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It is the familiar holiday season again and I feel it’s time to look back at 2023, reflect and summarize what had happened as a result of this year’s hardwork.

This year, I’ve been trying to read something other than statistics. My new-year gift for myself was a Kindle PaperWhite, and I didn’t plan to let it collect dust. So far, I’ve read:

Time passes unbelievably fast and here comes the end of 2022! It has been a year with a lot of personal growth and I want to pay it a tribute with this brief post.

Recently I traveled to Houston and got my first tattoo done. I have been thinking about getting a tattoo for years although it has been long regarded as a sign of rebellion in most eastern cultures.

Today something good happened in my life. I will share more when it is appropriate. Overall I am exhausted, having worked hard for a while…but also really happy. Tiger’s birthday is coming up!

Here is a bucket list, and it will be actively updated (and hopefully also actively checked) in the future. Below I added some updates from 04/04/2022. Travel to at least one country except for US and China in 2020 Because of covid-19, I have not been able to travel internationally yet.

I have always been puzzled and amazed by the idea of “embedding”. A high-dimensional space, such as a corpus for a language, can be represented using, say, only 50 dimensions. How amazing!

This winter I took my very first paid time off (PTO) in my life after starting a job. During a period of 18 days, I have taken a total of 8 flights, both domestic and international.

I have been a Mac user for more than 6 years now, yet occasionally I have been attracted by Linux. Compared with Mac, I like the complete openess of Linux systems and the communications in the Linux user community.

Another important type of data is the time-to-event structured survival data, which I worked on during my entire PhD study. Different from what we usually see, there may be censoring in survival data, which adds one more layer of complication to modeling.