I already listen to a lot of podcasts. I can put one on after I wake up, and another before I sleep — it is the easiest way I have found to use those edges of the day. Almost everything I pick up t...
I recently heard an AI song called Hard Road by White Lee. It takes Li Bai’s Xing Lu Nan (行路难, “Hard Is the Road”) and turns it into an English track. The mood stuck with me — R&B-leaning, a li...
After starting a PhD, it became obvious that a clean, disambiguated academic identity matters almost as much as the papers themselves. Resumes, submission systems, and citation checks kept running ...
In mid-2026 I spent several weeks trying to land a first merge into OpenClaw — the self-hosted multi-channel AI gateway people jokingly call the “lobster.” I wanted a real code contribution, not a ...
I wanted to try 小云雀 (Xiaoyunque) — CapCut / Jianying’s AI content-creation agent — for a quick text-to-video experiment. After signing in, it was clear I would need to spend credits / money to actu...
I have always been curious about world geography — especially cultures: how people live, what cities feel like, what everyday details look like in different countries. Whenever TikTok serves a vide...
In 2026 I submitted the same tool-learning project to two ACL ARR cycles — March, then May. Reviews arrive about two months after submission, so the rebuttal work for the May cycle landed in July. ...
I recently joined a project that needed quite a few technical diagrams. I did not want to build everything from scratch in PowerPoint, so I looked for a faster AI-assisted path. After some trial a...
Recently, my Windows C drive was running out of space. After installing Cursor, Codex, VS Code, and various development tools, only about 40 GB remained on a 300 GB system partition. Instead of re...
After publishing my first blog post, the website finally existed — but it still felt a little quiet. I could open the site myself, but I had no idea whether anyone else had visited. Readers had no...
Why I Started This Blog For quite a long time, I have wanted a place to record my growth. As a PhD student, every day brings something new to learn—reading papers, exploring unfamiliar ideas, und...