Author: ErnieS

  • Welmoed

    On Friday, December 27, 2019, Welmoed called me down to tell Nienke and me something. She told that she had breast cancer that needed to be examined further before a treatment plan was drawn up. Shocking. On Monday, December 30, I make a Whatsapp group “Schmidtzijde” for my side of the family. We know a…

  • 为什么有3种语言

    因为该博客旨在帮助我理解是什么使我的大脑意识到自己的意识自我,所以我必须处理理解不同文化之间的界限的问题。 跨越有意识和无意识之间的界限可能与翻译有关。 与一名中国博士生一起工作时,我遇到了两个问题。 我们的语言是如此不同,以至于我们表达思想结构的方式有时是不兼容的,这意味着(i)对于英语出版物,在这种情况下,中国的思维方式必须被英语化。 对于合作(ii),必须将两种思维方式都驯化。 我想在撰写博客文章时使用Google翻译(例如来回)来模拟此讨论过程。只要有时间,我都会寻找一种方法,用我知道Google可以进行可接受的翻译的语言来表达我想传达的内容。这样,语言思维上的差异可能会变得明显。除了中文(我一点都不知道,我的中文是google-translate Chinese)之外,我还包括英文,因为相同的论点适用于荷兰语-英语的归化过程。除了在文学质量方面具有不可预测的副作用外,该博客的内容还可以使英语,汉语和荷兰语为母语的人访问。

  • Why 3 languages

    Because the blog is meant to help me understand what makes my brain aware of what my conscious self is, I have to deal with the problem of understanding the boundaries between different cultures. Crossing the border between the conscious and the unconscious can be related to translation. During the supervision of a Chinese Ph.D.…

  • 一个食谱

    斯奈德斯(A.L. Snijders)是一位不循规蹈矩的人,他在2010年获得了康斯坦丁·惠更斯奖。他写了很短的故事,长约220个单词,并且在与主持人尼尔斯·海特威斯(Niels Heithuis)简短交谈后,每个星期日早晨在广播中读了其中一个故事。 2020年1月5日,他们讨论了一个技巧。在理解方面,作者可以依靠他的读者。 Snijders曾经尝试过:在一个特殊的场合,他为一个自己不认识的人写了一个短篇小说,从而将短语粘在一起(不是随机的,而是脱离上下文)。尽管Snijders没看过故事,但成功了。观众看到了一个故事并喜欢它。 Snijders对Heithuis说,我想重复这个技巧,然后阅读结果。 故事始于某人沿着河边漫步,他惊讶地看到西班牙的猛禽。 他们使他想起了他在1970年代的童年时代,当时他在西班牙,佛朗哥仍在控制之中,警察对此感到恐惧。 他在那里找到了西班牙狗。 它随处可见,即使他去游泳或上学也是如此。 狗被禁止进入游泳池,因此游泳练习被转移到河里。 不允许狗进入学校,但是他的父亲发现校长确实还是带着自己的狗去上学。 关于此事,他说:席丽特·乔维·非丽丝·博维。 只有他的母亲知道拉丁语。 她接受父亲作为伴侣,因为父亲在自行车棚里为她公开战斗。 最终,她的父亲离开了她与西班牙的阿拉伯公主再婚。 当被问及时,这位母亲解释说,有时有必要从乌托邦的角度看待现实。 诀窍是模型,可以模拟的受控方法。 拿一个“作者”和一组随机的短语,并在偶尔的帮助下,粘贴经受“作者”考验的句子。 当故事长约220个单词时,最后一句话在那里。 (但正如Niels Heithuis指出的那样长,该方法确定读者可以处理的内容的长度)。 可以通过检查读者对所得故事的意见来测试该模型。

  • A Trick

    A.L. Snijders is a nonconformist author who won the Constantijn Huijgens Prize in 2010. He writes very short stories, about 220 words long, and reads one of them on the radio every Sunday morning, after a short conversation with presenter Niels Heithuis. On January 5, 2020, they discussed a trick. The writer can count on…

  • My Wallpaper

    Somewhere in 2017, I guess, I got a photograph by Kunbei Zhang which I adopted as wallpaper on my notebook and phone. It is not quite clear to me why the photograph is sufficiently intriguing to adopt it as the picture I see several times every day. So when I realized that I had it…

  • 3/1/2020, Trump’s Tweets

    On Friday the 3d of January 2020 Trump ordered, without informing/consulting allies or heavyweight domestic politicians, a direct drone attack on Baghdad airport, killing Qassem Suleimani when he returned from visiting Beirut. Suleimani was Iran’s second in command. I attach a list of President Trump’s tweets during 3-9 January. It is harvested from http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com/ It…

  • Meshes: wheels, trees, buses and clusters

    One way to look at the jumble of posts in this blog is like a messy network: a group of observations and insights (the nodes) that, it often seems, are connected randomly. That tangle network is (as I imagine) being represented and updated somewhere in my brain. From there it offers stories to my consciousness…

  • The team and the reason

    One reason to start this blog is the overwhelming jumble that I experience as a 74 year old when I try to grasp the world around me. The image that arises is a thing that grows incrementally with the incorporation of new observations and insights. That thing is my idea of the world. It has…