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Wow OpenDyslexic ist wirklich hilfreich.
Plötzlich kann ich verstehen, was ich lese.
DAMN English orthography sucks.
Übrigens hat Octavian viele Namen, was echt interessant ist. Ich glaube, das ist irgendwie schwierig, sich das zu merken, weil es so viele "Caesaren" in der Geschichte des Römischen Reiches gab.
In sum: Wow I'm making some progress. GOOD.

The story actually feels way less dramatic compared to the movie.
Anyway I'm finished, wow!

Wow!
Electrolyze the water Mark brought with him to get Hydrogen as additional fuel? DAMN SMART. Didn't expect the two thing to be related.
And yes, the modification. I remember it since I've read it for the first time, but wow, such radical!
Finally realized why I love it. SO DAMN HARDCORE!

Made it to Schiaparelli, bypassed the sandstorm... And the rover rolled.
I knew it Andy, it's a damn sci-fi.

Well, arithmetics.
I'd say it's actually more intuitive than what I've expected it to be.
I'm going to reread the entire book after finishing it anyway, plenty of time left!

A bunch of things. Dunno how to describe here briefly. So let's say I'm making some progress.

Mark is testing the modification on the rover as planned.
Energy from solar panels will reduce because of a Martian sandstorm? At least it's a fiction, Mark is going to working it out.

Pathfinder's dead, as expected (cuz it's a DAMN SCI-FI, this is just how story works).

Rich Purnell Maneuver.
Get to Ares 4 MAV in Schiaparelli, rendezvous with Hermes, which will be in a flyby.
DAMN didn't notice Andy Weir's incredibly hardcore settings here.
Raumflugmechanik! Already love it.

对了，突然有了有趣的想法：
On the road to Avalon
I met the elf
The insect, the elf from Avalon
Children's mind powered their strength
Their strength weakened
As imagination faded away
Fairytales died, comics live

这本书其实是我几年前买的，今天再次开始读里面的短篇故事。
我一直惊讶于阿西莫夫极其丰富的想象力——其中很多短篇故事的点子我都能在现在的科幻小说中看到影子。Multivac, 代表式民主走到尽头，*心灵的力量*，观察历史etc.
虽然文本因为翻译部分有些难读懂，内容还是很丰富。
流石最高のSci-Fi作家、永遠まで（虽然未来比过去要短得多lol）

Why did I just stop writing long updates?
DAMN, at least I've already known the end—Mark won't die, which is a really good news to me.
Still going.

Well a lot of things happened.
DAMN I think if I were there stranding on Mars it'd be a insta death lol
Andy framed Mark well.

Well, I'm still reading.

Brilliant!
Andy Weir has depicted Mark as a really resilient person, and DAMN he’s smart, more precisely his strong execution.
Such intelligence is more about remaining optimistic in challenging circumstances and being able to implement plans.

I'm making progress, good.

Wow hadn't noticed that Mark was in such a hurry lol
DAMN bro, hydrogen wouldn't completely react with oxygen, and Mark just used his high school level chemistry a bit, assuming it would, which now feels kind of hilarious to me.
He's a botanist anyway. What else should I even anticipate?

Just picked it up and started reading it again.
I believe I bought and read it in early 2023, maybe March. I was in Grade 6 that time (yeah I'm still pretty young even now) and wasn't really good at reading. It's basically the first book I've read deliberately in English as a child, which is pretty cool.
Briefly after picking it up I found out that I still remember a small portion of the text in a few chapters. Cool.

Fire alone will save our clan!

刘慈欣的书读起来挺简单的。
不过读起来挺顺畅的，不奇怪我很早之前为什么可以读完。

经典的刘慈欣味lol
文笔其实不算好，但内容很顺畅，让人忍不住往下读。
《球状闪电》我之前其实看过——差不多是两三年前了。现在再次拿起这本书主要还是因为当时看到的故事已经忘得差不多，想要refresh一下。

Seems like lot of things happened.
Islam invaded and ruled Spain, Great Britain being invaded by Germans. The Norse people plundered in Northern and Eastern Europe etc.
Bro this book is pretty compact.

看到这里已经注意到毛宣传上的特点：
1. 毛很擅长给行为/思潮下定义，然后放到辩证法的框架中进行思考，并顺势抛出自身立场。
2. 毛使用的语言很朴实，定义明确，易理解。这在中国抗战时期背景下的政治宣传中是极其有优势的。
不过同样，毛也在定义中犯了错——至少是歪曲了部分概念。如毛将自由主义定义为「犹豫」、「散漫」，将个人主义定义为「宽以待己严以待人」etc. 这些歪曲实际上让中国在建国后很长的时间内（甚至直至今日）都*无脑*反对这些被批判过的思潮。
同时，给行为/广义上的思潮贴标签并给出「好/坏」的二元评价在抗战时期和建国早期大众文化水平不高的背景下是极其有效的，但在大众文化水平提高后使用则容易被歪曲。这或许也是大跃进和文革发生的部分因素。

没有更多新总结。但可以谈谈想法：
1. 毛非常擅长浅显易懂地剖析一个概念。
2. 毛的立场非常鲜明，也很自洽。不愧是伟人。
3. 毛的很多解释为政治服务，也很实用主义。但从学术上讲其实不太准确。概念服务于目的。
4. 人民万岁！

只看了开头就立刻感受到了毛泽东政治写作方面的特点。
1. 非常明确。内容几乎不绕圈子，直截了当地表达立场和诉求。我觉得这大概是为了在宣传中清楚得表态以及传递意见。
2. 文字很朴实。基本上不存在复杂词汇，所有内容甚至对于现在的小学三年级学生都应该能轻松理解。或许这反应了当时文章的受众。
3. 反复强调，使用排比句。这个算是典型政治宣传类文章的特点了——「排比表强调」，这一点大多数人小学就学过。而实际效果上也正是这样：大量使用的排比句，以及适当对同一态度的反复表达都在加深内容于人们心中的印象。
综合来讲：是非常适合那个时代的政治动员文章。

OK，讲的是非欧几何学。
讲得挺浅显的，几乎没怎么深入。

这章主要讲的是圆和相关的历史。
因为里面几何内容有点多，所以我算是匆匆看完，没有仔细阅读。
几何学最神奇的位置就在于它基于特定的几条简单的假设（比如欧式几何的五条），而这几条假设并非定义明确的公理，而是隐含大量公理和推断的公设。这也就导致看似简单的几条公设引入了大量的定理和尚未解决的问题。
这在喜欢几何学的人眼中或许正是它有趣的位置，不过对我来说还是太需要直觉了。我的eureka时刻不多，暂时不想用在几何学上。

其实还不错。但自从看了Halmos的Naive Set Theory后就感觉书中对自然数的构造讲解还是太浅薄了——不过考虑到受众为大众群体就感觉相对可以接受了。
现在看完的页面基本讲解了数作为概念的出现和表示数的方法的发展，顺便提了通过皮亚诺公理从1生成自然数这一点——不过并不详细。
当故事看是没什么问题的，很放松。