This book tells about how humans and society evolve while nature degrades. David Attenborough’s stories are very interesting. I can’t resist talking about my own experiences. I have seen a lot of nature sites in both China and Canada, and the difference between the two countries is astonishing. I visited two coastal sites this year in China. The beaches there are full of plastic waste, except for one managed beach. I also have visited serval beaches in Canada....

There are two volumes of the book What is Education - Dark in the Light and Light in the Dark. The first volume tells stories where both students and teachers are suffering from the Japanese education system, while the second tells where excellent teachers persist in delivering diverse education and life experiences to students. What described in the book is only the tip of the iceberg. Those stories not only happen in Japan but also in China, Korea and other Asian countries....

I read these books on the same day and put my records here. 废除文科学部的冲击 This book starts with fake news that the Japanese government will remove liberal arts from universities. The author discusses this fake news and extends the topics to that what universities should be. It’s commonly viewed in Japan that “liberal arts are useless (when compared with engineering and science) but they shouldn’t be removed”. The author argues that liberal arts have long-term value to society which is often neglected by the public....

My team is using airflow to deploy jobs. I found this official document when I was searching for test automation in Airflow. After reading this document, I can tell a few bad practices my team is doing： Codes are not optimized, especially using external packages such as pandas and numpy. There is no unit test or integration test. Airflow variable is misused. We use it to store DAG-specific data but it’s not recommended....

I’m interested in Japan’s economy bubble so I find this book, written by Masaaki Shirakawa. I read the translated version in Chinese. The book is full of economy jargon which I don’t understand. The only thing I get from the book is that, political policies doesn’t matter much if you are in a bubble. Something will trigger the economy, early or late. The underlying industrial of a nation really matters....

Once my friend mentioned DevOps, and I got very interested in it even though I had heard it many times and seen the infinite loop figure as well. Perhaps it’s because this friend looks professional and I want to look like that as well. As a result, I read this book. Overview It’s a good book for whom have some understanding of the roles in tech companies, such as developers and operational maintainers....

I read this book, Principles of Risk Management and Insurance (by George E. Rejda and Michael J. McNamara) , because my job is related to the insurance industry. Understanding how insurance works can help me perform better in my daily job. Overview This book brings me a systematic view of the insurance industry, as well as details real-life problems. It’s a good book for whom are not professionals in this area but need some understanding of the insurance market....

This post records my React learning path. The content is organized by time order. The Official Tutorial The official tutorial guides you to build an online game board. To be honest, this is not a tutorial oriented for beginners with little JS knowledge. I followed the tutorial and was confused at the end of the tutorial. The W3Chools Tutorial The W3Chools Tutorial is well organized. It introduces JS and React and the beginning and then the grammar....

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