Introduction

Previous version of my blog focused on experimental and visual look. Since the first blog post in August 2017, thinking about how to share ideas helped me to organize my thoughts better and also build my career. Thank you, previous version of my blog! – you helped me to illustrate the amalgamation of my chaotic life (A.I. artist, B-boying, CEO, medical student).

In this second chapter of my “blog life”, I wanted to shift towards a more academic style, which would help me build even more magical things. I want more deeper understanding of technology and throw myself to the abyss of the legacies of the intellectual giants of the past and the present. As Arthur C. Clarke’s third law states:

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Clarke’s Third Law on UFO’s (Clarke, 1968)

Development

Starting from jekyll-theme-chirpy, I am adding some more features that I require. After some development, I will bundle them into jekyll-10xdev template – You can be a 10X developer with this blog template!

These are some things that I have done today:

• Rather extravagant monologue on why I am renovating my blog.
• Check support of academic style of writing with examples.
• Add my own shop to sell T-shirts and other interesting items.
• Write a cool blog post.
• Bibtex export support for each posts.
• Get lost in the 404 page.
• Add multilinguality.
• Think of something else.

I also added custom cool blockquotes:

It’s all about being true to yourself.

Seiok Kim

this is a normal blockquote.

Academic writing 📝

This is what you need.

Attention is all you need! (Vaswani et al., 2017)

\[e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0\]

It is a beautiful equation.

Also I added share button that copies the bibtex for each posts (Bottom right corner). For example,

@misc{bboyseiok2022new-beginning,
  author={Seiok Kim},
  title={New Beginning},
  publisher={bboyseiok.com},
  keywords={life},
  year={2022},
  month={Sep},
  day={9},
  url={https://bboyseiok.com/posts/new-beginning/},
  note={[Online; accessed 9-September-2022]}
}

Now it is eaiser to cite my blog post from now on (Kim, 2022) .

Developer utilities 👨‍💻

...
    observations = np.reshape(observations, newshape=[-1, 2])
    actions_list = np.array(actions_list).astype(dtype=np.int32)
    for i in range(2):
        sample_indices = (np.random.randint(expert_observations.shape[0], size=observations.shape[0]))
        inp = [expert_observations, expert_actions]
        sampled_inp = [np.take(a=a, indices=sample_indices, axis=0) for a in inp] # sample training data
        D.train(expert_s=sampled_inp[0],
                expert_a=sampled_inp[1],
                agent_s=observations,
                agent_a=actions_list)
    d_rewards = D.get_rewards(agent_s=observations, agent_a=actions_list)
    d_rewards = np.reshape(d_rewards, newshape=[-1]).astype(dtype=np.float32)
...

Self-sustained dev life 😎

I also added shop area to sell my original t-shirt designs and other goods.

XAICREW TSHIRT from Dec. 2018.

References

1. Clarke, A. C. (1968). Clarke’s Third Law on UFO’s. Science, 159(3812), 255–255. doi: 10.1126/science.159.3812.255.c https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.159.3812.255.c
2. Vaswani, A., Shazeer, N., Parmar, N., Uszkoreit, J., Jones, L., Gomez, A. N., Kaiser, L., & Polosukhin, I. (2017). Attention Is All You Need. CoRR, abs/1706.03762. http://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762
3. Kim, S. (2022). New Beginning. bboyseiok.com. https://bboyseiok.com/posts/new-beginning/