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More detail about our retirement communities
2023-9-25 22:30
I am never ceased to be surprised by the detialed attention to the design of our living condition in this retirement community. This place is equiped with large swimming pool next to the exercise facility. Unlike the usual swimming pool which has a deep and shallow end, instead it has deep and sha ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|1944 次阅读|没有评论
On Legal Assisted Suicide in the World
2023-9-24 20:14
People all over the world committ suicide for a varied of reasons. The means for carrying this out are often brutal, desparate, and most probably very painful. Thus, a practice had developed when the end of a life is clear due to terminal illness, physicians can step in to help so that the de ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|1770 次阅读|没有评论
[转载]The One Percent Principle
2023-9-4 22:42
We, the denizens of the modern world, live in the 1 percent, where all our art, our books, our economic value, our money, and our languages reside. The rest 99% never made it, did not survive, and/or were forgotten. See https://www.aier.org/article/the-one-percent-principle/ A ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|1720 次阅读|没有评论
Passing of another giant in Control system theory
2023-8-30 04:12
Another memeber of clun 34 passes from our world https://www.eecs.mit.edu/sanjoy-mitter-interdisciplinary-explorer-dies-at-89/
个人分类: 生活点滴|1939 次阅读|没有评论
A diverse, complex, but interconnected set of problems
2023-8-19 22:38
Asian Hate, The AI intelligence revolution, my grand children’s future, The US system of government. This is a diverse set of topics and observations based on my 70+ years of living in the US. While they are interrelated, it is difficult to weave them into a coherent and smooth e ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|2686 次阅读|没有评论
Productivity vs sleep vs.Naps
2023-8-14 19:39
As an animal species, human being need to sleep about 1/3 of every day. Sleep deprevation lowers productivity asmong hourly-paid workers. Recently, I heard of a large scale experiemnt on public radio concerning: Sleept efficiency - the % of time you actually sleep while in bed Does naps actua ...
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Private Equity Funds in a Democracy
2023-8-8 20:54
By chance I learned something new on National Public Radio yesterday about finance on the subject of Private Equity Fund (PEF). This is my takeaway: PEF are pool of money assembled by a small group of people that manage and invest this pool of money for the participant (or share holders). In th ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|2145 次阅读|没有评论
Google and Wikipedia
2023-8-7 20:32
I was trying to watch two old movies simultaneously on TV last night (one, The American President , I have seen many times over decades but want to re-live the expereince since it was one of my favorite, the other, Grantorino , I have not seen before).by swtiching back and forth between two ch ...
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Guest Blog by William MS Lee
2023-8-1 18:39
William (Billy) MS Lee is the first friend I made when I arrived in the United States in 1950. We were initiated into the same Chinese Student Fraternity, FF, in 1951. There after we maintain contact over the next 70+ years as our friendship remain s meaningful in our ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|2074 次阅读|没有评论
The third place
热度 1 2023-7-27 20:07
Social and medical professions have long known that human being is a social animal. Except for a very small percent of the human spcies, Long term isolation and solitude are not healthy for the mental and physical survival of a human being. On the other hand, for most of the population, we spent so ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|2320 次阅读|3 个评论 热度 1

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