A personal January roundup covering a new job decision, Reading Lolita in Tehran, Japanese dramas, string quartet performances, and podcasts about work, birds, and women in history.
Read ArticleA practical English walkthrough for claiming EdgeOne’s permanent free plan, connecting a domain, verifying ownership, configuring DNS, and enabling the key acceleration and security settings.
Read ArticleAn exploration of dark mode design choices, comparing common implementations and proposing a single-button approach that follows system preferences by default while still honoring manual overrides.
Read ArticleA practical look at Yuyun’s Guangdong RTX 3080 cloud server, covering setup, benchmark results, network performance, and whether its ultra-low entry price makes sense for AI development.
Read ArticleBaoyu's encounter with the monk deepens his wish to abandon worldly ties, while Jia Lian departs on urgent family business and the Rong household slips further into disorder, gambling, vice, and desperate talk of renunciation.
Read ArticleA practical guide to using Claude beyond basic chat, covering long-context work, system prompts, structured instructions, few-shot prompting, Extended Thinking, Artifacts, Projects, MCP integration, and end-to-end workflows for technical, content, and dat
Read ArticleA restless, funny, and melancholic account of two difficult months filled with books, films, theater, drinking, and a deep-clean that ended in the destruction of a spider’s long-established home.
Read ArticleA firsthand look at buying a discounted Hong Kong version iPhone 6: pricing, warranty, activation check, build quality concerns, and why it still felt like the smarter choice over the 6s.
Read ArticleA spontaneous afternoon at Beijing’s Mangshan National Forest Park: subway and taxi access, 1,299 stone steps up, a scenic wooden boardwalk down, sparse crowds, and reservoir views through the fog.
Read ArticleA grounded look at PCA as more than a plotting tool: its geometry, variance interpretation, normalization, links to multidimensional scaling, probabilistic PCA, EM, factor analysis, ICA, and its roles in clustering, compression, and denoising.
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