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- More detail about our retirement communities
- 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 ...
- On Legal Assisted Suicide in the World
- 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 ...
- A Deeper dive into Chat GPT
- 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 ...
- Prompt Engineering - A New Job classification created by AI
- 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 ...
- [转载]The One Percent Principle
- 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 ...
- Antitrust Law and Free Market competition
- 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 ...
- Passing of another giant in Control system theory
- Another memeber of clun 34 passes from our world https://www.eecs.mit.edu/sanjoy-mitter-interdisciplinary-explorer-dies-at-89/
- A diverse, complex, but interconnected set of problems
- 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 ...
- Productivity vs sleep vs.Naps
- 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 ...
- Private Equity Funds in a Democracy
- 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 ...
