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Since I moved to California I have been doing more sports - started training with my coach (his YT channel), went hiking to several nice trails in Belmont, and invested more in running (timewise and moneywise).

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.

Following my last post on using tensorflow for linear regression, in this post I am going to extend the scope to generalized linear models. >>> import tensorflow as tf >>> import tensorflow_probability as tfp >>> tfd = tfp.

Docker has been a really convenient tool for me to play with, and it has helped me both in terms of doing research and having fun. Recently I have been advertising Docker to my friends but my explanations are sometimes vague and not well-defined.