I am now at Grenoble, France, Institute of Laue Langvin. I need to do experiment there to do experiment under high pressure environment. I hope I can get nice result like I got in Japan this month. Anyways, I have to publish the result as soon as possible. I am writing and analyzing data too slow. It seems the experiment is finally working somehow after struggling for 5 days, I hope I can get some result by tomorrow.
I have been writing one about Game theory, the question started from why we have to think what our opponent thinks when we are on the game. The question came from one of my Facebook friends who is playing shogi. I was wondering the same question with him since I have started play chess recently too. I could understand intuitively but I could not explain. Now, I can explain now with Game theory. Then, I can describe how we are making decision with using tools from game theory so I will use one of my life events happened to me recently. Finally, I will explain what I am thinking about rational decision making. I hope I can do some argument on populism happening now in the world.
I think next thing I can write is about reading. As for reading, I read 100 books in 2016, which is worst record since I started recording. I read them in English I haven’t counted reading in Japanese though. However, I am pretty sure what I am reading are unique. I will start short summary or thoughts on books. I don’t think I can write book summary yet in English. I will start 5 books per blog with short thought on these books.
And then English, I wanted to practice English better. I am living English speaking countries for more than 4 years? I don’t think my English proficiency is improving. I am not working hard anymore since I can communicate with people. Now, I wanted to improve English skills for reading, speaking, writing, vocabulary, grammar, and listening. I know how to do it but I believe and I am lazy these days. As I learnt form Grit by Angela Duckworth and many other studies on talent I have been reading, I am convinced I have to practice better and deeper, to do that, I have to measure English level somehow. Each English skill is not independent so if I can improve one of them, it should help the other. I am focusing on vocabulary now. I would like to take English test in Sydney. I didn’t take them here because taking English tests here are super expensive, really. But now I am starting now.
During this Japan trip from Jan 31st – Feb 4th, I have met a lot of collaborators and friends. I am glad to see them and they are doing very well. I found out living in Japan is comfortable. Food was good, I don’t need to use foreign language, and I know where to go. I used a state of art instrument at J-PARC with one of the best talented young scientist from our generation helped to me collect data though “young” means totally depends on how you define. The instrument is pretty good. We got really nice data. Because it contains a lot of information, it will be some time to publish the data. I will do my best. As for positron accelerator, we have SNS, Oak Ridge in the U.S. and J-PARC, Tokai, in Japan, ISIS in U.K. J-PARC can be used with multi Ei method at chopper spectrometer, I could see advantages for multi Ei method and it is very promising while J-PARC increases its power soon.
