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- Google and Wikipedia
- 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 ...
- Guest Blog by William MS Lee
- 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 ...
- The third place
- 热度 1
- 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 ...
- Accessing links in my old blogs
- I have often in the past gave links to worth while reference in my blog articles. However, with the passage of time, those links no longer works. One must do some extra wrok in order to reach the linked content. Let me give an example. I wrote an blog article about the unsung heroines of the Scienc ...
- A clever energy solution
- I heard the other night on NPR (National Public Radio in the US) a clever solution for our energy problem. This is how it goes: Solar energy farm for electricity supply are developing raqpidly due to declining cost. However, electric energy demand are more intense during evening/night when pe ...
- More about GPT
- 热度 2
- I did a bit moreresearch about GPT and learned that GPT is just a language model. It merely predicts what is the more likely next word based on its vast data base and the previous word of the text No reasoning ability were built into it. This explains some of its behavior t ...
- More about our retirement community living
- 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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My first experience of using ChatGPT
- 热度 2
- By now I believe most reader are aware of the AI software ChatGPT which seems almost intelligent. Here are my experience in using the free version of chat GPT for the first time. Recorded below are my four questions asking ChatGPT folr answers/articles about optimal control and Yu-Chi Ho – my life ...
- Two Basic Ideas of Control Theory That Anyone Can Understand
- Two Basic Ideas of Control Theory That Anyone Can Understand 1. Averaging Out The Noise =Kalman filter and other estimation schemes Suppose you have the situation: ith Measurement = unknown constant + ith noise, i=1,2,3, . . . How do we go about estimating the unknow ...
- WE ARE BLESSED PARENTS
- 热度 1
- WE ARE BLESSED PARENTS Both my wife and I believe in “being prepared”. Thus, before any trip, we always go through a list of things to bring (For example, voltage transformer for trips to Europe to operate US electrical appliances there). But on her recent hiking trip to Italy with our son, d ...
