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On Legal Assisted Suicide in the World
何毓琦 2023-9-24 20:14
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 ...
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[转载]The One Percent Principle
何毓琦 2023-9-4 22:42
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 ...
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Passing of another giant in Control system theory
何毓琦 2023-8-30 04:12
Another memeber of clun 34 passes from our world https://www.eecs.mit.edu/sanjoy-mitter-interdisciplinary-explorer-dies-at-89/
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A diverse, complex, but interconnected set of problems
何毓琦 2023-8-19 22:38
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 ...
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Productivity vs sleep vs.Naps
何毓琦 2023-8-14 19:39
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 ...
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Private Equity Funds in a Democracy
何毓琦 2023-8-8 20:54
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 ...
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Google and Wikipedia
何毓琦 2023-8-7 20:32
I was trying to watch two old movies simultaneously on TV last night (one, The American President , I have seen many times over decades but want to re-live the expereince since it was one of my favorite, the other, Grantorino , I have not seen before).by swtiching back and forth between two ch ...
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Guest Blog by William MS Lee
何毓琦 2023-8-1 18:39
William (Billy) MS Lee is the first friend I made when I arrived in the United States in 1950. We were initiated into the same Chinese Student Fraternity, FF, in 1951. There after we maintain contact over the next 70+ years as our friendship remain s meaningful in our ...
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The third place
热度 1 何毓琦 2023-7-27 20:07
Social and medical professions have long known that human being is a social animal. Except for a very small percent of the human spcies, Long term isolation and solitude are not healthy for the mental and physical survival of a human being. On the other hand, for most of the population, we spent so ...
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More about our retirement community living
何毓琦 2023-6-23 04:27
Yet another shout out about the Brookhaven Retirement Community in Lexington, MA Four days ago, my wife Sophia had an episode of vertigo with symptoms of dizziness and vomiting (don't be influenced by the well-known movie of the same name. It does not mean fear of heights). We f ...
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