The Power of Computing (Skyping with Yuguang)
[9:13:47 PM] Peici: ha, just leave for some other thing
[9:14:07 PM] Peici: Roy left on April this year
[9:14:34 PM] Peici: and, I heard from others that, he left because he want to attend friend’s wedding, and plan to travel
[9:14:51 PM] Peici: (rofl) I reallu curious if it’s true
[9:25:49 PM] Yuguang Zhang: he got a job in shanghai, plans to buy a car, and a nice house
[9:26:38 PM] Peici: (inlove)wow, he could afford to buy house in Shanghai. This work should pay very much
[9:27:06 PM] Yuguang Zhang: 65*7/hour?
[9:27:18 PM] Peici: $?
[9:27:27 PM] Yuguang Zhang: that’s what rob paid him here
[9:27:32 PM] Yuguang Zhang: $65 an hour
[9:27:48 PM] Yuguang Zhang: mus tbe a joke
[9:28:08 PM] Yuguang Zhang: I think average is $32 canadian
[9:28:33 PM] Peici: I really want to earn morny in Toronto, and live in China
[9:28:46 PM] Yuguang Zhang: rob makes lots of jokes throughout the day
[9:29:03 PM] Yuguang Zhang: He has some serious moments
[9:29:04 PM] Peici: 😀
[9:29:11 PM] Peici: really? when?
[9:29:20 PM] Yuguang Zhang: likes to say the company’s doomed
[9:29:34 PM] Yuguang Zhang: failure on business strategy and management
[9:29:49 PM] Yuguang Zhang: website gets changed, and management wants changes undone
[9:30:34 PM] Peici: (rofl) seems Rob is some kind of prople who is directly
[9:30:51 PM] Yuguang Zhang: prople?
[9:30:59 PM] Peici: people (blush)
[9:31:18 PM] Peici: did Rob mention me anytime?
[9:31:32 PM] Yuguang Zhang: just tells me to get tasks from you
[9:31:37 PM] Peici: I feel I am a little nasty, always puch work
[9:31:47 PM] Peici: my boss always push me
[9:32:27 PM] Yuguang Zhang: I like challenges, as long as I can do them
[9:33:02 PM] Peici: (F) good boy
[9:33:20 PM] Yuguang Zhang: you are only 5 years older than me
[9:33:37 PM] Yuguang Zhang: reminds me of some school teachers
[9:34:16 PM] Peici: 😛 heihei, I love the feeling to call others little friend
[9:34:39 PM] Yuguang Zhang: have not been called “good boy” since grade 6
[9:34:58 PM] Yuguang Zhang: maybe “nice guy”, but more often “quiet”
[9:35:34 PM] Peici: (chuckle) “nice guy” heard like from girls
[9:35:47 PM] Yuguang Zhang: it’s actually true I’m a bit off-centered
[9:36:00 PM] Yuguang Zhang: I mean eccentric
[9:36:33 PM] Peici: really? nowadays, we need eccentric to make life funny
[9:37:25 PM] Yuguang Zhang: it may be because I know some things other people don’t
[9:37:53 PM] Peici: wow, which kind of things? :O
[9:38:13 PM] Yuguang Zhang: let’s talk about the philosophy behind this company
[9:38:47 PM] Yuguang Zhang: the software built here is used by AMD to do what?
[9:38:59 PM] Yuguang Zhang: chip design
[9:39:37 PM] Yuguang Zhang: they build better hardware that allows more complex software
[9:40:26 PM] Yuguang Zhang: and look at how much computation the average desktop could do only 1.5 years ago
[9:40:34 PM] Yuguang Zhang: half
[9:40:42 PM] Yuguang Zhang: so it doubles every 1.5 years
[9:40:53 PM] Yuguang Zhang: 4x in 3 years
[9:41:42 PM] Yuguang Zhang: 1 048 576 times in 30 years
[9:42:24 PM] Yuguang Zhang: don’t forget, the first computers started with a few bits
[9:43:19 PM] Yuguang Zhang: so you can imagine what is possible
[9:44:09 PM] Yuguang Zhang: in 30 years, a computer for $1000 will have as many bits as neurons in the brain
[9:44:18 PM] Yuguang Zhang: actually, 20
[9:45:24 PM] Yuguang Zhang: not to count supercomputers, a lot of tasks done by humans can be replaced
[9:49:04 PM] Yuguang Zhang: but on the other side, I know technology does not make life better
[9:49:21 PM] Yuguang Zhang: that’s the part other people don’t get
[9:51:05 PM] Peici: en, you really think deeper than many others
[9:51:31 PM] Peici: by the way, do you buy apple product?
[9:51:46 PM] Yuguang Zhang: no need, too expensive
[9:51:55 PM] Yuguang Zhang: I’m a student
[9:52:09 PM] Yuguang Zhang: I use Linux for a unix environment
[9:53:07 PM] Peici: really not easy to keep this mentality. I know young people like these apple things
[9:54:45 PM] Yuguang Zhang: a coherent hardware/software experience
[10:00:56 PM] Yuguang Zhang: talk to you next time
[10:02:50 PM] Peici:
good night[10:03:37 PM] Yuguang Zhang: bye (I can’t find the animation for this one)
[10:06:27 PM] Peici: (chuckle)(wave)
[10:07:09 PM] Yuguang Zhang: I guess this is why they left this one out