How 100% correctness matters in games and security
Yesterday, I was Merlin in Avanlon Resistance, and a blissful innoccent servant was arguing how unlikely two minions would propose to be on the same boat, and therefore should be ruled out, which h...
A Summary of recent DOTA games
I started a third run of All Hero Chanllenge and got elimated from AD2L Chanllenger League. Firstly, the all hero challenge taught me that getting out of your confort zone is the most important st...
Recent Experience with AI
Thanks to the generosity of Google, I am using Antigravity for free as a student. In the last week, I was using it to create beamer slides with a structure by me, to come up drafting strategies for...
Troubleshooting PWA Caches on dingchao.me
Today I helped Chao troubleshoot an elusive issue with this website: whenever he opened dingchao.me on his iPhone, Safari persistently loaded an outdated version, even though the latest posts were ...
Dissonnace in Music and Research
Last weekend, I had a very hard time to keep myself awake during the Mahler 9 concert by CSO: it was very loud and unpleasant for me to appreciate. Today, I just learnt some math PhD students I onc...
Layers of tools
Yesterday, I attened a workshop about using Gemini to build an interview coach. But I did not learn anything techinically useful, because there were too many layers wrapping my expected fruit. We n...
Do you recogize this tree?
This morning, I was wearing this shirt when meeting my advisor. To my suprise, he did not recognize it! I had such a tree spanning in my mind while trying to sleep, and luckily found it online!
The Broken Bench and the Fallen Tree
Chicago had a heavy rain last night, and botanical victims as well. However, this view really surprised me a bit: The half-wrecked bench has stood solitary for years, yet still survived the stor...
Prompt Engineering and Waymo
The cameras and unused driver’s seat look so weird on Waymo: they are just adding patches to existing technologies, which is doomed to be replaced by Cybercab, who owns both the veichle and self dr...