A romantic and beautiful song. Being far away in Guangxi, I can't help but miss the people, events, and things in Jiangsu.
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In 2024, at the "Forging a Strong Sense of Community for the Chinese Nation" themed event held at Guangxi Minzu University, I, as someone from Jiangsu, experienced the March Third festival for the first time. This experience gave me a deep appreciation for the profound depth and unique charm of Chinese culture.
Topic: The Dilemma of Pursuing a Master's at a Non-Elite University
As a graduate student who sees graduate school as a way to delay employment pressure, these past few months have completely shown me the predicament I might face in future employment. The destinations of third-year graduate students are good references for first-year students.
A third-year senior sister published a quality paper in the Chinese Journal of Computers during her studies, becoming the only candidate with a chance to pursue a PhD. The other seniors, after completing their theses, all returned home to find jobs. Generally, they consider public sector positions. Their employment direction has no intersection with the natural language processing they studied.
This inevitably makes one question the meaning and value of NLP graduate studies, because my institution's NLP research focuses on niche ASEAN minority languages. The lack of corpora + lack of GPU equipment + no market demand for employment inevitably leads to the awkward position of being neither here nor there—quite a waste of time.
Generally, computer-related majors consider development positions after graduation. But if you completely abandon development learning during graduate school and don't intern much, development positions are mostly out of reach. This situation is very common among graduate students at my institution.
How to break through? Obviously, by doing development. After completing coursework and research direction tasks, squeeze out time to learn development. Also, finish publishing papers early—only after papers are done will you have spare time to intern at companies.
Enough said. After finishing this monthly issue, I'm off to continue learning development.
Interesting
Order coffee via SSH—a wildly creative project [created by American hackers]. Perhaps in a while, Chinese hackers will replicate a similar project.
Experience the humorous changelogs in software updates.
April 24th every year is JS Naked Day. To participate, remove all JS code from your website.
Besides JS Naked Day, April 9th every year is CSS Naked Day. To participate, remove all CSS styling from your website. via: CSS Naked Day
Email addresses with emoji. You can get one for free to play with.
Link Sharing
Microsoft Graveyard, a project similar to Killed by Google, documenting products killed by Microsoft.
Daily digest of HackerNews. Helps you stay updated on daily tech news.
A website listing seaside train stations in Japan.
Redfeed Reading Assistant, an AI-powered personal information assistant that helps improve your information acquisition efficiency for better thinking. Covers mainstream information platforms.
After seeing the product launch in March, I got permanent free summarization. Here's a look at Redfeed's performance in the WeChat ecosystem.
Quotes
1. Play more, experience more, date more—don't have stupid ideas like "wait until I meet xxx conditions before dating or doing something"
2. When you meet someone you like and are compatible with, cherish them
3. Having regrets is normal—don't dwell on them or care too much
4. Society will rank people, but always know that you yourself are the coolest person in the world—no one can define you
5. If your financial situation isn't great, save appropriately and keep some emergency funds
6. Eat on time and take care of your health
7. Don't take seniors' advice too seriously—listen to yourself more
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I study hard to reduce the luck needed on the road to success. via
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The prerequisite for open source is having food on the table and a stable life. via
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A speck of dust from the times, when it falls on an individual, is a mountain. Everyone could be crushed by the mountain.
Next update expected in July during summer break.