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Life is full of clever little hacks. Sometimes the most impactful ones are also the simplest. I recently stumbled upon a basic tool that has remarkably boosted my daily reading time. I'm excited to share this game-changing discovery. Last Thanksgiving, during a visit to my cousin-in-law's cozy home in Houston,...

Introduction: A Commitment to Greatness Before I dive into my reflections on Richard Hamming's insightful talk, "You and Your Research", I want to start by posing three critical questions to myself: 1. What are the important problems in my field? 2. What important problems am I working on? 3. If...

Note that this is a pure educational post. Opinions expressed in this post are mine and mine only! they are definitely not financial advice. Even though potential future investment was a motivation for me to look into bitcoin, I neither recommend nor oppose investing in bitcoin. Always do your own...

This is a framing practicum post. We'll talk about what dynamic programming (DP) is, how to recognize DP in the wild, and what questions to ask when you find it. Then, we'll have a challenge to apply the idea. Today's challenge: come up with 3 examples of DP which do...

An example of fancy math jargon What comes to your mind when you first hear the phrase “abstract nonsense”? For me, the first picture in my head was some obvious falsehood, like 1+1=3. I was not so sure about the “abstract” part, thinking it might not be something as concrete...

Continuing my previous post on the subject of value notion, in this post I will try to make another small step towards a big goal of value notion. Specifically, I attempt to explore what kind of major questions we can ask about the value of something. The list may not...

Value of something When I have $100 to spend, I can buy ~50 cups of coffee, ~10 regular meals, or a 1-night stay at a hotel, etc. Accordingly it feels like the value of $100 should be ~50 cups of coffee, or ~10 meals, or a one-night stay at a...