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Something not depressing for once, who would've thought. These notes are from my almost 200 pages long Chinese master-doc. I've been studying Mandarin for a bit over two years (as long as I've lived in Taiwan) and these are some of my own notes on this journey. There is Spanish on the notes too, sorry about that (or...

My quest for more nuanced discussions about the use of AI in fiction writing.

This is an updated version of my 2018 essay for Fstoppers.A couple of years ago, while still at photo school, I wrote an essay about ethics in photography. It was largely based on interviews with Graham MacIndoe, a documentary photographer and professor of mine, and Joey Lawrence, a commercial photographer with a...

11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. 12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. Luke 18:11-12, The Bible Poem: The Pharisee The Pharisee is not like other men; Not like...

# %matplotlib inline import matplotlib_inline matplotlib_inline.backend_inline.set_matplotlib_formats('svg') import os os.environ['COLORTERM'] = 'truecolor' import lovely_tensors as lt lt.monkey_patch() lt.set_config(color=False) # automatically detect and reload local changes to modules %load_ext autoreload...

Because the default Apple Podcasts on macOS only allows you to copy 200 words of transcript at a time, I built a quick website back in January that allows you to view and copy the full thing. It mostly works great, but some users (including those on older versions of macOS) have flagged that their transcript files...

In the second season of I Am Nobody, Zhang Chulan and Feng Bao Bao joins a rag tag team of super-powered Outsiders to capture a rogue "temporary worker": Chen Duo, who killed her handler.

My summers have been getting quieter. The camps from when I was a little kid, the family outings, the high school extracurriculars--they're all gone. It's just me and my home now. This is my summer after graduating high school. It'll be the quietest summer I'll live, for a while. I wake up an hour or so before noon....

Last night, when I learned that Ozzy had passed away, I listened to Black Sabbath. It felt like I was back in my uni days, smoking, drinking, and discussing whatever deep shit we thought we were discussing with my mates. Thank you, Prince of Darkness, for making this world a less gloomy place!

A breakdown of my personal site rebuild using .NET 8, Bootstrap, and markdown-powered blogging.