Presenting your work is as important as doing the work itself, if not more. Treat every meeting with the supervisor as a precious opportunity to practice the ability to present your idea and convince others. Spend hours to polish our logic, slides, language, pronunciation, expression, answer to possible questions, even …
Sending Emails from Cygwin
Googled a lot but couldn't find tutorials about how to send emails from Windows command line. After playing with the mail tools in Cygwin, found it's pretty straightforward and put it up here for future reference.
- Install cygwin if you don't have it. (It's handy if you are familiar with …
The Lean Launchpad
总的体会就是。。。这门课再一次影响了我的三观。。。
第一次三观崩溃是optimization。在上这门课以前设计算法都非常heuristic，想着第一步做这 …
Tagged as : ChineseFrom "time management" to "write down what you need to do"
I used Emacs org-mode to do time management before, with dedicated project plan, autogenerated schedule, and filled in how my time was spent every hour. Yeah, this is fancy, geeky, cool. Looks efficient. Until one day I got tired of it.
Then I changed to pen and paper. No staring …
Build a Small-World Fish-Eye Style Panorama
Sometimes a small-world panorama is quite stunning. For comparison, a regular panorama is shown below.
Spent about half an hour to do experiments and finally get a program to convert to regular panorama to small-world style.
The key is coordinate system transform, from rectangular to polar. This is pretty intuitive …