God Sees the Truth, But Waits (1872) tells the story of a man wrongly convicted and imprisoned for a murder he did not commit; it is Tolstoy’s parable of forgiveness. Tolstoy’s tale inspired Stephen King’s novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (1982), which was adapted into the famous 1994 film. In the town of Vladimir lived a young merchant named Ivan Dmitrich Aksyonov. He owned two shops and a house of his own. ...

Having a filter placed over my mouth feels terrible! I’m not a gun that kills people stealthily! Some recent events have left me feeling bewildered, mostly due to the pandemic. One category involves the chaos in grassroots epidemic prevention efforts. Many people who rarely go out have their only reason for leaving home being to gather for mass nucleic acid testing—and end up getting infected as a result. This issue has persisted since the outbreak began, yet mandatory city-wide testing has continued for a full three years. It’s not that no one has raised this concern, but it wasn’t until yesterday that Guangzhou announced that those with no need to go out no longer have to undergo testing. ...

In 2005, Science magazine proposed 100 scientific questions, while China’s key scientific concerns are collected and released annually by the China Association for Science and Technology. Below is the current list: Top 10 Cutting-Edge Scientific Questions: How can early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease during the asymptomatic stage be achieved? How can trustworthy, reliable, and interpretable AI technical approaches and solutions be realized? How can atomic-scale precision fabrication and structural regulation be achieved to construct future information-functional devices? What challenges and problems does the management of emerging pollutants face? How can automated, intelligent, and precise chemical synthesis be realized? How can multi-omics integration be used to study complex biological traits? Can controlled atomic-scale removal of material surfaces be achieved? How can comprehensive and precise evaluation of urban integrated transportation systems and infrastructure resilience be conducted? How do black holes in the universe form and evolve? What are the key scientific issues limiting uranium extraction from seawater? Top 10 Engineering and Technical Challenges: ...

Sometimes, frequent translation between Chinese and English is necessary. The only translation tools on my personal computer are the Eudic dictionary and the Saladict browser extension. Eudic always feels sluggish when launching, making it a bit unpleasant to use. On the other hand, Saladict works seamlessly in the browser, providing a much smoother experience. Although Saladict supports clipboard reading with a global hotkey (I set mine to ALT+T), it still requires an extra CTRL+C press each time, which feels inconvenient. ...

About 52PoJie 52PoJie (which means “I Love Cracking” in Chinese) and GitHub are both websites. The URL for 52PoJie is 吾爱破解 - LCG - LSG|安卓破解|病毒分析|www.52pojie.cn. As the name suggests, this is a website focused on cracking (reverse engineering). The community mainly consists of several types of people: ...

By Tan Xi Morning blossoms fade by dusk, fleeting as a white steed’s shadow. Life moves swiftly, with hurried steps and passing faces. Looking back, the youth once carried dreams as vast as spring’s meadows, hearts set on golden honors, enduring years of diligent study, their pens shaping the world, their aspirations boundless. Today, those same youths see their names inscribed on the雁塔 (a symbol of academic success), unrestrained as the open sea, unafraid of gathering storm clouds, toasting the east wind with wine. The years ahead will witness the close of three high school years, like the moon setting at dawn, and the beginning of a new voyage at Yunnan Normal University. ...

As usual, let’s go straight to his website: Yihui Xie | 谢益辉 Below is the introduction from his homepage: I’m a software engineer working at RStudio, PBC. I earned my PhD from the Department of Statistics, Iowa State University. My thesis was Dynamic Graphics and Reporting for Statistics, advised by Di Cook and Heike Hofmann. I have developed a few R packages either seriously or for fun (or both), such as knitr, animation, bookdown, blogdown, pagedown, xaringan, and tinytex. I founded a Chinese website called “Capital of Statistics” in 2006, which has grown into a large online community on statistics. I initiated the Chinese R conference in 2008. I’m a big fan of GitHub, LyX and Pandoc. I hate IE. I fall asleep when I see beamer slides, and I yell at people who use \\textbf{} to write \\title{}. I know I cannot eat code, so I cook almost every day to stay away from my computer for two hours. ...

Go directly to the expert’s website: yufree Below is the introduction from the homepage, featuring numerous articles and shares: I am a scientist at the Jackson Laboratory. My research interests are environmental chemistry, data analysis, and exposomics. Contact me via blog or Email if you have questions, and my CV is available here. This humble monk’s mind is full of untimely thoughts, fond of humor and sarcasm. When browsing this blog, do not take the words too seriously. ...

Overly delving into one thing may not be a good thing, especially when what you’re studying has already been thoroughly researched by others, and you clearly know you can’t push the boundaries further than they have. At that point, you start to feel like your life is being wasted. Every day, I write down a lot of things, recording a vast amount of work and study notes—though it’s more accurate to call them records of pitfalls. Gradually, I’ve come to realize that such efforts don’t hold much meaning. If they’re not done well enough, they won’t provide even the slightest help in real life. ...

By Wang Xiaobo When I was thirteen, I often stole books from my father’s bookcase to read. At that time, the political atmosphere was tense, and he had locked away all the books that were unsuitable to be left out in the open. In that bookcase were Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Shakespeare’s plays translated by Zhu Shenghao, and even The Decameron. The case was locked, but my elder brother knew how to pick the lock. He also had a way of persuading me to take the risks: You’re young and slight. I don’t think Dad will have the heart to spank you. But in reality, when it came to spanking me, my father didn’t seem particularly gentlemanly, and my hands and feet weren’t agile enough, always giving him the opportunity. In short, we both read the stolen books, but I was the only one who got spanked. That’s how I got to read some books. Though it was unfair, I don’t regret it. ...