Sleepless night after
Underestimating the
Power of white tea
2017-07-19
2017-04-04
Habit
I heard this from my parents recently.
An uncle of mine took trains to work every day for many years. On the morning trains he performed the daily biological unloads.
After he retired, he found out he could no longer unload at home, so he kept on taking the trains for round trips.
2017-03-13
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.
2016-05-09
Recursive interviews
When you were interviewing the candidates I was also interviewing you.
You opened yourself like a book.
🙂
2016-04-17
Hiring mistakes
Hiring PhD students is even harder than hiring employees because younger folks have more potential to grow.
And unlike an industry researcher who can let interns come and go, a university professor sticks with the students.
Two prior PhD applicants to HKU whom I passed on have turned out with outstanding performance.
One of them is still collaborating with me, so I did not regret as much. Actually, if he had not gone to another school we would not have access to some crucial hardware environment for our project, and his adviser might not have warmed back to SIGGRAPH. So I probably still made the right call.
🙂
I clearly have a lot to learn, and will have hundreds of cases to practice every year.
2016-03-27
Equality versus fairness
A CEO gets paid 100 times the average employee salary. It is definitely not equal. But is it fair? The answer depends on whether the CEO has contributed 100 times than the average employees.
It is not always easy to tell fairness from equality, but it is important not to confuse the two.
Fairness should be maintained, but it is unfair and counter-productive to enforce equality.
Algorithmic species
Algorithms can already devise algorithms and write programs.
It is just a matter of time before they can do that in a scale massive enough to displace many, if not most, programming jobs, just like what robots have already done to the manufacturing jobs.
2016-03-11
Why it is fun to review journal papers
After kindly agreeing to review a journal revision for the N-th time, the guy commented that “it’s the gift that keeps on giving!” 🙂