I didn't know I have submitted anything to a conference until during the bidding/conflict process :v
— Li-Yi Wei (@liyiwei) August 18, 2016
2016-08-18
Milestone of seniority
2016-08-17
Dreamers
“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.” – Lawrence of Arabia
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” – Edgar Allan Poe
So how about those who act on their dreams from the night with open eyes in the day?
🙂
2016-08-09
Performance inflation
When I was a PhD student, having 1 SIGGRAPH paper meant graduation, and 2+ for a top research job.
Now, having 1 SIGGRAPH paper meant admission into a top PhD program, 2+ for graduation, and 3+ for a top research job.
(20+ for a tenured professor or partner researcher, but few of you need to worry about this yet.)
Anyone who (still) thinks my standard is too high: feel free talk to Jun Xing, my first HKU advisee, about his current experiences in internship and job hunting.
🙂
2016-07-18
Academia stuff that I didn’t learn in the industry
It is much better for a computer scientist to have sufficient industry experiences before joining the academia, as I explained before.
Just be mindful of some necessary adjustments, some of which I am learning as an ongoing process and shared below.
Something I didn't learn in the industry: grant money will expire if not consumed by the deadline. 🙂
— Li-Yi Wei (@liyiwei) November 19, 2015
2016-07-17
A simple and effective way to rank a group
Count how many people want to join it, such students/employees/immigrants for a school/company/nation.
2016-07-16
The art of war
In the standard of Chinese classics, the art of war is crisp, even with repeating the core ideas.
During my first reading as a kid, I focused mainly on the languages.
After my second reading, the core ideas become very clear, even with my now rusty Chinese.
I can probably summarize the book in just a few sentences. But it is still better to read the original Chinese; no translation can do justice to the beautiful writing, and the repetition helps hammer the messages home.
I examined several English versions, all contain very obvious mistakes.
The best version I have seen so far is 孫子兵法論正, 朔雪寒.
2016-07-12
2016-07-10
Presentation workload
It actually takes more efforts to help co-authors prepare the talks than giving the talks myself. 🙂 #SIGGRAPH2016
— Li-Yi Wei (@liyiwei) July 10, 2016
