I'd like to take this moment to thank Yahoo!, my former employeer, who taught me to love Software Engineering and how to write the best-quality software. 4 years of being her employee nourished my life philosophy that the end of Software Development in itself is not about money, but people, passion, and love. Thank you Yahoo!

This page is also dedicated to my mentor Rick Jensen, my life-long teacher on Software Engineering. Having been the best tech leader I've seen, he treats software design, programming, and code review as a work of art and loves Software Engineering by ❤️, which is why I will follow his philosophy and, with tremendous sincerity, respect him as my role model in tech world

I have a Bachelor's Degree of Engineering Physics (on Computational Quantum Mechanics) and a Master's Degree of Computer Science (on Big Data and Cloud Computing) both from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since then, my career has been focusing on B2C Knowledge Graph applications, because it is a career that converges all of my consuming interests: Big Data Analytics, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and the curiosity of exploring complex systems

What I learned from 4 years of College Physics is an idea that the answer to questions around all complex systems always come down in the most straightforward and self-evident form:

• Why can't we go back in time and change world history even with a time machine? Because we can't make 2 secods shorter than 1 second, which breaks the basic Physical principle of Simultaneity
• What drives an investor's $200 million found for this starup? Because they know why the founder chose to begin this adventure
• How does this smile-all-the-time guy burst into tears suddenly after people are just joking "you are just a lier, you sly dog"? Because they felt their parents don't love them which made them believe they were just bad kids since childhood

What I found the most complicated system is human. Learning the simpliest and the most truthful nature deep in the mind of every complicated soul and heart is my strongest drive to explore this world of subconciousness that can be most effectively interpreted by the Data Our Langauge - NLP technologies

• I started learning English as a Chinese student far later than my contemporaries. Just 1 month after the moment I didn't even know how to spell "hello", I took the first English language exam in my life and got the highest score in my Middle school class among those contemporaries

• When I studied abroad in US, I picked up German language class for fun and I can still remember how I spent just little effort before I was able to speak better German than those Indo-European-native language speakers

• I love languages

  • I have been studying ancient languages, such as Ἑλληνική and 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿, because they are interesting, engaging, challenging, and, most of all, fun in their own right
  • I have been nonsensical with languages
  • I have been facinated by how just a single alphabet along with interestingly rigorous syntax rules allows us to live through an endlessly fabulous 5000 years of human history

Today, I extend my passion to the career of Natural Language Processing AI, becuase I believe in the power of language, the greatest invention in human history that, once being open-source technologized, shall advance the way we interact with this world

I'm interested in 4 topics of tech world:

1. NLP Machine Learning
2. Immutable Infrastructure DevOps
3. React-based Frontend Dev with little more focus on the UI design
4. No-Spring Webservice Dev

I used to study technologies by blogging extensively. Since I'm running a company, my obligations right now are more on doing well for my employees and for my company, which leave me literally no time for the blogging. I do, however, keep studying techs in a, what I found, more efficient approach below.

Inspired by large enterpeise hosting their own private mirrors of public Maven Central, I forked documentation source codes of all technoloteis I'm interested in and publish them to GitHub Pages, which result in the following curated list. By these forks under my account, I'm writing my tech blog with thousands of helping hands around the world. In addition, I could also add my own study notes on top of their documentations:

• Stanford CNN | Google JAX | Google Flax

• ASR: CMU Sphinx

• Reinforcement Learning: OpenAI RL

• MLOps: MLflow | Metaflow | MLReef

• Hugging Face: Tokenizers Node/Python API

• Tools: Jupyter | Jupyter Docs | scikit-learn | GQL | State of AI Reports

• Python: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python | PEP's | conda

• Knowledge Graph: Knowledge Graphs | Data Visualization | NetworkX | NetworkX Guides | Memgraph NextworkX Guide | react-force-graph | spaCy | Stanford SNAP | TextGrapher

  • Knowledge Graph Embedding (KGE) AmpliGraph | Knowledge Graph Embeddings Tutorial: From Theory to Practice
  • Tools vs | Wikipedia Graph Canvas | Wikipedia Graph Search

• LLM

  • Llama: llama.cpp | Llama on Android/iPhone
  • Chinese LLM: Chinese-Mixtral | Llama2-Chinese | Chinese-LLaMA-Alpaca-2
  • 浙江大学 LLM 生态体系: KnowLM | DeepKE | NeuralKG | OpenUE | EasyInstruct | EasyEdit
  • LLM Reasoning: world models | LangChain

• Packer | Terraform | Terraform CDK | Consul | Vault | Packer Plugin Scaffolding | Terraform Provider Scaffolding

• Blogs
  • Terraform adds a new setting to manage team tokens
  • Solving the data security challenge for AI builders
  • From zero to hero with HashiCorp Boundary

• Guide | Docker Compose | Custome Forks for Personal Usage

• 
  • March 2024 Release Highlights and Bug Bash Recap
  • Retroactive: February 2024 Release Rollout and Bug Bash
  • Retroactive: January 2024 Release Rollout and Bug Bash

• Install Guide | Doc Contrib Guide | Virtual Machine Image Guide | API Quick Start Guide | Glossary | Swift | python-swiftclient

• | Elastic Stack | Elasticsearch | Kibana | Logstash | Beats

• Sentry Documentation | Sentry Developer Documentation

• DockOvpn | mieru | Upptime | Docker Mailserver

• 

  • Start VM from command line

    VBoxManage startvm <vm_name> --type headless

  • Stop virtual machine

    VBoxManage controlvm <vm_name> poweroff

  • SSH into a virtual machine

    1. To open guest machine network settings to make sure it's attached to NAT

       

    2. Then go to Advanced -> Port Forwarding and add these settings:

       • The IP fields can be left empty.
       • Name: ssh (or whatever you like)
       • Protocol: TCP
       • Host Port: 2222 (or any other port you like)
       • Gust port: 22

       

    3. Reboot host machine and ssh by ssh -p 2222 virtualbox-user-name@localhost

I have a backend-dev origin, but the reason I love frontend-dev, from a technical perspective, is, while not always the case in backend-dev, frontend-dev appears to be a world of functional programming, which I like a lot (subconcisously)

• UI Design Component-Driven UI Development | tailwindcss
• React styled-components | react-bootstrap | react-icons | yarn | Monorepo | TypeScript | React + TypeScript Cheatsheet| Babel | Jest | testing-library | Cypress | Argos | Prettier | typescript-eslint | TypeDoc | ExpressJS | Redux | React Redux | Redux Toolkit | redux-observable | RxJS | InversifyJS | GraphQL Relay | Immer | Lexical | i18next | react-i18next
• Knowledge Graph Memgraph Orb | three.js | D3-graph-gallery

• GraphQL: GraphQL | GraphQL Specification | GraphQL Java | Principled GraphQL | Apollo GraphQL | Apollo GraphQL Client (React)
• JSON Schema
• OpenAPI: The OpenAPI Specification | Learn OpenAPI | OpenAPI Tooling | OpenAPI Map

• Jakarta RESTful Web Services

  • Jakarta RESTful Web Services 3.1 Specification (PDF)
  • APIs
  • Jakarta EE Jekyll Theme

• JPA

  • Specification HTML/PDF
  • API

• Webservice JSR-330 Dependency Injection standard (Javadocs) | Jersey | GlassFish HK2 | Jetty | Groovy Spock | Cucumber | Owner Config | Testcontainers for Java | JaCoCo | ReactiveX | RxJava | JSON:API | Hjson | Querydsl

  • Hibernate ORM Introduction (PDF) | Quickstart | User Guide (PDF) | Hibernate Query Language (HQL) (PDF) | Integration Guide | Javadocs | Topical Guides | Logging | Dialects | Migration Guide

• Security Let's Encrypt | Certbot | Kong Gateway (Docker Compose) | JWT Token(debugger) | Logto | Keycloak Documentation | Keycloak Documentation (Extra)

• Database Apache CouchDB | Hadoop | Hive (Documentation) | Swift Java | SQL style guide

  • Graph Database Memgraph Documentation | ArangoDB Documentation

    • Neo4J Neo4j Getting Started Guide | Neo4J Browser | Cypher | Neo4J Developer Guides | NeoDash

      • Movies Graph Example | Healthcare Analytics Graph Examples | Network Management Graph Example | Stack Overflow | 中医知识图谱

TiddlyRoam (template file) | Write the Docs | Docusaurus | Bit Twiddling Hacks | Google Engineering Practices Documentation | Git | Changelog | Studying Agile | KTX2 File Command Line Utility | Gource | Turing machine visualizer

• Anki: Anki's manual | AnkiMobile Manual

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