注意，我对他们要干什么没有兴趣，重点在于下面这一段：

… The amount of the scholarship, which is paid as salary, is about DKK 380,000.00…

至于380000DKK=?RMB？可以自己google。

不平衡阿不平衡，征人提供飞机撞FIT。

Actually the title is a little misleading. I am not saying offering chaff to grain, but I am more on “Ye Gong Hao Long” things. These things come from time to time, I don’t know if all the people have poor abilities to express themselves, or they prefer to practice “lying” in their everyday life.

I’ve seen one wants to go to academia went to industry interns. What place do you want that on your CV? I’ve seen people loves one major went to another major, and both majors make similar salary. Why not just stay? Well, I admit I haven’t seen one loves one girl went to run after another. But I do see people love one but get marriage with another. What the hell is this world doing?

I don’t know if it is the nature of human, or just the things happening in China. But I really hate it.

Spring and summer were like a dream, thousands of things jumped up and down. It’s really hard to take decisions. And, I am always one that attracts things I can’t solve .

I visited The Place a second time.

And with some fancy dish.

Not so many people will go such a long distance for dinner. Luckily, I can still have some partners.

I also went to Badachu park once. It was an interesting riding. And it was a nice spring.

It was a time of wish. I still don’t have anything fixed in mind. But I know I need to keep trying. I can’t get off the boat without seeing land, or drowning.

Life is so hard, like hell.

In May song came and left. Life went more on the road of absurdity.

I stayed up a lot in the past year. Reasons are becoming more and more complicated.

I went to Mianyang, Sichuan in the summer. This community service thing is stupid, in general.

Chengdu didn’t impress me. It was boring, as I finally found out. They think they have everything. But after all they are cheating themselves.

We went to Beichuan on the way, there are not so many chances to go there now. The local officer complained to us about the stupid bureaucracy system and people.

It is a nice place, actually, if you don’t count natural disasters.

After a busy time in China Theory Week, I went to Fuchow.

The famous thing there is Mawei Shipyard. Can you see the ship?

I found it really like Shenyang. But the city closes later.

Luoxing Tower is another sign, but later I found it not so famous as it said to be.

I went pass by Wenzhou on the way back. It is nothing related to what it should be in my imagination.

Soon after that I went to FOCS 2009, which was hosted in Atlanta, US. It was deep fall.

Atlanta was in rain. It’s a strange weather.

I like the cakes in Narita Airport.

Beijing got its first snow very early. I was frozen. Busy time started and I am still dealing with all kinds of trouble matters, living in another dimension.

Not so much outings after that. It was winter. And I was trying all kinds of stupid staffs. Say frustrating, the word that could describe my situation best.

In the Xmas, I had a chance to go out. Not far away, just inside Beijing. The business district of Solana.

I’ve spent lots of time in imagination, for all the past things.

I still have to fight in the gloomy days. From where I can get the strength? C’est la vie.

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I was involved again in NOI this time — not as a contestant, but an (likely) observer. Due to the community service requirement of Tsinghua on issuing PhD degrees, I went to Mianyang, Sichuan this summer. Put aside the numerous critics on keeping this requirement since ‘77, I was “teaching” the high school kids something for NOI. I quote the “teaching” part because for olympic students, the usual way is to learn by themselves. But it seems that this school is different from the others, since the teacher here decides most of the process. Actually I think it is quite a bad idea, because the olympic problems change every year, and I am sure that none of the high school teacher has a PhD degree in CS, so who will expect one that does not understand why regular expression is equivalent to DFA to catch up?

Another thing impressed me is the problem is becoming harder and harder. Not in the sense they bring more ideas and sights into the contest, but they are trying to push technical parts further. I don’t like the idea of discussing whether being technical or conceptual, but I think being technical too much just make the contestants to recite algorithms, which was clearly a sign of “bad contest”.

Fortunately this year’s NOI is better than the last two years, which is focused on some simple ideas. But they are still kind of “dirty” if compared to this year’s CEOI problems. I was very astonished to see Mihai was on the committee of deciding the problems of CEOI. Generally speaking, CEOI has more neat problems. Paraphrasing from the teacher, “you will know what you are going to do when you see the problems”. I admit that the problem sets in China are more or less more on modeling part, but not on the algorithm part. And I think it was intentional because if they are too obvious, then some of the kids will spend their time sleeping in the contest . It is very easy to get problems everyone knows how to solve, or the problems that no one knows how to solve. But for the problems good for a contest, it is kind of hard to make. I have to say CEOI is better than NOI on this point, for they are trying to increase the internal difficulty of the problems, and we are trying to make the problem more obscure. Although they also suffer from the problem of getting too much complexity on formulated optimizations (like this), but more problems are good even for talking after dinner (like this).

By the way, this year’s IOI is in progress, which is located in Bulgaria.