The best time to start is now. Never hesitate to do what you want to do.

This is my first post since I started this personal academic website. After reading and inspired by many nice blogs, I decided to start my own blog to record my thoughts, ideas and reflections mostly focusing on AI, Cognitive Science, and Life. I will try to update it regularly as well transfer some of my thoughts in my memo to here, but I can’t promise that I will keep it up. I will try my best to make it a good habit～ 😊

Recap

Doing researches in AI is a long journey and I am still a newbie. I am always curious about how things work, why they work and how they could be beneficial to others and industry. I am also interested in how to make them more interpretable and robust. And in the past, I was lucky to have the opportunity to work with lots of great researchers and mentors and I have learned a lot from them.

Plan

Doing Research

In the past, I ususlly spent most of my time on reading papers, coding, and writing papers while participating in ten techical master courses. And I was almost burnt out sometimes but I got throught it and accidently found out that I quite enjoyed in what I was doing and would do. After this year, I realized that numbers of papers are not the most important thing in research but the quality of the papers and the impact of the research are more important. So I will try to focus on doing more impactful and higher quality research and try to make some contributions to the community.

Writing Blogs

I admire some researchers who believe in "slow science" and they spend most of their time on thinking, reading, and writing. And they hardly blogs or social media and keep inner peace. For me, I thought I was kind of an extrovert sometimes and I regard writing as a great way to reflect what I have learned and thought, as well as a good way to connect with others. So I will try to write more blogs and share my thoughts and ideas with others in the new year.

Learning New Things

I am always curious about and happy with trying and learning new things which I regard meaningful and interesting. Lots of famous computer scientists and researchers are thinking AI is purely Mathemathics, Physics, Coding, and Engineering. So I would try to enhance these to be a better researcher and engineer. And I would also try to learn some new things like Philosophy, Psychology, and Cognitive Science to be a better thinker and writer. Besides, I’d love to read great technical blogs and books to learn from others and get inspired, like Lilian Weng, Yang Song, Jianlin Su, and others. And if you have any good recommendations, please let me know! 😄

Exercising

I was a super sports lover in the past. But after I started my master’s degree, I hardly did any sports and I thought it was no good. So I would try to exercise more and keep fit in the new year to keep a good balance between work and life.

Thanks for readers who read my blog and I will try my best to make it better! 😊