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马航失踪该谁负责?

世界

2014年3月8日，马来西亚航空公司 MH370 号航班在执行由吉隆坡飞往北京的航线途中失去联系。此次事件引起全球关注，随后的追踪报道众说纷纭，各种推断，猜想层出不穷，而唯一能揭开事件真相的黑匣子至今未曾找到，至于飞机残骸与遇难者遗体更是毫无踪迹。那此次事件该有谁来负责，来给遇难者家属一个交代？

马航事件存在诸多疑点，第一马航具体失联时间到底是几点，8日上午，马航声明称，飞机在2点40分失去联系。随后的新闻稿称，失联时间是1点20分。而11日晚，据当地媒体报道，军方最后一次监测到飞机是在8日2：40，随后军方又否认。

第二，马航称飞机失联时间是凌晨1点20分，而马航的第一份声明是在早晨7点24分对外发布的，其间隔6个小时，这6个小时内马航都在做什么？为何没有第一时间启动应急方案，延迟报告是否延误救援时机？还有随后对失联地点的报道，还有对失联事件和客机的部分信息线索的隐瞒和延迟发布，等等这些是故意还是有其他意图不为人知。我们且不说事件发生原因究竟是飞机故障，飞行员操作失误，自然天气影响，亦或是恐怖袭击，从马航处理整个事件中的态度和遇难者家属由于对当局失去信心，准备出巨资鼓励“线人”站出来提供有效线索，以便破解飞机失踪之谜等看出，马航并未尽到自己应尽的义务，也未付出全部努力去处理，对事故应负有重大责任.

 

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曾维芬

RCT AI for Game Industry

English Reports

RCT AI is a team focusing on developing AI solutions for game industries. According to the official website, the solutions is based on an algorithm called “Chaos Box”. Based on the engine developed on this algorithm, in-game NPCs’ behaviors and scripts can be generated real-time instead of manually input into the program, which provides NPCs the ability to appropriately respond to human players’ actions in the real-time. In the early demo showcase videos posted on Bilibili by RCT AI team, a scenario of bank robbery is created. All NPCs appear in the scenarios are programmed with AI engine with “Chaos Box”. NPCs are all appropriately respond to human player’s different actions on a single plot without any scripts input. The scenarios go on fluently without any errors happen on NPCs and end up differently based on different moves by human players. Apparently, by applying this AI engine into the video game programs, all the games include NPCs or bots are going to be changed. One benefits for video game players is they won’t need to tolerate NPCs acting weird. That means the gaming experience is not going to be destroyed by error in the algorithm and the immersion of video games will go to a higher level. However, a concerning problem for a real AI system like this is about the self-learning of AI. The AI will be trained in excessive amount of experience being human players’ opponent. It is very possible and assured that some day in the future after AI engine is applied into the game, the NPCs in-game will be trained into an extremely difficult opponent for human players to defeat and totally ruin the game experience. A system of restricting AI learning process should be applied in order to protect video game player’s gaming experience.
https://rct.ai/en-us/
https://rct.ai/en-us/chaos-box
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1dg411V7Wf?spm_id_from=333.999.0.0

Tianze Xu

Music piracy in Japan: a growing problem?

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Music piracy in Japan: a growing problem?

We are all aware that music piracy is global problem today, but not the same as another in different countries and regions. Japan is also experiencing a problem about music piracy. It is roughly calculated that there were nearly four hundred million pirated music files that were downloaded and additional seventy million compared to the number of the legal downloads, which lead in telecom and music industry in Japan to enforce “a system to automatically check cell phone Web sites for illegal music files, in order to prevent the files from being uploaded or downloaded in breach of copyright law.”

The Japanese have come up with new methods to observe and check the progress of the users’ use of technology, without a doubt was enhanced by the fact that it is a leading country in technological progress. Probably, it has also become fully aware that taking legal action in opposition to users will lead in a strong and adverse reaction that can possibly paralyze the industry, something foreign companies are only beginning to understand.

After all, the most important thing is the recognition and enjoyment of music. While fans are searching for novel ways to achieve their chosen tunes illegally, musicians and record labels should still be delighted that there are music lovers and be grateful that there are still supporters who are ready to support them through buying their albums. The Japanese have a plan  that can possibly prevent illegal downloads from happening, and that obviously, is always an asset.

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Baidu’s Verne Plan

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Baidu’s Verne Plan

Many have read the book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, whose author, Jules Verne, is considered by many to be the father of science fiction. His imagination has motivated many to invent things once thought not possible, and Baidu, the largest internet company in China, has decided to follow in his footsteps by setting a “crazy” plan named after Verne called the “Verne Plan.”

So what is the Verne Plan?

The Verne Plan is designed to connect to science fiction to existing technologies for real innovations for the next century. Its main focus is on artificial intelligence, such as AlphaGo, the genetic programming designed to help people discover the secrets of life.

So who are involved and when will it start?

The Verne Plan has started on April 1, 2016. For this, six famous people have been recruited as founding members: Andrew Ng, a computer science professor of Stanford University and Baidu’s first scientist, will lead the group. Cixin Liu, the author of the famous novel The Three-Body Problem, is a member. Dr. David Brin, a space Scientist and a consultant at NASA, is another. Qiufan Chen, a science writer known as the “Chinese William Gibson,” is the fourth member. The fifth is Haijun Yao, an advocate for popular science and an editor of a sci-fi magazine. Finally, Ken Liu, who translated The Three-Body Problem, enters this imaginative plan. A close look at these six individuals reveals that two are scientists while the others, science fiction writers. It seems like the ideal team!

Why is in store for the Verne Plan?

The Verne Plan changes the traditional idea that science is difficult, cold, and boring into one that is exciting and imaginable, such as the creative ideas highlighted in films like the Iron Man.

Under the Verne Plan, science fiction writers and scientists can expand and merge the boundaries of science and science fiction through creative cooperation. For example, when a new technology requires large-scale application, science fiction writers can be involved in early stages for their vision for more imaginative innovations. This is different from conventional innovation processes in that innovations are achieved through close cooperation between scientists and science fiction writers from the very beginning of the development process. One outcome of such cooperation is that innovations are expected to better address the needs and wants of end users.

In the near future, the Verne Plan may succeed in bring to people innovations that can truly change their lives forever. As in the case of electricity and TV, it is certainly exiting to imagine what can come from this creative cooperation between these individuals under an ambitious plan led by one of the tech giants of the world. Stay tuned!

Chenshun Hong

Water –A precious gift for life

English Reports, 世界, 环境

Introduction

 

Water (H2O) is called the precursor of life forms on planet Earth. Our planet Earth contains 3/4th part as water out of which 3% is available for our day to day life. The incessant population growth has created a tremendous pressure on fresh water reserve and it is being said that if we will not use this tiny resource wisely, the existence of life on blue planet will be at verge of extinction. Thus it is imperative for us to conserve it and use judiciously in our day to day life.

 

Tips to save water

 

  •  The taps should be turned off after use.
  •  Take bath by filling water in tub/ bucket instead of shower or running tap.
  •  Prefer watering the plants with water already used in kitchen.
  •  Use cistern in toilets with lesser capacity.
  •  Floods should be controlled by constructing dams and reservoirs.
  •  Recycling of water from factories and sewages should be preferred before its disposal.
  •  Water harvesting should be encouraged.
  •  More trees should be grown to increase the level of underground water.
  •  Better methods of irrigation like drip irrigation should be
  •  People should be educated about the utility of water.
  •  We should control the excessive use of pesticides and chemical to avoid water pollution.
  •  Use chemicals like ozone to destroy harmful micro organisms in water.
  •  Filtration of drinking water should be encouraged.
  •  House hold wastes should not be thrown into open drains, rivers, lakes, ponds, seas etc.
  •  Avoid cleaning of utensils and other works near the source of water.
  •  The government should launch plans for purification of water in rivers, lakes and ponds.
  •  The use of synthetic detergents should be discouraged.
  •  Prefer water saver taps.

 

Let us resolve today to use this tips and conserve water for future. Thus help the incoming generation to live on this beautiful planet.

 

Student: Hitesh P Sahani & Bhavik H Patel

water

 

http://www.cleanwateraction.org/ca/program_initiative

我的对于真理的实践经历 甘地

世界, 社会

我们至少要读一遍这本书。我和其他读者一样，这本书给我留下深深的印痕。这本书关于上个世界的一个伟人的自传。

这本书仔细地描述了甘地在真理和他的经历之间的矛盾挣扎。这本书给我们展示了甘地的精神世界。

这本书被分成5个部分。第一个部分讲述了甘地的童年生活，之后，简单描述了他在南非的生活。在南非，他接触并主张非暴力抵抗及不合作主义。这本书讲述甘地如何从一个平凡的人变成圣雄甘地。他在书中和读者分享了许多关于上帝和真理类似的基本信条。

对于甘地1921年之前的事情，这本书按照年代顺序来叙述他的故事。对于1921年之后发生的故事，都是家喻户晓。

甘地将他自己看做是一个反种族主义，殖民主义和暴力主义的人。甘地说在他追求真理的路上，因为上帝，他才有这些挑战和成功。

 

为了禅悟真正的真理，也就是上帝，甘地追求最纯洁的生活。他生活十分简单，每日吃素食，保持独身并且推崇无暴力主义。

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Student: 王爱

边界

社会, 经济

武汉大学人文科学实验班大三  陈卓雅

 

我是一位人物特写记者，我喜欢在咖啡馆里写作。尤其是狭窄胡同里头的那家咖啡馆，里面有年轻少女的体香混合着摩卡馥郁的味道。屋顶的庭院花园栽满了形形色色的花草，动物蜡像夹杂其中。难得在钢筋水泥的天际线里硬是挤出几分自然。值得一提的是，咖啡馆南面是电线繁密的市井圈，北面是玻璃幕墙的精英社会。我喜欢坐在庭院的摇椅上看这世间究竟有多少鸡毛蒜皮又有多少意乱情迷。

第一杯：蓝山

“先生，您的朋友来了。”黛西边放下手中的两杯蓝山边笑语盈盈对我说道。“黛西你别对我这么温柔，说不定哪天我爱上你就是苦难的源头。”我想既保有绅士风度又适时打趣她。“那可真是太对了。”黛西敛去笑容转身下楼。

一位白发苍苍的老人拄着拐杖上了楼，目光温和，举止风雅。“先生，我们从哪开始谈起呢？”我打开速记本，调好录音笔，礼貌性询问他的意见。“随你喜欢，小伙子。”老人嘴角微微泛起一个好看的弧度。

“你的职业是？”我先打开了问题的盒子。“我是一位战地摄影师，从上世纪三十年代开始就像吉普赛人一样到各个战地流浪。我曾在克里姆林宫前拍过作战的苏联红军，子弹嗖嗖从耳边掠过，空气里都是硝烟的味道与血腥的气息。也有一年我到了北非，徒步跟着驼队穿越大半个撒哈拉，在郊区教堂拍下一个印度裔英籍士兵用清水洗着他的长发，可是没过多久他就死了，因为踩到了教堂边的地雷。多么可笑！我在别人的国境内记录了一个又一个死亡，甚至于习惯了死神从我身边悄悄走过。有那么一瞬我曾想躺在公路上望望蔚蓝的天空，然后在松懈的一刹那被疾驰的汽车碾过，这样就不用夜夜对着照片里那些惊恐无助的眼睛，难以成眠。”老人忽地抬头，被高楼切得零碎的天空顿时阴暗了起来。

“听您的口音，您应该不是本地人吧。”我对他那混杂了多地方言的口音十分在意。“我是哪里人，我自己也不清楚。按理说我生在日本该是日本人才对，可是父母在我15岁那年带着全家迁去了香港，那我应该是英国人吧。我的身份没有人给过明确的答案，甚至于我自己也模糊了民族认同。当我以为自己是日本人时，日本人轰炸了我的家。当我以为自己是英国人时，英国士兵抢走了我逃难的唯一口娘。后来到了中国大陆，人们纷纷另眼相向。他们把我和弟弟——当时就只剩我俩，父母在那次日军轰炸中早已过世了——关在黑漆漆的房子里大喊着‘打倒鬼子’，活活把弟弟饿死了。我是中国人吗，也许是吧，护照上分明这样写着，但他们怎可以对同胞这样残忍呢？”老人低下头，从口袋掏出一块古铜色的怀表，“时间到了，我得走了，再见。”他匆匆下楼。

第二杯：摩卡

“看来我早到了呢，先生。”一位满脸胡碴的中年大叔正坐在我常坐的位子上。“给你点了杯摩卡。”他反客为主邀请我坐下。

“可以开始了，先生，礼节倒也不必了，说说你的故事吧。”我心绪不宁。“你想听什么呢，先生，我怕我的故事太过滥俗，你会大失所望。”他各种戏谑，戴着玩世不恭的面具。“我二十五岁那年跟青梅竹马的女友结婚了，那时候我是多么迷恋她的丰乳与美貌。两年后，我们的女儿出生了，她有一双棕褐色的大眼睛，哦，就像黛西一样，可爱极了。我一直以为自己可以平静地度完下半生，波澜不惊却又怡然自得。相信我，我真的是这样想的。”

“可是你放弃了这样的生活，因为你出轨了。”以这样滥俗的开头就该有滥俗的后续，我想。

“先生，生活是没有边界的，你不能事事分明，我只是拿回了属于我的东西——一个年轻女子的激情与迷恋。仅此而已。我爱上了她，她也为我着迷，我们并没有放弃什么，只是世俗容不下我们。仅此而已。”他沉思后又笑了，“尽管我们相差20岁，哦，对了，她还是我女儿的同学。”他虽然面容淡定但我竟奇异般地感应到他内心的苦涩。我摆摆手示意他继续，他却不语，一直打量着我的神情。“先生，你貌似不太喜欢我的故事，你的脸色这么难看，我想我还是去找下一个倾听者吧。”他留给我一个黯然的背影。我抑制不住困意，渐渐睡去，耳旁传来悠扬的风笛声。

第三杯：拿铁

待我睁开眼，暮色四合。眼前一个扎着双马尾的小女孩睁着大大的眼睛看着惺忪的我。又是这个穿着黄色裙子的小女孩，不止一次在庭院里遇见她了。

“我要出发了，先生。”她的必备台词又毫无违和感地出现。“我要去环游世界，坐着我自己做的船去浩瀚的银河。”她一脸期待，全然不顾我的毫不在意。“这次是真的，我要走了，不能再给你讲我读过的童话了。先生，不要缅怀我，虽然我不是飞机师，但我会成为小王子最喜爱的玫瑰。”她正色道，紧张地抓住了我的手。“一路顺风。”我不禁怅然，喉咙哽咽，怕是信了她的话。

她真的走了，拖着一堆箱子。箱子里是我送的一堆童话吧，或者是她写的从未及寄出过的千百封信件。漂洋过海，终会到达目的地。她说，她从不相信地球是圆的，她有能力冲破人们视域的边界到达银河，那里没有活着也没有死亡，只有永恒。我合上眼，群星璀璨。

黛西上楼走近庭院，霓虹华彩与灯火稀疏形成鲜明的对比。她看见父亲在庭院摇椅上神情安详，手指还夹着尚未熄灭的烟头。桌上的拿铁尚有余温，黛西如往常收拾好桌面，下楼，拿着听筒打了个电话。“他死了，就在刚才，你过来吧。”语气冰冷如同岁末寒冬。

翌日，报纸头条赫然写着：“九十岁高龄战地摄影师逝世，传长期为癔想症所扰。”黛西平静地合上报纸，冲了一壶茶送上楼。

“这些都是你的故事，不是么？父亲，都快一个世纪了，您越过人间这么多界限，还有什么遗憾呢？”黛西把茶浇在父亲的位子上。

第三日，这家咖啡馆歇业，据说是政府开发老城进行大规模拆迁。这座城市最后一块处于传统与变革间的象征性边界消失了。尽管如此，但故事不会消失，不是么？

 

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我的家乡

世界

我的家乡
在渤海边上，有一个月牙形的海岸，一个小渔村坐落在边上，在那里我开始了我正式的学习时光，那个地方是我的家乡—鲅鱼圈。
鲅鱼圈是辽宁省营口市的一个区，地域不大又略显繁华，虽谈不上大街小巷，但每一条道路边都或多或少有些人家。你可能会问，为什么叫鲅鱼圈？有一个故事浮现在我的脑海中。
相传，有一对老父子，父亲年迈患上了眼疾，儿子每天出海捕鱼却时常一无所获。有一天这个少年捕到了一条小鲅鱼，不料鲅鱼开口说话恳请少年放了它，少年心地善良便将它放回大海。后来才知道，这条鱼其实是海中的鲅鱼群的公主，公主为了感谢少年，用一颗带有灵气的珍珠作为报答，珍珠治好了老人的眼疾，也给他们带去了丰厚的食物。为了纪念鲅鱼公主的善举，后人称此处为鲅鱼圈。
而随着经济的发展，鲅鱼圈已不是曾经的小渔村，有了大大小小的百货商店，电影院、健身房、五星级酒店一应俱全，唯一不变的，是人们的淳朴、善良，和对美好生活的追求与向往。
这就是我美丽的家乡，在这里我度过了美好的小学时光，回忆如一缕清风，每时每刻推动着我前行。

恐怖组织

世界, 社会

ISIS是一个自称建国的活跃在伊拉克和叙利亚的极端恐怖组织。近几年，改恐怖组织不断制造各种恐怖袭击。

2015年2月3日，约旦飞行员莫亚兹·卡萨斯贝被IS组织绑架，最终被IS组织杀害。

2015年1月，法国杂志社《查理周刊》因讽刺IS领导人，IS组织对其发动恐怖袭击，导致12人死亡。

2015年2月，21明埃及人在叙利亚被斩首。

除了杀害人质，IS还破坏两千年前的古文明。可以说，ISIS的行为令人发指。

对于中国大多数城市，没有种族冲突，文化冲突及信仰冲突。恐怖主义也仅仅存在于电视，新闻中。但是，近几年，中国的部分地区，例如新疆地区，也遭受了恐怖袭击，死亡人数不断上升。IS组织声称其在中国有分支机构，因此，中国也面临新的反恐挑战。

 

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