TIL 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
TIL [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
TIL 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
TIL 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
TIL [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
TIL [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 series #1 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).
TIL [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.
Travel Italy In October 2021, we spent two weeks traveling to various cities in Italy, including Rome, Cinque Terre, Florence, Tuscany, and Venice. This was our first trip to Italy, and we have documented our journey with a report and photos.
Travel Utah Trip report (itinerary and photos) from our recent trip to southern Utah (Zion, Arches, Canyonlands and Bryce).
Web Development Next.js: Firebase Authentication and Middleware for API Routes Building Next.js app with Firebase authentication on the client-side, as well as using it on the server-side with a middleware pattern similar to Express.js.
Web Development My Frontend Learning Plan - 2021 My plan and progress updates on learning web frontend development more or less from scratch. Will be semi-regularly updated.
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