On this 10-year anniversary of my layoff from my first industry job, I was finally able to share this deeply personal story, and what I learned from that experience.

I finished the novel: The Ministry for the Future. I might still feel like I would recommend the book to other climate-minded people, but probably only the first 2/3 of the book. Here is why.

As a technically oriented climate person, the chapters that I'm mostly interested about the …

I was cleaning my house and replaced some of the old LED bulbs with the new ones we purchased, and was reminiscing about my time in that industry back in 2012-2015. One thing led to another, and by the end of the night, I wrote a tweet thread about LED chips, which turned out to be... surprisingly popular?

Finally caught up this weekend the three long form articles from the series by ProPublica and NYT Magazine that look into global climate migration. Great, sobering read...

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I was invited by the Taiwanese Data Science (TWDS) Meetup Group to give a talk about "Data Science Job Search in USA". Below is the slide link for those who are interested.

Data Science Job Search in USA

And here is the notes in traditional Chinese taken by the event …

My own update to this xkcd comic from 2011:

(Originally posted on twitter):

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In this article, I wrote about how to use pelican embed_tweet plugin in Pelican static site generator, which is useful for embedding tweet into your own blog posts, like so:

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In the beginning of 2020, I started a goal of writing more professionally. I did not …

If you live in US west coast, you have undoubtedly came across the dystopian footage of the smoke-induced orange sky. People have compare it to "nuclear winter". Well, what we're experiencing is actually 20x worse.

I came across this article through my network, Nano-diamond self-charging batteries could disrupt energy as we know it, which included some eye-opening claims:

California company NDB says its nano-diamond batteries will absolutely upend the energy equation, acting like tiny nuclear generators. They will blow any energy density comparison out of …

This is my personal highlights from reading "COVID-19 is awful. Climate change could be worse.", which was published on Gates Notes. This article offers a lot of interesting corollaries between COVID-19 and climate change, and offers some sobering statistics.