Getting older, huh? I have experienced some things that were extraordinarily meaningful in the year 2020: I started to write academic papers in English, pursuing perfectly-typeset articles and I have done some results that I’m now still very proud of. I started to browse English websites every day, hankering for an ideal & beautiful country […]
Author Archives: Mark Taylor
Why Write a Thesis?
(I found some very insightful and enlightening words about why we should write a thesis.) The answer “Because it’s required” is not good enough. In fact, the question “Why write a thesis?” is itself misleading, because it implies that what’s most important is the final product: an object that you will print out on acid-free […]
The Godfather
A man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man. – Vito Corleone
Striving to Keep Your Word
(… continuing of previous post, view original screenshot 1, 2, here) As previous post says, some very important things happened at that night (Jan 2): First, I asked my friend Liu Ling (who learns computer science at Sichuan University and is going to work for Citibank in Shanghai) a few questions about job interviews, work […]
Wake Up – The Rise of A Brave Heart
It seemed I’d been in a long ass mindless, depraving, dreadful dream in 2020, indecisive, lacking courage, blundering around in the darkness & searching for something unreal, missing the chances, working on things only when I felt inclined to or much motivated. Yet, I did grow a lot from last year, both emotionally & mentally. […]
Informal Resume Pictures
Besides, a couple of travel images can be found via the link below:
An Interesting Application of Chinese Remainder Theorem
See more at https://brilliant.org/wiki/chinese-remainder-theorem/
Work on TST
See also https://github.com/How-u-doing/DataStructures/tree/master/String/Trie https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65109727/why-returning-a-const-reference-via-delegation-gets-a-segmentation-fault-in-c
Memory & CPU Caches
This week and last weekend I was primarily focusing on memory pools, allocators, CPU caches. I now probably know how allocators work, simply separating memory allocation & objects initialization, for example, reserve() function in std::vector, it doesn’t initialize the allocated data segment, thus permitting better performance when we don’t need initialize the data immediately. CPU […]
Scott Meyers: CPU Caches and Why You Care
Very interesting topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDIkqP4JbkE