What Do You Call a Galaxy Without Stars?
…These dim ghosts are hard to find and even harder to study, requiring hours or days of observation to bring their visible starlight into.
October 2025
[Oct 31 2025]
upon walked out of the door today, a kid with his families surprised me with “Happy Halloween!”, followed “we have the same bag”. I looked at them carried the same Trader Joe’s mini canvas totes, happily responded “Happy Halloween! yes we have the same bag!“. I was heading out for grocery, did not realize they were looking for candies; that was a moment where i probably disappointed them despite they enlightened me.
[Oct 21 2025]
everyday is learning how to process new information. and today is about how to search on web browser.
[Oct 13 2025]
in the past, you can copy patterns, tech, skills, ideas; nowadays, you can copy the way of talk, write and think.
[Oct 11 2025]
In Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle said: “O my friends, there is no friend.”
Derrida asks:
What happens to politics — to our sense of community, democracy, and justice — when we rethink the idea of “friendship”?
[Oct 2 2025]
chasing sunset or whatever sunset genz says about it, it sounds vibrationless to me
September 2025
[Sept 26 2025]
impulsively read, write, reply, forward posts, that made them a form of art
[Sept 25 2025]
model diversity?
[Sept 24 2025]
small (language) model?
[Sept 23 2025]
Those were Rommely women: Mary, the mother, Evy, Sissy, and Katie, her daughters, and Francie, who would grow up to be a Rommely woman even though her name was Nolan. They were all slender, frail creatures with wondering eyes and soft fluttery voices.
But they were made out of thin invisible steel. [A Tree Grows In Brooklyn]
[Sept 23 2025]
What is connection between the e-commerce and “ai-commerce”? ex. two decades ago, people build online shops/platforms/softwares for physical goods; now people build ai to improve/replace(?) the online shops/platforms/softwares.
[Sept 14 2025]
[Sept 13 2025]
asked most popular ai models to restore the puzzles in a picture (60 pieces in total), none was able to achieve.
[Sept 12 2025]
the 2-2 breathing rhythm
[Sept 10 2025]
on writing: spin the details and small effectives of lives into a narrative, that is translating an idea, it is in a non-linear way; think of the rhythms, how the words and sentences connect to each other; notion of audiences, how they perceive the view.
[Sept 9 2025]
Sunday stayed at bed the entire morning, finally decided to do the long run in the afternoon, watch only left 10% battery;
Monday morning finally stopped crying like previous weeks as a depressing work week started again;
Today completed the python code conversion of a model built in excel and felt no cheating using claude sonnet.
[Sept 5 2025]
“Let July be July. Let August be August. And let yourself just be even in the uncertainty. You don’t have to fix everything. You don’t have to solve everything. And you can still find peace and grow in the wild of changing things” ― Morgan Harper Nichols
[Sept 4 2025]
poppy war, stay true, breakneck…
[Sept 1 2025]
reading the notes/references in “BREAKNECK” might be more interesting than the chapters…
also making up a note for Bodega while I was searching for its definition. a piece in NYT described the bodega ramps as art of glaciers, pancakes, clamshells or lava… This is such a mixed feeling about it, or even broader about New York culture, that the ramps are not typically built to meet regulations but praised by new yorkers as “Tactical urbanism” in the term of art. This leaves to think about the art forms and justify with state of order.
The evolving city is a collective enterprise, they seem to say. And we all leave our marks.
August 2025
[aug 31 2025]
it’s the end of August or Summer? time to archive!
currently reading: BREAKNECK: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future
[aug 29 2025]
what i read today: Sonderweg, Bildung, and Innerlichkeit
[aug 28 2025]
“…if you don’t think things get better, you try less hard, you start to think work life balance. That’s normally people would start to talk about when they don’t want to work anymore.” [12th Annual Barbara K. Olson Memorial Lecture 11-16-12]
[aug 26 2025]
running on the trails (better without rocks) is such therapeutical
what i read today: Ni 12501, Sumer, Ishkur and Fox
[aug 25, 2025]
[aug 24 2025]
tricking my mind to think of my work as Kintsugi, versus the invention of pottery…
[aug 21 2025]
And nothing at all separates our bodies
From the vast emptiness expanding, and I know
— ACHIEVING PERSPECTIVE by Pattiann Rogers
[aug 20 2025]
the place where strength, discipline, confidence, and social identity all intersect…
[aug 19 2025]
The Third Thing
[aug 17 2025]
Nature has conservation of energy, but does not really care; she spends a lot of it in all directions. It is up to the physicist to figure out how to liberate us from the need for having energy.
[aug 16 2025]
when your physical body is in pain, the emotion also falls in turmoil.
[aug 15 2025]
On governance: on the way back from the gym in Gowanus today, there were three people holding flags on a section of Fourth Ave that was under construction. They were there putting up flags in the air that says go and stop, which I followed their instruction did what they say. Why do people follow these flags? Because everyone else is already following these flags, and you have the incentive (benefit) to do the same thing as what everyone else is doing.
[aug 14, 2025]
“To have a child, to plant a tree, to write a book.” in nowadays, is it still a full life?
[aug 13 2025]
english language is architecturally, logically and politically decentralized.
[aug 12 2025]
This Unscientific Age!
[aug 11 2025]
repetition can either be constructive, accumulating higher meaning, or destructive, annihilating all meaning.
[aug 7 2025]
i like to write in markdowns <3