聯大 2758 號決議

報導者 The Reporter，中國的「台灣地位」輿論戰：聯大2758號決議 = 台灣是中國一部分嗎？

如何選填大學志願

緣起：朋友念南一中理組的兒子要念大學，詢問我的意見，所以才準備了此檔案的大綱 (電子檔)。

聽到我描述 (相關) 電子產品中需要的機構設計和熱流問題，覺得挺有趣的。後來，他選擇了成大機械系。念完 6 年和尚學校的他，聯誼變成一個非常重要的考量因素。

上課內容 (Teaching)

許志華，中原大學，電機資訊學院，工業與系統工程學系

• 2025 秋 (Fall) 
• Please use the school's MS team account for online sessions. 
• Login Account: 學號@o365st.cycu.edu.tw, student_ID@o365st.cycu.edu.tw
• Please use browser-based login instead of the application program to avoid login problems.
• Please be considerate/polite, and show up only during the office hours of a course. The students in the lab need quiet time for their studies and research.
• Email: 
• If you have further questions, please email the TA. (cc (副本) teacher: chhsu135 at Gmail)
• TA will handle your questions or concerns. TA will discuss with me if she/he cannot resolve the issues.
• 作業研究 (上)，工業三丙
• 登記，課前預習和每週進度
• 助教：蔡豐安 (Frank) (email: ann3866631 at Gmail)，呂苑馳 (Lucas) (email:  lcc11301108 at Gmail)
• 辦公室時間：莊敬 302，()   pm
• 學習數學的四個層次
• 工業工程總結實踐，工業四丙
• 小組作業 (登記)
• 助教：朱品穎 (Pollie) (email: a0973634180 at Gmail)
• 機器學習，碩專
• 登記，(課前預習和) 每週進度 
• 助教趙振宇 (Jeff) (email: zz2347605 at Gmail)
• 辦公室時間：莊敬 302，辦公室時間 ()   pm

• 中原隨筆 (My days at CYCU)
• 翻轉教室 (Flipped classroom)：工業系 許某教授，什麼是『大學生』
• 課程組員互評表 (Evaluation form for team members)
• Deadline: the day for the last class meeting time
• Default: If no one answers, everyone will get the same score for project participation.  If only 1 person fills in the form, we will use that as the group score for project participation.
• The best way to contact me (email):  chhsu135 AT gmail DOT com (主旨：修課名稱和班級，學號，姓名) (Subject: Class, student ID, Name)

歲月靜好

參加了數百次的系務會議，針對各種大大小小的提案和投票，每位老師都會拿到紙本說明，由主持人或系助理先朗讀條文內容，讓每位老師表達不同的看法和意見，再投票。有時候，遇到爭論不休的條文，一時之間老師們找不到共識，也不會強行表決；會議主席會裁決，再找時間討論。這就是民主的程序。

也曾擔任兩年的校預算委員會委員，每學期開會十多次，都會邀請提案的單位前來說明。因為年度預算有限，頂多是刪減預算，從來沒有將預算刪成負數。

台灣為什麼重要？

Shelley Rigger, Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island, Global Powerhouse

姚睿譯，台灣為什麼重要？美國兩岸研究權威寫給全美國人的台灣觀察報告

台灣漢光演習五大看點

蔣宜婷，台灣「漢光演習」五大看點：動員創新高、超市首度納入「持久戰」部署，BBC中文記者，2025年7月9日

Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures

Cynthia Rudin, Leo Breiman, the Rashomon Effect, and the Occam Dilemma, arXiv:2507.03884, 2025.

In the famous “Two Cultures” paper, Leo Breiman provided a visionary perspective on the cultures of “data models” (modeling with consideration of data generation) versus “algorithmic models” (vanilla machine learning models). I provide a modern perspective on these two approaches. One of Breiman’s key arguments against data models is what he called the “Rashomon Effect,” which is the existence of many different-but-equally-good models. The Rashomon Effect implies that data modelers would not be able to determine which model generated the data. Conversely, one of his core advantages in favor of data models is simplicity, as he claimed there exists an “Occam Dilemma,” i.e., an accuracy-simplicity tradeoff, where algorithmic models must be complex in order to be accurate. After 25 years of more powerful computers, it has become clear that this claim is not generally true, in that algorithmic models do not need to be complex to be accurate; however, there are nuances that help explain Breiman’s logic, specifically, that by “simple,” he appears to consider only linear models or unoptimized decision trees. Interestingly, the Rashomon Effect is a key tool in proving the nullification of the Occam Dilemma. To his credit though, Breiman did not have the benefit of modern computers, with which my observations are much easier to make.

The Batch by A. Ng

weekly summary of AI and more by a. Ng. Free subscription and enjoy reading/Listening like I  do.

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• issue 309: Inside Walmart’s AI App Factory (Walmart is no. 1 company in revenue.
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• Large scale system: The system aggregates data generated by 240 million customers and 2 million store personnel, feeding applications that streamline operations among 100,000 suppliers, 150 distributors, and 10,000 retail venues in 19 countries.

雷鋒網，年終收藏，吳恩達盤點 2020 年度 AI 熱門事件，2020 年 12 月 31 日

什麼是『大學生』

(25/6/30) 今晚，真的是開眼界。讓我體驗到人生的另一個高點。

睡不著，想一下今晚和研究生討論的方法，第 16 章 Sampling Plans 的確是我們需要的。他是『大學生』。

(25/7/1) 2:30 am 還沒睡意，來寫部落格。

「工業系 許某教授」和同學的「道歉」

Dcard: 6 月 27 日 14:25

奉勸各位工業系學弟妹 遠離許某教授（相信大家已經知道是誰了） 

成績不公開 課也不上叫大家看影片 (1)

影片的音質我還以為在聽什麼考古檔案  

更扯的是 有時候影片還沒拍到 自己花10分鐘在台上講不知道什麼鬼 就要大家寫心得出來 請問學生會通靈是不是 

能退選就退選 能停修就停修 免得影響那些想出國 推甄的好學生 

自己爛就算了 還要拖別人下水 什麼心態啊  

由衷希望系上可以把他調走 好不容易新進那麼多老師了

一些常聽的 Podcast 節目和培養英文聽力的方法

一些常聽的 Podcast 節目 (*)，適合坐車、(讓眼睛) 休息、睡前、或運動時聽

• Acquired: 
• Google search: Stories about its technology and business model (new)
• How ARM Became The World’s Default Chip Architecture (with ARM CEO Rene Haas)
• The Complete History & Strategy of Microsoft: Vol. I, Vol. II 
• Renaissance Technologies: The best-performing investment firm of all time. A book. The hosts even talk about the hidden Markov process!
• TSMC Founder Morris Chang
• American Public Media: Marketplace
• Asianometry (new): Global Semiconductor Issues, Semiconductor "Course", TSMC Analysis
  

工業工程總結實踐

建議

作業與資訊 (Homework and Information)

服務和計畫 (Service and projects)

政府計畫 (Government project)

• 國科會，公平最佳決策樹和其應用 (Fair and Optimal Decision Tree and Its Applications)，主持人 (PI)，114年度 (2025/8 - 2026/7)

產學合作 (Industry-Academia Cooperation)

• 金屬工業研究發展中心 (Metal Industries Research & Development Centre)，最佳化決策於工站排程應用之研究 (Optimal decision-making in work station scheduling) (3)，主持人 (PI)，2024

Some books and information on machine learning and AI

General introduction (without math)

• 簡禎富，工業3.5：台灣企業邁向智慧製造與數位決策的戰略，天下雜誌，2019
• Alex J. Gutman and Jordan Goldmeier, Becoming a Data Head: How to Think, Speak, and Understand Data Science, Statistics, and Machine Learning, Wiley, 2021.

Business Analytics Laboratory (商業分析實驗室)

(News) 國科會114年度 【 公平最佳決策樹和其應用 】計畫通過

(News) 恭喜庭煜 (Angus)，順利完成論文口試 (實驗室有外籍生，自動使用全英)

(News) 恭喜豐安和苑馳，工業系設施規劃學科競賽特優

(News) 恭喜豐安，工業系作業研究學科競賽優等

(News) 庭煜 (Angus) will continue his PhD study in 2025 Fall.

(News) 恭喜寶樟，推甄上台大工業工程學研究所

If you are interested in operations research, machine learning, data science, and its real-world applications (in supply chain, business, smart manufacturing, etc.), please email me your resume and transcript to schedule a meeting or online chat. Please refer to this blog for more details about your resume.

• Key infor: Guides for students,   Tips for the final project and your thesis
• Meeting: Group meeting,  Meeting schedule
• Further infor: Optimization,  Machine learning and AI

看不見的國家 (Invisible Nation)

𝟔.𝟏𝟑《看不見的國家》Invisible Nation 正式預告｜𝟔.𝟏𝟑 全國上映

 

中原隨筆 (My days at CYCU)

在台南住了20幾年，因為種種因素，來到中原大學任教。懷念台南的好天氣、上下班不太塞車、和美食。秉持共好的精神，紀錄我在中原的所見所聞。

• 商業分析實驗室 (Business Analytics Laboratory)：指引 (Guides)，論文報告 (Group meeting)
• 翻轉教室 (Flipped classroom)：工業系 許某教授，什麼是『大學生』
• Feel stressed (壓力山大) about your graduate studies?，快樂和健康地活著，壓力管理
• 工業系必修 (應用和產業知識)：微積分 (計算螺絲的體積)，機率與統計，電路和電子學，線性代數，作業研究 (含最佳化)，學習數學的四個層次，首頁右側的標籤有更多的資訊
• 作業研究：學科競賽，期末報告，到高中的介紹 (提問)，最差和最佳的應用場景，進一步的資訊
• Some books and information on machine learning and AI
• AI 時代的數學基礎：微積分，機率與統計，線性代數，作業研究 (含最佳化)。
• 暑期實習 (new)
• 學習：學習動力與方向 (1, 2)，態度與方法，聽不懂演講時怎麼辦，上台報告的方法與建議，專題和論文的製作與報告 (tips for the final project and your thesis)，國科會大專學生研究計畫，如何準備研究所，預備研究生 (4 + 1) (包含資料科學相關研究所和職涯準備)
• Some information and papers related to the seminar
• 培養思辨能力
• 為什麼工 (資) 管的課程看起來很雜？
• 機器學習和作業研究的奇妙結合  (最後一頁：天賦或努力)  
• 李芳齡譯，心態致勝：全新成功心理學 (Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success)

世界經濟論壇 2025 年未來就業報告

World Economic Forum, The Future of Jobs Report 2025,  7 January 2025.

Technological change, geoeconomic fragmentation, economic uncertainty, demographic shifts and the green transition – individually and in combination are among the major drivers expected to shape and transform the global labour market by 2030. The Future of Jobs Report 2025 brings together the perspective of over 1,000 leading global employers—collectively representing more than 14 million workers across 22 industry clusters and 55 economies from around the world—to examine how these macrotrends impact jobs and skills, and the workforce transformation strategies employers plan to embark on in response, across the 2025 to 2030 timeframe.

張國鈞、張曉琪、張艾琦，2025年WEF未來工作報告，國科會科技發展觀測平台，2025/04/22

Guides for students in Business Analytics Laboratory (商業分析實驗室學生指引)

Knowledge to master for a better foundation (and future)

Tools and general: 

• Antonio Torralba, Phillip Isola, and William Freeman, Foundations of Computer Vision, The MIT Press, 2024. (On Research, Writing and Speaking) (new)
• Takeo Kanade, Think Like an Amateur, Do As an Expert (new)
• AI in education: Geoffrey Hinton’s and Yann LeCun’s vision of the future, The Buzz Business, 2023. 
• The role of AI in education extends to fostering creativity and critical thinking.
• Another significant impact of AI in education is its potential to democratize access to quality learning.

Foundations of Computer Vision

Antonio Torralba, Phillip Isola, and William Freeman, Foundations of Computer Vision, The MIT Press, 2024.

作者是三位 MIT 的教授。如果你想了解電腦視覺 (Computer vision) 相關研究，甚至機器學習、研究方法，大力推荐。我有空就翻一下，增加對整個領域的了解，每次都有驚喜，很神奇的書。例如

工業系作業研究學科競賽

2024 評審結語

• 楊素霞學姐：
• You did a wonderful job. 
• How to solve a practical problem and its formulation. 
• Clear conclusions so that non-technical persons or bosses could understand. 
• OR is widely used in every domain and aspect of industry. 
• 謝建新學長：
• OR is the core competence of IE. 
• Know how to use AI tools. 

李竺芯與舊愛新歡

【將進酒】- 李白

Think Like an Amateur, Do As an Expert

作者：金出武雄，譯者：鄭舜瓏，像外行一樣思考，像專家一樣實踐：成功解決問題的高階技術，遠流

Jitendra S. Mudhol, Think Like an Amateur, Do As an Expert: Lessons from a Career in Computer Vision, CollaMeta, May 17, 2019. (video)

Reinforcement learning is enough to reach general AI

David Silver, Satinder Singh, Doina Precup, and Richard S. Sutton, Reward is enough, Artificial Intelligence, Volume 299, October 2021, 103535.

In this article we hypothesise that intelligence, and its associated abilities, can be understood as subserving the maximisation of reward. Accordingly, reward is enough to drive behaviour that exhibits abilities studied in natural and artificial intelligence, including knowledge, learning, perception, social intelligence, language, generalisation and imitation. This is in contrast to the view that specialised problem formulations are needed for each ability, based on other signals or objectives. Furthermore, we suggest that agents that learn through trial and error experience to maximise reward could learn behaviour that exhibits most if not all of these abilities, and therefore that powerful reinforcement learning agents could constitute a solution to artificial general intelligence.

Summarized AI information from IEEE Spectrum

Eliza Strickland, 12 Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2025 Stanford’s AI Index tracks performance, investment, public opinion, and more, IEEE Spectrum, 07 Apr 2025

• Stanford HAI, The 2025 AI Index Report

Eliza Strickland, The Top 10 AI Stories of 2024, IEEE Spectrum, 31 Dec 2024.

Yearly summarization of Google AI research coauthored by Jeff Dean and more

Jeff Dean (google scholar)

葉春蓮老師

 莊三修 (花蓮縣前教育處長)，葉霸｜不可思議的存在，花蓮教育界的傳奇—葉春蓮老師！，東台灣新聞網，2025/3/4

 

到高中介紹作業研究 (和適性教育、選填大學志願)

臺北市立陽明高級中學，作業研究，2023/11/30。適性教育、AI 和作業研究，2024/2/22。 (簽到和提問)

學生問題之回答

張忠謀自傳 (下冊)

 張忠謀，《張忠謀自傳》下冊 (1964-2018)，天下，2024 

 「下冊」的第一篇「德儀篇」占全書三分之一篇幅，敘述我自 27 歲至 52 歲黃金年齡的崛起及衰退。德儀時期也是我最為熱情澎湃的年代。德儀讓我「獨上高樓，望盡天涯路」；為此，我無比地感激。但是，它對我的培植也激發了我要登上德儀顛峰的雄心。但是，這雄心是無法實現的；不說別的，只看 1970 年代美國德克薩斯州的客觀環境，就可斷定我的雄心很難很難實現。但是我的痴心，居然使我「明知不可為」的情況下，還在德儀多滯留了 5、6 年，後來連婚姻都賠上了。現在回想，那 5、6 年是多麼絕望的 5、6 年！

Some information and papers related to the seminar

(4/9/2025) 許志華 (The original speaker needs to take care of emergency affairs.)

• Dimitris Bertsimas and Michael Lingzhi Li, Scalable holistic linear regression, Operations Research Letters, Volume 48, Issue 3, May 2020, Pages 203-208.
• We could not reproduce their results in the paper, so I asked Prof. Li for his code. He told me he finished the paper as a course project (MIT style?!😂), and the codes were stored on another obsolete hard drive. 
  

Optimization in Fusion Energy

Raphael Rosen, The 10-Second Algorithm That Could Unlock Fusion Energy, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, March 16, 2025.

QUADCOIL is a groundbreaking computer code that simplifies the design of stellarator magnets, ensuring plasma shapes remain practical for real-world construction.

Unlike traditional methods, it rapidly predicts magnet complexity, saving time and effort. By integrating engineering constraints early, QUADCOIL helps streamline the path to cost-effective fusion energy.

電路和電子學的產業知識

工業與系統工程學系隸屬於電機資訊學院，所以系上同學們都要修習電路學和電子學相關的課程。在電機系，這些是非常重要的基礎知識；而且，從 IC 設計、晶圓代工、到封裝測試，台灣有許多世界級的領導廠商，所以，值得同學們好好地學習相關的知識。更多資訊。

TaiwanPlus Docs, Inside Micron Taiwan’s Semiconductor Factory (美國美光科技在台灣的工廠，稱為外國直接投資 (Foreign direct investment, FDI))

以下介紹一些科普和整體產業的書籍和影片，希望可以增加同學們的學習動機，並且增加職涯發展的機會：

台積電建廠的選擇

 Yale Engineering Dean's Invited Speaker Series featuring C.C. Wei (魏哲家), CEO, TSMC, 2023/11/15

2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award

ACM A.M. Turing Award Honors Two Researchers Who Led the Development of Cornerstone AI Technology: Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton Recognized as Pioneers of Reinforcement Learning, New York, NY, March 5, 2025

2024 Franz Edelman Award

2024 Edelman Competition (video, special issue, INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics)

Pierre Pinson, Mikkel Bjørn, Simon Kristiansen, Claus B. Nielsen, Lasse Janerka, Jesper Skovgaard, Kristian Durhuus (2025) Data-Driven at Sea: Forecasting and Revenue Management at Molslinjen. INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics 55(1):5-21. https://doi.org/10.1287/inte.2024.0177 (2024 Franz Edelman Award Winner) (Keywords: ferry operations, demand forecasting, revenue management, machine learning  (by XGBoost))

價值戰爭

 作者：朱敬一/ 羅昌發/ 李柏青/ 林建志，譯者：許瑞宋，價值戰爭: 極權中國與民主陣營的終極經濟衝突，衛城出版，2023 

美中經濟衝突的根源是什麼？

經貿往來為什麼無法造就民主國家與專制國家的穩定合作？

何以市場理性無法擱置自由與集權的對峙？

AI Alignment

Articles: 

• Medha Bankhwal, Ankit Bisht, Michael Chui, Roger Roberts, and Ashley van Heteren, AI for social good: Improving lives and protecting the planet, McKinsey, 2024.
• Yoshua Bengio et al., Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress, Science, 20 May 2024, Vol 384, Issue 6698, pp. 842-845 (arXiv)
• Jiaming Ji et al., AI Alignment: A Comprehensive Survey, arXiv:2310.19852 (website)
• Jack Stilgoe, Technological risks are not the end of the world, Science, 18 Apr 2024, Vol 384, Issue 6693.