Highly recommend. I particularly like the part about advices won’t prevent us from making mistakes but help us debug faster.
October 31, 2021
October 30, 2021
OKR 2021
For OKR 2020, I rated myself 80 percent:
- Published 2 top papers with 2 student first authors.
- Contributed to a newly released motion brush feature in Adobe Fresco, and received 6 granted and 4 filed patents.
- I am relieved some of my management duties (for now) after my last direct report became a professor in NYU.
- I have yet to start top impacts.
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The creative practice (mainly drawing and animation) has heightened my sense of observation and can help me focus/relax into a zone similar to meditation.
I finished Quicksilver, the first volume of the Baroque Cycle, my yardstick for book reading.
The default period is from July 2021 to June 2022 unless stated otherwise.
Publish top papers
Publish at least 4 papers in top graphics/HCI/vision/ML venues, such as ToG (including SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Asia), CHI/UIST, NIPS/ICML, CVPR/ICCV.
Build top products
Ship at least 1 product feature and file at least 4 patents.
Develop top talents
Help at least 4 students publish in top graphics/HCI/vision/ML venues individually.
Recruit/refer at least 2 top job candidates.
Lead top impacts
This is a new category created last year that I shall start.
Have fun, be awesome
Practice sketching and animation to a professional level.
Continue learning a third language to complement the one Asian and one European language I already know.
Finish the baroque cycle.
October 29, 2021
Water temple
Twenty years living
near Pulgas water temple
first visit today
You can hear, from the sound I recorded onsite, the energy of the water flow 160+ miles from Hetch Hetchy, an engineering marvel that, via gravity, supplies 85 percent of drinking water to the SF Bay Area.
October 28, 2021
October 24, 2021
Walking in a windy rain
I took a walk outside to feel the excitement of this rare rain storm.
October 23, 2021
A fly around a bowl of noodles
Google Lens classified the wheat noodles as shirataki probably due to the shiny, translucent appearance.
Hive mind shrank human brains
According to this Economist Expresso article, human brains started to shrink about 3000 years ago possibly due to living in social groups where the collective intelligence reduced the need for individual brain powers/activities (known to be energy consuming).
Which implies that loners today might be in relative evolutionary disadvantage compared to team-workers today and loners 3000 years before.
Hive mind shrank human brains https://t.co/J9h5vBrgoj
— Li-Yi Wei (@liyiwei) October 23, 2021
October 17, 2021
Immigration policy
Luck and coincidence put us inside of the border, separating those who might be smarter, tougher, and no less deserving to be here.
October 16, 2021
Impression of a museum guard
In a quiet Saturday afternoon when there were more guards than visitors in a recently re-opened art museum, I observed the unique combination of facial mask and head wrap of a particular guard who paced around me.
is one of my most favorite paintings in the Anderson Collection.