I saw 11 replies to a Slack thread of a research project and thought “whoa what a lively academic research discussion” and then came in to find out it was all about gift card amount for user study participants.
=D
2022-02-23
Lively academic thread
2022-02-22
Advices from a speaker coaching session
Say less and say better.
Connect with the audience from the start; why this talk matters to them.
Have a closure at the end, like take home messages or potential future works.
Asking your opinion before venturing mine
A recent undergraduate intern (with a first-authored paper in an upcoming top HCI venue with me) asked my thought on how to pick among PhD offers he has received from several top schools.
Initially I gave a no-brainer answer, but on a second thought I realized that I should hear his prioritized list so that I won’t get ahead of myself.
Maybe I should do this for other cases in the future (and put a disclaimer before my existing written suggestions).
Later, we went over his detailed reasoning and it appears that he would pick my original no-brainer recommendation.
I look forward to our next collaboration project.
2022-02-19
Number 70 – afternoon and sunrise
I penciled the afternoon scene first, and colored the sunrise scene based on a photo I took earlier as visual reference.
Silicon Valley Index
Some interesting aspects I found in the 2022 Silicon Valley Index:
- The total population declined due to net emigration.
- Asian now constitutes 39% of the population, more than white (29%), Hispanic (24%), black (2%), and the others (6%).
- The median income ($138100) is about the twice the US value ($67300).
- Apple and Alphabet employed 12% of the total work force.
- Despite a relatively low household poverty rate of 5%, nearly 33% of all households do not earn enough money to meet their most basic needs without public or private/informal assistance.
- Non-residential development approvals hit an all-time high in FY 2020-21, with more than 21.5 million square feet of space approved.
2022-02-14
String pile
This is a exercise to draw a fairly complex object in a sufficiently simple means.
2022-02-07
Tarepanda
There is a pair of these in my home and tonight when I looked at them I wondered if their eyes were rolling.
2022-02-06
Alphabet Workers Union postcard
Not being a member of Alphabet, I am not sure why I received this postcard, but what AWU is looking for already exists in Adobe.
Amazing baby oak
I am amazed by how oaks can bear a lot of seeds (acorns), grow large/fast everywhere without needing much water.