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Thoughts after drinks

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 23:03:00 +0800

There is no alcohol, only milks, by the way, if you are expecting that. Because I worked in the gym tonight. Why can’t I find genuinely interesting drinking buddies? Or it is a bless?

AdaReP : Plan ahead and don’t change the plan unless you really have to. Long-term plan matters. This reminds me of my AI-Expert Collab workflow design, and I think maybe my workflow should not be too dynamic. It should have some buffer for rigorousness.

AI FICTION IN THE WILD : I am definitely a story cycler, ceaselessly looking for new topics to try. But I do understand that being a phd is quite like being a Infinite Story Demander, so I better calm myself down and genuinely focus on one topic.

Statistics Learning

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 10:38:00 +0800

Lately, I’ve been studying statistics to prepare for a potential PhD position. This is quite a new field for me; my background in Software Engineering and Business Administration didn’t provide sufficient training in statistical fundamentals.

Here is a summary of what I’ve learned so far:

Naturally, with a large dataset, data tend to follow a normal distribution. However, when working with a small sample size, the data are considered more volatile and are better modeled by the t-distribution (often referred to in the context of Student’s t-test), rather than the z-distribution.

Once we model the distribution of our data, we can calculate the confidence interval. This represents the range in which we expect the true population parameter (such as the mean) to lie; for instance, with a 95% confidence interval, we can say that if we repeated an experiment 100 times, the true mean would fall within that interval 95 times.

So Now We Are Making Rock Music

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 23:15:00 +0800

I’m at a strangely unsettled point in my life. It isn’t quite anxiety that’s bothering me—more a murky mix of worry and lethargy. I’m no longer reading or working with the same intensity as before, instead frittering my energy away on trivial things that don’t really matter. Honestly, I feel both underappreciated and quietly convinced that this might already be the best I can hope for at this stage. Where I once wrote songs to pass the time, I now doubt I could compose anything meaningful or compelling—even to myself. Yet that doesn’t make me less of an honest writer; the melodies may have faded, but the truth remains. All I can do now is write it down.

I think the dance floor is dead. So now we are making rock music.

Site Setup

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:40:00 +0800

This post exists to confirm that the site is ready for long-term writing:

content lives in the repository root;
the site builds directly with Hugo;
deployment works for both GitHub Pages and Vercel;
new posts only need Markdown files under content/posts/.

If you can read this, the blog skeleton is already doing its job.

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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