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This is my personal website: "ShadowThink", the literal meaning is "Thinking from the shadow view", "What does shadow think of you?". It's a philosophy point which I agree with to think things out of yourself and shape individuals.

The articles are written in English or Chinese that depends on its potential readers. Basically, all technological and academical stuff is in English so that more people can understand it.

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Awesome-like Window Switching

Motivation Differing from Windows and MacOS, Linux is highly customizable for its desktop environment. In the desktop environment, window manager plays a crucial role in controlling the placement and appearance of windows and the interaction when you switch, preview, or hide windows. Unconsciously, these interactions through window manager steal your time especially when you use multiple windows on multiple screens using mouse extensively. Developers prefer to work in this mode. Fortunately, some excellent window managers are developed to alleviate this issue. Awesome is a representative one. However, naively using Awesome on laptop disables my favorite touchpad gestures tool, libinput-gestures. Thus,...…

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Review for Image Captioning

Table of Contents Image Captioning Conventional Approaches Deep Learning Approaches m-RNN LRCN Show and Tell (NIC) Show, Attend and Tell Image Captioning Image captioning aims at describe an image using natural language. It’s a quite challenging task in computer vision because to automatically generate reasonable image caption, your model have to capture the global and local features, recognize objects and their relationships, attributes and the activities, ect. Plus, language model requires a lot work to generating grammar error-free sentences. Image captioning is useful precise image retrieval, and might help blind people sense the world as well. For example, Facebook uses...…

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Publications

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ShadowThink Companion to Reinforcement Learning

ShadowThink Companion to Reinforcement Learning

MOOC Notes

MOOC Notes

CS beyond Open Source

CS beyond Open Source