I tried to retain the habit of posting something per day, as inspired by Ken Perlin. If I cannot find a good topic, I turn to his blog. E.g. in http://blog.kenperlin.com/?p=23712, Ken discussed “Could we create a hierarchy of fictional realities, through some reasonably objective criteria? If so, what would those criteria be?” It is…

I used Mendeley 7 years ago while working at HCIL. One of the most annoying things is to capitalize titles, correct DOIs, and rename filenames. Thanks to Python and many, many package contributors, I could finally automatic this process to some extent using https://github.com/ruofeidu/DuWebKit/blob/master/scripts/utils/autobib.py and https://github.com/ruofeidu/DuBibtex 🙂

Metaverse might be the #1 IT buff word emerged during the global pandemic, but what if we could actually create one? The movie “Free Guy” depicts a fantasy world, where an NPC could evolve with real intelligence, save the code and world which was stolen by evil CEOs from poor, little creators / coders /…