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  • Mastering the Gumbel-Softmax Trick: Turning Hard Decisions into Smooth Learning

    Introduction Imagine teaching a computer how to choose between different options โ€” like picking the best movie recommendation or deciding which move to make in a game. These choices often boil down to picking one option from several, a process called categorical sampling. However, this kind of decision-making poses a challenge when training machine learning models…

  • Use Python to automate the Microsoft Word Weekly Report Task

    I need to figure a workflow to automate the process of creating a new Microsoft Word document as weekly report. Althrough I’ve written an article about using Python to handle the task of generating powerpoint slides based on a template, this blog dicusses mainly on Microsoft Word document and how to use previous weeks report…

  • USB Hub with Ethernet Capability Driver needed on a computer?

    I’ve never thought that in 2024 I still have to manually download and install driver for a USB Hub with ethernet functionality. I bought the UGreen USB Hub, in the beginning when I connected it to my Mac, I could not be able to find it in Settings app. Normally when a USB2Ethernet device is…

  • HotSpot Thermal Model Notes

    Introduction Hotspot has been released to its 7 iteration with multiple updates regarding accurate thermal simulation benchmark. Installation To increase the simulation speed, the SUPERLU package is needed, depending on the various distros with own specifiic package managers, the installation could be different. Once it is installed, hotspot could be compiled. SuperLU I prefer to…

  • Revolutionizing Academic Workflows: AI-Powered Equation Extraction from PDFs to LaTeX

    In the fast-paced world of academia and technical writing, efficiency is key. As researchers, students, and professionals, we often grapple with the tedious task of extracting equations from PDF papers and converting them into LaTeX code. This process, while crucial for writing papers, blogging, or taking comprehensive notes, has long been a bottleneck in our…

  • The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

    The Secrect1 Abstract2 Make a list of some secret shifters to have up your sleeve. These are the things that can change your feelings in a snap. It might be beautiful memories, future events, funny moments, nature, a person you love, your favourite music. Different things will shift you at different times, so if one…

  • Interact with Python virtual environment

    Using python for mahcine learning projects is totally different from utilizing the language for productivity on daily tasks. Python official website provides the documentations for venv1. This post2 contains a comprehensive guide on how to use the virtual environment. There are lots of tutorials on how to setup, manage and dispose a python virtual environment…

  • a glimpse of ssh remote servers via sshls

    Suppose one has access to many servers via ssh, the config file has been properly managed, sometimes it is still difficult to remember the alias for each server. It would be much better to run a command line to print out a list of server names and public key comments associated with the server from…

  • Ilya’s secret machine learning paper list

    This link1 contains Ilya Sutskever’s2 curated machine learning paper list. The following tweets show the original story behind this list. I modified the sequence so that similar ones are grouped together, yet the original index with digit emojis is placed in the beginning of the paper title for your own reference, although I don’t think…

  • Read and write most commonly used config files

    Configuration files are crucial for setting up software applications, specifying settings, and managing operational parameters. In this article, we will explore the top most commonly used configuration file formats, understand their history, advantages, and disadvantages, and provide Python snippets for reading and writing these formats. These config files include JSON, conf, XML, HCL, YAML, TOML,…

  • Exploiting 2.5D/3D Heterogeneous Integration for AI Computing

    References Exploiting 2.5D/3D Heterogeneous Integration for AI Computing1 Benchmarking Heterogeneous Integration with 2.5D/3D Interconnect Modeling2 End-to-End Benchmarking of Chiplet-Based In-Memory Computing3 Summary HISIM4, a modeling and benchmarking tool for heterogeneous integration of chiplets by communicating through NoP5. Components: partitioning, mapping and placement; computing unit/processing unit; heterogeneous interconnection; network/routing engine; thermal analysis. technology roadmap6, power/latency prediction,…

  • Expanding volume of VMs

    Sometimes it would be useful to extend certain volumes on VMWare or other VMs on the guest machine due to development requirements. In this tutorial, the logical volume on Rocky Linux 9 guest machine will be extended on VMWare. Generally speaking, there are 2 steps to do so: first the spaces need to be added…

  • Python Tidbits

    As AI is revolutionlizing the world as the upcoming ongoing industrial revolution, learning to use Python is an essential skill. This post serves as a portal to collect some interesting bits of info regarding Python so that you would have a chance to understand it deeper. Apart from AI apps, you could use it to…

  • Python Based Workflow to Generate Powerpoint Slides

    Sometimes it is useful to automatically generate powerpoint files for weekly or biweekly meeting, there’s nothing better to handle this issue than Python, in this tutorail, Python will be used to generate powerpoint slides based on a predefined template so users don’t have to create files by clicking again and again. Objective Template File Template…

  • “Fundamentals of device and systems packaging: technologies and applications” Textbook Note

    Fundamentals of device and systems packaging: technologies and applications.1 There are many hyperlinks that redirect to the original images in the McGraw Hill site for reference. packaging hierarchy name purpose interconnection Level 1 IC carrierPackaged-IC IO pads on IC connected to 1st level of packagingwirebondingIC assembly Level 2 solder bonding substrate of 1st level package…

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