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M.Sc. Computer Science student at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Developer. They/them
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it also reminds me how much i hate python (for totally irrational reasons) but it is what it is
June 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
- "Then how to deal with the logic and interaction between data structures?"
- "Algorithms!!???",
- "Jesus, why I realized this after almost 8 years from the first time I learned data structures and algorithms"
See, this is another example of THINK INSIDE.
May 15, 2025 at 7:37 PM
- "Why I can't implement it?",
- "Is there any certain way to think about it?",
- "How can I think in the way computers think when facing a problem?",
- "What's the input of a problem, and how to present the input?",
- "Ahh! Data structures are the understandable data source?",
May 15, 2025 at 7:37 PM
It's high time to reduce screen time and practice digital minimalism now. I do the following things:
- Make my phone dumb
- Buy a lovely notebook
- Keep the laptop in the bag in class
May 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Another thing I realized after I moved to Germany is that I can live without phone, because digital payment is not a must and paper menu is still common.
May 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
"Life is layers, fluid, unfixed, fragments. I never could write a story with a beginning, a middle and an end in the usual way because it felt untrue to me. That is why I write as I do and how I write as I do. It isn’t really an ethos; it’s me."
April 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
One day it came to me that I could directly read the third chapter! I can even skip, jump, repeat and go back, as long as I can connect the relationship between knowledge.
Jeanette Winterson said in her book, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal, that
April 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Today, while I was reading Neural Networks and Deep Learning by Michael Nielsen (neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/chap1.html), I felt another enlightening and charming wording as mental model is neural networks "intuition" which just suddenly erased all the cloud in front of me.
Neural networks and deep learning
neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com
April 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
With her words and my understanding, Python’s mental model is pretty similar to JavaScript’s. In Python world, there’re immutable and mutable values and we can use wires/labels to connect them with variables, and the counterparts in JavaScript are respectively primitive and object.
April 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Mental model is not about how something is implemented under the hood. It’s all about "thinking inside", which is why I didn’t say “people with reference model”.
April 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
For example, how do you understand variable? Consider the following mindless code:

const a = { one: 1 }
const b = a
a.one = 2
console.log(b)

People with container/bucket model may say b is { one: 1 } , but people with wire/label model can give { one: 2 } without any hesitation.
a.one
April 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM