wow... Thanks to microsoft and my current job... Now I can access GPT-4o without worrying about my token usage anymore. 🤩

So happy that I got an opportunity to intern at Microsoft again this year. Excited to work on a project that align perfectly with my interests.

Taking a short trip to Cancun during the spring break. 😎

Just moved to Providence, RI, the Ocean State. Enjoying its calmness and beautiful scenery.

Today I graduated! Heading to 🐻 Brown University for my Master’s degree in Computer Science.

Got acceptance letters from 🧢Duke, 🐕‍🦺CMU, 🟪UW, 🍁UofT, 🚩Cornell, 🐻Brown. Rejected by Harvard, Stanford, UPenn, Cambridge.

And enjoy the last 3 month of my undergraduate life.

I am writing an eBook about “How to make independent apps on your own”. See this in my LinkedIn Post. Sign up here.

Got a little bit bored over the holiday. So I started working on the a new project Gallinula Course.

Finally China gave up its zero-covid policy. And I got another dose of vaccine. Ready for the reopening!

“ It's my duty. “

Zero-covid policy makes traveling to Shanghai difficult. But I went there anyway for an Art Gallery (before it was shut down because of stricter covid regulations)

Exploring Shanghai! The Bund, Xintiandi, West Bund, Jing’an Temple, Nanjing Road, …

Attended the Google Developers' Summit 2022. Meet some people, got some swags, learned some new stuffs, and got many inspirations.

Working on a 2022 Microsoft Hackathon Project.

Curating on my graduate school list, and preparing for TOEFL & GRE. Thank You, Starbucks☕️, for the Iced Caffè Americano. Btw, I appreciate those free giveaway desserts, too.

Starting my internship at Microsoft. Learned a lot of Azure related knowledge in the first month.

My research project paper co-authored with Yufan got accepted by the ACM conference. Great!

Doing a short-term project in Guangzhou. Also got the chance to explore this city once again & re-united with DKU classmates by luck that many of them are processing the U.S. visa here this year.

Celebrating the graduation of DKU’s inaugural class of undergrads. Congrats to them!

Taken into the Closed-loop operation. Got Covid tests every single day throughout the month.

Researching on some interdisciplinary Deep Learning projects including the Styled Font Generator.

Attended this year’s MCM. McDelivery(🍔) in two successive days. All-nighter(🐼) in three successive days. And finally a successful award…

Assisted building a User Content Recommendation system. Really enjoy the food there. Eat 早茶 every weekend.

Assisted Prof. Shixin Xu with his two research projects.

Planning and building the Gallinula platform with the co-founders. Prototyping & building things in two months! Cool!

The year when Covid-19 pandemic starts. Attended Zoom University at home…(But, hey, this saves me more time to do other stuffs) Luckily China controls everything down before the beginning of Fall semester.

Got my driver’s license at the beginning of the year. But never drove the car out because of the COVID lockdowns.

Received the acceptance letter from DKU. Love this place so much!

Survived from the most competitive exam in China. Also ended the most boring, stressed, and anxious period of time in my life :(

Great experience! Meet with so many high school innovators from all over the world. But such a pity that I didn’t have a time to take a trip in Chongqing City.

The year I started listening to many Vaporwave & Hip-hop & Rap music. Also the year when Trap music becomes popular in China. Then I started learning to produce some (experimental) music on my own using Ableton and FL Studio.

Google released the Cardboard VR viewer this year. I bought one. Oh wait… is this the future!?

The year I started building my personal websites. Initially it was hosted on a cheap VPS using the WordPress. Later I chose the Hexo as the engine. After a long period of time, it was moved to BlogSpot. Now it is hosted on VPS using the GoHugo as the engine. Cool!

Hello World. At the fifth grade in primary school and I was interested in Computer Programming. So I bought the book C++ Primer Plus as the tutorial. But at that time it was too difficult to understand… So I choose to learn Python.

The first time I hit on the Computer keyboard, purportedly.

The year I was born.