Category: 6. 🎮🧠🖥🏀
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How DeepSeek Thinks And Censors
Everyone is talking about Deepseek, an AI model from China. I tried it, and boy, was it interesting. A bit about Deepseek: It is free and it has been benchmarked to rival ChatGPT. It manages to achieve all these with far less energy and far fewer high-end chips. It is a huge achievement and many…
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2024 In Random Things
Hamilton and musicalsJing’s continuous evolutionMom’s healthTrump, Musk, and Big TechAITide Free and Gentle Hamilton and MusicalsWe went to the UK in the summer. I came back after a week, and they stayed another three weeks. It was a sunny and eventful summer. Jing went to two summer schools. One was an art-related day camp, and…
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2024 in Books
STATS: 44 books33 Audiobooks11 Kindle books3 unfinished books2.3x listening speed0 Chinese booksE in Diversity score (7 Female Authors) CATEGORIES: Business & Money – 11Biographies & Memoirs – 9Science & Math – 6Politics & Social Sciences – 6Self-Help – 5Literature & Fiction – 3History – 2Christian Books & Bibles – 1 Awards: Most Enjoyable:Disrupting the Game:…
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2024 in Podcasts
I love this annual ritual. I love looking back at all the things I have listened to. I love remembering how the year went by. And boy, what a year 2024 was – all the elections around the world, the Olympics, the VR glasses, the unstoppable rise of AI … And July and August were…
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Don’t Ever Skip “People I (Mostly) Admire”
I love his show, “People I (Mostly) Admire,” and I keep forgetting that I should never skip an episode. For example, this latest interview with Pete Docter, Chief Creative Director of Pixar and the Academy Award-winning director of Soul, Inside Out, Up, and Monsters, Inc., was great, but I almost skipped it. The title of the episode, “What If…
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Election 2024
I never thought this was possible, but it happened. I also thought, along many others, that Trump was done when he lost to Biden in 2020. But he’s made a historic comeback and completely destroyed his competition, Kamala Harris. Along the way, many crazy things happened and I ought to record those that shook me:…
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The Joy of Modern-Day Reading
I’m currently reading two books: Nexus by Harari and Meditation For Mortals by Burkeman. I’m enjoying both. They help me figure out how to live my life. I first came across Harari not because of his book Sapiens but because Harari was a serious meditation practitioner. And when I learned about his book, I didn’t…
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New Website
Last time I updated this was 2020. I just want it to be simpler. I just want to enjoy looking at it. Don’t really care how others find it. So I removed the search bar. Removed the archive and word cloud. All that’s left is the posts. I will update this again in 2028.
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Whimsy & Awe
Yesterday when we were making our final stop at Jamsil in Seoul, he decided to take a break and get a coffee. We went to Tongue, a cafe operated by the Korean fashion brand Ader. When I walked in, I let out a loud gasp, surprised by bakery items they’ve creatively displayed around the cafe.…
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Simple Delights
Four things that reminded me that life can be simple and beautiful: 1, The DNC 2024 has made me feel emotional and hopeful. I am reminded of how powerful politics can be. Experiencing such strong emotions can be both good and bad, but regardless, following the DNC 2024 has been a vivid and memorable experience.…