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- Lessons from my life experience of 91 years (II)
- This article is an addendum to my first article on this topic https://blog.sciencenet.cn/home.php?mod=spaceuid=1565do=blogid=1474060 First, learn to be your own financial adviser: This is because the task is really not that complicated and can beco ...
- Lessons from my life experience of 91 years
- For yourself 1. Start saving early – I started as soon as I started working after 46 years what I put in becomes 10 times more when I retired. 2. Buy-Diversify-Hold. Don’t trade - Compound interest works wonders in th ...
- Plastic vs. Glass
- 热度 1
- It was right after WWII, plastic was newly invented and introduced in China. I was a young teenager living in shanghai. Plastic was heralded as a miracle kind of glass ( 玻璃 ). Every thing was labelled with glass or 玻璃 as an adjective . There were Miss 玻璃, 玻璃 stockings et al. ...
- [转载]How AI Will Impact Our Lives in 2025 and Beyond
- A Very Promising and Chilling report about our human future Now that breakthrough artificial intelligence is here, the next decade of computing will be dominated by AI. Read this very good report https://www.kiplinger.com/business/how-ai-will-impact-our-lives?utm_medium=referralutm_so ...
- Academic corruptions
- When I started climbing the academic ladder beginning in 1960, the cardinal academic sin is plagiarism . After all, publications and your peers’ judgement of them is what an academic lives on and the only worthwhile currency in the profession. Half a century later according to a NPR radio program ...
- Not a Good Practice for Students (II)
- Not a Good Practice for Students (II) First of all, read my blog six years ago https://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-1565-218436.html . Apparently a new generation of students were not taught this accepted academic practice. Instead, because of the chaos and suffering in China from 1850-1950 due to wa ...
- Apoplectic Disasters in the US
- In the past week unprecedented natural disasters occurred in the US mainland. By now I am sure the entire world has heard about the fire disasters in Los Angles County where several entire towns have been burned to the ground due to year long drought and heavy winds which caused uncontrolled wild ...
- [转载]Top Leadership Quotes for 2024
- worth reading and reflecting on. https://briandoddonleadership.com/2024/12/26/the-top-75-leadership-quotes-of-2024-part-2/
