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The Dysfunctional Communication Between Academia and Public
The American public has a long history of distrusting universities, but the congressional hearings at Harvard, MIT, and Penn State have unfortunately taken that distrust to new heights. The three presidents were criticized for their overly lawyerly and nerdy responses. It is also easy to see a source of distrust in this incident. The dominant…
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Learning to Smile
Years ago, when haze enveloped many cities in China, we wore N95 masks when we stayed outside. One problem I soon noticed was that we couldn’t see each other’s expressions on their faces when we wore the masks; if I smiled, others didn’t know it, and vice versa. A friend told me that in such…
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The Philosophy of World History: The Modern Age — A Hegelian Sequel
If Hegel lived today, how would he tell the story of world history in the last two hundred years? How do we use the basic principles of his philosophy of world history to write modern history? Here is my initial idea: The Contents: Introduction: Reason in the Modern History First Part: The Age of Modernization…
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How to Understand Intel CPU’s “Turbo Boost Power Time Window”?
This is the official description of the setting item, “Turbo Boost Power Time Window,” from XTU (Intel® Extreme Tuning Utility): The Time window over which the average CPU core power must be below the Turbo Boost Power Max.(PL1 Time) This setting item is not related to “Turbo Boost Short Power Max” for two reasons: 1)…