Recently, I’ve become quite fascinated by small LLMs such as Gemma 3 and the idea of running them locally. I tried out Ollama, which builds on top of llama.cpp but wraps it in an elegant, user-frie...

I have attempted to learn the Transformer multiple times. When the now-classical paper Attention Is All You Need first came out in 2017, I was attracted by its title. That was about 5 years after ...

While organizing old files, I realized I had lost my master’s thesis. After some effort, I finally found it online, but unfortunately, it is not very accessible. Upon reading it a bit, I realized m...

I wrote a simple paper to demonstrate that Carnot’s theorem is consistent with solar sails during my undergraduate studies at the Nanjing Institute of Meteorology in 2003-2004. It was originally pu...

I feel the core of human society is trust and disguise, and all social phenomena can be reduced to them.

The two terms “market economy” and “planned economy” can’t be more misleading. As the opposite of planned economy, the market economy sounds like the type of economy without planning, thus messy an...

Innovation means being different. It requires courage to be the minority. Why does one need courage to be a minority? That is because human nature has the tendency to sacrifice the minority for the...

I started learning meditation recently. One concept I learned is “pop-out”. You focus on something simple such as your breathing. After a short moment your mind is likely to drift. The “pop-out” h...

This is my Friday evening’s music video mix: Universe Size Comparison 3D by Harry Evett DNA animations by wehi.tv I am wondering when we can travel as far as that and build machines as fine ...

These days smartwatches and smart glasses look more like smart phones with the shape of watches and glasses. They are innovations of course, but they can not be compared with the jump from a phone ...