Papers in AI:
D. Bertsimas and Y. Cui, Adaptive Forests For Classification, arXiv:2510.22991, 2025. (code)
王宏恩 (FB 貼文)
芝加哥經濟博士候選人一篇超酷的論文：《大學的隱藏學分 The Hidden Curriculum》。為何家裡第一個上大學的學生，表現往往不如家裡父母輩也有上過大學的學生 (GPA 低 6%、找到實習的機率低 3%)？
Peter F. Drucker, The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done, HarperCollins Publishers, January 3, 2006.
齊若蘭譯，杜拉克談高效能的5個習慣，遠流，2009
The measure of the executive, Peter F. Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done." This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked as well as avoiding what is unproductive. Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge may all be wasted in an executive job without the acquired habits of mind that mold them into results.
對我而言，煮飯是讓腦袋和眼睛休息的好方法、也可以半蹲切菜以活動筋骨。當然，用料也比較健康。
整個過程也和做研究是一樣的，如何修正火候和配料、觀察結果、再持續改善；菜色也要持續變化，想辦法創新。煎魚的時候，為了避免想要一直翻面的缺點，就設定鬧鐘，避免人為疏失。
最重要的是，夫人不斷地鼓勵與正向回饋，令人有成就感。
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。
Steven L. Brunton and J. Nathan Kutz, Data-Driven Science and Engineering: Machine Learning, Dynamical Systems, and Control, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press (pdf, amazing videos, connection with dynamical systems in engineering)
Dimitris Bertsimas and Georgios Margaritis, Robust and Adaptive Optimization under a Large Language Model Lens, arXiv:2501.00568. (new)
Be careful
Manny Li，Google公布AI提示萬用公式！掌握「21字黃金法則」：先穩80分基本功再求好，bnext，2025.08.05
Barbara Oakley, Accelerate Your Learning with ChatGPT, Coursera
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。
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.
(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。
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
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.
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.
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
2024 評審結語
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
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.
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
Eliza Strickland, The Top 10 AI Stories of 2024, IEEE Spectrum, 31 Dec 2024.
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！
(4/9/2025) 許志華 (The original speaker needs to take care of emergency affairs.)
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.
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))
Yale Engineering Dean's Invited Speaker Series featuring C.C. Wei (魏哲家), CEO, TSMC, 2023/11/15
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 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))
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？
