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I define a perfect organism is the one can fit into almost any environment.
I believe a perfect organism is an organism have perfect control of itself and smart enough to use that ability.

I wish there are ways to improve the human body into a perfect organism.
With the invention on DNA & Protein computers and research on cloning and stem cells, I see some really cool stuff going to happen some day.

I imagined there are some virus infect each of my cell a certain DNA. Then the ribosomes work on the DNA create computers and microscopic machines. Soon it can establish connection with other cells. Each cell become it's own computational machine.

The the cells start to organize themselves and improving it's own internal structure, make it capable of doing many movements easily and fast. Like stretch the cell, emit certain amount of carbon, store w/e material.

If there is a huge computation required to be done. I can be spread out to each cell in the body and do it in parallel, even in my sleep.

Cells can even change their specific functions according to it's need.

The brain can control each single cell of the body directly. There is ways to search for specific cells. One can even tag their favorite cells so they can access it easily. For example, I store a copy of wikipedia in one of my cell. Some movies in another cell.

I can change my own shape!

Also if I only have part of my body, I can grow them back. But implant a cloned body part would be faster. Body parts can be cloned so if part of it loose function, a new one can be replaced. With the already powerful biomechnical cells, it will recognize the new body part and incorporate it back into the body in few minutes. Pro human cloning!

Humm, then I can arrange my cells so fast, if someone shoots me, I will create a hole in my body to let it go though. Or grow a exoskeleton... and digest it when I don't need it.

There will be both biomechanical cells and specialized non-bio cells for specific purposes, like there can be cells store specific chemicals. Those non-bio cells can be constructed by the small molecular machines.

I can use almost anything as energy. I can use the chemicals stored inside of me digest anything, and filter out the garbage, and store the garbage in the specialized skin cells that can falls easily. Or I can carry the garbage around, who knows when it will be useful.

It is all possible, but extremely complex. I believe one day some organisms will evolve to that stage, and become immortal.

Look at the Human sociality, doesn't it look like what I'm talking about? Humans are just like cells, they can make a lot of changes to the surroundings. When some part of the human sociality is lost, new ones can be generated. They can face devastating impacts, and knows how to counter against some of them.

Except, humans, can not be controlled easily.

Maybe when organism going into that huge complexity, part of them are not controllable.

My Predicted Score after I take those tests
AP Computer Science AB: 5
AP Statistics: 3 or 4
AP Calculus BC: 3 or 4
AP Chinese Language and Culture: 5

Mistakes I made before the test:

1. Chose to take AP Statistics because everyone in school tell me it is so easy. A week before the AP test, the same people are complaining how hard the materials are.
2. Start to study for the APs 1 week before it starts. Which leave me only 2 days to work on AP Calculus because AP Statistics used up more time than I expected. I only had chance to comprehend and master Calculus AB material, I did not have time to practice for the BC material.
3. Sleep Deprived
4. Did not made plan about special incidents. For example, I left a week for me to study. It would be enough and I could get 4 or 5 on the BC if unexpected events did not happen. I was forced to clean the lawn(total of 3 hours, enough for me to go over 2 sections and does all the practice questions for them). I cannot concentrate in school. After I realized that, I skipped school. but again, at least 3 hours was wasted due to school.
5. I did not get familiar with my TI 89. I'm using 83+ after it was returned to me all the time except 1 day before the test.

Mistakes I made during the test:

1. I eliminated answers and I'm suppose to guess one answer, but I tell myself to check back when I have time. I didn't have time so I didn't make the guess thats going to benefit me.
2. Not reading the question right
3. Did not recognize well known identities. For example, this is an variation of the AP Calculus BC question(I can't disclose the original one)
   What does this series converge to?
   
   This question took me over 1 minute.
   First, I recognize it's a Taylor series, but I remembered the Taylor series equation wrong(due to lack of sleep and little practice). When I recognize I got the Taylor series equation wrong, I found another way to look at it. I expressed it in the summation form
   
   and it's very familiar to me that
   
   not because of calculus, but because of the proof of Euler's identity.
   Of course, now looking at it, I should be able to recognize the all degree of derivative is always 1 means it must .

After Thoughts:

1. I should leave myself some more time to study
2. Don't just believe in what people(even if a lot people says that) say about something, I need to investigate myself.
3. There are always assumptions in my plan that doesn't work. I should give me some more space so even if some assumption was wrong, I still have enough time to finish it.
4. I'm still happy. At least I currently know how good I am.
   I know how hard is the AP calculus BC test. Since I know everything in the test, I know what exactly each question is talking about and I know what exact technique is required to solve it. The only reason I failed is I forget how to apply a technique(Euler's method. I did the day before hand), and I know how to apply a technique but I'm too slow(I forgot the formula for left Riemann sum and used some time to draw pictures and find the formula) and eventually make me chose to skip them and do the other ones instead.
5. Actually, for all of my math tests in US, I never study for them. I never practice for my math tests. I always just understand the material, and derive the formula during the test. I'm not the first one to finish math tests in my class because of that reason. AP Calculus BC is one of the test that make this technique fail. There is simply not enough time for me to derive all the formulas, the test covers so much material. Compare to normal math test I take at school, there is only 1 chapter each time, only 1 or so formula I have to figure out. I did fast and great on the ones where I remember the formula, and failed the rest.
6. Ads on Facebook is so retarded. Can't it figure out who is male or female?
   
7. Wow, check out the synonyms. Wiktionary have a long way to go...

Hope I get a 4 on calc.
Damn you Alex, you got a 5 on your freshman year!

For the past few days, I have been working on my AP test. I'm trying to get 5s on all my AP test despite I never took the course. The first AP test I'm taking is on May 6th.
I'm taking AP computer science AB, AP statistics, AP Calculus BC, AP Chinese[I am Chinese so I'm pwning this test like 90% of the test takers] and AP Chemistry.
I'm currently enrolled in AP Chemistry, so I have to study from the ground up for the 3 test left. I thought I can finish three college level course in a week, and it's not as easy as I thought, so I'm spending a lot of extra time these days, averaging 4 hours of sleep and the rest time is study.(I go to school but I don't listen in class... ever... the school is restricting my potentials)

Today, I didn't go to school. Catch up on my sleep and do more study.

I'm overwhelmed... but I still take the time to blog, because I saw a great post card, a very inspiring post card.

I eventually will die, if I can't handle the work load, I can never succeed. Then I will not just die, I would die in regret. Regretting why I didn't work harder on life, to get what I always wanted.

When people ask me why I chose to take so many tests when I never learned anything about it. I tell them the fake reasons I can think of:

I do APs for the lolz.

if I get all 5 after 1 week of study, that means AP test are overrated, and that would be an great newspaper commentary in our school newspaper. Also giving people hope that they can study the week before the test.

The AP calc test is the highest level of the standardized math test that I can handle right now1. I like to reach the climax of my ability, it's like a math orgasm.

But really, I'm doing it to prove something. Prove something to myself, not anyone else.
I want to know my capabilities--can I handle everything thrown at me?
People said I always do things that in the end screw myself. They are right.
I make many mistakes that work in the way I did not expected, and putting me in a worse situation than before. But, it's a great thing, getting screwed by my own choice.
Each screwing give me more knowledge about what I can handle, and I will not get screwed the same way again. I, as a person, learn and grow from getting screwed by own my decisions.

I also want to prove how much no-life I can get. I have to keep myself from having a life if I want to get into USAMO because I don't have talent, I can only work though hard work and hope people who have talent doesn't work as hard.

I am overwhelmed. But when I die, I can rest happily because I know I have never backed down from the overwhelming work. I did my best.

This Saturday I also have to take the SATs.
After the APs, I will have a 1 day rest, and I will start to work on math.
Taking ACT in June.
Expect this blog became very math oriented starting at June.

Hope this card inspires you too.

1. 1. GRE Mathematics Subject test is the climax of all standardized math subject test

Box

Open Box

Everything inside the box

This will fit great with my newly organized room. Basically I made my room into one compact space. Bed + Study = same place :)

General Overview of the bookshelf + window

The human genome wall poster

Dirty light.

Bookshelf level for testing material and math and a WPI cube ;)

Bookshelf level for advanced math material, computer science and web development with some Chinese pens. I love those Chinese pens.

Bookshelf level for small books and some math resources

Magazines, include PC magazine, PC world, Game developer, Computer shopper and two other game magazines.
I got them all for free.

Collection of problems sets.

There will be future posts on this topic too :)
I offer a solution if I can think of one.
No standards or too much standards in one field:
If there is more than one standard, it basically destroy the point of standards.
Why don't US start to use SI like every other developed country in the world?
Solution: Get congress to pass a law so all textbooks only use SI.

Uneducated people:
It's interesting that uneducated people often think they know a lot about the world when they in fact, knows nothing.
Solution: Everywhere is education oriented. Like say, Jail. People in Jail have to learn enough stuff and have to take the standardized test so they can get out.

Extreme nationalism and racial pride
That's the cause of a lot of incidents in this world.
Grace Wang is a true hero. It take balls to do what she did if you know what Chinese nationalist extremist(which is a different name forfascist) are like.

These are the Chinese people in Hefei(where I lived most of my life) protesting against the Olympic Torch Relay incident in France by boycotting Carrefour and not allow anyone enter the store because Carrefour is owned by French people.
I think China is the country with most racial pride I have ever seen. They automatically make everything an issue of "The pride of our nation!" If an outsider(say, Japanese dude) punched some Chinese guy in the face for w/e reason, it is going to be a storm of "Protect the national pride and start attack other countries with curse words and hack their website" everywhere around the web.
BTW I have been to that store... the item in their is expensive
Carrefour is going to half price everything in the International Workers Day, where everyone will have a 7 day off in China. The "Carrefour boycott day" is also on that date. I would like to see what happens. I wish I'm in China so I can buy a lot off nice goodies for even cheaper price. But I heard there is a possibility I get beaten by extremists if I bought anything. Anyway.

Solution: Force people to breed with other race. US conquer the world.

Debate though personal attacks or ignoring the other side

Ok, but do you have any support of what you are saying?
Your mom told me, you fag.

According to [some place] [something] have [some chance] of [w/e].
Umm, I don't care what you say or w/e the entire world says, I'm ALWAYS right.

More examples can be found on here.
Solution: None, unless we kill 99.99% of humans...

Biased Media
Not everything you see on the news is unbiased or the whole truth. Something is covered up to sway the audience to another side. Happens in China and every other country.
Solution: None. Media will always have bias.

Many languages
For god's sake, everyone pick up one language and forget the rest. We are making the world more complex by having so many languages! Start use Lojban!
Solution: Force people to learn Lojban after all humans are multiracial and under one government's control

Culture
People fear lose of culture, that's why they don't make changes to many things. Like language! There are thing acceptable in one culture but not the other.
Solution: Make people think culture is a bad thing, make it only something humanities study. Or create a standardized culture.

History
History made who we are, and it decides what we will be.
Solution: none. We will always have history

Education system
There is still too little freedom in education system, it doesn't suit the need of everyone.
Solution: More specialized education system, like a student can study nothing but math for 4 years.

People who think computer science is learning about word/excel
That includes my mom. She think everyone knows computer science because it is so easy. Everyone can work on a computer.
Having the word computer in it doesn't make it word/excel!
Solution: Get people educated. They should stop making assumptions.

People who live their dream by letting their children accomplish them
My dad says he will not pay for my college tuition if I chose to major in Mathematics. because he think I can't earn good money if I'm a math major. He just want me to be rich and live the life he can't live.
Solution: None.

People who get offended by many things
I hate sensitive people. Get some lotion.
Solution: None, they are born sensitive

Humanitarianism
Why don't we obey the law of nature and do natural selection? You should stop interfere with other countries. Let people die, because it will be for the good of themselves and future people. How can we save everyone when the resource is clearly getting used up?
Solution: None, they have their freedom of religion

Humanities
I hate all Humanities classes except philosophy. I don't care about arts, literature, languages and music. Humans don't have to study them to live on. What did the humanities ever do to contribute to the invention of better technologies. What did essays like "Why Hamlet made w/e choice" can help the humans in general?
Solution: Make the world emphasis more on science.

Spam
Nuff said.
Solution: Nuke Nigeria. Fine spammers. Jail Spammers.

Noobs
Solution: None.

People who group math into the big category "science"
If you really have to group math, it's Formal Science. But I don't like math been called a science. Because usually science require the "scientific method" and experiments.
Solution: Call the combination of science and math. Mascienth.

People who believe if I like math, I must like science
No. Doesn't work like that
Solution: Tell them I DON'T like science. I DON'T like to do experiments.

The Game
You just lost The Game.
I can never escape that game. That's like fate. I hate fate.
Solution: Win The Game by never think about it.

Syosset High School
Syosset High School(SHS) is the most overpaid high school in Long Island. There are a few things I hate not because those things are bad. it's because I'm jealous.

1. They have very fun math class that actually EXPLORES many math never mentioned in normal high school curriculum. They learned about fractals, graph theory and other kind of "OMG I wish my school is teaching that." I believe if I'm in that class, I'm just going to relearn what I already know, but that's not the point. I want to have something fun to discuss in my math class instead of learning derivative for days and do simplest practice possible.
2. They have AP classes we don't have. Like AP Calculus BC. We stopped at AP Calculus AB.
3. Natalie Portman is from SHS.
4. People in SHS knows there is AMC test, student in our school don't even know what that "A" stands for.
5. They enter FIRST Tech Challenge, and they have a club called "Technology club". In our school, we don't know what technology is... technology is an abstract idea... like facebook poke...
6. They have more than one smart board in classroom, and they use it for math.
7. There was a girl in SHS I found very cute, now she is in Jericho high school, btw I hate that school too.
8. SHS have a better wikipedia article than my school. And I started the wikipedia article.
9. No one in my school have done AIME this year. SHS has.
10. SHS have more Siemens/Intel semifinalist/finalist than my school
11. They have better quiz bowl and Long Island Challenge team..
12. There is a dash in my school's name. WTF.
13. SHS students actually cares about academics.
14. My school spend 10K on a internet blocking device and it blocked mathworld while I can buy guns and drugs online. One more reason to hate SHS.
15. Our hall pass system is a failure, it waste my time... me.. the never cut class person. If I want to cut one class I cut the whole day, screw hall passes.
16. My school's always don't have money for anything.
17. SHS student government funds other clubs... our student government focus mainly on... dances. Which proves that most students in my school doesn't care about academics, again.
18. My school rarely win any competition in scientific, computer science and mathematic field. SHS is the complete opposite.
19. MIT!!!!
20. There are more linux users in SHS than mine... it's usually directly proportional to average awesomeness density of students.
22. OMG I hate how suck my school is compare to SHS.
23. Most of the above applies for Ward Melville too