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A Korean-American served as an US Army officer in the Japanese-American units in WW2.

Young Oak Kim https://www.thenmusa.org/biographies/young-oak-kim/

Colonel 100th Infantry Battalion, 442d Regimental Combat Team, 31st Infantry Regiment

Berkeley has no legacy admission...

And only a few years later many of the survivors would be killed in WW1...

Abut 10 years ago, City of Los Angeles tried to ban engine-powered leaf blowers (driven by people tired of the noise pollution) but was reversed when local gardeners made a big stink about it.

Samsung moved most or all of their factories from China recently.

"Science is essentially what a few large donors or institutions or interest groups want to fund."

Quote from a disillusioned researcher.

Don't start your IT/tech career with AWS certification first.

- Instead, learn some scripting (bash, python). You will need to constantly work on improving this.

- Learn how to set up a Linux server and get a website going, from scratch. Even if you won't do it much in real life, it's helpful to know how it's done.

- Get at least AWS Associate cert.

- Find an employer/manager who will let you work with AWS in lab/production in real life.

One of the ways China managed to hack into America's F35 (or F22) fighter development program was listening into a conference call of various vendors discussing project status.

One big recommendation for all to watch "The social dilemma" on netflix also.

The social media apps on the phones are specifically agonized over, tested, and refined continuously to increase interaction, aka make users into addicts.

Foxconn = Taiwan

Samsung = South Korea

This reminds me of a post here before. I read someone here post how he got his initially unwilling teen son to learn how to code.

The dad tried to get him into learning to code but the son was uninterested

However after the son worked at a sandwich shop for 6 months earning minimum wage, the son came to dad asking for help with learning how to code.

I thought that was hilarious.

I know Hyundai Motor started shipping production model of fuel-cell truck in July 2020. They are planning to ship 1,600 hydrogen-powered Xcient trucks to customers by 2025.

https://www.autoblog.com/2020/07/08/hyundai-xcient-fuel-cell...

And then I ran into this article. https://www.autoblog.com/2020/08/13/nikola-hyundai-hydrogen-...

Trevor Milton, founder of Nikola Corp, said he would like to cooperate with Hyundai. He said he had twice made proposals to Hyundai that were rejected.

Theoretically one family could even get 2 starlink services if they really needed faster link. No physical line is used so I can totally see some people doing that if they really want to and can afford it.

Meanwhile, I read on this thread that UCSF admitted less Asians.

It was 40% last year. It's been now cut to 22%.

That is a gigantic shift of a demographic of a new medical school class. Within one year.

You sure about that? That number sounds so extreme that I have to see official source to believe it...

I didn't really see it as trashing but a real person running a real business in a real world, who just can't believe these young people who live in a fantasy world that is funded by VC.

South Korea is another example of fighting poverty that stopped and completely reversed deforestation.

Korean peninsula in general went through extreme deforestation under Japan, especially during the WW2 era and Korean War, as supply of coal was cut off from the civilian population and redirected to war effort by Japan and Korea. In order to get fuel supply that was needed to cook food and heat homes, local hills were cleared of trees by locals.

If you watch video footage of the Korean War 1950 - 53, the hills are completely devoid of trees. The trees are missing because they had all be cut down for fuel.

If you talk to any older Korean men who were teens up until mid 1960s, they all remember walking 1 - 2 hrs one way up into the hills to collect firewood, piled mountain high on their A-frames (in Korean, jigae).

Once South Korea started getting better off, they went to coal, oil, natural gas, and then electricity for fuel source.

The South Korean government "Korea Forest Service" ministry is completely focused on restoring the depleted forests. And they seem to have done reasonably well.

I also recommend asciinema.

A tutorial using asciinema in action.

https://asciinema.org/a/188659

You can't add voice into asciinema itself but a asciinema recording URL would be an excellent handout material (like powerpoint) to give to students. Your students can view Terminal action with very clear text, unlike videos where reading text can be difficult.

Even if you use other method for recording/delivering your voice/audio lecture, including Asciinema replay link would be a huge benefit to students.

I'm thinking why not move to Hawaii or a beach town 1hr - 2hr north or south of Santa Monica CA? Quality of life will improve vastly for those who can afford to do so.

I know friend of friend who went to Harvard Law like 15 years ago and she told me there is SO MUCH butt kissing going on there.

You'd think people who got that far would be confident enough to rely on their own skills/study to get ahead BUT even at that level, there is a lot of butt kissing to get ahead.

I also had a very sudden onset of a severe body ache around Feb 2020. I started having some pre-flu symptoms. And after one day, I started having a very severe body ace and it came so suddenly. I have never felt sudden onset of body ache from a flu/cold before.

I took a nap for 2 hrs or so and it fortunately went away almost immediately.

I know a family friend who were scheduled to go on a trip in early Feb 2020 but cancelled it because both had very severe flu symptom. This was an important trip (a road trip of few hrs to visit family) that had been scheduled weeks ago.

One of them to told me he had a meeting with a visitor from China who had mask on. And they think they might have had Covid-19 but no way to know until they get the antibody test.

And I did get my flu shot.

Knowing a few other mechanical engineers myself, finding a decent paying job as a mechanical engineer was nearly impossible. At least 10 - 15 years ago.

So the revelation from his story is that working as a bartender can bring in quite a bit of money due to high margin of alcohol and bigger tip.

Below case study of Covid-19 spreading in a call center in middle of Seoul is pretty illuminating.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/30/opinions/eye-opening-south-ko...

The case study covers infections in a 19-story mixed commercial-residential building. First case was reported on March 9, 2020. The office seating diagram provided in the article shows extended (10 min or 1hr not sure), very close proximity spacing physically is the main reason for the spread.

Note that this was a call center so people were sitting and talking without masks on for extended periods.

* On March 9, one day after the first cases were reported, the entire building was closed. Testing was performed almost immediately on 1,143 people (workers, residents and a few visitors) with rapid results available to those affected and the team working to control the situation. The testing showed that 97 people (8.5% of those occupying the building) were infected. Most of the cases were women in their 30s and almost all (94 of the 97) worked on the 11th floor of the building, in the call center.*

I counted colored seats in the diagram and found 84 people in the call center got infected.

I think NYC got hit particularly hard because of subway cars. Enclosed in nearly airtight space for 10 - 30 minutes at a time.

I heard a crazy theory from some foreign tourists visiting Vegas many years ago.

The story I heard is that Vegas hotels/casinos mix in small amount of certain gas/chemical in the circulating air that makes people not want to sleep, which makes people gamble more and spend more money.

Some crazy theories people have...

So I can see (as a non-expert) that the well ventilated casinos is the reason for low infection rate in Vegas.

NYC on the other hand has had the extremely highly infection rate because EVERYONE has to take subway and pretty sure there's not much air circulation in the subway cars...

Either way, I think not spending too much time indoors is the key to avoid covid-19. Unfortunately most all indoor space has recirculated, air-conditioned, stale air.

Edit: I personally think businesses that can leave windows open for fresh air will have lower chance of spreading Covid-19 than ones with barely functioning AC system with little air circulation.

I really appreciate Jeff's "Ansible for DevOps".

It's what got me going in using Ansible. I didn't even finish the book (due to lack of time) or know all the features in the book but I appreciate knowing Ansible whenever I use it.

And his book is the reason I started writing my own ebook. It will never be as good as his but it's been a great experience.

So I know (not personally) this guy named Ian McCollum. He's kind of well known on youtube, filming/writing/presenting on a topic that is personally very interesting to him.

He graduated from Purdue with a degree in mechanical engineer. But he didn't want to settle with a 9 to 5 job and a normal life, just to pay his bills. So instead he earned some extra small pile of money after college and set up a low cost life style in Arizona, with off grid house etc. And now he doesn't have to spend life in 9 to 5 job but instead travels around filming/interviewing/presenting on a passion project of his.

So how did he get that bit of enough extra money within 2 - 3 years (I think) after college to pay to get himself set up with that life style? He went to a bartender school and worked as a bartender. That earned him enough chunk of money that he could set up an off grid house in AZ and get on with his passion project.

If you listen to Ian McCollum presenting on his topic, you can tell he would've been a very good bartender. Calm, articulate, polite.

1. Googled "Korea University Medicine covid-19 papers" and found below 2 links. Professor Kim in video 1 and 2 is from Korea University.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.15.20036368v...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197122...

2. Also found below link on cnn.com

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/8/20-1274_article

Yah my quick search didn't return much on papers discussing false positives, viral RNA, or reinfection or recurrence. I'm guessing it's too new for formal papers.

I should've said doctors are busy treating patients and researchers are busy collecting data.

3. But I did find below article posted 12 hrs ago

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/coronavirus-so...

South Korean expert panel has concluded that dead virus fragments were the likely cause of more than 290 people in the country testing positive after recovery for coronavirus.

4. The 2 videos with subtitles can be consumed fast if you skip forward a few seconds at a time as you can read English subtitles. Commenters also posted helpful summaries so you can get to just the topic you are interested.

Have you watched the 3 interviews? I'm not picking a fight nor judging. Just curious. I called them interviews but really they are like lectures in my opinion. The doctors speak most of the time.

I'm not a doctor but I figure doctors are too busy collecting/digesting data to publish quality papers? Especially when new data is being generated at a fast rate?

There is an issue of many research papers covering Covid-19 not getting enough peer review before being made available to public and covered by news media.

Prof Kim's called this a "Thesis Pandemic", a flood of Covid-19 related research papers being put out by researchers that get covered by new media before they are peer reviewed. And apparently many of the papers are made public by the researchers without enough data to really back up their thesis.

Because the virus is so new, there is really not enough data. And the researchers are doing their best to help with finding treatment, but apparently many of the papers are not peer reviewed enough before being picked out by news media to be covered.

I did google and found a few reading material below but not sure if it's what you are looking for.

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/6/20-0251_article

To learn more about coronavirus, treatment and vaccine development from the perspective of doctors in S. Korea, try watching these interviews in order. Each is about 30 - 50 min long. I posted the links and the dates they were uploaded. The videos are excellent because the doctors are not interrupted with questions.

1) 2020.03.27

1st interview with Professor Kim, leading expert on coronavirus in Korea. In Korean with excellent English subtitles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAk7aX5hksU

2) 2020.04.14

2nd interview with Professor Kim, leading expert on coronavirus in Korea. In Korean with excellent English subtitles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwoNP9QWr4Y&t=1081s

3) 2020.04.25

Interview with the Director General of the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) about COVID-19 Vaccine. It's in English.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cYWd0N8nO4&t=120s

4) Note in the interview with Prof Kim uploaded on 2020.04.14, they were still not sure if a recovered patient testing positive again was due to reactivation/reinfection or not. They were still trying to confirm it as of 2020.04.14.

But it seems the yna.co.kr article posted on 2020.04.29 confirms recovered coronavirus patients may have tested positive again due to traces of virus fragments that have been inactivated.

5) I'm hoping the Youtube channel will upload another interview with Prof Kim about covid-19 soon.

I would think many professors will ask for remote teaching option even if campuses reopen? With office hours held outdoors?

I am a product of University of California system and many of my lower level classes had hundreds or students. I barely got to see the professor up close so maybe this remote video teaching may even been a better option. :)