Currently: I serve my obligatory military service, and will finish on 25/11/2022. Luckily for me I am totally away from wars, criminals, or anything dangerous.
People’s Perception: People usually think of me as either (1) a programmer who turns dull math/physics into something useful, or (2) a theorist who writes papers of no real-life impact. I exonerate them from such misconception as theoretical computer scientists, are very bad at communicating their fields. You could even see our title is not so poetic like a string theorist or evolutionary biologist.
Why This Blog? I started this blog for communicating my self-study progress, and in hope of establishing collaborative works.
Society & Community: I wholeheartedly support open science movement, and moderate TCS’s subreddit and TCS’s awesome list.
Good Memories:
- Chi-Ning Chou’s Minicourse (course details here)
- COLT 2021 Mentorship Workshop
- Rahul Llango’s talk, Towards Hardness for the Minimum Circuit Size Problem
- qEgypt’s First Workshop on Quantum Computing
- My Poly Hong Kong Talk
- Toric Quantum Error Correction Codes, Quantum Discord Server
- Honors Linear Algebra, UCLA
- 4-player chess with Ewin Tang, Kuikui Liu, and Ansh Nagda.
- Yael Kalai’s QnA on obfuscation’s breakthrough.
- FOCS 2020 (I was granted registration fee waiver). see: 1, 2, 3, 4. I learned about it through twitter.
- Scott Aaronson’s QnA.
Non-Serious: If I am not doing any serious work, I would probably be listening to Taylor Davis.