tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44303568612334301922024-03-21T23:02:09.295+09:00Fine feather makes fine birdsKyoichi Iwasakihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685428654052553116noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430356861233430192.post-89266277875838250192013-08-14T23:21:00.001+09:002013-08-14T23:21:28.256+09:00Studying "R"Here is a memo in studying "R", which is generated for calculating statistical calculation. Actually, I've installed this program in my machine 'MacBook Pro', which I purchased on last Sunday:)<br />
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I'm studying with a text book named "Exploring Everyday Things with R and Ruby" with Japanese version. Today's course is about basic confirmation about the programming language of "R", as I wrote in the first paragraph.<br />
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When I use some package with regard to "R", I was required to install the following program:<br />
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Anyway, I'd like to post my record of studying statistic or machine language or others here.<br />
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Last night, I went to an italian restaurant with my wife, and we could order some dishes, which weren't in the menu list. This was because we come here frequently, and the chefs know our favorites our tastes:)</div>
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Actually, this dish and wine were not in the list, and they were much delicious!</div>
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Kyoichi Iwasakihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685428654052553116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430356861233430192.post-80197015185809676802013-03-26T21:04:00.001+09:002013-03-26T21:04:49.413+09:00Started to use Google appsWe've begun to use Google apps in my company since yesterday. It contains some web-based tools like Gmail, tasks etc. According to it, we can check e-mail, even in my house or outside our office.<br />
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Of course, it would accelerate our productivity, especially for employees who work outside the office, but it may restrain our works in near future...:(<br />
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At first, we have to be accustomed to using them soon. Although I usually use Google tools, our tools in my company are restricted. Actually, we cannot use Google calendar at present, because of the compatibility for our internal schedule system.Kyoichi Iwasakihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685428654052553116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430356861233430192.post-7921995171566069812013-03-24T19:31:00.004+09:002013-03-24T19:31:46.431+09:00A tradition of "O-hanami" <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">Many Japanese people go to the park to see cherry blossom. Actually, I went to a park near my house with my wife, and took some pictures.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">During walking through the park, my wife asked me why Japanese people held parties below the trees of cherry blossoms. I've never doubted such questions, and couldn't reply the answers. I'll look into this tradition tonight!</span><br />
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According to the introductory page by Amazon, we may use some channels like web-browser, Google Chrome extension or others:<br />
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If you're a Kindle user, this function would be very helpful, I expect:)Kyoichi Iwasakihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685428654052553116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430356861233430192.post-37925554550700577882013-02-14T13:25:00.002+09:002013-02-14T17:53:43.930+09:00Proof of heaven<br />
I've read this book due to the high evaluation in amazon market, and this reading is for my study English as well. It contains about 200 pages, and it took 1 week or so for me to finish reading.<br />
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Speaking of Japanese context, it relates to spiritualism or experience of near-death, which also abbreviates NDE written in this book. If it is written in Japanese, I will never read it because it's too mysterious for me.<br />
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The writer is indeed neurosurgeon doctor and he had been dying because of meningitis. After the coma status for several days, his consciousness was returned!<br />
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For almost all people, the experience of near-death is uncommon, and I cannot judge how to treat these events.<br />
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I'd recommend this book, if you want to feel strange feeling like "What is consciousness?".<br />
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We sought the dance studio, after having light dinner near the studio in Roppongi. They explained so much about the brief history of salsa or other music, but I had very few information and experience about this dance, and their explanation for salsa didn't convince me very well...:(<br />
Actually, I've practiced only basic steps of salsa a few month ago, and that's all about my experience. As a matter of fact, basic information is very important to understand profoundly..<br />
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According to their advice, the similar dance "Bachata" can include tango steps in it, and I tried to dance it with some tango-step..:) It was ONLY me to use plural steps of tango in the studio!!<br />
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Anyway, I'd like to appreciate to today's "teacher" so much!Kyoichi Iwasakihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685428654052553116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430356861233430192.post-58848618672023607392013-02-06T22:57:00.002+09:002013-02-06T22:57:38.721+09:00The 1st tango lesson in 2013:)<div style="text-align: left;">
It was the first time to take a lesson of Argentine Tango in <a href="http://www.joetango.com/">Ebisu</a> this year. My teachers looked after our students very well, and we learned some figures, with which we would be used in tango party in near future.</div>
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Actually, I took 2 lessons for beginners and intermediate students. There were less than 10 people for each lesson yesterday, and it was adequate volume for students:)</div>
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Although this diary is written in English, we've learned these lessons in Japanese!</div>
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Here are lesson movies by our teachers.</div>
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Since the beginning of this year, my PC, which is indeed MacBook Air, doesn't often store its electric power with its battery. In fact, I sometimes can store and sometimes cannot do it. Due to my lack of knowledge for infrastructure, I cannot judge the actual trigger for this incidents recently.</div>
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Some months ago, the PC had been repaired because of its failure of its infrastructure, which was a connecting part between the body and its adapter. I brought my PC to nearest Genius Bar of Apple Store in Shibuya, and actually my PC was transferred to maintenance center of repairing. One week after, it was fixed after replacing the failure.</div>
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As noted above, the incident is very similar to one of some month ago, and I went to the Bar to diagnose it this evening. After some brief trial, its battery has some troubles according to the person in charge, and he gave me a substitute of the adapter:) Actually, the version of the adapter is newer than the one of mine. Finally, it was free of charge, because I've registered a service of "AppleCare."</div>
Kyoichi Iwasakihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685428654052553116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430356861233430192.post-70631183221118796832013-02-02T13:59:00.001+09:002013-02-02T14:49:44.618+09:00Lonely Planet around TokyoThe other day, I've purchased Kindle Paperwhite from amazon site in Japan.<br />
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Then, I completed reading the following book, whose title is "Lonely Planet around Tokyo". They say that this series "Lonely Planet" is famous for foreign travelers, and this book is my first reading for me with the Kindle. Actually, there are other series for Japanese travelers like "How to walk in earth(Chi-kyu-no-arukikata)", "Rurubu traveller".<br />
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In this book, we will find Japanese geographic, history or other cultures. What I'm interested in is a chapter of "Food and drink." As I usually cook in my house, there are some descriptions like O-kome, Miso and Shoyu, which are Japanese traditional condiments or Izakaya, Syokudo and how to use chopsticks. Even we, Japanese, don't know the detailed explanations in this book. So, Japanese will be surprised, if foreign people know this kind of description:)<br />
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I'll upload my better performance in near future:)Kyoichi Iwasakihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685428654052553116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430356861233430192.post-40132891709648210812012-11-03T08:12:00.002+09:002012-11-03T08:12:36.741+09:00Ready for exhibition of Tango dance:)I'm going to attend an exhibition of Tango dance held in Ikebukuro today:)<br />
Indeed, I've practiced 4 months for it, and my back-music for my dance will be "Bullanguera," and you can hear the music with orchestration version as follows:<br />
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Thousands of people near NYC were influenced by the recent disaster called Sandy, according to the news resources, and we find some notification about how to communicate in such disaster. One of the useful method would be to use social networks like Facebook or twitter, which were introduced some years ago. Here is <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/technology/in-crisis-public-officials-embrace-social-media.html">a quote from NYTimes</a>:</div>
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It should be true. Indeed, I normally promise to use such social network tools in case of the huge disasters for my family, after the Tohoku disaster in March2011 of Japan. This is because many IT-engineers made their efforts to keep the infrastructure of the environment, and also the architecture of internet was very strong even in such bad situation.</div>
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font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="popup_dictionary_word" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">want</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="popup_dictionary_word" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">to</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="popup_dictionary_word" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">become</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="popup_dictionary_word" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">smart</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">?" </span><span class="popup_dictionary_word" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span class="popup_dictionary_word" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">smiling</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 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I didn't intend such a thing, just wanted to ask the setting because forgetting it...</span>Kyoichi Iwasakihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685428654052553116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430356861233430192.post-29073447217961975772012-10-09T21:20:00.001+09:002012-10-09T21:20:20.460+09:00The sound of electronic/magnetic wave ...?<div>
As reading science article in French web-site, I found an interesting movies in <a href="http://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/2012/10/03/01008-20121003ARTFIG00459-la-nasa-ecoute-le-chant-de-la-terre.php">this site(in French)</a>. Generally speaking, we cannot hear the sound in the space of universe, but electronic and magnetic waves are propagated there. The latter waves are fulfilled in the universe, and we can hear the "sound" by transforming waves from electronic and magnetics to sounds. Here is the "sound":<br />
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On the other hand, here is a weeping sound of guinea pig:<br />
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Are they resemblant:)?Kyoichi Iwasakihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685428654052553116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430356861233430192.post-19153116685953116142012-10-09T21:03:00.001+09:002012-10-09T21:03:26.359+09:00New iPhone would be delayed too long..They started to sell new iPhone, which was called iPhone 5, on 21st September in Japan, and I reserved it on the next day in one of major carrier of cellular phone. A store staff indicated that we could acquire it almost after 2 weeks ago, but no announce was delivered to me.<br />
So, I went there to ask about my reserving status. According to the staff, it will take more 2 weeks, and totally it might take one month from reserving to acquire new cellular phone...<br />
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On the other hand, one of my friend could get the same model of iPhone by reserving electronics retail store last week.<br />
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Tim Cook, who is current CEO of Apple Inc., was in charge of supply chain management of Apple products, and then so I expected I could get more earlier...Kyoichi Iwasakihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685428654052553116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430356861233430192.post-89584492113998906082012-10-08T15:44:00.000+09:002012-10-09T21:24:48.462+09:00Too many people...:(As <a href="http://kyoro1-e.blogspot.jp/2012/10/food-exhibition-in-yoyogi-park.html">planned in my blog previously</a>, I went to the park to eat various food in Hokkaido with my friend, but there were too many people in Yoyogi park.<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">But it'll take about 3 hours to eat the crabs, i.e. we have to line up to take them... </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">It was too long for us, and I bought "Ikura" which is salmon caviers.</span></div>
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According to the explanation, we have to freeze it, and indeed a shopper wrapped with old newspaper, and it kept frozen status. After purchasing it, we went to a restaurant near Harajuku station, and ate Yakiniku-lunch:)<br />
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Although we've not accomplished our plans, we compromised all of the events. Anyway, today was a funny holiday:)</div>
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Kyoichi Iwasakihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685428654052553116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430356861233430192.post-91989534409492072742012-10-08T09:14:00.001+09:002012-10-08T16:05:35.217+09:00Food exhibition in Yoyogi parkOne of my friend invited us to come to "Food exhibition" held in Yoyogi park. Indeed, I wanted to go there:)<br />
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Here is an HP for it: <a href="http://www.hokkai-syokudo.co.jp/yoyogi.php">http://www.hokkai-syokudo.co.jp/yoyogi.php</a></div>
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After taking some pictures, I'll upload them here:)</div>
Kyoichi Iwasakihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685428654052553116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430356861233430192.post-52980998448082508922012-08-19T00:21:00.001+09:002012-08-19T00:22:24.044+09:00Design for commodityReading an article about soy-sauce dispenser some months ago, I was so shocked, because such commodities should be same, I assumed. Of course it comes from my unfamiliarity with general design context, but I didn't know the world of industrial design very much. Here's a quotation from the site of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/magazine/who-made-that-soy-sauce-dispenser.html">NYTimes</a>:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">“Faced with that nothingness, I felt a great nostalgia for human culture,” he recalled from the offices of </span><a href="http://www.gk-design.co.jp/english.html" style="background-color: white; color: #666699; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;" target="_blank">G. K. Design</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">, the firm he co-founded in Tokyo in 1952. “I needed something to touch, to look at,” he added. “Right then I decided to be a maker of things.”</span></blockquote>
When I introduced this article to my friends in Facebook page, some of them advised me that it is very famous people in industrial design, and also they said he was so famous there. According to the G.K. Design web-page, there is an office in Mejiro, which is near my university. (Unfortunately, I've never been there...)<br />
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Also, the designer answered to the interviewer like...<br />
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<strong style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">Why soy sauce?</strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"> I was studying oil painting, but my interests changed. Because oil paintings European in origin, and sumi painting is from China. Then I went to Paris for a month, and I was very sick, but when I ate soy sauce, my condition improved.</span></blockquote>
As my major was mathematics in college/graduate school, I knew some people who were interested in both pure mathematics and applied. But, I'm too unfamiliar in design/art context to imagine how such people are interested in. At least, almost painters seemed to me that they were not concerned about actual industry... As we can see the web-site of G.K. Design as above, I'd like to go there if possible.Kyoichi Iwasakihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685428654052553116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430356861233430192.post-46327550325512678852012-08-18T20:10:00.003+09:002012-08-18T20:11:20.181+09:00How Starbucks Saved My LifeThe other day, I've already read this book, whose title is "How Starbucks Saved My Life." The author dismissed his jobs after 60 years old, and he began to work at Starbucks coffee shop.<br />
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The reason to choose this book is mainly for my study in English. This book doesn't need so many vocabulary, and I'd like to recommend it for people who would like to improve their English reading skill.<br />
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In the middle, the author communicates his daughter about his job, and he was shocked at her criticism.. It seemed to me that it is much typical family father... If it is written in Japanese-mother language-, I won't purchase it because it's easily imaginable. I might give a book once-over...Kyoichi Iwasakihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00685428654052553116noreply@blogger.com0