I am just another graduate student, who was lucky enough to get admitted into a renowned grad school. Since then, many have been asking me for tips and tricks on graduate school admission. The general question is typically about the shortcuts. Though I usually suggest the thoughtful preparation, long-term planning, and dedication, I rarely provide [...]

In Machine learning, we study how we could make machines learn. First, we come up with fancy ideas based on our intuition on human cognition, then theorize them so that we could put them in equations and make them definite; finally, we use bits and bytes to implement them. The intuition is to use the [...]

It was the first winter for me, yet it did not offer anything but the spectacular display of snowstorms, which had been more of a nuisance. Of course, that was not the only factor that forced me to choose California for winter break instead of spending the holidays at my new home – Cambridge. I [...]

I started my graduate studies at MIT last September, and I am slowly becoming conversant with numbers. Today, I will tell you three stories (with little satire) on 6.840, C2867 and 754, in the break I got from drinking water from fire hose. They span from art of teaching to art of service to art [...]