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.
How to Enable Preview for Member-Only Content in Ghost Automatically add preview / teaser content for Member-Only posts in Ghost.
Table of Contents in Ghost Automatically generated table of contents in Ghost, conditionally shown when it is not empty.
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.
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.