158. A Day in Shangri-La | 在香格里拉的一天 – Musings of Dr. Jamie C. Hsu, 4.30.2024 We finally got a chance to go to the hallowed ground of golf: the Masters tournament at Augusta National Golf Course in Georgia. After five years of ticket lottery applications, our family finally got tickets to watch the players’ practice round.…
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157. It Takes a Village | 举全村之力 – Musings of Dr. Jamie C. Hsu, 4.27.2024 There is an African proverb: “It takes a village to raise a child,” that I can relate to very well. When I was growing up, we lived in a teachers’ dormitory common area with more than 30 families. There were common…
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156. Dealing with the Changing World | 應對這變遷的世界 – Musings of Dr. Jamie C. Hsu, 2.23.2024 In Blog 155, we talked about the turbulent and changing world. It begs the question of how we deal with that. Some of the megatrends and geopolitical upheavals might be beyond immediate solutions, but there are certainly things we can…
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155. It Is a Turbulent and Changing World | 這個動盪又變遷的世界 – Musings of Dr. Jamie C. Hsu, 2.3.2024 We are bombarded by all kinds of news these days. There are armed conflicts and wars in many places. There are trade wars, election wars, and business wars between countries and within countries. There are smear campaigns and…
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154. The Way We Greet | 我們打招呼的方式 – Musings of Dr. Jamie C. Hsu, 1.28.2024 We greet people all the time and seldom think much of it. But if you look deeper into it, you will find some interesting insights. How we greet at different stages of our lives, to whom, on what occasions, and under…
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153. Christmas and New Year on the Sea | 航海迎新年 – Musings of Dr. Jamie C. Hsu, 1.10.2024 My wife and I had a unique experience of celebrating Christmas 2023 and welcoming the New Year of 2024 aboard a cruise ship. The journey followed our stay in Taiwan visiting friends and family. By chance, this…
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152. Life Is Becoming Bimodal |走向兩極化的現代生活 – Musings of Dr. Jamie C. Hsu, 10.25.2023 In statistics, we learn that many events and large data tend to follow a normal distribution. The majority of the population or data will fall in the central section, and the average will fall in the middle. That kind of distribution seems…
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151. How Has COVID-19 Changed You? | COVID-19如何改變了你 – Musings of Dr. Jamie C. Hsu, 8.13.2023 According to the World Health Organization, the pandemic is no longer a global health emergency. People are returning to their normal lives, students are going back to school, vacationers are booking trips, shops are reopening, restaurants are offering in-house dining,…
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150. World Village on a Cruise Ship |遊輪上的世界村 – Musings of Dr. Jamie C. Hsu, 7.10.2023 Last month, we took a two-week cruise to London, Iceland, and Norway. There was marvelous scenery for us to enjoy and appreciate on various excursions through glaciers, lava, harbors, monuments, and city centers. We saw where the Eurasian and North…
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149. The Future of Autonomous Vehicles (AV) | 我心目中的自駕車 – Musings of Dr. Jamie C. Hsu, 5.11.2023 During this year’s Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) conference, two hot topics were Autonomous Vehicles (AV) and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). The participants enthusiastically shared and discussed the technical merits of AV and ADAS, and the advancements in…
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