Why am I here? Is there any meaning in life, in love, in everything if there is an end soon? When I am not here to feel, does this world still exist? Of course, why not? But what is the difference between existence and non-existence? If there is no one watching, why is red different from green and isn’t “color” totally meaningless? OK, I convinced myself – everything is just in my mind. When I die, everything is gone with my mind. Wait, my friends and my family are still here. They are going to see the flowers’ color and to feel that I am gone. Are their existence and their love just my mind’s illusion as well? It can’t be because I know I am not an illusion after my friends died – I am still here watching the sun rise as before and knowing that my friends are gone.

This is really confusing.

Faith is a wonderful word that nobody is willing to admit lack of it. However, between faith and reasoning I can only choose the latter. If the god gives us the ability to reason, why should we ignore it and pretend that we cannot?

Is death scary? It seems what scares me more is the unpreparedness instead of death itself. On the other hand, if I have to live forever, that sounds more scary.

Life is beautiful, like flowers. But when they wither, isn’t it better just to fall into the earth and disappear?

Life is beautiful, like spring. But when it never comes back after autumn, what is the fun to be stuck in an eternal winter?

I heard a survey among a group of nurses or medical students who took care of cancer patients: what their preferred way to die is. The most chosen answer is cancer – because you have time to get yourself and your beloved ones ready instead of being taken by surprise.

Really, it is much better to have a happy and comfort day instead of miserable years.

google results for “吉州 西安”

1. 61.185.198.34:8000/showinfoxw.asp?newsid=935
   
2. 61.185.198.34:8000/MAININFOxw.asp?t_typeid=21&t_typeNAME=桃李芬芳

google results for “吉州 中国科技大学”

1. tsee.ustc.edu.cn/detail.php?siteid=687&tplset=deptc1&pid=690&catalogid=3291&postid=2891
2. sci.ustc.edu.cn/news.aspx?id=1899
3. 61.185.198.34:8000/showinfoxw.asp?newsid=935

1. ais.cs.memphis.edu/publications/
2. ais.cs.memphis.edu/papers/ais_bibliography.pdf
3. portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1068009.1068056
4. portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1143997.1144017
5. www.cs.memphis.edu/spring06/
6. www.cs.memphis.edu/~dasgupta/Students.html
7. zorro.cs.memphis.edu/~cswebadm/csweb/index.php?p=news
8. zorro.cs.memphis.edu/~cswebadm/csweb/index.php?p=news&t=20060716020014
9. ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=35623&arnumber=1688355&count=449&index=72 (this paper didn’t show up in other searches because “AIS” and “negative selection” are not in the title)
10. ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1330982
11. www.actapress.com/PDFViewer.aspx?paperId=21824
12. biorg.cis.fiu.edu/
13. www.cs.fiu.edu/~giri/CVJun04.pdf
14. www.cs.fiu.edu/~giri/BIP/
15. issrl.cs.memphis.edu/Seminar/
16. www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/gecco2002/gecco-2002-21.pdf
17. www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/gecco2002/gecco-2002-00.pdf
18. jmm.sgmjournals.org/cgi/content/full/53/7/679
19. jmm.sgmjournals.org/cgi/reprint/53/7/679.pdf
20. www.cs.wisc.edu/~dbbook/openAccess/secondEdition/dbbook2ed.errata1st.html
21. www.sigevo.org/gecco-2006/forms-docs/gecco-06-program.pdf
22. www.isgec.org/gecco-2005/paper-presentation.html
23. www.springerlink.com/index/FNUKHPPKDMC76KFK.pdf

This is the unfinished project of last November. I have to finish it.

1. portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1068009.1068056
2. portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1143997.1144017
3. www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/j/Ji:Zhou.html
4. www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/gecco/gecco2002.html
5. www.actapress.com/PDFViewer.aspx?paperId=21824
6. ais.cs.memphis.edu/publications/
7. ais.cs.memphis.edu/papers/ais/2005/ZhouASC2005.pdf
8. cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=17479999
9. ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1330982
10. ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/9256/29383/01330982.pdf
11. issrl.cs.memphis.edu/publication/allPublications.php
12. zorro.cs.memphis.edu/~cswebadm/csweb/index.php?p=news
13. zorro.cs.memphis.edu/~cswebadm/csweb/index.php?p=news&t=20060716020014
14. www.cs.memphis.edu/~dasgupta/pub-text-version.htm
15. www.cs.memphis.edu/spring06/
16. www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~psa/gecco06.htm
17. ppsn2006.raunvis.hi.is/proceedings/017.pdf
18. www.sigevo.org/gecco-2006/best-papers.html
19. www.sigevo.org/gecco-2006/forms-docs/gecco-06-program.pdf
20. www.sim.uni-hannover.de/~svs/publications/drozda06asim.pdf
21. www.sim.uni-hannover.de/~svs/publications/schaust06kuvs.pdf
22. deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=979469422&dok_var=d1&dok_ext=pdf&filename=979469422.pdf
23. www.isgec.org/gecco-2004/talk-schedule.html
24. www.isgec.org/gecco-2005/paper-presentation.html
25. www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu:8080/GECCO-2004/forms-docs/gecco%202004%20program%20final2.doc
26. www.logicalgenetics.com/paperbased/index.php
27. www.springerlink.com/index/0HCX5432GDUXCDNW.pdf
28. www.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/lehrstuehle/sik/publikationen/papers/2006_iwsos_pie/iwsos2006.pdf
29. www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/gecco2002/gecco-2002-00.pdf
30. www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/gecco2002/gecco-2002-27.pdf
31. www.sigmod.org/dblp/db/conf/gecco/gecco2005.html

And he who would not languish amongst men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would keep clean amongst men, must know how to wash himself even with dirty water.

In computer science, as in many other fields, we see too many people searching for a problem to apply their pet solution to.

- Stroustrup “The design and evolution of C++”

Here is a quote. Do you know which book by whom it is from?

” ‘ Rent an executive jet, ‘ may be a valid response to, ‘What is the best way of getting to Memphis?’ but to all but millionaires, it is not a very useful answer.”