Writings

Digital Electronics Systems Design Notes

9/18/25

Numbering Systems • Digital Logic Gates • Combinatorial Circuits • Sequential Circuits

Diversity of Life Notes

9/17/25

Major Events in the History of Complex Life

How to shop for courses

9/14/25

Shopping Period • Finding Courses • Prerequisite Overrides

Software Security and Exploitation Notes

9/13/25

Control-Flow Hijacking • Code Injection • Shellcode Development

Datacenter and cloud operating systems notes

9/6/25

Multicore • OS Structure and Abstractions • High-Performance I/O • RDMA

Topics in Programming Languages Notes

9/5/25

Compiler Architecture • Program Semantics • Type Inference

Logic and Theory notes

9/1/25

Halting Problem • Incompletness Theorems

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

Data Structures and Algorithms Notes

7/16/25

Arrays • Linked Lists • Trees • Heaps • Segment Trees • Graphs • Union Find • Multisets • Maps

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

Summer 2025 reflection

5/22/25

The summer before junior year. I went to the gym, climbed, and played a lot of DDR.

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.

Recipes

7/11/24

Fried Eggs • Omelets • Egg-Fried Rice • Garlic Noodles • Boiled Bok Choy • Sautéed Onions • Sautéed Chicken Livers • Baked Salmon • Braised Pork Belly • 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