a little about music, and application of suspense (aka procrastination)

The very first day of 2024 begins with a lovely paper that I stumbled upon, like, two days ago?

With genuine love and cherishment, waving goodbye to the beautiful 2023. 2024 is gonna be better, and is shaping up to be spicy already. can’t wait

It’s pretty scary when one signed up for 2 Azure accounts, with student verification failed (no free $100) but credit card information surrenderred. Also, the account sign-up process is tedious. Luckily I’ve taken HPC courses this summer so things are smooth later on - deploying containers and starting to run workloads… Manipulating multiple virtual machines with super capable computing power does feel awesome, until you somehow realized that you’re actually paying for them. ...

I read an eye-openly impressive paper today - Attention Management by Lipnowski, Mathevet and Wei. TBH, their model is very insightful (well, it’s in AER afterall…) and has potential to shed light on theoretical as well as behavioral econ research.

Well, art is art and everything else is everything else (although some might argue that classifying pop music as art would be problematic. bite me).

On December 22nd during DongZhi, there is the tradition of eating dumplings. Dumplings, once a symbol of warmth and comfort during the deep winter, now seem increasingly commercialized and expensive, particularly in chain stores and food delivery services. This shift reflects less of the cherished tradition and more of a capital-driven venture, stripping away the essence of what made these foods special. An explanation I came across sheds light on this transformation: ...

Deciphering the elegance of an algorithm for online LP.

guess what, i got a cool Christmas gift!

Here’s an immensely useful paper on the almost cliché yet rarely studied question how to read a paper, where it outlines a practical and efficient three-pass method for reading research papers. Takeaways (of the three-pass approach): The first pass (5-10 mins): quickly scan to get a bird’s-eye view of the whole paper. Carefully read the title, abstract and introduction. Read the headings while ignore everything else. Read the conclusions. Scan the reference and tick-off the ones you’ve already read. Objective: to answer the five Cs (Category, Context, Correctness, Contribution, Clarity) and decide whether to dive in second pass. ...