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… where I comment on academia, machine learning, travels, books, and life on a weekly basis. See posts by tags.

• Nov 17, 2024 | 8 min reading [ml]

  The state of NLP: a lens via EMNLP 2024

• Nov 7, 2024 | 4 min reading [life]

  A society of glamour

• Oct 29, 2024 | 5 min reading [ml] [academia]

  Normalizing paper rejections: Thoughts on scientific writing

• Oct 17, 2024 | 4 min reading [ml]

  Scientific Experiments in Machine Learning

• Oct 6, 2024 | 4 min reading [ml]

  Finetuning Llava

• Sep 29, 2024 | 2 min reading [ml]

  Regularizations as priors

• Sep 29, 2024 | 2 min reading [ml]

  Naive Bayes vs Logistic Regression under the lens of probabilistic classifier

• Sep 13, 2024 | 1 min reading [ml]

  Submodular Functions for Few-shot Learning

• Sep 9, 2024 | 3 min reading [book]

  A Little Life (100%)

• Sep 4, 2024 | 0 min reading [math]

  Picture of The Day on Discrete Distributions

• Sep 2, 2024 | 0 min reading [life]

  Happy Vietnam's Independence Day!

• Sep 1, 2024 | 0 min reading [ml]

  Malpractices in LLM research

• Aug 26, 2024 | 4 min reading [ml]

  SelfCheckGPT -- a method to detect if an LLM is hallucinating

• Aug 24, 2024 | 4 min reading [life]

  Summer 2024

• Aug 21, 2024 | 0 min reading [academia]

  A cool conference that I have missed

• Aug 13, 2024 | 0 min reading [cs]

  GoogleMaps is pretty cool

• Jul 26, 2024 | 0 min reading [travel]

  A mountain by the sea

• Jul 26, 2024 | 0 min reading [travel]

  (Photos) Nam Cat Tien National Park

• Jul 9, 2024 | 0 min reading [cs]

  Github Copilot gave me end-to-end help with Docker

• Jul 7, 2024 | 0 min reading [life]

  Life isn't as long and exciting as we thought

• Jul 4, 2024 | 2 min reading [ml]

  Install CUDA drivers on Azure VM

• Jun 18, 2024 | 2 min reading [life]

  Ho Chi Minh City!

• Jun 12, 2024 | 4 min reading [cs] [academia]

  Talk at ICAPS

• Jun 9, 2024 | 2 min reading [ai] [ml] [cs]

  Hateful Meme Detection

• Jun 7, 2024 | 3 min reading [cs]

  ICAPS Summer School

• May 26, 2024 | 6 min reading [life]

  "You are always occupied": A Review of My Spring 2024 Semester

• May 23, 2024 | 1 min reading [travel] [life]

  Jude St. Francis and the Greene Street

• May 19, 2024 | 0 min reading [ml]

  Llama 3 or not Llama 3

• May 10, 2024 | 2 min reading [life]

  Meta-observations and Low-cost Media Storage on Mobile

• May 4, 2024 | 1 min reading [ml] [ai]

  Talk "Neuro-symbolic AI: A Probabilistic Perspective"

• May 2, 2024 | 0 min reading [life]

  Solar eclipse

• Apr 26, 2024 | 5 min reading [math] [ml]

  Stock Prediction Datathon at Schonfeld

• Apr 6, 2024 | 1 min reading [ml]

  Quiet-STaR

• Apr 3, 2024 | 0 min reading [personal] [science]

  Selected as Total Eclipse Volunteer!

• Apr 1, 2024 | 1 min reading [science]

  Rest In Peace, Daniel Kahneman

• Mar 25, 2024 | 3 min reading [math]

  What date is today?

• Mar 17, 2024 | 0 min reading [travel]

  Recommended Packing List for Camping Trip

• Mar 12, 2024 | 6 min reading [cs] [academia]

  My ICAPS Paper in Adversarial Search

• Mar 12, 2024 | 1 min reading [ultimate]

  Centex Tournament

• Feb 29, 2024 | 3 min reading [productivity]

  I might have used todo-lists wrong for the last 4 years

• Feb 20, 2024 | 2 min reading [life]

  Compliments

• Feb 6, 2024 | 6 min reading [cs]

  A research-motivated hackathon in web development

• Feb 3, 2024 | 6 min reading [book]

  (Book) Everything I Know About Love, Dolly Alderton

• Jan 29, 2024 | 0 min reading [life]

  Emotions you've felt before but couldn't explain

• Jan 24, 2024 | 1 min reading [cs]

  Amazing Algorithms class

• Jan 24, 2024 | 0 min reading [life]

  Life-pausing questions

• Jan 22, 2024 | 0 min reading [education]

  Are you Chinese?

• Jan 21, 2024 | 2 min reading [cs] [ai]

  Thinking about scratchpads

• Jan 21, 2024 | 2 min reading [ai]

  The AI Hierarchy

• Jan 15, 2024 | 0 min reading [life] [photo]

  First snow in Dallas

• Jan 12, 2024 | 3 min reading [travel]

  Greeting 2024 in Williamsburg, VA

• Dec 29, 2023 | 1 min reading [life]

  channel (v)

• Dec 26, 2023 | 6 min reading [travel]

  Chirtmas in Washington, DC

• Dec 22, 2023 | 7 min reading [life]

  Wrapped up first semester at UTD

• Dec 21, 2023 | 2 min reading [science]

  Reproducibility in Science

• Dec 15, 2023 | 0 min reading [science]

  When a big scientist gets emotional

• Dec 12, 2023 | 1 min reading [music]

  Past Lives, Bent, and some other interesting soundtracks

• Dec 10, 2023 | 1 min reading [cs]

  Hard Disk Technology

• Dec 7, 2023 | 2 min reading [cs]

  Operating System - Final Review

• Dec 7, 2023 | 6 min reading [cs]

  Data Structures and Algorithms - Final Exam Review

• Dec 6, 2023 | 1 min reading [life]

  I twisted my ankle

• Dec 2, 2023 | 2 min reading [cs]

  Github Copilot

• Nov 28, 2023 | 1 min reading [life] [music]

  The soul of Den Vau

• Nov 25, 2023 | 2 min reading [travel]

  Minnesota

• Nov 17, 2023 | 0 min reading [life]

  Breakups and Hedonic Adaptation

• Nov 17, 2023 | 7 min reading [cs]

  GPT From Scratch

• Nov 15, 2023 | 1 min reading [cs]

  Transformer article on Wikipedia

• Nov 6, 2023 | 1 min reading [education]

  Learning while being a grader

• Nov 5, 2023 | 0 min reading [math]

  A nicer symbol for emptyset latex

• Nov 2, 2023 | 0 min reading

  RIP-ing `mbasic.facebook.com`

• Oct 31, 2023 | 1 min reading

  Reading 'Metaphors We Live By'

• Oct 31, 2023 | 1 min reading [life]

  Happy Haloween

• Oct 28, 2023 | 6 min reading [academia] [cs]

  The First Conference Submission as a PhD Student

• Oct 27, 2023 | 1 min reading [life]

  Washing dishes (in mindfulness)

• Oct 23, 2023 | 4 min reading [cs]

  Theory of Computation Review

• Oct 22, 2023 | 1 min reading [ultimate]

  UTD 101 -- An Ultimate home tournament

• Oct 22, 2023 | 1 min reading [academia]

  (Quote) I should be the first author

• Oct 13, 2023 | 0 min reading [cs]

  Contributed a bit to VSCode

• Oct 11, 2023 | 0 min reading [life]

  The War :(

• Oct 10, 2023 | 2 min reading [cs]

  Data Structures Review

• Oct 8, 2023 | 7 min reading [cs]

  Operating Systems -- Midterm Review

• Oct 8, 2023 | 1 min reading [life] [academia]

  Thinking about memes

• Oct 7, 2023 | 0 min reading [productivity]

  Productive breaks

• Oct 7, 2023 | 0 min reading [life]

  53 degree Farenheit

• Oct 6, 2023 | 2 min reading [life]

  He cut his own hair

• Oct 6, 2023 | 0 min reading [photo]

  (Photo) A nut

• Oct 5, 2023 | 0 min reading [productivity]

  (Podcast) Optimizing your working environment with low cost

• Oct 2, 2023 | 1 min reading [cs] [life] [academia]

  Math problems in GRE are sometimes NP-hard

• Oct 1, 2023 | 4 min reading [ultimate]

  Aggie Classic - Day 2

• Sep 30, 2023 | 2 min reading [ultimate]

  Aggie Classic - Day 1

• Sep 29, 2023 | 2 min reading [ultimate]

  Ramping up to the first US Ultimate tournament

• Sep 26, 2023 | 0 min reading [life]

  Invitation to Book Exchange

• Sep 23, 2023 | 4 min reading [ml]

  An Average Machine Learning Practitioner

• Sep 20, 2023 | 0 min reading [life] [photo]

  (Photos) The Fall is Coming at UTD

• Sep 19, 2023 | 4 min reading [cs]

  Some Great Quotes from A Wholesome Computer Science Lecturer

• Sep 17, 2023 | 0 min reading [life]

  Give it back to Wikipedia

• Sep 17, 2023 | 1 min reading [sports]

  Some Badminton Lessons

• Sep 14, 2023 | 0 min reading [photo]

  (Photo) A Happy Zotero Subscriber

• Sep 13, 2023 | 0 min reading [life]

  A 2K monitor doesn't work with Macbook

• Sep 12, 2023 | 1 min reading [productivity]

  My (hopefully minimal) MacOS set up

• Sep 8, 2023 | 2 min reading [productivity]

  My Minimal Ubuntu Setup

• Sep 5, 2023 | 4 min reading [life]

  The Digital World

• Sep 2, 2023 | 1 min reading [life]

  Having

• Aug 30, 2023 | 1 min reading [sports]

  New Frisbee Lessons

• Aug 28, 2023 | 13 min reading [cs]

  Personal Recollections on the Evolution of Language Models

• Aug 26, 2023 | 0 min reading [photo] [life]

  (Photo) Dallas Skyline

• Aug 24, 2023 | 3 min reading [cs]

  AI needs a genome

• Aug 23, 2023 | 2 min reading [cs]

  Surfing ACL2023 Proceedings

• Aug 19, 2023 | 0 min reading [sports]

  Frisbee at UTD

• Aug 18, 2023 | 0 min reading [life] [photo]

  (Photo) My bike, parked on campus

• Aug 17, 2023 | 1 min reading [cs]

  Coref as an important challenge of NLP

• Aug 16, 2023 | 1 min reading [cs]

  Transformer is not an RNN?

• Aug 13, 2023 | 0 min reading [life] [photo]

  (Photo) The heat and the daylight in Texas

• Aug 12, 2023 | 3 min reading [life] [photo]

  New life in Texas

• Aug 10, 2023 | 0 min reading [life] [travel]

  Moving to the US

• Aug 6, 2023 | 3 min reading [cs]

  Text matching in pharmacy: A Summer NLP project (part 1)

• Aug 4, 2023 | 6 min reading [book]

  (Book) Normal People by Sally Rooney

• Aug 3, 2023 | 0 min reading [life]

  Day schedule in Military Training

• Aug 2, 2023 | 2 min reading [cs]

  Coreference Resolution

• Aug 1, 2023 | 2 min reading [education]

  Thinking about rankings of universities

• Jul 30, 2023 | 4 min reading [productivity]

  My 4-year experiment on productivity

• Jul 29, 2023 | 0 min reading [travel] [photo]

  (Photo) In the middle of the sea

• Jul 26, 2023 | 0 min reading [life]

  Why we sleep

• Jul 24, 2023 | 0 min reading [life]

  A train back home

• Jul 23, 2023 | 2 min reading [math]

  VIASM Summer School on Bayesian Statistics and Computation

• Mar 18, 2023 | 8 min reading [travel]

  Five days in the winter of North America