Back to writing after a long hiatus! (Thanks to Anna for inspiring me to write again.) Motivation Intermittent fasting (IF) is one of the best things you can do for your body, for longevity, impr...

A list of remarkable things I failed to achieve, but they shaped me into who I am today. Apparently, I didn’t try enough, so I will try to grow this list. “Success is stumbling from failure to ...

This is my second year applying to (computational biology/bioinformatics) Ph.D. programs, and I wish to summarize things I have learned in this post so that I can share it with fellow young scienti...

(This article was originally written on September 4th, 2019 submitted to partially fulfill my Neuroscience coursework. Information, especially those regarding publication number, may not accurately...

I was reading the individual treatment effect (ITE) estimator X-learner by Künzel et al., 2019, and I have some quick thoughts (rants!) about the previous model designed by our lab, let’s call it t...

Motivation I was one of the first batch of graduates from the CUHK SBS Biomedical Science program. Given the nature of my research, I have a lot of tables and formulas in my thesis, so using MS wo...

Inter-disciplinary work vs transitioning fields Suppose you’re now under a degree program that does not necessarily satisfy your intellectual curiosity, how far can self-studying take you? Online ...

The main purpose of this post is that I don’t forget how I set up my workspace whenever I swap distros, and tend to do that a lot. But I’ve had people asking me what my work system is like, so I th...

Anyhting that can go wrong will go wrong. If you’re engaged in any sort of scientific work, Murphy’s law should be your mantra. Scientific work should be vigorously documented, and it one of t...

Getting the base package You should get the texlive distribution because latexmk was mostly designed for Windows system. sudo pacman -S texlive-core Then install tllocalmgr so that you can man...