Writings

Climbing

8/14/25

Personal thoughts & reflection on climbing

How to start cooking [in college]

8/13/25

Why Cook • Which Tools • Where Ingredients • What Ingredients • How to Cook

Algorithms notes

7/16/25

Two Pointer • Sliding Window • Prefix Sum • Binary Search • Fast and Slow Pointers • Topological Sort • Backtracking • Dynamic Programming • Built-In

Data structures notes

7/16/25

List • Priority Queue • Tree • Binary Tree • Heap • Binary Heap • Segment Tree • Union Find • Built-In

Card games

6/15/25

Zhao Pengyou • Cambio

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat notes

6/14/25

Salt • Fat • Acid • Heat

The nonfiction shelf

6/7/25

Reviews on books about computer science, mathematics, food, and health

Designing Data-Intensive Applications notes

5/29/25

Data Systems • Distributed Data • Derived Data

Outlive notes

5/29/25

Longevity • Diabetes • Heart Disease • Cancer • Alzheimer's • Exercise • Nutrition • Sleep • Mental Health

2025 Brown Puzzle Hunt wrapup

4/30/25

Tech wrapup of 2025 BPH

A review of C

3/22/25

Syntax • File Structure • Debugging

Spring 2025 reflection

2/25/25

Sophomore year of college, spring semester. The weather is snowy but quite good. Updated 2/18/25.

2024 Puzzlethon wrapup

2/18/25

Tech wrapup of 2024 Puzzlethon

The fiction shelf

1/1/25

Reviews on webnovels, webcomics, and novels

Winter 2024 reflection

12/25/24

Sophomore year of college, winter break. The weather is great. Updated 12/25/24 from my home in California.

Fall 2024 post-mortem

12/24/24

Sophomore year of college, fall semester. Post-mortem. Updated 12/24/24.

Summer 2024 reflection

7/28/24

Freshman year of college, summer season. Updated 7/28/24 from my sublet at Brown University.

Everyday recipes

7/11/24

Fried Eggs • Omelets • Egg-Fried Rice • Garlic Noodles • Boiled Bok Choy • Sautéed Onions • Sautéed Chicken Livers • Baked Salmon • Protein Bars

How to run Dance Dance Revolution on MacOS

7/11/24

The Situation • StepMania • Project OutFox • Enjoyable

Art and other visual projects

7/3/24

Materials • Summer 2023 • Fall 2023 • Summer 2024

Something like a deep disinterest in intelligence

3/25/24

This semester I took a course in Deep Learning. My friend—a former TA, and now a PhD candidate at Yale—had told me that deep learning was state-of-the-art, and that if I was only going to pick one AI course, it should be deep learning.

The stories we do not tell ourselves

7/24/23

Rarely does it happen that who we are is who we want to "be." The act of "being" takes effort. We have a tendency to warp under stress...

The stories we tell ourselves

7/23/23

Part of it was that I was bad at English, part of it was that I had bad hearing, and part of it was that I just didn't pay attention to the teacher.

Personal websites

7/1/23

This is a list of personal websites I follow. Some from friends, some from strangers.

AP exams

6/17/23

Exams • FAQs • Resources

Becoming a person

6/5/23

Notes from high school. Left in drafts for 2 years.

College admissions

5/23/23

Stress • Regrets • Advice? • Application • Essays • College Lists • Actually Researching the College

Courses @ Brown

5/23/23

Retrospection on the courses I have taken in my undergrad