Following yesterday’s post about Giselle, I want to discuss a topic that lies close to my heart—musicality in ballet. As a former professional flutist, my perspective may be biased, but I firmly believe that musicality is often underestimated in ballet performances. Let’s begin with a snippet from the Bolshoi Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty. It’s worth noting that Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre on March 4, 1877. Today, the Bolshoi Ballet is considered one of the best in the world in 2024. ...

Not the standard choreography of Giselle’s variation. Surreal, pure artistic beauty. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Só Bailarinos (@renatosobailarinos) ...

A common way of debug during programming is to print() information at critical checkpoints in the program. But sometimes, you’ll get tired of endless verbose console outputs… So here’s a solution use logging Logging is a means of tracking events that happen when some software runs. The software’s developer adds logging calls to their code to indicate that certain events have occurred. …Events also have an importance which the developer ascribes to the event; the importance can also be called the level or severity. ...

The trial lasted for three weeks—Sep. 9 to Sept 27—mic drop🎤. my views and summarizations: get you 🍿popcorn🍿 ready | the DOJ vs. Google DOJ vs. Google | DOJ’s complaints DOJ vs. Google | the paper box DOJ vs. Google | DOJ’s complaints, breaking down | Part I DOJ vs. Google | DOJ complaint break down | Part II DOJ vs. Google | Waterfall Auction -> Header Bidding -> Open Bidding, All Explained DOJ v. Google | Google’s defense DOJ v Google | Paul Milgrom pushes adtech nerds’ carnivals to a next level what comes next? The court will now take a nearly two-month break before reconvening for closing arguments right before Thanksgiving. ...

Following the previous discussion about the problematic post-graduate admission system. Fudan University (FDU)’s School of Management announced the students who defaulted their offers FDU university annouced the name and their undergraduate affiliation of the students who defaulted their offer. (translated version) original archived here. original link. It happens every year, everywhere. FDU chose to list the students as a threat but it doesn’t seem to work well because the list of name grows longer year by year… ...

Listen to the song, and let’s welcome October to join us! When September Ends

China’s higher education system features a unique postgraduate enrollment mechanism known as “recommendation for postgraduate studies,” or “保研” (Bao-Yan) in Chinese. This system has evolved into a complex game between students and university admissions offices, where commitments are frequently made and then broken, leading to a chaotic landscape of mutual defaults. Students colloquially refer to the act of reneging on commitments as “鸽” (pigeon someone off), reflecting a playful nod to certain aspects of the strategy. ...

The DOJ v Google antitrust trial comes to an end—lasting only three weeks. Before the recap and a detailed dive down into Google’s defense, here’s two fun/exciting news: Prof. Paul Milgrom testifies for Google The DOJ is going to have a hard time. Google certainly knows to get the best person to do the job. According to Tom Blakely from inside the courtroom: As soon as his testimony began, I realized [Prof. Paul Milgrom] would be a formidable witness, not just because of his outstanding intellect and subject matter expertise, but because he is the kind of witness that is simply challenging for a counterparty to deal with. An older gentleman, he was equal parts charming, intelligent, poised, unflagging while enduring hours on the stand, and spoke with the quiet confidence and humility of the wisdom of his years. ...

More popcorn for the ongoing, unprecedented, exciting DOJ v Google trial. During the trial, Google has put forward an illustration to highlight its stance. the spaghetti football—by Google But it seems that (according to people attending to the court) that this approach has backfired. The figure “made it evident that Google is ubiquitous in digital advertising.” Well, as the saying goes, if you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit…

The Department of Justice has been really occupied lately… Official announcement on Sept. 24, 2024: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-visa-monopolizing-debit-markets: “The Justice Department filed a civil antitrust lawsuit today against Visa for monopolization and other unlawful conduct in debit network markets in violation of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act” Link to the complaint filing: https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1370421/dl. The following is a snippet of DOJ’s press release that gives a sense of what is happening: Visa wields its dominance, enormous scale, and centrality to the debit ecosystem to impose a web of exclusionary agreements on merchants and banks. These agreements penalize Visa’s customers who route transactions to a different debit network or alternative payment system. In so doing, the complaint alleges, Visa locks up debit volume, insulates itself from competition, and smothers smaller, lower-priced competitors. ...