Online Class Notes (Tibo)

The boat in Wuzhen is not as tiring because they have 2 oars and one is fixed and you can only move the other one. / you can only move one of them, the other is fixed.

It has more technique in the way -> it is more advanced

But you need to be professional in rowing to control the direction and the speed  / you need to be experienced at rowing to control direction and speed.

Every year they will say the same words. / it is a very general saying.

the emperor represent dragon and they had dragons on their coats and normal people cannot use yellow and dragon it can only be used by emperor. -> the dragon represents the emperor / the dragon is a symbol of the emperor
It was not easy for people to get something in yellow. / to obtain yellow clothes.

In some routine reporting AI can replace people but like during the 3 covid years AI would have needed a lot of data to understand the change and AI analysis is forecasted on historical data if it doesn’t have a large data they don’t know what to do. / if AI doesn’t have a large dataset it is not able to find a good solution
You need to consider a lot of factors but AI can only approximate

From session 5 the hospital begins to use AI to diagnose the patient
The report is 97% something is wrong and 3% it is something else. / the AI report gives a 97% probability of being x and 3% probability of being Y
So most doctors use the 97% solution but she believed in her own analysis and she can always give a quite different diagnosis.

It is the same in analysis it can help do routine work but it cannot replace people when some special things occur  / during special circumstances

some people are still on holiday, my cousin works for a private company and she can have a holiday until mid feb but I don’t  know if they can get their package. / I don’t know if they get paid or not.
Some companies give a holiday without pay.

it doesn’t finish until now -> it is still not over / it is still ongoing / it hasn’t finished yet 
We plan to do UAT in May.
You need to ask the key users to attend to make sure all the processes are very smooth
We have a tech test to make sure there is no deep bug and it is tested by the project team, if it is ok we do UAT and we need to invite the users and we focus on business flow to make sure the system fits their requirements. / to make sure they have a good experience.

Now Chinese local vendors can provide more efficient solutions.
World wide vendors/international vendors have very standard products and can fullfil normal requirements and have a good UIs  but local vendors are better for customization. 

It is very tiring for consultants because they reply to us immediately but they get very high pay. Now the young people they refuse the rat race but I don’t know, I admire the pace in western countries but we cannot because the boss replies within 1 or 2h.

at first I thought only Chinese bosses were like this / required their team to always be available.
But a lot of foreign bosses when they come to China they will ask the same. / they will adopt this way of working.
One of my colleague was transferred from China Addidas to Germany’s Addidas and her colleagues told her  “do not work so hard”  / her colleagues told her not to work so hard do not disturb our working pace. / they were worried of having to work harder / they were worried of having to match her working style.

I don’t choose work in which I need to stand by.
When I come back to Sephora he asked me if I wanted to do project or brand and I chose project because I can control my working pace.
Sometimes I will be busy but I can also have a long vacation and they will not ask you to provide this and that everyday.  / and I can work quite independently
I only need to do a routine catch up twice a month.
People I need to work together with are all within the project team.
The economy is not very good, when I came back he promised a catch up on my salary but global refused / global didn’t approve it so he is a little guilty / he feels guilty about that and so I think he doesn’t dare to give me too much work. / he gives me an easy time because of that.
When I found I didn’t have the catch up and I asked him he was/felt a little awkward but recently a lot of people left the company and he tried to ask me to take more work and I refused and he didn’t force me. / and he left it at that
He knows I need to take care of my kid and I usually chat tell them no one can help me.
When I tested positive other colleagues only asked for 3 days leave and I asked for 1 week and then another 2 weeks working from home.

My parents in law were all positive so no one could take care of my son.
Although I helped him I didn’t want to be too close / I wanted to keep a distance so he cooked dinner and slept with my son so he was the only healthy person at home.
When I was sick I thought / I realized  health is the first priority. / I realized being healthy was the most important

They can only give you little it doesn’t match your workload. / they reward you but not up to the work you really do.

I don’t have a big shopping list -> I don’t have a crazy life style / I have a simple lifestyle
If you lower your expectations you can have a better life.
I never buy things I don’t really want.

Vocabulary

to give a diagnosis (n)
The doctor gave us a diagnosis but we decided to visit another doctor to make sure it wasn’t wrong

to run a diagnosis : run a program to try to find the problem
The programmer ran a diagnosis on our tmall page

to diagnose (v) find the illness / find a problem
The doctor diagnosed I might have covid

to row (n) : use your arms to move a boat
My son likes it when I row the boat

oar (n) wooden part used to row boats
The man stands up at the front of the boat and uses an oar to move the boat