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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
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
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[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"
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

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
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[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

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.
nanoGPT repo reading notes
nanoGPT repo reading notes
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.
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.
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
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.