have to do more paperwork"

Therefore, my daily reports for the past year have continued to show "Health Status : Good".

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

Dancing Buzzword - Behind the Buzzword (12) STEM education(1)

Programming Education Shatter "Fear of AI" and "Illusion of the PC"?

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I once wrote a column about the results of a simple simulation of population estimation in Japan, and I received a comment that said, "I don't believe in computer simulation results".

I had no idea what this guy was talking about, but a few days later, I noticed that

"Oh, she thinks that the results of a computer simulation are used as 'hit' or 'not hit'"

By the way, persons (researchers, etc.) who can computer simulations, never believe that the result of their simulation results are future. I will assure that.

It's obvious.

This is because the unknown uncertainties of the future and their values are not known at this time.

This is because there is no way to run a simulation without setting up a hypothesis, such as, "What will happen if the same daily conditions continue for the next 100 days?"

If you can enter a value 100 days into the future in a simulator, then you don't need to do the simulation in the first place.

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As I said in this column, this is not an exaggeration or trivialization, but in the truest sense of the word, what the computer is doing is

"just pressing the keys on the calculator"

The only difference is that it is super high volume and super fast.

So the phrase "I don't believe in computer simulation results" was as incomprehensible to me as "I don't believe that 3 + 5 = 8" on a calculator".

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However, we know that the results of computer simulations can be delivered to some extent for an unknown future (even if uncertain future events exist).

It's better than a future you can't see at all.That's what computers and programs are all about.

Words like "believe" and "don't believe" appear in the simulation results. That's how little most of us understand computers and programs.

Because who says 'I believe in calculators' or 'I don't believe in calculators'?

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In this sense, I have high hopes for compulsory "programming education".

The computer is not a "future prediction machine", but a single bug in the program can produce totally messed up values.

A computer is not a "magic box".

You can see this immediately by writing your own simulation program.

If you experience programming in the Scratch language, even a child should be able to understand it.

Not to mention.

"There's no way that something like this (a program) can be made to surpass human intelligence"

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So...

I will continue to say

"If you can make something like that, go ahead and make it"

and

"Show me what you've actually made, and then show me your smug face"