This may be self rationalizing or 20/20 hind sight. Looking back of my life endeavor of some 65+ years (since my first published paper in 1955), I am what the world would classified as a scientist or engineer. But with a couple of exceptions I have not done a single experiment or practical ap ...
Under the same link as in the previous article, https://brookhavenatlexington.org/residents-website/recorded-events/ you can find the URL for a series of five lectures given at our senior living community which explore the least understood but most important part of our body and our existie ...
Redently the Greater Boston Chinese Cultural Association (GBCCA) sponsored a talk on the details and demonstration of the capability of the software Chat GPT. The speaker Max Li is an expert on the subject and gave the talk entirely in Mandrain Chinese. Many ScienceNet reader may find t ...
In this age of AI, jobs are being destroyed and created. I just learned a new job classification nemed PROMPT ENGINEERING. What prompt engineers do is this: 1, Generative AI such as Chat GPT-x is a vast lanquage model which can search vast data base quickly for answer to questions p ...
Here is a three part broadcast about Antitrust laws and free market business competition in the US. Each part is about 25 minutes long. The first two parts dealt with history from the Standard Oil monopoly that started everything to the breakup of ATT and IBM in the second half of the 20 th ...
I have often in the past gave links to worth while reference in my blog articles. However, with the passage of time, those links no longer works. One must do some extra wrok in order to reach the linked content. Let me give an example. I wrote an blog article about the unsung heroines of the Scienc ...
I heard the other night on NPR (National Public Radio in the US) a clever solution for our energy problem. This is how it goes: Solar energy farm for electricity supply are developing raqpidly due to declining cost. However, electric energy demand are more intense during evening/night when pe ...
I did a bit moreresearch about GPT and learned that GPT is just a language model. It merely predicts what is the more likely next word based on its vast data base and the previous word of the text No reasoning ability were built into it. This explains some of its behavior t ...
By now I believe most reader are aware of the AI software ChatGPT which seems almost intelligent. Here are my experience in using the free version of chat GPT for the first time. Recorded below are my four questions asking ChatGPT folr answers/articles about optimal control and Yu-Chi Ho – my life ...
Two Basic Ideas of Control Theory That Anyone Can Understand 1. Averaging Out The Noise =Kalman filter and other estimation schemes Suppose you have the situation: ith Measurement = unknown constant + ith noise, i=1,2,3, . . . How do we go about estimating the unknow ...