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- Corruption, Favors, and Human Relationships
- It is not an overstatement that the entire world runs on human relationships - implicit contracts, accepted social behavior, quid pro quo, and yes, corruptions. We do things for family member that we would not do for strangers because family members have done the same thing for us in the past ...
- Blowing my own horn
- Nowadays hardly a day goes by wihtout notification by Academia.com or Research Gate that one or both of the following publications of mine were cited by another published paper. Two of my publications: Simple Explanation of the No Free Lunch Theorem (published in 1992) Applied Optima ...
- [转载]Five early signs of dementia
- Financial problems Sleep Issues Personality changes Difficulty driving Loss of smell Read more below: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/well/mind/dementia-signs-symptoms.html?campaign_id=190emc=edit_ufn_20241013instance_id=136752nl=from-the-timesregi_id=11694710se ...
- My physical fitness
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- Everyyear in October, our senior retirement community offers physical fitness test for all residents. Records of individual performances in eight categories are kept and is compared with the averages for ones age group as well as with the same for previous years. I just had mine today and found tha ...
- Scams and Fraud Targeting Senior citizens (II)
- I have written earlier about this topic and my own experience with it https://blog.sciencenet.cn/home.php?mod=spaceuid=1565do=blogid=1446301 Apparently, the sophistication of this type of scam knows no end. Scammer can learn and adapt once you respond (since I while cautious still ...
- Another example of inflation over the last 3/4 of a century
- When I first arrived in the US on 9/1950, the cost of mailing a simple letter is 3 cents. Over the years, the cost of a letter gradually rises to over half a dollar however the speed of letter delivery also increased in the US. Even though not guaranteed, a letter mailed in the morning will general ...
- Best State to Live in and other useful information
- A recent study ranks Massachusetts as the best state to live in the US as measured b y education, helath care and low crime rate. Having live here for 71 of my 74 years in the US, I definitely agree. My wife and I am glad to have ohosen to remain here in our retirement years with familiar environme ...
- My view of the future of our world
- This is my view of the future of our world and American society even though I won’t be around to see it happens or not – a bifurcation of our human population and the resulting chaos. I am worried for our children and grandchildren. As it is already becoming apparent, Artificial Intelligence ( ...
