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travel

• A mountain by the sea July 26, 2024
• (Photos) Nam Cat Tien National Park July 26, 2024
• Jude St. Francis and the Greene Street May 23, 2024
• Recommended Packing List for Camping Trip March 17, 2024
• Greeting 2024 in Williamsburg, VA January 12, 2024
• Chirtmas in Washington, DC December 26, 2023
• Minnesota November 25, 2023
• Moving to the US August 10, 2023
• (Photo) In the middle of the sea July 29, 2023
• Five days in the winter of North America March 18, 2023

math

• Picture of The Day on Discrete Distributions September 4, 2024
• Stock Prediction Datathon at Schonfeld April 26, 2024
• What date is today? March 25, 2024
• A nicer symbol for emptyset latex November 5, 2023
• VIASM Summer School on Bayesian Statistics and Computation July 23, 2023

life

• A society of glamour November 7, 2024
• Happy Vietnam's Independence Day! September 2, 2024
• Summer 2024 August 24, 2024
• Life isn't as long and exciting as we thought July 7, 2024
• Ho Chi Minh City! June 18, 2024
• "You are always occupied": A Review of My Spring 2024 Semester May 26, 2024
• Jude St. Francis and the Greene Street May 23, 2024
• Meta-observations and Low-cost Media Storage on Mobile May 10, 2024
• Solar eclipse May 2, 2024
• Compliments February 20, 2024
• Emotions you've felt before but couldn't explain January 29, 2024
• Life-pausing questions January 24, 2024
• First snow in Dallas January 15, 2024
• channel (v) December 29, 2023
• Wrapped up first semester at UTD December 22, 2023
• I twisted my ankle December 6, 2023
• The soul of Den Vau November 28, 2023
• Breakups and Hedonic Adaptation November 17, 2023
• Happy Haloween October 31, 2023
• Washing dishes (in mindfulness) October 27, 2023
• The War :( October 11, 2023
• Thinking about memes October 8, 2023
• 53 degree Farenheit October 7, 2023
• He cut his own hair October 6, 2023
• Math problems in GRE are sometimes NP-hard October 2, 2023
• Invitation to Book Exchange September 26, 2023
• (Photos) The Fall is Coming at UTD September 20, 2023
• Give it back to Wikipedia September 17, 2023
• A 2K monitor doesn't work with Macbook September 13, 2023
• The Digital World September 5, 2023
• Having September 2, 2023
• (Photo) Dallas Skyline August 26, 2023
• (Photo) My bike, parked on campus August 18, 2023
• (Photo) The heat and the daylight in Texas August 13, 2023
• New life in Texas August 12, 2023
• Moving to the US August 10, 2023
• Day schedule in Military Training August 3, 2023
• Why we sleep July 26, 2023
• A train back home July 24, 2023

photo

• First snow in Dallas January 15, 2024
• (Photo) A nut October 6, 2023
• (Photos) The Fall is Coming at UTD September 20, 2023
• (Photo) A Happy Zotero Subscriber September 14, 2023
• (Photo) Dallas Skyline August 26, 2023
• (Photo) My bike, parked on campus August 18, 2023
• (Photo) The heat and the daylight in Texas August 13, 2023
• New life in Texas August 12, 2023
• (Photo) In the middle of the sea July 29, 2023

productivity

• I might have used todo-lists wrong for the last 4 years February 29, 2024
• Productive breaks October 7, 2023
• (Podcast) Optimizing your working environment with low cost October 5, 2023
• My (hopefully minimal) MacOS set up September 12, 2023
• My Minimal Ubuntu Setup September 8, 2023
• My 4-year experiment on productivity July 30, 2023

education

• Are you Chinese? January 22, 2024
• Learning while being a grader November 6, 2023
• Thinking about rankings of universities August 1, 2023

cs

• GoogleMaps is pretty cool August 13, 2024
• Github Copilot gave me end-to-end help with Docker July 9, 2024
• Talk at ICAPS June 12, 2024
• Hateful Meme Detection June 9, 2024
• ICAPS Summer School June 7, 2024
• My ICAPS Paper in Adversarial Search March 12, 2024
• A research-motivated hackathon in web development February 6, 2024
• Amazing Algorithms class January 24, 2024
• Thinking about scratchpads January 21, 2024
• Hard Disk Technology December 10, 2023
• Operating System - Final Review December 7, 2023
• Data Structures and Algorithms - Final Exam Review December 7, 2023
• Github Copilot December 2, 2023
• GPT From Scratch November 17, 2023
• Transformer article on Wikipedia November 15, 2023
• The First Conference Submission as a PhD Student October 28, 2023
• Theory of Computation Review October 23, 2023
• Contributed a bit to VSCode October 13, 2023
• Data Structures Review October 10, 2023
• Operating Systems -- Midterm Review October 8, 2023
• Math problems in GRE are sometimes NP-hard October 2, 2023
• Some Great Quotes from A Wholesome Computer Science Lecturer September 19, 2023
• Personal Recollections on the Evolution of Language Models August 28, 2023
• AI needs a genome August 24, 2023
• Surfing ACL2023 Proceedings August 23, 2023
• Coref as an important challenge of NLP August 17, 2023
• Transformer is not an RNN? August 16, 2023
• Text matching in pharmacy: A Summer NLP project (part 1) August 6, 2023
• Coreference Resolution August 2, 2023

book

• A Little Life (100%) September 9, 2024
• (Book) Everything I Know About Love, Dolly Alderton February 3, 2024
• (Book) Normal People by Sally Rooney August 4, 2023

sports

• Some Badminton Lessons September 17, 2023
• New Frisbee Lessons August 30, 2023
• Frisbee at UTD August 19, 2023

ml

• The state of NLP: a lens via EMNLP 2024 November 17, 2024
• Normalizing paper rejections: Thoughts on scientific writing October 29, 2024
• Scientific Experiments in Machine Learning October 17, 2024
• Finetuning Llava October 6, 2024
• Regularizations as priors September 29, 2024
• Naive Bayes vs Logistic Regression under the lens of probabilistic classifier September 29, 2024
• Submodular Functions for Few-shot Learning September 13, 2024
• Malpractices in LLM research September 1, 2024
• SelfCheckGPT -- a method to detect if an LLM is hallucinating August 26, 2024
• Install CUDA drivers on Azure VM July 4, 2024
• Hateful Meme Detection June 9, 2024
• Llama 3 or not Llama 3 May 19, 2024
• Talk "Neuro-symbolic AI: A Probabilistic Perspective" May 4, 2024
• Stock Prediction Datathon at Schonfeld April 26, 2024
• Quiet-STaR April 6, 2024
• An Average Machine Learning Practitioner September 23, 2023

ultimate

• Centex Tournament March 12, 2024
• UTD 101 -- An Ultimate home tournament October 22, 2023
• Aggie Classic - Day 2 October 1, 2023
• Aggie Classic - Day 1 September 30, 2023
• Ramping up to the first US Ultimate tournament September 29, 2023

academia

• Normalizing paper rejections: Thoughts on scientific writing October 29, 2024
• A cool conference that I have missed August 21, 2024
• Talk at ICAPS June 12, 2024
• My ICAPS Paper in Adversarial Search March 12, 2024
• The First Conference Submission as a PhD Student October 28, 2023
• (Quote) I should be the first author October 22, 2023
• Thinking about memes October 8, 2023
• Math problems in GRE are sometimes NP-hard October 2, 2023

music

• Past Lives, Bent, and some other interesting soundtracks December 12, 2023
• The soul of Den Vau November 28, 2023

science

• Selected as Total Eclipse Volunteer! April 3, 2024
• Rest In Peace, Daniel Kahneman April 1, 2024
• Reproducibility in Science December 21, 2023
• When a big scientist gets emotional December 15, 2023

ai

• Hateful Meme Detection June 9, 2024
• Talk "Neuro-symbolic AI: A Probabilistic Perspective" May 4, 2024
• Thinking about scratchpads January 21, 2024
• The AI Hierarchy January 21, 2024

personal

• Selected as Total Eclipse Volunteer! April 3, 2024