The World is Fucked

甲: How do you think about the world?

A: It's fucked!

甲: How about you?

B: It's fucked!

甲: And you?

C: It's fucked!

甲: Your opinion?

D: It's fucked!

甲: Your thoughts?

E: It's fucked!

甲: Do you have any different thoughts?

F: No, it's fucked!

甲: And you think so?

G: Yes, it's fucked!

甲: You?

H: It's fucked!

甲: You too?

I: It's fucked!

甲: I guess I've already known what you would say.

J: It's fucked!

甲: Of course, you must think the same way.

K: It's definitely fucked!

甲: I know, everyone has been in a rough time recently, the virus, the pandemic, the economy, the chaos, and the always politics, but is there any different thoughts other than it's fucked?

L: No, at least I don't have any. It's fucked for sure.

甲: OK, maybe I asked the wrong question. Do you think is there any POSITIVE ... things in the world?

M: The fucked world? No.

甲: Fine, that's really discouraging. Let's interview a child. The world in the eyes of a child is always better than that of an adult. Hey, young man, do you love the wonderful world?

N: No, I don't love the f**ed world, and FYI I am a girl.

甲: I'm sorry. I didn't expect that. What's wrong with these people?

O: The reason is simple: the world is fucked.

甲: But why do you think so? Can you show me a specific example?

P: What you are looking at is the exact example of the fucked world.

甲: When I was a child, I loved and appreciated everything I had and everyone I met. They were great and I thought they must sacrifice something to be here for me. Then I grew up, involuntarily and un-self-awarely, like an orange with scars that can't avoid rotting. I became one of the mediocre, an ordinary man, a piece of shit. I saw no future for myself. I just lived every day even without realizing I was getting older. But I knew, some parts of me were dying and when they died, they died forever. I became increasingly numb and no stories or news can touch me anymore. I don't even care if the world is going to end anymore or maybe I can say I even wish that happen. In the past, I always thought that it was my problem, but now I think I got another reason...

Q: The world is fucked.

甲: Yes, some people are fucking the world. With their fuckingism, they are torturing other people and themselves by trying to build their own version of a perfect world.

R: The fucked world.

甲: Yes, nobody succeeded. I wonder if there will be anyone who succeeds. They simply fucked the world and made it increasingly unsuitable for modern kids, because when they grow up they tend to fuck the world even further. They are educated to do so.

S: The fucked world is hopeless.

甲: When someone says hope, they are lying. And the reason ... mostly money. They want your fucking money and you want theirs so you can buy a better fucking dumb smartphone. And the interview? It also just for money, nothing else. I don't care about the truth if there is anyone. All things are relative now.

T: A symptom of the world being fucked.

甲: Yes, a symptom. But what is the disease? Is it the lagging of human wisdom behind the development of technologies? Is it the barbarism that still plagues human beings? Will humans evolve to a better version after the current shit? I don't know. I think it will happen. Humans will be better eventually, but it still can't change the fact that I am living in shit. You know what lives in a shit, maggots. There are so many maggots. They eat shit and shit more shit.

U: It's a tragedy for us to be here in this time when the world is fucked so hard that everyone feels pain in the ass.

甲: The world is composed of every single one of us. The world is fucked, so are we.

V: It's fucked! FUCK!

甲: FUCK!

W: You said just I want to say about the fucked world.

甲: It doesn't matter anymore, right? We won't do anything to improve the fucked world. We'll just wait until the world changes itself somehow. Or maybe, the future generations will transform it actively, though none of them will be my descendant. I won't have kids. I don't deserve them.

X: Kids don't fit the fucked world.

甲: But they will adapt. They always adapt. Or they kill themselves. Either way, things keep going.

Y: A keep-going on fucked world is still a fucked world.

甲: True, and the pointless interview should stop now. It seems you haven't said anything yet. Any last comment about the world?

Z: It's fucked.

甲: In conclusion, the world is fucked.

drag force 和 pull force

drag force 和 pull force 都可译为「拉力」，但两者存在重要差别。pull force 是指作用于物体运动方向上的拉力，是动力；而 drag force 是作用于物体运动的反方向上的「拉力」，是阻力。

如下图所示：

关于「汉字」

「汉字」目前最常见的英语译法是「Chinese character」，但这个词组实际对应的含义应该是「汉语字符」。由于我们通常并不认为各种标点符号是汉字，所以「汉字」与「汉语字符」这两个集合实际上并不完全重叠——前者只是后者的一个子集。

我简单搜索了一下，这个问题之前也有人思考过，比如南方周末发的《为「汉字」的英文正名》，其中列举了更多理由，包括：

• Chinese character 具备多种含义，如华人角色、中国人的性格
• 日本汉字和韩语/朝鲜语谚文均有各自源自本身的英文词来表示：kanji 和 Hangul
• 楔形文字（cuneiform）和圣书体（hieroglyph）都有各自对应的专属词

文章最后建议将「汉字」译为「hanzi」，我认为是妥当的。

另外，脑洞几个变形形式：

• 复数：hanzis
• 名词：hanzification（汉字化）
• 形容词：hanzic（汉字的，与汉字有关的），hanzifible（可汉化的），hanzificated（经过汉字化的），hanziful（满是汉字的）
• 动词：hanzify（汉字化）

关于「挖矿」的「mine」

「mine」用作动词时可表示挖掘出某种东西（比如矿石、信息），比如数据挖掘（data mining）是指在数据寻找信息。
「mining」也被用于指代比特币等数字货币产生新币以及验证交易的过程，这个过程涉及到求解复杂的数学难题，而且这些难题的答案往往具有随机性，因此这个过程既需要工作劳动，也要看运气，颇为类似于早期挖掘金矿的矿工。也因此，在这方面，「mining」常被译为「挖矿」，对应的「miner」则为「矿工」。
但我认为这样的直译并不妥当，一是可能造成误解（我认识的多个人都听说过比特币，但对挖矿这个词显然存在极大的误解），二是虽然较高的抽象层面上与「挖金矿」有类似之处，但「挖矿」这个汉语词本身无法体现这实际上是一个计算过程。
为此，我建议将这方面的「mine」译为「挖算」或「掘算」或「采算」。相应地，「miner」则为「挖算工」或「挖算人」或「挖算商」或「挖算公司」。

关于「图」

转自 ZeroNet：http://127.0.0.1:43110/1FoczfX4tQXssoZKaLtyfp5PJ1iMi4rYsE/?Post:25

在一些 AI 相关论文中，至少有四个英文词可以翻译成「图」，而且有的词的含义之间还存在重叠，这在很多时候会引起混淆，导致不必要的麻烦。下面给出四个词的辨析，以及我的一点看法（但不一定正确）。

1. picture：可理解为图片、图像、影像等等，做名词时和 image 基本重叠。但很少看到 picture 用在技术名词词组中，比如「图像处理」是 image processing，而非 picture processing。所以通常译为「图片」。
2. image：见上，通常译为「图像」，但在和医疗相关时会译为「影像」，比如「医疗影像」是 medical image。另外 image 可做动词，表示「成像」，比如「实时成像」是 real-time imaging。
3. graph：可表示用图片展示的函数关系，也可表示变量之间的关系结构（参考图论）。在目前的很多译文中，graph 通常都被译为「图」，但如果这个图表示的是图像对象之间的关系，往往就会在这篇文章中产生混淆。所以我在想也许应该为 graph 提供一个新的译法。根据已被广泛接受的「知识图谱（knowledge graph）」，我想也许可以将 graph 的依法统一成「谱图」或「图谱」。
4. map：将 map 翻译成「图」的地方主要是与 feature map（特征图）相关的概念。 feature map 可以理解成是将数据向量映射到特征空间的一个函数。基于这个概念，我觉得将其翻译成「映射图」会更为妥当。另外，map 做动词除了表示「映射」，也可表示「绘制地图」，比如 3D mapping 是指「三维地图测绘」。不过细想一下，绘制地图本身其实也是一种映射——将地理情况映射到地图上。