Once again, we’ve reached the exciting holiday segment—OP’s exams are over, the course project is finished, I’ve applied for a distributed internship, and now Meimei is in Shanghai working, time for some research~
First, cite the previous posts to showcase OP’s habit of only listing plans without implementation:
After careful consideration, I’ve decided not to list any more plans. On one hand, even if listed they might not be carried out; on the other hand, my current activities have basically narrowed down to research and tinkering with my own blog. So I’ll just talk about what’s happened, showing everyone the monotony of my life~
OP came to Shanghai last week, and previously first attended AILAB’s summer camp. Unexpectedly, the day before the exam, the first time I learned algorithms, I got AK on the exam. I studied algorithms using “代码随想录”, https://programmercarl.com/, which is pretty good. I had previously used this in my freshman year to read the “八股”, and at that time my dream was to learn ten programming languages, but I only completed half.
OP’s blog is based on Docs • Astro Theme Pure, and it has undergone many modifications before. These past few days, with not much else to do, I’ve been wildly tinkering, adding things like i18n and many new styles.
I feel that sometimes the sense of achievement from engineering far exceeds that from research, since in the vast majority of scenarios you can achieve things just by putting in effort. OP is now doing a lot of simulation work; sometimes some things just can’t be implemented, or the code I write is buggy, but I’m powerless. I feel I’ve become relatively senior in this area…
Speaking of it, Blog now has a new feature: if your browser doesn’t have hardware acceleration enabled, a popup will appear to remind you, and you can give it a try. https://axi404.top/ This is the link. Because I added a gradient effect on the page that I really like, but it becomes very laggy without hardware acceleration (since there are eight blur‑2xl), I added a dynamic toggle.
And if you also have a blog, feel free to exchange friend links! Whether it’s research or technology, I’m quite good at it, and I’m trying to also learn to live well~
That’s right, the advantage of Astro is that themes aren’t maintained as packages, so the degree of customization is very high, allowing a lot of optimization~
Finished a day of coding, solving problems really makes me happy, meow
Later, after I go back, I can continue tinkering with the blog. I discovered that Cursor’s Max Mode doesn’t actually cost extra; I hadn’t seen the rumor before. I have Pro but have never used Max Mode. The regular version of Cursor can be a bit dumb at times, maybe because of context length. Max Mode has a larger context length and code window, making it much more useful.
Aira-chan (アイラちゃん) also wants to improve the speed of reading papers, but currently still reads intensively and needs three days to finish one paper , and now spends even less time on reading papers while developing.
It feels like this: first of all, essentially it’s still about reading more, which is the most important. Then, if you’re reading some downstream fields, don’t be fooled by packaging; in fact, the union of paradigms across fields is converging. After you’ve read enough, you can just look at the pipeline and then only revisit the things you still don’t understand. In many mainstream fields, the method itself isn’t that important— the pipeline basically says everything that needs to be said, especially in downstream fields where various losses are set, which generally doesn’t require much scrutiny. You might also translate it into Chinese and read it; reading in Chinese is considerably faster than in English. I recommend this project:
Already added a friend link to axi404.top. Here’s one: user-xixiboliya.github.io, currently using a relatively primitive GitHub Pages setup, planning to switch to Vercel.
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Yesterday OP spent the whole day coding again, working hard, and managed to discuss and produce quite a few things + implement several features. Today I need to go to work early and get ready to get up.
The first thing I do after getting up is still tinkering with my blog. Following 制作一个好看的动态签名🖋️ - 柃夏chapu, I added an animated signature in the Copyright section. Continuing to promote my blog; you can check it out at https://axi404.top/
Today, after taking care of the basics and starting to slack off, I plan to write some blog posts, update 致新生的你 • Axi's Blog, and add more content to 博客上手指南 • Axi's Blog, turning it into a blog that provides popular‑science and hands‑on tutorials for building, although it’s already quite hands‑on.
Is this a kind of fantasy time, where every time I think I can slack off the next day, but in reality I can’t slack off—so tired ahhhhhh
I updated the blog setup guide this morning; anyone who wants to set up a blog can take a look. It’s actually more suited for those doing research, who have basic Git and GitHub knowledge and can tinker a bit (though most have already been fed). Here it is:
I’ve been busy again lately because I’m organizing the IROS competition, which brings a huge amount of pressure. If I’m lucky this weekend, I can deliver a batch, and after that I should be able to update this thread normally. (:」∠)_
, and now spends even less time on reading papers while developing.