{"id":756,"date":"2011-01-24T10:43:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T15:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/?p=756"},"modified":"2012-02-03T10:43:39","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T15:43:39","slug":"how-different-programs-view-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/how-different-programs-view-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"How Different Programs View Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/comic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-755\" title=\"comic\" src=\"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/comic-300x116.jpg\" alt=\"comic\" width=\"300\" height=\"116\" srcset=\"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/comic-300x116.jpg 300w, http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/comic-1024x396.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/comic.jpg 1061w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Point of views:<br \/>\n<strong>Engineering<\/strong> \u2013 nothing special here. Engineers know enough of science and chemistry to build a computer if civilization was destroyed. A common pitfall is not being able to control their thoughts. They rely on drinking to get a good night\u2019s sleep, maybe due to too much responsibility and stress. Many of them carry this behavior into work life. To illustrate, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lockergnome.com\/social\/2012\/01\/16\/what-its-really-like-to-work-at-google\/\">the Engineers at Google drink on the job<\/a>.<br \/>\n<strong>Computer Science<\/strong> \u2013 these guys run into more trouble with their computers than anybody else. Hence, the hammer is well deserved. The cutting edge of technology is more often the bleeding edge. It hurts.<br \/>\n<strong>Scientific<\/strong> \u2013 acids are the way to recycle computers. The guy must be an evil genius to come up with this method.<br \/>\n<strong>Religious<\/strong> \u2013 Note: the screen is glowing red. Use some water to put out the fire?<br \/>\n<strong>Drama<\/strong> \u2013 watch some movies, eat, or sleep? Can\u2019t decide which.<br \/>\n<strong>Philosophical<\/strong> \u2013 perhaps the most beautiful of all. Given a computer, philosopher might ask, what is real? Might I not be interacting with a computer program? Is my entire life a simulation? What parts of the mind is real? What am I? If the ego is all I am, is it not easily replicated?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Point of views: Engineering \u2013 nothing special here. Engineers know enough of science and chemistry to build a computer if civilization was destroyed. A common pitfall is not being able to control their thoughts. They rely on drinking to get a good night\u2019s sleep, maybe due to too much responsibility and stress. Many of them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,51],"tags":[112,113,93],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses","category-life","tag-philosophy","tag-simulation","tag-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}