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My Latest Post on
Threads (April 23, 2024):
I'm a big fan of railroads since I was a child (and was in China). The chance of a train ride back then
(and back there) was quite rare, in fact rare enough to excite me into sleeplessness the night before the ride.
I'm an even bigger fan of HIGH-SPEED railroads but ironically had even less of a chance, in fact ZERO chance, for
a ride in the otherwise considered technologically advanced United States. I was therefore very happy to
know that Brightline West, a high-speed rail route from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, broke ground yesterday.
Brightline West was set to be completed in 2028 (surprisingly speedy in US standard).
Though I'm not naïve enough to count on the planned completion date for
so large a project, as California High-Speed Rail has notoriously demonstrated that a completion date can
"year by year recedes before us" like in one of the ending sentences of The Great Gatsby.
But nowadays, Brightline is perhaps the only US railroad company that has actual success stories in railroad
construction. So fingers crossed!
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I was born in Hangzhou ‒ a tourist city in east China ‒ and had my early educations there.
I went to Shanghai for college study in 1991. After then, I entered the Physics Department of
Columbia University and obtained a Ph.D degree in May 2000.
This is the 4.0 version of my homepage, it works with all
major browsers that support CSS, JavaScript and
UTF-8
character encoding.
Those who are curious about previous versions can take a look at some dynamic screenshots from version
1.0,
2.0 and
3.0. Among those old versions,
1.0 and 2.0 are IE oriented, you will need a version of IE (5.0+) to view some of the
VBScript and page transition effects.
This website is written mainly in Chinese. If you know Chinese, there's no need to follow
the roadmap here, you won't miss anything navigating through the main menu
on the top. If you don't know Chinese or just want to collectively check out all the
English or language neutral contents on this site, however, follow the links below.
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My posts on Threads:
2023.08 - 2023.12
2024.01 - 2024.03.
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A Star Trek Captain's Memoir is a collection of
thoughts and comments about Patrick Stewart's recent book: Making It So ‒ A Memoir.
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Roger Penrose and Black Holes is an introduction to
the history of black hole research (especially the works Penrose did that won half of the Nobel Prize in Physics
in 2020). This article, which I wrote for the journal AAPPS Bulletin, is the
first English article I published in a journal since graduation (about 20 years ago).
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A collection of photos I took during various trips can be found here
(the titles and captions are all in Chinese, but the images themselves ‒ as you know ‒ are language neutral).
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The research works I did at Columbia University are briefly described
here.
Read it at your own risk though, and be prepared to fall to sleep ...
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If you would like to see a more chronological description of a segment of my life,
here
is something to read. It is the non-technical (char* non-technical = "no formula";)
part of a technical diary I wrote in 1997.
Depending on your experience at the previous stop, feel free to skip this one.
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Online Sudoku Solver is a
little web tool I wrote for solving Sudoku.
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Simple Arithmetic Web Quiz is a
web page I wrote for kids (my 7 year old daughter in particular) to practice simple arithmetics.
If you have kids in similar age, or ‒ in the almost impossible senario ‒ if you yourself are a kid,
feel free to use it.
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OpenGL Tutorial
1,
2,
3 and
4
are the first four articles in a tutorial series I plan to write. The reason
I wrote my own tutorials is to overcome a problem I saw on existing textbooks/tutorials:
examples (sample code) are often unnecessarily complicated. In many cases, ridiculously long
examples are used to demonstrate trivially simple concepts. Such an over-complication is,
in my opinion, not only distracting, but may drive beginners away
from the tutorials (or even worse, from the whole subject).
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Sometimes I spend part of my spare time writing little programs.
EasyAddress
is one such toy, it is a unicode-based address book program, easy and intuitive to use.
EasyAddress stores data in XML format for interoperability and comes with an HTML export utility.
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In the very rare case if you are a Tcl/Tk programmer, please check out another program I wrote:
Tcl2Html.
This is an HTML converter for Tcl/Tk, and is probably the only such utility in the world
that comes with a graphical user interface (at least by the time I wrote it).
You are also welcome to check out an article I wrote:
Selected Topics in Tcl/Tk.
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I have also done websites other than my own homepage,
here is an example:
a website designed for GlobalTalk LLC (internal links disabled).
https://www.changhai.org/
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