My friend Nassim Talib has just written a book about it called-- maybe I'll talk about that--called The Black Swan.

我的朋友纳西姆·塔利博刚刚写了一本书,叫做"黑天鹅现象",以后我会再讲到

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It's something that someone else wrote or maybe you wrote, but you can encapsulate all of your ideas or your functionality inside this thing called a function.

它是别人或你自己写的，但是你可以压缩你所有的想法,或者你这个东西里面的功能叫做一个函数。

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We know there is no thing called a massless rope, but most ropes have a mass, but maybe negligible compared to the two blocks you are pulling, so we'll take the idealized limit where the mass of the rope is 0.

我们都知道无质量的绳子是不存在的,是绳子就有质量,但是相比于这两个物体就可以忽略不计了,所以我们有了这个理想的条件,即绳子的质量都是 0

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I want to play this one with the piano a little bit and I ask you the name of the composer of this piece-- it's a bit less well known but maybe not-- what it's called and when in the history of music it was written.

我会用钢琴演奏一小段,然后我会问它的作曲是谁,这曲子有点不太知名,也说不准,它叫什么,在音乐史上是什么时期创作出来的

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Last year for the pieces that do vary year to year a bit, last year's first problem set challenged students to write their first or maybe second or third program using this environment called Scratch.

去年的教材有些地方有略微改动，去年的第一个问题集是让学生,在Scratch环境下,写下自己的第一或第二个或第三个程序。

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And this is a little different from what happened ten or so years ago, but the so-called Y2K problem was essentially the result of programmers not really having the foresight to realize, "Maybe we shouldn't use so few bits or so few digits to represent a year because eventually this will be a problem."

这个跟10年前发生的事情有点不一样,那个所谓的“Y2K“问题,本质上的结果是,程序员没有真实地预见和认识到，“可能我们没必要用到这些位数或数字,来表示一年，但是最终这个将会,是个问题“

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Maybe F = -kx should be called Newton's law?

也许应该把 F = -kx 称作牛顿定律

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