"taste doe not matter, what I create does." I said to myself in the beginning of the decade. Last post is 2013, maybe it's time to hit refresh.
"This is the first time I forget my glasses probably since my elementary school!", he stares at his laptop in an extremely close distance and laughs. Even though his hair was long all white, that moment I feel the shade of the white gets whiter.
I met him in September 2010, the year first time I step onto this continent. I was instantly hooked when I saw Pink Floyd's album cover (dark side of the moon) in his lecture -- brownian motion was explained with the prism.
"your linear algebra sucks", back then I do not have fluent English, he was actually saying "your linear algebra is soft". This is how everything started, in a beautiful mistake.
We used to have numerous nonstop lectures from noon to night skipping meals.I got hooded by him. First time I did an internship, it was the entrance of Credit Suisse building, there were two side doors besides the main revolving door, he held the side door with a slight bow, introducing "welcome to Wall Street". I am delightful we still work together throughout the decade.
After today's research meeting we have some random chat, the mantra of our research is "we go with whatever data says". He told me an unintuitive scientific fact and an unexpected data point about himself: "when you are under stress, your heart rate will have less variance because you will generate a hormone that regulate the heart rate variability; you want to guess when was my most stressful period recently? It was me giving finals! It's strange right? but that's the heart rate reader says, we always go with the data!"
"Not taking finals, but giving finals, so you genuinely worry about the students cannot do well in the exam?" "Yes."
