Whoami

I came to the US in 1997 and since then had 3 children (all boys :-), got a PhD, taught 2 courses at UC Irvine and TAed numerous other, had 2 internships with IBM and Siemens, had 2 jobs with NEC and now Yahoo!, published over 20 research papers, filed for 4 patents (one issued), filled 9 tax returns by hand, bought 3 houses and sold 1. This was also a time when I actively learned about how things work in America. On these page I will attempt to sumarize my experiences in a "how-to" style.

Tricky Problems for All Ages

On this pages, I aggregate brainteasers for different ages.
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Can you win in Vegas?

Consider one of the strategies I discuss and look at the demo here.

Selected Books on AI and Machine Learning

• Nils Nilsson "Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis", Morgan Kauffmann, 1998
• S. Russell and P. Norvig   Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Prentice Hall, 1995
• R. Brachman and H. Levesque   Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Artificial Intelligence)
• T. Mitchell   Machine Learning
• P. Baldi, P. Frasconi and P. Smyth   Modeling the Internet and the Web: Probabilistic Methods and Algorithms
• More Books on Mathematics, Physics, Probability...

State lottery or donation to school?

Read my note on why you should rather make a donation to the school of your choice rather than play a state lottery.

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Homeopathy or Antibiotic?

The answer is not clear, read here if you care about my perspective.