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… where I give commentaries about machine learning, academia, books, cities, and life on a weekly basis. See posts by tags.

Jan 15, 2025 | 5 min reading [ml]
Another machine learning course
Jan 11, 2025 | 4 min reading [life]
How a day in a Plum Village retreat looks like
Jan 10, 2025 | 4 min reading [life]
Meditation: The first step of being mindful
Jan 9, 2025 | 1 min reading [life]
Advices from an elder man
Dec 2, 2024 | 8 min reading [productivity]
A Tree on A Table: Recipe for Personal Planning
Nov 30, 2024 | 5 min reading [ml]
Expectation Maximization with Bayesian Networks
Nov 27, 2024 | 4 min reading [travel]
Miami!
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