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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).

[Book Review] 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.

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.

Southern Utah: Zion, Arches, etc.

Trip report (itinerary and photos) from our recent trip to southern Utah (Zion, Arches, Canyonlands and Bryce).

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.

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.

My Takeaways From "State of JS 2020"

My takeaways from State of JS 2020 survey.

How to Enable Preview for Member-Only Content in Ghost

Automatically add preview / teaser content for Member-Only posts in Ghost.

Demo: Member-Only Content Preview

Table of Contents in Ghost

Automatically generated table of contents in Ghost, conditionally shown when it is not empty.

Ghost Themes Local Development Setup

Local development setup for Ghost themes.

Featured-First Post Order in Ghost

Making featured posts show up first in Ghost Casper theme (instead of the default reverse chronological order).

Editing Tips for Ghost

I recently switched to Ghost to host my blog, Here are some editing tips as I learn to use this platform.

Moving to Ghost

My onboarding experience with Ghost and some wishlist items for future improvements.

Exponential-Min and Gumbel-Max

Exponential-min and Gumbel-max tricks for reformulating sampling from a discrete distribution as argmin and argmax, making the sampling operation differentiable.

Recent Progress in Language Modeling

This page is a high-level summary / notes of various recent results in language modeling with little explanations

Quantitative Tech Interview Preparation Guide

A short list of interview preparation resources for Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, Machine Learning Scientists, Quant Developers and Quant Researchers.

Recent Progress in Neural Variational Inference

A literature survey of recent papers on Neural Variational Inference (NVI) and its application in topic modeling.

A Brief Survey of Generative Models

A high-level summary of various generative models including Variational Autoencoders (VAE), Generative Adverserial Networks (GAN), and their notable extentions and generalizations, such as f-GAN, Adversarial Variational Bayes (AVB), Wasserstein GAN, Wasserstein Auto-Encoder (WAE), Cramer GAN and etc

EM Algorithm in 10 minutes

A quick walk-through of Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm and its cousins.