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Reflections Featured

Perilously Pursuing Passion

It starts in elementary: “What do you wanna be when you grow up?” And it masquerades as a new question as you age: “What do you want to major in?” But

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Computer Vision Featured

How to Write a Custom Dataset and DataLoader

This code is all available in my GitHub. Datasets & DataLoaders PyTorch’s abstract class representing a dataset is Dataset in torch.util.data.

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College Admissions Featured

Research as an Extracurricular

Note: This post largely applies to people applying as STEM/hard science majors. I don’t have the experience to comment on soft sciences, humanities, e

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Computer Vision

Computer Vision — Week 9

Hey! My name’s Michel Liao. I’m a computer science first-year at Princeton University, hoping to get a PhD in computer vision. Join me in my CV journe

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Book Review Featured

The Hunger Games — Book Review

TL;DR 4/5. “I volunteer as tribute!”: Katniss is thrown into an arena with 23 other minors to battle it to the death. I can’t say more or I’ll spoil

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Computer Vision — Week 8

Hey! My name’s Michel Liao. I’m a computer science first-year at Princeton University, hoping to get a PhD in computer vision. Join me in my CV journe

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