Category: Broadcast

Broadcast on October 16, 2020

Definition (multiple senses)

Religion
The Last Passion of Christ (movie)
Suffer for a cause

Music
e.g musical piece about St. Matthew

General
Enthusiasm about something
Passion for helping
Passion of life
Attitude

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Success

may require Passion and Persistence in addition to Talent, Big Dreams, Purpose, Goals

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Caution

Nazis and Fascists also have Passion and Goals

Uncontrollable Passion can produce i’ll effects

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Samples

Passion to publish Myanmar magazines overseas
Golden / Shwe Padauk Magazine
Mandalay Gazette
Myanmar Gazette

Passion to prevent starvation (during the pandemic)
14 Local Groups giving out 6 Pyi of rice to eligible households

Passion to help the prevention and treatment of Covid
Donation by individuals and groups around the world
Cash
Kind (equipment, test kits, ambulance car …)

Passion to develop young leaders
Various programs (e.g Community Centers)
On-line courses (various countries
some by retired educators and professionals)

Passion to pay back the metta and cetana of sayas
Saya Pu Zaw Pwe
Health Care for senior sayas

Broadcast on October 29, 2020

Types

• Patent
• Trademark
• Copyright
• Trade Secret

Patent

Patent Law

Varies with Countries

Patent Office

Patent Search

Patent Types

Utility

Design

Plant

Patent Examples

Steeve Kay (U Thaung Sein) and team of IC designers
MOSFET Power Amplifier

Dr. Lay Kay (co-founder of QTC with her elder brother Steeve)
6 patents related to “Disability Claims”

Contentions

John Mauchly’s visit to Iowa College and Atanasoff-Berry’s ABC

Patent violation cases in Computers and Communications

Copyright

Tangible products

Books

Songs

…

After expiration, enters Public Domain

Trade Secret

Example

Coca Cola

Miscellaneous

COPYLEFT
Free Software Foundation

Some small companies (with sizable IP) are bought by big companies

Cross-licensing of patents by big companies

Broadcast on October 12, 2020

Types

Dictator / Tyrant
…
Egoless / Servant Leader

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Qualities

L : Listener
Last to speak at meeting
Lead by example
Leverage technology

E : Ethical
Energetic
Entrepreneurial (set Vision)

A : Authentic (true to self)
Aware
Analytical
Act

D : Decisive
Democratic
Dedicated

E : Egoless (not selfish)
Enquiring mind
Enthusiastic

R : Rational
Responsible (Accountable)
Realistic

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Not all managers are Leaders

Not all who have power are Leaders

Leaders know when and how to delegate

Leaders do not blame team members for making mistakes (as long as they do not repeat the mistakes)

Leaders can come from all walks of life

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Often quoted leaders

John F Kennedy (for his bold plan for sending Men to the Moon)

Winston Churchill (for his war time speeches and leadership)

Mother Theresa

Nelson Mandela

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Proponents of egoless leadership

Broadcast on October 8, 2020

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Kabyar

Nursery Rhyme

Minthuwun (Saya U Wun)

Zawgyi (Saya U Thein Han)

Selected Kabyar Sayas

Kar Yan (Rhyme)

Free Verse

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Poetry

Basics

Men on the Moon (1969)

SAYA PU ZAW PWE (2000)

Publications
Guardian
Working People’s Daily
Forward Magazine
RIT Alumni International Newsletter
Swel Daw Yeik Sar Saung
FB pages
hlamin.com (web site)

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Gatha

Poem in Pali

Selected Sutta

Translation in Myanmar, English

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Translation of Kabyars

Tekkatho Moe War
Okpo Maung Yin Maung
Maung Nyunt Htay (Ah Htet Min Hla)
Win Myint (M72)
Maung Sein Win (Padeegone)

Some already published as POETIC ART with illustrations by Bagyee U Myo Myint (M73).

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Miscellaneous

Poetry from other nations

Panelist at 5th Irrawaddy Literary Festival (Mandalay, November 2019)

Books / recordings

Video Broadcast

Several definitions

Example : Ability to use tools to create better tools

Types

The list is not exhaustive

• Human Intelligence
• Animal Intelligence
• Military Intelligence
• Machine Intelligence
• Artificial Intelligence

AI / Artificial Intelligence

Word proposed by John McCarthy and colleagues for a new discipline (different from Cybernetics) about five decades (or so)

Early researchers include

• John McCarthy
• Marvin Minsky
• Alan Newell
• Herbert Simon
• Arthur Samuel
• Ed Feigenbaum
• Raj Reddy

Early works

• Logic Theorist (Newell, Shaw, Simon)
• GPS / General Problem Solver (Newell, Shaw, Simon)
• Checkers Program (Arthur Samuel)
• MIT AI Lab (John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky)
• Knowledge Based System (e.g Medical) : Ed Feigenbaum

Decline and resurgence of AI : At least twice

• Fifth Generation Computer Systems
• Neural Networks / Machine Learning/ Deep Learning
• Games to best human Champions (Chess, Go, Jeopardy)
• Turing Test / Modified Turing Test
• Robotics
• Natural Language Understanding / Processing
• Smart devices and applications

Hype / Too much commercialization/ Rewording of old ideas as AI

Some trusted AI systems have features/ bugs (e.g facial recognition)

IQ / Intelligence Quotient

• Measure introduced by Terman
• Relative measure

Other Measures

• Emotional Intelligence / Quotient
• Sasana Intelligence/ Quotient
  suggested by Panditarama Sayadaw
• Technological Savvy
• Resilience to Adversity

Video Broadcast

• Joined Rangoon University in 1947.
• Won Collegiate Scholarship
• Stood first for combined I.Sc. classes in 1949.
• Full Green, RUBC
• Studied twice at Imperial College, University of London
• Retired as Professor of Mechanical Engineering.
• His contemporaries include Dr. Myint Soe (Lawyer, founder of Burma Club in Singapore).

U Tin Swe

• Joined Rangoon University in 1947.
• Member of the Prome Hall soccer team, which won Inter-Hall trophy for three consecutive years
• Graduated top in Electrical Engineering in 1953.
• Received MSEE from University of Michigan
• Retired as Lecturer in Electrical Engineering
• Also played Tennis
• Early user at UCC
• His name was misspelled as U Tint Swe or U Tin Shwe
• In the early days, there was only one Professor per department.
  The Electrical Engineering department offered two options : Electrical Communications (EC) and Electrical Power (EP). It would take several decades before EC and EP would become departments.

Video Broadcast on December 24, 2020

Game

Five active players for each team

• Point Guard
• Shooting Guard
• Small Forward
• Power Forward
• Center Forward

Scoring

• Two points (for regular basket)
• Three points (for a shot from beyond the arc)
• One point (for each successful free throw)

Myanmar Basketball

• Black Cat
  Several members played for RASU and Burma
  
• U Thein Han (Maths, RIT)
  Burma Selected
  
• U Soe Win (EP69)
  Captain, RIT
  
• U Tommy Ah Nain (EE)
  RIT Selected
  
• Saw Edison and Saw Orson
  RIT Selected

USA

• NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association)
  64 teams (Later expanded to 65 and 65)
  March Madness

• NBA (National Basketball Association)
  Major winners include Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Lakers, Chicago Bulls
  Several European players joined NBA
  Yao Ming (first Chinese player in NBA)

Miscellaneous

• World Championship
  
• Olympics
  USA won the early championships (which allowed only amateurs)
  USSR, Yugoslavia and several nations caught up with USA
  
  For the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, USA sent a “Dream Team” of 11 NBA players and a Collegiate player.
  Larry Bird and Magic Johnson (Co-captains)
  Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen
  Karl Malone and John Stockton
  Patrick Ewing, David Robinson, Charles Barkley, Chris Mullen and Clyde Drexler
  Christian Laettner
  
• Early days : Dominant centers
  
• Later :
  Many three point attempts
  Use three or four guards (for special play)

Video Broadcast on September 10, 2020

Cartoon U Ba Gyan (1902 – 1953)

• Cartoons
• Comics
• Poster / Painting
• Novel
• 13th St Tazaung daing Cartoon Exhibition
• Alinkar Kyawswar (1955: posthumous award)
• Collaborators : U Hein Soon, U Ngwe Kaing
• Mentor : Burma Art Club President

Pagan U Ba Gyan (Minister)

• survived assassination on July 19, 1947 with a slight bullet wound
• Brother : U Ba Shan (Secretary, Mathematics Curriculum Committee)
• Nephew : U Boe Ba Shan (UCC)

U Ba Gyan (“Tin Moe”)

• Laureate Poet
• First to receive full marks for Burmese essay
• Burmese Distinction
• Two National Literary Awards
• Curriculum development for Myanmar Sar
• Prisoner of conscience
• Passed away in Southern California
• Publications
• 1 month Memorial
• 6 month Memorial

Video Broadcast on September 18, 2020

Meaning

• Intended meaning
  Myanmar Astrology

• Other meaning
  Name of Italian astronomer who accidentally discovered a Galaxy (using the Hubble telescope)

• Informal
  Viewing movies while lying on a bed

My Experience

• Prediction of my father’s horoscope
• Early studies of Bedin from books and two sayadaws
• Zabu Mahn Daing Sayadaw
• Inya Myaing Ma Soe Yein Sayadaw

Bedin programs developed at UCC

U Hla Min

• Supervised projects by U Win Latt and U Zaw Tun
• Wrote articles in Jotisha Veda magazine
• Shared Bedin knowledge to Computer Science students and professionals
• Shared Computing knowledge to BARB sayas and advanced students

U Win Latt

• Wrote three versions of Win Horo
• The basic version is used by many Bedin sayas to produce natal horoscopes

U Zaw Tun

• Prolog program for interpreting zartars
• Was surprised to find a young boy with characteristics of a rich person
  Turned out he inherited fortune from his Sawbwa grand father

BARB (Burma Astro Research Bureau)

• Early EC members except Saya U Min Wun are GBNF.
• U Myint Sein (Principal, expert in Medical Astrology, GBNF)
• U Than Htay (Ganita)
• U Myint Lwin (Phalita, GBNF)
• U Khin Aung Bo (Thanhita, GBNF)
• U Aye Win Kyaw (C70, Astronomy, GBNF)

MARB (Myanmar Astro Research Bureau)

• Past President : U Khin Aung Bo (GBNF)
• President : U Kyaw Myint (T72)
• VP : U Than Htay
• Secretary : U Hla Win (M72-75)
• Joint Secretary:
  U Thein Aung,
  U Soe Thein
• Patrons
  U Pyinnyeinda,
  Dr. Kan Nyunt,
  U Aung Myint

Miscellaneous

• Other Bedin types
• Other Bedin sayas
  
• Yadaya means Change
• Good Yadana
• Bad Yadaya

Video Broadcast on October 3, 2020

Concepts

• Mathematics
  Boundary Point
  Boundary Value
  
• Physical Boundary
  
• Mental Boundary

• Boundary Road
  Dhamma Zedi Lann
  
• Boundary Road School
  PPBRS (Private Primary BRS)
  PBRS (Private BRS)
  

Micro Saya Pu Zaw Pwe

• Teacher Kywe (Karen Christian)
  Infant (B) / Middle KG class and Music
  Transformed me into Life Long Learner

Miscellaneous

• Prizes
• Story books
• Aesop’s Fables (translated by Min Yu Way and Ngwe Tar Yi)
• Thermos Flask (for reciting Mingalar Kabyar)

Activities

• Concert
• Selected Sports

Gone But Not Forgotten

• U Kyaw Zaw and Teacher Ah Mar (Daw Khin Khin Aye)
• Tin Maung Thant (son of U Thant)
• Myat Hla Sein (son of Shwe Nyar Maung / U Chin Sein)
• Myint Sein (Veda)
• Nay Win (M69)
• Myo Set (son of Tha Gaung Gyi)