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Giving a talk is different than writing a book
何毓琦 2026-4-11 23:54
Both tasks of GIVING A TALK and WRITING A BOOK are acts attempting to transmit information for the benefit of the recipient. To do this, you must Do research and organize facts fit the information you wish to transmit in the time available. For giving a talk there is always a time limit which ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|613 次阅读|没有评论
Artificial Intelligence: past, present, and future
热度 1 何毓琦 2026-4-10 02:35
I am calling your attention to a forthcoming YOUTUBE video with the above title given by Professor Max Li live at the Greater Boston Chinese Cultural Association (GBCCA) on 4/8/2026 to a non technical Chinese American audiencei n the Chinese dialect, MANDARIN. I learned a lot from the lecture eve ...
个人分类: S&T|1111 次阅读|2 个评论 热度 1
A Historical fiirst
热度 1 何毓琦 2026-4-8 00:38
The Armertis II space ship just scored a historical first when it blasted off from a precise earth orbit at a particular point for a particular duration of burn to leave the orbit and proceeded to the farthest point human have traveled from earth somr quarter a million miles away to be captured by ...
个人分类: S and T|1613 次阅读|1 个评论 热度 1
What I can and cannot do at age 92+
何毓琦 2026-3-28 20:55
• I have lived the American Dream since coming to the USA as a teenager alone in 1950 • I am interested in helping others to do the same which is why I write a blog since 2007 about my life experience and general advice on life and career that I find useful in my own life. These blog ar ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|2868 次阅读|5 个评论
Human vs Artificial Intelligence
何毓琦 2026-3-22 23:46
I use radio broadcasts (tune to any talk show station randomly in sleep mode) to put me to sleep. Usually I am asleep within 5 minutes and don’t remember anything the next morning. However, the other night I happen to tune in to a broadcast in which a quiz show host ask the audience 3 questions “H ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|3285 次阅读|1 个评论
On Volunteering
热度 1 何毓琦 2026-3-20 22:25
On Volunteering 1. New Chinese immigrants are always amazed that so many public service positions in the US (e.g. member of a town select board) are unpaid and yet people compete and spend money to get elected. 2. Decades ago when I was younger and starting out, I got one piece of golden advice fr ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|3535 次阅读|2 个评论 热度 1
Future Consequences of Current Decision
热度 1 何毓琦 2026-3-15 10:30
Every human being in every society learns VERY early that current decision/action has future consequences both intended or unintended. This comes first from parental teaching/training or through enforcement of societal law and/or traditions. We are taught that “honesty is often the best policy”, ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|3843 次阅读|3 个评论 热度 1
THE COMPLEX BUSINESS OF DYING
热度 1 何毓琦 2026-3-2 04:29
I am a reasonably organized person and believe in being prepared. This is partly due to necessity since I arrived in the US alone in 1950 at the age of 16 and became financially independent at 19 ever since and achieved the American Dream. Thus, beginning in 1961 when I finished my Ph.D study, was m ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|3459 次阅读|2 个评论 热度 1
Two Interesting questions that I encountered recently
热度 1 何毓琦 2026-1-16 00:01
Here are two questions on current events that I have come across: 1 The first is a lecture given by the President of the Boston Museum of Science on “How to re-gain trust in Science”: a. He first describes the Traditional model of ho ...
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