Category Archives: Reference

Filing cabinet for a digitized world.

A link between wealth and breeding – The best of all possible worlds?

It is commonly thought that the richer the country, the lower the birth rate. It is no longer true. The birth rate re-bounce to the replacement rate if the country is grow even richer! Zero population growth is the ideal.

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Sex laws – Unjust and ineffective

I think the the just punishment for sex offenders is castration. Cut it off, render them harmless and they can live everywhere they like

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Robots: The Expensive Way to Prepare Cheap Food

Watch out! Minimum wage unskilled workers, there robots out there to get your low paid jobs! I wonder what will the supporters of the minimum wage say; Be a Luddite and ban robots from fast food to protect the livelihood of unskilled workers?

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Seeing Is Not Believing

Here are some fundamental principles of digital photo forensic science, how to detect fake photo edited by photoshop.  The easiest trick is look at the light reflection in the eyes.

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The Rise and Fall of the Quants

The best career for Engineering, Math and Physics Ph.D. are in the wall street. Maybe studying hard science would become back in fashion again with the potential reward. It is just odd that those who want to earn quick money in finance have the will to earn a hard science Ph.D. in the first place.

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