Edward Tsang, Personal Opinions

Personal Opinions

Edward Tsang (Use Unicode UTF-8 encoding for Chinese)

2025.02.20: AI Humour in ChatGPT
2025.02.20: 多少柔情多少淚 Composition with DeepSeek and ChatGPT
2024.12.29: Book of Lord Shang
2024.12.20: Rope Craft
2024.11.28: Notes on Christianity
2024.07.23: 傾城之戀：小說與電影
2024.06.25: Eileen Chang (張愛玲) timeline
2020.07.19-2023.06.16: COVID-19 Coronavirus Events and Publications
2023.03.23: 《紅樓夢》金陵十二釵命數
2023.02.25: 張愛玲· 傾城之戀摘錄
2023.02.21: 張愛玲· 封鎖摘錄
2023.02.21: 張愛玲· 花凋摘錄
2022.07.19: 「白頭到老」?
2022.07.08: Eileen Chang, one of my favourite writers
2022.07.07: 張愛玲· 金鎖記摘錄
2022.07.07: 張愛玲· 第一爐香摘錄
2021.10.31: Have people been fair to Cao Cao? 還曹操一個公道
2021.04.26: Why Is Music So Powerful?
2021.01.28: Tutorial: The Stable Marriage Problem
2021.01.11: Facebook is Watching You
2020.07.20: COVID-19 Death Counts Inaccuracy
2020.07.20: Cantonese Words 廣東口語字
2020.07.06: Hong Kong National Security Law
2020.03.13: COVID-19 Death Rate Calculation
2020.02.03: How is the death rate calculated for an epidemic?
2019.11.15: China exports cheap goods and imports inflation
2019.11.15: Helicopter Money
2019.09.10: Chinese Economy, A Dire Situation
2019.09.09: Does Hong Kong have autonomy?
2019.08.22: Creditability, Hong Kong's biggest asset
2019.08.16: "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli, Book Extracts
2019.08.11: "The Problem of China" by Bertrand Russell, Book Introduction
2019.08.06: "Revolution" by Minoru Nakano, Book Introduction
2019.08.05: Hong Kong is protected before those in power move their money
2019.06.18: "Forces outside Hong Kong"
2019.06.16: The extradition law - A proposal that has changed Hong Kong
2018.08.27: Book Review: After The Freeze by Gilli Robson, 2018
2018.08.26: Motivated by Foreign Exchange
2017.12.31: 忍 (Chinese for endurance, tolerance): is it a virtue? or is it a culprit?
2017.09.06: "Need to control customers"
2017.08.25: "Artificial Intelligence is dangerous"
2017.08.25: Computational Finance is the synergy between computation and finance (YouTube video)
2017.06.01: From AlphaGo to Artificial General Intelligence
2017.04.01: Poems by Mathew Manimala
2016.12.08: 選舉與接機 / Election and pick-up at airport
2016.12.03: Your critics may be your valuable asset
2016.11.26: Reducing complexity is a basic need
2016.11.06: Wisdom in Ancient Chinese Classics?
2016.11.06: Talents management
2016.09.30: 今天的博士生是怎樣訓練的？ / How are PhDs trained today?
2016.07.28: Eric X. Li: A tale of two political systems
2016.03.20: How does AlphaGo work?
2016.01.09: The "Thick Black Theory" in Management
2016.01.09: Federal Reserve interest rate rise
2015.12.29: 辛棄疾、李清照：我喜愛的詞人 (some of my favourite Chinese poems)
2015.12.05: Why China should support Lykke-Coins?
2015.12.04: A soft drink puzzle
2015.11.12: Education Economics
2015.11.12: Financial El Nino caused by Global Warming in Finance
2015.09.29: Change the World with Lykke
2015.08.26: Myth About Economic Growth
2015.08.25: China's economy-driven threat to stability
2015.08.24: The Chinese Stock Market - Rise and Crash
2015.08.07: The University of Essex Spirit
2015.07.12: Why are some people argumentative?
2015.07.10: Authority vs Responsibility, an evolutionary equilibrium
2015.07.05: Damages Done to China by the Ming Dynasty
2015.05.12: "Education is not their goal"
2015.05.11: Income inequality
2015.04.11: Three-way roundabout logic
2015.04.10: Connecting to too many?
2015.04.02: Model for Election of the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, 2017
2015.02.26: Measurable deliverables? or miserable deliverables?
2015.01.18: Could Bada Shanren (八大山人) be the first caricaturist in China?
2014.12.31: "The threat of Artificial Intelligence"
2014.12.23: REF as a destructive exercise
2014.12.18: Flaws in assessing university research
2014.06.20: Tutorial: Type I and Type II Errors
2014.03.11: Book review: The LION Way by Battiti and Brunato, February 2014
2014.01.31: An academic's dream
2014.01.01: A cycle that keeps everyone happy (for the time being)
2013.12.12: What is the fundamental value of a stock?
2013.11.08: South China Morning Post's 110 years of Hong Kong
2013.10.25: Friendly Spying
2013.10.02: Hatred Breeds Hatred in Harry Potter
2013.10.01: Quantitative Easing
2013.09.11: Zero Dark Thirty
2013.06.16: Mass Surveillance in Secret - a Dangerous Act
2013.05.22: Combating corruption in China
2013.05.11: Lessons from the 1848 revolutions in Europe
2013.05.04: Negative interest
2013.05.04: Value of the mood
2013.05.04: 混醬一缸 (A messy relationship for fun, in Chinese)
2013.04.28: Privatising higher education
2013.04.24: iPhone: the most versatile handy tool invented
2013.03.31: Monitoring of performance is often damaging
2013.03.09: Football refereeing
2013.03.08: Learning outcomes in Education
2013.03.07: What is the best hedge against recession?
2013.03.06: An agent-based analysis of the cheap Chinese exports
2013.02.27: 白居易的琵琶行 (Poem Pipaxin by BAI Ju Yi, 778-846AD)
2013.02.24: Political Language
2013.02.07: Death Road
2013.02.07: "What has government done with our money?" by Murray Rothbard
2013.01.13: "He is very good, very obedient" ("佢好乖，好聽話")
(I had no time to organize my many thoughts developed in this period)
2012.11.03: Is High Frequency Trading Harmful?
2012.10.21: Dishonest Announcement
2012.10.02: English as a foreign language
2012.09.15: Hillsborough Disaster apology: better late than never
2012.09.05: 我對香港國民教育的了解 (My understanding of the National Education dispute in Hong Kong)
2012.08.31: 花正君: 中國近代史課堂實錄 (轉載)
2012.08.01: Sports Anomaly
2012.07.31: Missing measures in university education
2012.07.27: BBC's "In Our Time" radio programme
2012.07.26: Time to return to traditional Chinese characters
2012.07.24: Translation Softwares review: Bing and RockCat
2012.06.14: Learn to sing Cantonese
2012.06.11: Apparent murder of Li Wang Yang 李旺陽
(I had no time to organize my many thoughts developed in this period)
2011.12.23: "香港人很多是狗" (Chinese professor incited hatred)
2011.12.23: The general theory of bureaucrats
2011.12.06: Think outside the bowl
2011.11.20: An agent-based analysis of the financial crisis
2011.11.02: Destructive testing in higher education
2011.10.25: Commercialising higher education (to prepare)
2011.10.21: Keeping talents in business (to prepare)
2011.09.22: The future of UK universities
2011.09.13: Corrupted bosses dynamics
2011.09.07: Misunderstanding is norm
2011.09.02: Saga at the University of Hong Kong
2011.08.26: China's vulnerability
2011.06.28: Willetts could kill British higher education
2011.05.30: Just add imagination
2011.05.27: Chinese immigrants to Hong Kong, the selected people
2011.05.13: Patriotic Education proposed in Hong Kong
2011.04.24: Simplification and exaggeration
2011.04.24: Review, Ballet "Alice Adventures in Wonderland"
2011.03.28: Academic Freedom for "Big Society"
2011.03.15: My thoughts are with the disaster victims in Japan
2011.02.26: Software Review, AutoCollage 2008 by Microsoft Research
2011.02.14: Green Transportation: opportunities missed by China -- perhaps it's not too late
2011.02.11: Money in perspective -- bank bonuses again
2011.02.04: Book Review, 金庸 - 鹿鼎記
2011.01.01: The Toothpaste Phenomenon
2011.01.01: A bleak 2011
2010.12.26: Handling negative criticism in a society
2010.12.12: Britain's moral makeover
2010.10.30: 方言保留珍貴遷徙資料
2010.10.17: Logic in marriage: A couple's vow to share everything
2010.10.15: Traditional Chinese for classical literature 中國文學用正寫中文 (a bit of fun in simplified Chinese)
2010.09.18: Authority without responsibilities
2010.09.15: Summary, Good fats and bad fats
2010.09.15: Cost of robustness
2010.08.04: Some people are above the law (cartoon)
2010.07.12: Pay attention to where you pay attention to
2010.06.29: Privatization and size of the Government
2010.05.20: Summary, The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz
2010.04.29: Politicians don't answer hypothetical questions? (cartoon)
2010.04.28: Gordon Brown isn't a good listener (cartoon)
2010.04.12: Book Review, "No Contacts? No Problem! How to Pitch and Sell Your Freelance Feature Writing" by Catherine Quinn, Methuen Drama 2010
2010.03.24: 趙元任 ShiShiShiShiShi 《施氏食獅史》
2010.03.06: Economic inequality in Hong Kong
2010.02.20: Firm Review, Peony Pavilion
2010.01.28: Book Review, "The Undercover Scientist: Investigating the Mishaps of Everyday Life" by Peter Bentley, Arrow Books Ltd, June 2009
2010.01.31: Book Review, "Applying Computational Intelligence" by Kordon, Springer, 2010
2009.12.27: 明史.清史
2009.11.27: 在進化過程中﹐貓比人成功 (text and cartoon)
2009.11.06: "High-frequency trading harms the economy" BBC Radio 4
2009.10.19: Congratulations to Professor Kao, ex-VC of CUHK (my parent university), for being awarded the Nobel Prize of Physics, 2009
2009.09.19: Transparency is at least as important as democracy
2009.09.17: Emails consume too much of our lives
2009.08.11: Teaching overheads: a high premium for teaching quality control
2009.07.19: Hong Kong's Chief Executive
2009.06.30: Puzzled: Eastern Airline's advert
2009.06.28: 有樹即無樹﹐非台亦有台﹔苟生有無念﹐經已惹塵埃。
2009.06.28: The Ache of Management 2: managing the process
2009.06.18: "How can Sir Alan fire someone who he has not yet hired?" (Alexander Tsang on "The Apprentice" by BBC)
2008.09.24: Micro scooter: disappointing built-quality and less than responsible marketing
2008.08.11: Adding music to videos, an incomplete note in Windows Movie Maker
2008.03.24: People who do what they do regardless of pay
2008.03.24: Review, "Lust-Caution" by "Eileen Chang, the novel and the movie
2008.02.02: Don't speak Chinese, sing it
2008.01.03: The Ache of Management 1: A realistic scenario in expansion
2008.01.26: Chinese eating out in Colchester
2007.11.28: Telephone Policy, a Proposal
2007.07.29: Book Review, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7)
2005.12.15: Sightseeing in Hong Kong