Htam::Diary

West Coast Christian Conference 2004 was from July 21 to 28.
Topic: ``Knowing the Holy Spirit.''
Location: Pacific Lutheran University, Seattle, WA.

The three main sub topics are
* The Person of the Holy Spirit by Lance Lambert,
* The Ministry of the Holy Spirit by Christian Chen, and
* The Manifestation of the Holy Spirit by Stephen Kaung.
The three short topics are
* The Holy Spirt and the Bible by Kwok-Hin Wong,
* The Holy Spirt and Spiritual Life by Godwin Sun, and
* The Holy Spirt and the Church by Hoseah Wu.

I taught the second/third graders during the first Christian Chen message, therefore I felt I should go to the message replay before I listen to any more of his messages. Because bro Chen goes very fast and his materials are always extremely dense. He ALWAYS goes over the time limit. He has a lot to say.

So because of the message replay and the morning teaching, I was too tired to attend the first special topic by brother Wong. I attended all the other meetings.
Some of this must be true:
* the topic this year is comparably simpler,
* this year the speakers all spoke very clearly, or
* I matured a bit in the Spirt,
I felt I understood more of the messages than the previous years.

May I be able
* to subjectify the objectiveness of his Spirit,
* to experience him first hand,
* to establish or strengthen my relationship with him, and
* to grow in the knowledge of him and become mature in the Spirit.

Try to solve the second-order non-homogeneous ordinary linear differential equation with the method of variation of parameters

and you'll see that this equation is so humorous!!

I finished the following Caltech placement tests:
* Math diagnostic
* Math 1a: Improper integrals, limits, series
* Math 1b: Linear Algebra
* Math 1c: Multi-variable/vector calculus
* Chemistry placement
The math ones should be perfect/near perfect.
The chemistry one, if I get 50% or above, I'll laugh.
I took chemistry in Taiwan three years ago.
I studied 8 hours yesterday and today.

I still have:
* Math 2b: Differential Equation
* Physics placement
* CS 1
* CS 2
I'll take the math one before 07.19 (deadline).
The others will be after WCCC before 07.31 (deadline).

I just received a plaque from USPS today, which reads:
  ANNUAL HIGH SCHOOL
    MATH CONTEST
        2004
Highest Regional Score
      JED YANG
but I don't really know what this is all about...
I better call the mailer and confirm what I did to deserve this.

So I just installed
* TeX,
* LaTeX,
* netpbm, and
* textogif.

When I have time to integrate it with php, everyone can post math equations like this:

But for now, this process has not been automatede yet, and we'll need to wait.
I envision also writing a semi-WYSIWYG LaTeX math online editor.
Till then, refer to TeX manuals.

This decomposes each y in Span {u_1, ..., u_p} into the sum of p
projections onto one-dimensional subspaces that are mutually orthogonal.

This is why orthogonal basis is so cool!

Yay, I broke my previous 71s record on rubik's cube today with a 69s one.
More info at my rubik's cube page.

Update: After Bible study, I got a 63s one.
Update: Saturday I got a 62s one, yay.

So I went to the doctor again, and behold
My tuberculosis test is positive (duh...)
So I had three X-ray's taken... and more blood drawn.
I also need to pay a visit to the UW Medical Center sometime.
Squashed with all the test I need to preprare for, I'm so busy.

My digital camera was fixed and returned.
I took a few pictures of my sister holding my first place plague.
Maybe I'll take a few pictures of my auction items when I have time.
Now I better go regenerate... It's a looong day in front of me:
I got to study for Caltech advanced placement test.
In 8 hrs:
  Linear Algebra, here I come!

So I updated/installed
* Mozilla 1.7
* Gaim 0.79, with addons
  o libgpg-error,
  o libgcrypt,
  o libtasn1,
  o GnuTLS,
  o Auto-profile, and
  o Extended Prefs
* fortune
it feels like I'm on a new system

I
* ./configure'd,
* make'd,
* su'ed, and
* make install'ed
so many times today...

I went to have a check-up as required by Caltech.
I was poked three times today.
* draw blood (it's actually the least uncomfortable)
* Tuberculosis test (which I am positive for sure)
* Tetanus and Diphteria vaccine (Td)
Td hurts so much, now my left arm just feels swollen and stiff.

So I just finished my Caltech Math1a advanced placement exam on Calculus (limits, complex numbers, sequences, series, and Taylor series).
It was a three hour test.
It was one hour and I still only did three out of six questions. The other three I did not know how to do. So I skipped them. Really!
But then I thought harder, prayed, ate, and walked around during the test... until I came up with ideas on how to tackle the other questions.
The answers should all end up right actually, but the explanation might not be fully mathematically precise.
I only have 8 more to go ;-)
* Math1b Linear Algebra (UW 308)
* Math1c Multi-variable and Vector Calculus (UW 324)
* Math2a Probablity and Statistics
* Math2b Differential Equations (UW 307)
* Chemistry (Thanks Dennis for the textbook/review booklet)
* Physics
* CS1
* CS2
That's all.
I finished the essay and received a 4 out of 6 (1 the worst), it's good to my standards.
I also finished the eazy math placement (not the advanced placement) exam last month.
So busy with school stuff, eh?
But I still find time to read Bible, pack my room, and code.

Some stuff to be worked on:
* text MACRO beautifying project
* math beautifying (LaTeX?)
# a script to remove all BR's, since I am using PRE now.
# stress test
# wrap
* more authoring tools (preview, math equation editor, etc)
* user-friendlier
* login and account support (while keeping guest posts privileges)
and more to come.

Now I've been in the US three years straight now.
I came on July the fourth, two thousand and one.

I shared with the Junior Youth kids today (or yesterday, Sunday).
Some said it was good.
I hope they actually learned something and will read the Bible more.
I urge all of them to find spiritual companions... I hope they remember.
Anyways, I am really tired.
The best thing about sharing with them is:
I lost my rubik's cube a few days ago, but some of them found it.
Now I have my rubik's cube back. :)

To see if the infinite series (n^2+1)/(n^4+1) converges,
I used the limit comparison.
The ratio of that previous thing and 1/n^2 goes to 1 as n goes to oo.
So since 1/n^2 converges, the previous thing also converge.

Correct? Yes.

Yesterday I led Bible study (with Grace).
Therefore, I only started reading my daily Bible reading after church.
I spend so loooong that I actually broke my record of late sleep.
I think I went to bed THIS MORNING around 12:30. Whoa!
This is THE latest...
I should start reconsidering when I read Bible. :)

I have been preparing my sharing with the Junior Youth group for this Sunday.
I also will be leading Bible study tonight.
Just so busy...
I have a bunch of placement tests I need to complete in a short amount of time.

Finally. After a day's of work, this section is now at least usable.
Fell free to flood me with comments regarding programming (or otherwise).
I will be revising this area closely in the next few days.
Consider it ALPHA testing stage :)
So, don't complain, but be loud nevertheless.

Jed

final test run before publishing...