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History Through Nationalistic Eyes
热度 6 何毓琦 2011-5-17 00:55
( For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) The old saying “history is written by the victors” which carries approximately the same notion as the Chinese saying “ 成則為王, 敗則為宼 ”. The ...
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Practical Decision Making under Uncertainty
热度 7 何毓琦 2011-5-8 23:03
(For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) From a reader’s comment and my response : “One of your students mentioned "making decisions in the midst of incomplete information" as one of the most important lessons learned from you. M ...
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The limits of Democracy
热度 9 何毓琦 2011-5-1 05:04
(For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) A lesser known Churchill saying is “ The best argument against democracy is to talk to an average voter for five minutes ”. Here Churchill was lamenting the fact that the average person often ...
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The Joy and Reward of Teaching
热度 4 何毓琦 2011-4-23 21:09
(For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) I have written earlier about my 75th birthday party in Shanghai in 12/2009 in connection with the International Conference on Decision and Control http://blog.sciencene ...
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[转载]How to Overcome Life's Disappointments
热度 4 何毓琦 2011-4-17 01:46
(For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) Words of wisdom from Rabbi Harold S.Kushner M ost of us must face the disappointment of not having all of our dreams come true. The fact that we experience failure does not mak ...
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California Dreaming (2)
热度 4 何毓琦 2011-4-1 10:26
Fornew readers and those who request to be “ 好友 good friends” please read my 公告 栏 first. Because of good weather, open air market and shopping mall are everywhere in California. In particular, many cities feature open-air produce and food market on Sundays in blocked of ...
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On Being A Technological Dinosaur(2): Social Networks
热度 63 何毓琦 2011-3-16 21:25
Fornew readers and those who request to be “ 好友 good friends” please read my 公告 栏 first. Why Don't I use Social Networks? I have written earlier about the fact that my technological expertise stopped at about early part of the first decade of ...
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“Chinese in Africa” and “When China rules the world”
热度 8 何毓琦 2011-3-3 04:13
Fornew readers and those who request to be “ 好友 good friends” please read my 公告 栏 first. During the19th and the first half of the 20th century, the continent of Africa was pretty much carved up by the various European powers into colonies. After WWII, all these ...
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Please be patient about missing photos in my blog articles
何毓琦 2011-3-1 03:50
Fornew readers and those who request to be “ 好友 good friends” please read my 公告 栏 first. Dear Readers, Apparently during the trnasfer from the old system to the new blog pages, all the photos in my various old blog articles were lost. The editorial offic ...
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[转载]"意思”的意思 another internet joke of unknown origin
热度 3 何毓琦 2011-2-24 00:53
Fornew readers and those who request to be “ 好友 good friends” please read my 公告 栏 first. 某老外苦學漢語十年,到中國參加漢語考試,試題如下: 請解釋下文中每個 “ 意思 ” 的意思 阿呆給領導送紅包時,兩人的對話頗有意思。   ...
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