10.16

 hmm, why starts to work now...

try out is done

 new team this year!

math circle in 2023 october

 " Artificial Intelligence Workshop with Jeff Hwang" 

Is this the "Jeff Hwang"?

https://jeffhwang.me/

https://www.stepfunction.org/

https://jeffhwang.me/posts/2019-04-15-instructgpt-and-how-llms-are-trained/

长安三万里

 I don't like it. The hype didn't live up to the expectation I had before watching it. The cartoon is very beautifully made, the story is somewhat different. But, what a boring Li Bai! The greatest poet had only one face, from beginning to the end, there is no growth, there is no reason why he can write so magically. The hero was the other person, the pataglist who had grew dramatically, who seemingly benefitted most from meeting Li Bai. I don't see why Li Bai thought Gao was one of his best friends. 

I don't like boring story lines. And virtualizing the poems into grand cartoons doesn't carry a story.

I am disappointed. 

That's why I like '封神‘, which has the courage to tell the same old story from a totally new angle. I never liked story of 封神, in my view, that story is fully of worst part of Chinese culture (superstition, never respect female, and other). But, the take of this movie was a rewrite of the story into a western style drama or play. The core of the story is about growth and awaking, finding self.  That is much much better than telling a crowd-pleasing old tale.

10.9

 She is coughing, and we still continued with the escape room event. All four kids seemed to have fun. I had great walk and talk with one of moms. 

Hmm, I should make a list to reach out and talk to other moms more. That is my personal growth goal with the school.

She started a 15 minute fun with javascript lesson from her dad and draw a math graph curve. Hopefully that is beginning of many fun family programming sessions.

10.6

 开始读Elon 传记，因为井户端的介绍，自己的成见

10.5

 Was frustrated with all the hairy details of an internal tool.

Well, it felt sweet when finally got it to work correctly 

Started going back to Duolingo 

Lapsed yesterday on all fronts 😭

10.2.2023

 cleaning up stuffs on my plate please, for real!!

so frustrated with the tracing tool! It was wasting time. At this point, we are back to the first observation I had last week! And the tool just didn't work out of box...

Am I a bot? :(((

good read

https://medium.com/swlh/how-to-book-a-campsite-in-yosemite-valley-fe18ad5d4d63

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panda homework: 40+ basketball pole setting; 5 throw-over-fence successfully. yah!

SOH-CAH-TOA -- learning math

new volleyball club

 she is playing 12 this year. We are going to Academy 12 HP1

2023 October - start of half-century journaling

 Last week was the performance review week. I got the same review level as last year. But this last review phase/year, I am not happy with myself. I liked the new tasks, so many things to pick. But I was overall stressed and too stoned to really spend time on important stuff. I didn't go all the way to study outside work. One side I was not happy it feel like I didn't get enough right support, I was looking for the team I can play a role in. But, I felt I didn't get the right support immediately from D. All those factory defects coming in, consuming big chunk of my time, but going nowhere. I didn't ask enough questions, and I didn't say no a lot. I got stuck many many times. At the end of it, among all the people who were running, I looked like a slow slow walker. I hated it. I was MVP for the team for more than ten years (maybe less, since I was burned out in last two years and stayed frozen for a while). And now I am LVP. 

This turned in more stress which I managed poorly.

At the time of turning to half-century old, let's be honest. And let's do something about it.

There is nothing to lose, since I am already LVP. 

A few things to do:

1) with duolingo streak going, let's start journaling streak. 

2) yes, start journaling

3) a few 5Ks per week