Quality Alchemist (品質煉金術師)

2026年9月12日星期六

Six Wisdom Management (六慧管理) – Lecture 2

Minda and I joined Prof. Pang’s (彭泓基教授) course named “From the wisdom of the I Ching to the Six Wisdom Management” (從易經智慧到六慧管理) and the 2^nd lecture was held on 12^th Sep 2026. Today’s topic was to introduce the concept of "Six Wisdom Management"《六慧管理》.

Before the lecture, Prof. Pang introduced the I Ching mouse pad to us.

We can use it for divination (佔卜).

Then he detailed discussed each point of "Six Wisdom Management"《六慧管理》

• The path to wisdom begins with sincerity (智慧之道，誠為終始)

• Know yourself and others, have insight into the world (自知知⼈，洞察世情)

• Concentrate your mind and will, knowing what to choose (凝神養志，知所取捨)

• Assess the situation and decide on a strategy (審時度勢，慮定謀略)

• Learn from the past to know the present, deep thinking the truth (鑒古知今，窮理深思)

• From self-cultivation to peace in the world, harmony and no hindrance (修齊治平，圓融無礙)

For “Know yourself and others”, Prof. Pang mentioned the 7 steps method for your decision included history study, benchmarking, using prediction, verification, case study, traditional method and Numerology (術數).

Then he reviewed different numerology (術數) that we learnt before.

And then we discussed how to assess the situation and decide on a strategy.

Prof. Pang said we also need to study Western politic and strategy.

For learning from the past, he introduced different famous books about history.

From self-cultivation to peace in the world, the ideal status was mentioned.

Finally, he pointed out that the meaning of life is most important.

When people find themselves in increasingly difficult situations, they can use the four methods of divination from the I Ching to understand how to cope.

Before finished the part 1 of lecture, Prof. Pang introduced the overall course content of “From the wisdom of the I Ching to the Six Wisdom Management”.

The second part was the application of Sixty-Four Hexagrams of the I Ching (易經六十四卦) in management.

In the beginning, he introduced to employ Eight Characters for Destiny (八字命理) and DeepSeek to understand people’s characteristics.

After that he introduced the Na Yin Five Elements (納音五行) which is supplementary analysis from Eight Characters (八字) that can understand peoples’ nature or subconscious.

Overall concepts of Eight Characters (八字) and the role of Na Yin Five Elements (納音五行).

Lastly, Prof. Pang used his friend’s case for study to observe his friend’s characteristics and fortune trend.

For specific event, it should use Plum Bossom Changing Maths (梅花易數) and hexagram based on Innate gossip (先天八卦).

At the end, Prof. Pang introduced “Astronomy and the twelve palaces (十二宮) of Zi Wei Dou Shu (紫微斗數)”.

It can also observe people’s destiny.

After the lecture, we had lunch together.

We celebrated Prof. Pang’s and So Easy’s birthday.

Lastly, we took a group photo with Prof. Pang and So Easy with the birthday cake.

Reference:

彭泓基教授 - https://www.master-insight.com/author/penghongji/

屈機TV (屈基論) - https://www.youtube.com/@wgtvhk/playlists

2026年9月8日星期二

CMS1000 Guest Talk – Software Engineering and Applications

I was honor to invite Ir Matthew Tsui (Founder of App2One Limited) to give a talk for the 1^st year students in the course CMS1000 - Computer and Mathematical Sciences Professionals in Society under Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences (FCMS) on 8^th Sep 2026. The objectives of CMS1000 are to introduce students to variety of professions, enthuse students about their major study and engage students in desirable forms of university learning. It is the 1^st lecture that my guest’s named “Software Engineering and Applications”.

In the beginning, Ir Matthew Tsui gave self-introduction about his different roles including engineer, teacher and entrepreneur.

Then he introduced different concepts on development, engineering, programming as well as product team, etc.

After that he briefed the Waterfall vs Agile, Secure Software Development Life Cycle (SSDLC) and Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI).

Finally, he discussed the AI revolution and concluded “One hero is development. A team is engineering.”, “One person cannot win a hourse.”, and “Idea. Objective. Value.”

The last part was presented by his company’s intern Ms. Faria. She introduced her product named “TelePotter” which is an immersive VR learning application.

She pointed out the pain point of teachers such as passive 2D learning, VR takes forever to build and Non-tech teachers locked out. Finally, she proposed a solution for any teacher and anywhere using AI that upload what your already have and AI builds the world fast, so that students explore by doing. She analyzed that product should win the other competitors.

Finally, Dr. Ryo Liao, Dr. Adam Leung and I represented FCMS to present certificate and souvenir to guest speakers.

Reference

FCMS - https://www.polyu.edu.hk/fcms/

COMP - https://www.polyu.edu.hk/comp/

App2One - https://app2one.com/

Visit to ALTAI for starting COMP Student's Capstone Project 2026

I lead my students Mr. KWOK Chi Hei, Henry and Mr. LEUNG Chung Pang, Jasper to visit the (ALTAI) on 8^th Sep 2026. It is a new capstone project named “Design and Development of AI-Driven Log Investigation System Using Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Large Language Models”. The project aims to design and implement a log analysis tool that combines Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and LLM Fine-tuning to automatically analyze raw logs and reconstruct incidents in a structured, traceable manner. We appreciated Mr. Ken Leung (CEO, ALTAI) and Mr. Jason Leung (CTO, ALTAI) who support the student project in Department of Computing, PolyU. We took a group photo for memory.

(Left: Dr. YC Chau, I, Mr. Jasper Leung, Mr. Ken Leung, Mr. Henry Kwok, Mr. Sharmus Chu and Mr. Jason Leung)

In the beginning, Mr. Ken Leung introduced the background of ALTAI.

They provided reliable connectivity for different clients.

Finally, he briefed overall end-to-end solution in their super WiFi service.

After that Mr. Jason Leung and Mr. Sharmus Chu introduced their log systems and problems to students. It is a very good kick-off meeting for this capstone project.

Finally, Dr. YC Chau and I had tea in PolyU before my class COMP1000 at night.

Reference

COMP - https://www.polyu.edu.hk/comp/

ALTAI - https://www.altaitechnologies.com/

20260312: ALTAI Celebration Lunch for ISO 9001 Certification - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2026/03/altai-celebration-lunch-for-iso-9001.html

2026年9月5日星期六

The First Lecture of SYE2066 in CityUHK (Dongguan) 2026

Prof. YC Chau and I serviced CityUHK (Dongguan) for the class of SYE 2066 “Professional Engineering Practice” and the first lecture was held on 5^th Sep 2066. We arrived the campus and took a photo for memory.