The first friend I made upon arriving in the US in 1950 was Willian (Billy) Lee. He was similar to me in biological and academic age. I was at MIT and he at Yale. We joined the same Fraternity in the same year and quickly became fast friends. Fast forward some 70+ years, we are both retired and wri ...
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 ...
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 ...
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  ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ( ...