追求身外之物 is what only makes sense, por que por 內心的富足, all you need to do is change the way you view things, takes like 3 seconds. However, por 身外之物, por ejemplo, dinero, career, or social status, they take lots of tiempo, efforts and luck to progress, so of course you’ll spend time on those things. If you ever get tired of them, easy, just change the way you view life, think of your life at the cosmos level. Such an easy hack doesn’t need any time or effort, so there’s literally no point in pursuing it.

Machine Learning

Learned next to nothing in this course. It had 15 assignments, and 10 of the highest graded assignments would be your final grade. No exams.

Due to the grading policy, I only watched the course videos for the 1st half of the semester. In the 2nd half, I was just too lazy to watch them. Instead, I just looked for the github repos from the students taking this course in the previous years, copy their solutions, integrated into my code, and submit my assignment. Still have to adjust the parameters and maybe try other methods when the performance was bad, but still, I got an A+ while learning minimal new skills and knowledges.

I hate machine learning btw. Hate to say this as it sounds retarded but I much prefer being a web dev, building things myself and knowing wtf I’m doing. Just wish MLEs don’t get paid that much.

A solid 7.

Another installment in the digital consciousness series. A pretty cool way to tell multiple stories in a single episode, tho the plot to connect them is a stupid lynching revenge storyline. Not a fan.

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2022-10-10 Update

After knowing how poorly Windows & KDE implemented external display, there is just no comparison. If you don’t game, MacOS is your only logical choice.

Now that I’ve used all 3 of the operating systems (more if you count the different distros of Linux) extensively, I’m finally able to make a comparison.

Offer: Yahoo, LINE
Thank Letter: Google, Amazon Ring, AICS, Numbers
No Response: Microsoft, Dell, Nvidia

I’ve been using Linux desktop exclusively for about 3 months. It’s really great, much better than I thought it will be.

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Normally, the sophomore year is the busiest year of NTUEE, but I’m actually busier this semester.

Last semester is the hardest semester of the first 4 semesters of mine, but I still managed to go to both Taekwondo club and Judo club (and the football team of our department of course). However, in the bottom half of this semester, I only managed to go to a total of 1 time to Taekwondo club and Judo club (still played football week-in-week-out tho).

Before, I could spent all my time not doing coursework related things on extracurricular activities, but this semester, I also had to do what my boss from my internship wanted me to do and some internship preparations, like writing resume, cover letters and leetcoding, and these things took a lot of my time. Actually, during final exam weeks, the subject I’d spent most time on, is leetcode.

About the courses I took, they’re generally much easier and funner than the mandatory courses in the first two years. Therefore, even though I wan’t less busy than before, I’m definitely much happier.

Below I’ll write some thoughts about the courses I took. Note that they are not in any way intended to be helpful. I just write what I want.

I’ve read some Hugo Award for Best Short Story winners, and only like 1 is good, others are either mediocre or just straight-up trash.

To be fair, I didn’t really read the winners of Hugo Award for longer stories, because most of them don’t have Chinese translations, and reading them raw would just take me so much time. Short stories, on the other hand, are really really short, like I could finish most of them in 30-40 minutes, sometimes less, and book publishers often just post them for free on their websites, like a blog post, so reading them is really a fast and convenient way to absorb some Hugo Awardees.

Unfortunately, although reading short stories in a quiet room with some chill music on really gives me some precious peaceful time, most of the stories are very bad, or at least don’t deserve the award. The following is what I’ve read: