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7月19日 Thank You – Alanis Morissette话说今晚和教主聊天，想起这首老歌。 how 'bout getting off these antibiotics thank you india how 'bout me not blaming you for everything thank you india the moment I let go of it was the moment how 'bout no longer being masochistic thank you india 7月18日 大家帮忙来鉴定一下今天看到一篇博文，传说是鲁豫同学的。大家来鉴定一下真伪。别说我too old……
7月13日 The Cost Conundrum (An article from The New Yorker)
Atul Gawande在The New Yorker上月初发了篇文章，题为：The Cost Conundrum - What a Texas town can teach us about health care (http://3.ly/mco)。这篇文章发表有段时间，而且已经被许多媒体转载引用。不过我还是觉得有意义广而告之一下。 作者发现Texas的一个小镇McAllen的人均医疗费用奇高，达到每人$15,000（Medicare数据）。而小镇人均收入只有每人$12,000。同在Texas的与McAllen人口特征很相似的小镇El Paso每年人均医疗费用只有$7,504，是McAllen的一半。惊人的医疗费用并不是由于McAllen的人很穷、身体不健康，也不是因为McAllen提供更好的医疗服务——实际上McAllen的医疗服务还没有El Paso好，而是因为McAllen的医生为赚更多的钱而让病人做本不需要做的各种测试和手术。 话说我老板就遇上类似的这么一回事。老板得了乳腺癌之后要做测试，结果医院竟然给老板做了怀孕测试（我老板已经过50了）。虽说这个测试不是医生或者护士故意的，但是测试的钱医院是赚了，反正我老板有保险。 在Atul Gawande的文章发表一个月之后，一个在长岛做心血管的医生Sandeep Jauhar在NY Times上发表了篇散文，题为：A Doctor by Choice, a Businessman by Necessity (http://3.ly/u1Q)。我也不总结了，直接从文章里引段话吧：
7月8日 Another quote + an interesting application for mobile phones先说quote。话说最近GS一哥们儿被逮了。原因是他偷了GS用于trading的code。这个code能给GS带来"many millions of dollars of profits per year"。然后一哥们儿蹦出来说了这样一番话：
翻译成中文的大意是说，这个程序很危险，会使这个程序的人可以不公平地操纵市场。 然后我就纳闷了。这程序之前不是GS在使么？他们是不是也"manipulate markets in unfair ways"了呢？ 不知道啊不知道…… It takes a thief to know a thief. 老话讲：贼喊捉贼。 ~~~~~~ 再说另一个在手机上用的软件。文章大意是说这软件能告诉别人上地铁应该坐哪个车厢，然后下车就正对人想要去的地方。 Maps of Subway Platforms, Now on Your Mobile Phone By Jennifer 8. Lee One way to know whether you have become a true New Yorker: do you stand at just the right subway car door? If you get on at the perfect spot, you’ll get off at the spot nearest the exit you want.
It’s that kind of underground smarts that generations of New Yorkers have taken pride in acquiring, and even more in using. Now technology will allow outsiders in on more of the subtleties of that transit knowledge. (Some was already given away.) A New York City startup, Exit Strategy NYC, is releasing a mobile application that provides detailed maps of 200 of the city’s subway stations — in all of Manhattan and in key neighborhoods in the other boroughs. No more guessing which is the right end of the platform. No more wondering whether a station has a single exit in the middle of the platform (like countless local stops), or exits only at the ends (like the Second Avenue stop on the F and V trains). The application, which builds on data gathered from 10 weeks of subway riding, goes on sale Tuesday for the iPhone, the Android, the BlackBerry and the Amazon Kindle. Except for the BlackBerry, which is a dollar more, the introductory price for the phones is $1.99 — less than a subway ride. The Kindle price, which has not been set, will be higher. Similar mapping projects have been completed in Toronto and Tokyo, but this seems to be the first for New York City. After three touches — for the subway line, direction and station — a diagram pops up showing which car doors match up with which stairwells (complete with hours of operation for the various exits). It also reflects some of the nuances of New York City subway transfer. For example, the best stairwell transfer to the N, R, Q and W from the L train at Union Square depends on whether a rider wants to go uptown or downtown. “I really love that feeling of popping up right in front of the exit,” said Jonathan Wegener, 24, the founder of Exit Strategy NYC. “It’s really a great feeling. You feel like you are an insider and you know something.” On his trip to work in the financial district, he used to walk right to the precise crack in the platform, he said. The project was inspired by Mr. Wegener’s frustration when he found he was at the wrong end of the station and running late. “It’s incredible, you can be off by an entire avenue,” he said. “You are three or four minutes off from where you thought you were going to be.” He started taking notes by hand in his iPhone and thought someone would have compiled the information online somewhere. When he discovered that no one had, he decided earlier this year to build a mobile application, even though he had no experience in the area. He persuaded his sister, Ashley Wegener, 29, to join him for 10 weeks in traveling to every station in the city to map the car doors, exits and hours of operation. “We did a leisurely lunch in a different neighborhood every day,” he said. “All over Queens, the food is amazing.” They compiled around 100 pages of maps, and his former roommate at Columbia, Benny Wong, did the programming. The simplest line? The shuttle between Times Square and Grand Central Terminal. The most complex was the A, C and E lines, he said. “There are two models of the A train,” he said. One model has eight cars, each at 75 feet long. The other has 10 cars, but they are 60 feet long. They tried to take both models into account in diagramming the doors. Upgrades in the subway system also took them by surprise. “They changed the F train while we were doing the project,” he said. “That threw everything off.” This City Room reporter voiced dismay that the Palm Pre had been left out. Mr. Wegener said he would pass the word along. |
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