Random Inner peace requires external validation We like to think of inner peace as something self-contained, a state of mind independent of the world. But how can we even define "inner" without an "outer"? Your sense of self is constantly shaped by the external--your relationships, your environment, the way the world responds
Random Cello etudes difficulty table Made this table with ChatGPT, accuracy unclear. Etude Book Etudes (Grouped by Difficulty) Total Difficulty (5–25) Bowing (1–5) Shifting (1–5) Thumb Position (1–5) Double Stops (1–5) Special Techniques (1–5) Lee Op. 31 1–10 5–7 1–2 1–2 1 1 1 11–
Random David Popper Prolific composer, wrote High School of Cello Playing," Opus 73, which I recently started practicing, a fascinating set of etudes. "Apparently the phrase "High School" resulted from a terminology difference due to the original language of the book, and that the original term "Hochschule"
Random Hume’s law TIL Hume's Is-Ought Problem Hume argued we can't logically move from describing what is (facts) to prescribing what ought to be (morals) without additional justification. Example: • Is: "Humans can eat meat." • Ought: "Therefore, humans should eat meat." This leap assumes a value
Random Indo-European vs Semitic culture Jesus was a Jew, and the Jews belong to Semitic culture. The Greeks and the Romans belong to Indo-European culture. European civilization has its roots in both cultures. Related language, related ideas —> culture. Indo-European: world view=good vs evil fight, speculative view of universe, multi gods, visual (cosmic vision,
Random The real luxuries in life (Not sure who wrote this, but I agree.) The real luxuries in life: time health a quiet mind slow mornings ability to travel rest without guilt a good night's sleep calm and "boring" days meaningful conversations home-cooked meals people you love people who love you back
Random [Book Recap] The Almanack of Naval Ravikant I read this some time ago and re-read it once, writing a summary to recap things that left an impression. The book is organized into largely two parts: Wealth and Happiness. Both are great. Naval's philosophy on happiness combines stoicism and Buddhism, which resonates with me. LIFE FORMULAS
Random Tweets from @AmuseChimp Nov 26, 2018 off, for a long while Nov 26, 2018 the mind takes the heart gives Feb 10, 2018 reading the whole book is not important, understanding what you are reading is Dec 26, 2017 at some point in history only rich people ate sugar, now only poor people
homepage Dopamine There has been a lot of confusing information about dopamine. I finally found a literature review-style article, and here is what I learned.
homepage Life is short, a reading list Reading list (to be updated) * Books * The Almanack of Naval Ravikant * Meditations - Marcus Aurelius * Four Thousand Weeks * How to Live: 27 conflicting answers - Derek Sivers * On the Shortness of Life - Seneca * Essays * Life is short - Paul Graham * The tail end - Tim Urban * Days are long
Random Hiragana and Katakana for Chinese speakers Chinese source/root Table あ行 (A) い行 (I) う行 (U) え行 (E) お行 (O) a あ, 安 ア, 阿 i い, 以 イ, 伊 u う, 宇 ウ, 宇 e え, 衣 エ, 江 o お, 於 オ, 於 ka か, 加 カ, 加 ki き, 幾 キ, 機 ku
Random [Book Recap] The Manager's Path Re-reading this book as a reminder of best practices of manager behavior at various levels. Here is a recap. Chapter 1. Management 101 "The secret of managing is keeping the people who hate you away from the ones who haven’t made up their minds. - Casey Stengel"
Tech Career List of Advice Here is a compilation of the advice I received and felt useful over the years, sharing them to pay it forward. 1. “patience” 1. This single word is the parting advice I got from a manager earlier in my career whom I really respected. I still haven’t developed a
Travel London We visited London in Jan 2024. Here is a quick trip report. (Originally posted here) 1. Westminster Abby, mostly to check out famous ppl’s tombs; nice site and history too; I quite like the colors from these shots from Ricoh GRIII (first trip with this little pocket camera, very
Random [Book Recap] Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Notes from Introduction The first part of the book is an Introduction by the translator George Hay, which provides useful context. About Marcus: * "He would have claimed to be, at best, a diligent student and a very imperfect practitioner of a philosophy developed by others. As for the imperial
Machine Learning Diffusion Models This is the first post of hopefully a series of post walking through diffusion models. This post will introduce the foundations, focusing on two foundational papers, that many other papers built upon.
Machine Learning Building LLM-powered products This is a quick note to discuss a few topics below related to building LLM-powered products and applications, such as how to let LLM use tools and become autonomous agents, how to incorporate domain adaptation, and the production hurdles.
Machine Learning How does Auto-GPT work? In this note, we'll take a look at how Auto-GPT works and discuss LLM's ability to do explicit reasoning and to become an autonomous agent. We'll touch upon a few related works such as WebGPT, Toolformer, and Langchain.
Using Ghost How to add a table of contents in Ghost without editing the site template How to add a table of contents in Ghost without editing the site template
Machine Learning From Transformers to ChatGPT This note provides a high-level summary of the progress in large language models (LLMs) covering major milestones from Transformers to ChatGPT. The note serves as a fast-paced recap for readers to catch up on this field quickly.
Web Development How to Add EmailOctopus Form to a React App EmailOctopus form is a script tag, this post shows how to make that work with React (using useEffect and useRef).
Random [Book Recap] The Minimalist Entrepreneur I've been following Sahil Lavingia since 2020 because of his viral post Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company. I am pretty excited to read this first book from him, The Minimalist Entrepreneur. The is a recap of what I learned.
Web Development React, Redux and Redux-Saga A short note about the evolution from React to the need of Redux and some supporting tool chain for it.
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