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- Use it or you lose it
- 热度 1
- I did my last serious research work in 2009 (age 75 at that time). Since then any technical writing I do are of the broadstorke/explanation kind rather than attempting breakthrough to new frontiers. I spend my time writing blogs to explain ST and life in these united States. Occasionaly I go to ...
- Discourse vs Discord - Some Random Thoughts
- In this connected and globalized world, anger and distrust prevail. Instead of civil discourse we end up with discord .Instead of listening without necessarily agreeing, we fight without finding common ground. Reiterating that famous line in the Rodney King incident - Can we just get along? &nb ...
- Winston Churchill said it long ago . . .
- Two famous Churchill sayings go a long way in my opinion to explain the current political gridlock in the US. If you are a Democrats in the US, you cannot help but bewildered by the solid support of some 40% of the American voters and seemingly 100% domination of the Republican Party by &nbs ...
- You Tube Video
- 热度 1
- In retirement, I do watch a lot of TV. Mostly I watch news program, political talk shows, and old movies. The last category brings back memories and nostalgia. However, I seldom watch the You Tube channel unless prompted by other messages or recommendation from friends. However, the other night whi ...
- Danger of Chat-GPT and Generative AI
- 热度 1
- In one of my earlier blogs, I wrote about my experience with Chat-GPT in which I ask GPT to produce a biography of myself. When I found many untruths in the bio writeup, I questioned the GPT as to where it found these facts. GPT confessed that it made it up . In educational field, when ...
- A life of the mind
- 热度 2
- 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 ...
- China in the last 120 years
- From the fall of the Ching Dynasty to the current People's Republic of China (PRC), a span of roughly 120 years, China lived through being essentially colonized, invaded and occupied by foreign powers, suffered through WWII and then civil war and now emerging as the largest (or second largest) ...
- 曾經滄海難為水 . . . . (about our personal experience. . . . .)
- 热度 1
- Long time readers of my blogs know that both my wife and I are Do-It-Youselfers (DIY). We love to tackle household repair/maintainence jobs. At our age of 88.7 and 90 respectively, we do it not so much to save money anymore but for the pleasure of accomplishing a job well done.(since you ar ...
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