If you’re very athletic and can generally pick up new sports quickly, you can probably ease through blue i.e. intermediate trials on your 2nd day with a personal coach. If you’re in a group teaching session or only being taught by a friend, then it may take a bit longer as there may be bottlenecks in groups, while your friends may not know how to teach.

2022 has been a year of progression for me. I have published an academic conference paper. I have decided on my career path and have also gained lots of head starts through projects and internships. I gained a ton of software engineering-related skills, and also started to LeetCode. I have transformed from a stupid programmer to a software engineer. I also learned a lot more about the industry mainly through Blind and a bit from Reddit.

I also kind of decide not to pursue a Master’s degree in the US, but work there directly instead.

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Snapping is a term in Mistborn, meaning a person’s magic ability being awakened when encountering some life-death situations.

My mother is not a Misting, as Allomancy does not exist on the planet Earth, but we have archangels.

Yet another chromium browser …. but it’s different! It reminds me of Vivaldi with its command palette and customizability, but it provides a lot of unique features over Vivaldi (with the reverse also being true), at least the Vivaldi 3 years ago as I completely switched back to Firefox since then.

The amplitude of the hedonic treadmill wave decreases with your age, like the graph below. But why?