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2017, Yayasan Pustaka Obor Indonesia
Suppliers of consumer packaged goods are facing an increasingly challenging situation as they work to fulfill orders from their retail partners' distribution facilities. Traditionally these suppliers have generated forecasts of a given retailer's orders using records of that retailer's past orders. However, it is becoming increasingly common for retail firms to collect and share large volumes of point-of-sale data, thus presenting an alternative data signal for suppliers to use in generating forecasts. A question then arises as to which data produces the most accurate forecasts. Compounding this question is the fact that forecasters often temporally aggregate data for consolidation or to produce forecasts in larger time buckets. Extant literature prescribes two countervailing statistical effects, information loss and variance reduction, that could play significant roles in determining the impact of temporal aggregation on forecast accuracy. Utilizing a large set of paired order and point-of-sale data, this study examines these relationships.
For the “Eighth Annual Midwest Conference on Chinese Thought,” I propose a presentation on the “reception history” of the Daode jing (DDJ) within later religious Daoist tradition, specifically within the tradition of inner alchemy. Inner alchemy (neidan) is a tradition of Daoist meditational practice, thought, and writing; this tradition first appeared in the seventh century, achieved maturity by the Northern Song dynasty, and is still very much alive today. The DDJ has always been one of the “top five” most revered classics or scriptures within neidan tradition. Any reader familiar with neidan writing knows the importance of DDJ phrases or concepts such as the “xuanpin” (the Dark Female), the “bellows” (tuoyue), or DDJ descriptions of the Dao or the cosmogony. But by using a database of 300+ neidan e-texts, I have been able to quantify exactly which chapters of the DDJ are cited most often within neidan writings generally, and which DDJ passages or chapters are never cited by neidan writers. I will discuss passages from a dozen DDJ chapters which are cited most often by neidan writers: chaps. 21 and 25 (especially passages on the “One Thing,” the Dao, or the elixir), chap. 16 (the return to root), chap. 6 (the xuanpin, and meditative breathing), chap. 5 (the bellows analogy), chap. 42 (cosmogony), chap. 1 (ineffability of the Dao), chap. 56 (reclusion), chap. 59 (longevity), chap. 48 (wuwei), chaps. 41 and 15 (the superiority of the Daoist adept over common men). Not surprisingly, it is the DDJ passages on governance and political life that are cited least often by neidan writers. Statistical analysis shows that this aspect of DDJ thought was completely absent from neidan writings. As I discuss these dozen key DDJ chapters and their significance within neidan thought and practice, I will also focus on a few texts or writers where the DDJ is quoted most often, writers such as Chen Zhixu, Li Daochun, and Miao Taisu of the Yuan dynasty, Wang Daoyuan and Lu Xixing of the Ming, or the anonymous “Essay on Primal Qi” (Yuanqi lun) from the early Song. This presentation is devoted mostly to neidan texts which quote and use DDJ thought within essays and poetry. Several of these texts discuss the DDJ to such an extent that they could almost be called DDJ commentaries. But there have also been a few formal DDJ commentaries written by neidan writers. If time permits, I will discuss one of these: Lu Xixing’s sexual-alchemical DDJ commentary from 1566, Laozi Daode jing xuanlan (A mystic survey of the DDJ).
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