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Below are all the books I’ve read since middle school, roughly in order. Those highlighted in blue were those I particularly enjoyed :) 2026 (Age 23): The Anatomy of Fascism - Robert O. Paxton 2025 (Age 22): Willpower - Roy F. Baumeister & John Tierney …

Here are a few of my favorite quotes I’ve liked over the years. General: “I believe that a man should strive for only one thing in life, and that is to have a touch of greatness” — Félix Martí-Ibáñez “I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but …

Theses are some of my over Qiang Liu’s course, Machine Learning II. Gradient Descent: Gradient Descent is a fundamental, first-order iterative optimization algorithm designed for minimizing a function. The primary objective of Gradient Descent is to find …

These are a few of my notes from Eunsol Choi’s NLP class at UT Austin. Word Embeddings: Word embeddings are a type of word representation that captures the semantic meaning of words in a continuous vector space. Unlike one-hot encoding, where each word is …

These are a few of my notes from Eunsol Choi’s NLP class at UT Austin. Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs): Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are a class of artificial neural networks specifically designed to tackle sequence-based problems. Unlike traditional …

These are a few of my notes from Eunsol Choi’s NLP class at UT Austin. Generative Models vs. Discriminative Models: When it comes to classification, models are broadly categorized into Generative Models and Discriminative Models. Generative Models: In …

My notes over Mark Maxwell’s course, Probability I, and his textbook, Probability & Statistics with Applications, Second Edition. Combinatorial Probability: The fundamental theorem of counting is also known as the multiplication principle. Given that …

These are my notes over my review of Linear Algebra, going through Gilbert Strang’s Introduction To Linear Algebra. Introduction to Vectors: The core of linear algebra is vector addition and scalar multiplication. Combining these two operations gives us a …

Why Rust for Front-End Development: I’ve been using React and Next.js for front-end development ever since high school, it was one of the first few things I learned when it came to programming. Recently, I’ve had the itch to learn something new, …

A small review over Calculus 1, 2, and 3, based on the textbook, Calculus: Early Transcendentals (Eight Edition). Differentiation Rules: Product Rule: If $f$ and $g$ are both differentiable, then $$\frac{d}{dx}[f(x)g(x)]=f(x)g^\prime(x)+g(x)f^\prime(x)$$ …