Only Truth Matters

1. Intro

Goal: Improve my taste for life. To make the question more clear

• What is taste
• What is the life quality measurement
• How taste influence life quality
• How much would it cost

2. What is Taste

Preference, sensitivities, discernments across various aspects of life

• Arts
• Culture
• Food
• Fashion
• Social interaction

About things you find enjoyable, meaningful, valuable

3. How to Measure

Different for different aspect

• Culture: appreciation for diverse culture, empathy, understanding
• Aesthetic: appreciation for art, music, literature
• Culinary: appreciation for food, social interaction
• Style: creating pleasing personal and living space

1. Method

Try to do this systematically.

1. Define style, aesthetic, needs
2. Layout planning
3. Color scheme
4. Furniture
5. Decorate
   1. Soft furnishing: rugs, cushions, curtains
   2. Decorative items, artwork, photos, plant
   3. Lighting, mix of overhead, ambient, task lighting
6. Shopping

2. Style

Minimalist:

• Simple but elegant
• Appealing to me

Needs:

• Sleep: bed
• Work: desk
• Social? Relax, reading
• Workout
• Kitchen

3. Layout

1. Goal

Research current trend in robotics fields how to co-operate LLM for robot control

1. Why

Want to learn the design of interior, make my new studio apartment a more functional and eye pleasing place

2. Theory

2.1. Basic

Principle:

• Balance:
  • asymmetrical can express informal feeling
  • Symmetrical, formal
  • Radial: central focal point with other elements radiating from it
• Unity: every thing should pair well with each other
  • Similar color, texture
• Rhythm: create rhythmic pattern through visual repetition of form.
  • Direct someone’s attention around the space
• Proportion and Scale: the item size, color, shape, form, should match with each other
• Emphasis: to attract attention. Use one item as the focal point
  • Furniture, art work, etc
• Contrast: most obvious one is using color, pairing light and dark, warm and cool
  • Less is more, not too much
• Detail: contain the right finishing touches

2.2. Space Planning

What: determine the purpose, functional requirements, basic layout

How: generally 4 part

• Social
• Private
• Work
• Storage

1. Why People Get Piercing

• Personal expression
  • Look cool or unique
• Confidence boost
  • Feel more comfortable and confident in their own skin
• Cultural and personal significance
• Therapeutic aspect: distraction from self-harm or as reminder of personal survival

Tongue: seems sexual to many

Nose: decoration, look good

2. Why Accessories on Neck, Ear, Wrist

• Visibility: highly visible parts
• Cultural significance
• Functional and Symbolic reason:
  • Earring and necklaces can frame the face
• Relatively safe and comfortable

1. Intro

Memorial Day的长周末，独自开展了4天的旅程

Day 1：从San Jose坐火车到Santa Barbara。

• 吃饭的时候是在餐车车厢，4个人share一张桌子。和其中一个奶奶聊了很久，看问题淡淡的，角度也很抽离，可能这就是经历多了的样子吧

Day 2：在SB闲逛，主要就是Downtown，State Street。晚上坐火车到LA

• SB的海是朝南的，非常平静，不过也看不到落日沉入水面了

Day 3：在LA Downtown闲逛，China Town, Little Tokyo, 能明显感觉到人群的不同。晚上去了Santa Monica

• China Town落魄了，看得出来曾经很繁华，如今都是老年人在其中生活
• Little Tokyo里的二次元文化浓度很高，小众的、非主流的审美在这里非常自得
• Santa Monica的Pier也是非常热闹，较之SF和Santa Cruze也是有过之而无不及
• 和好几个路人、Homeless people聊了天，感觉到人的共性还是很多的，对于幸福、童年的追寻。人的交互也很有意思，态度是会mirror的。

Day 4：去逛了LA的两个艺术馆，The Broad和LACMA

• 都比想象中要小
• 逐渐能体会到现代艺术想要传达的意思，专注艺术形式的本身而不在意普世价值的美学和故事性

1. Intro

我对爱一直是非常不解、模糊的。这是一个很难定义的概念，但又是在人类社会中被广泛讨论、承认的概念

2. 内容

当前社会对爱情的普遍观点：赢得人心+对异性有吸引力

爱情的理论

• 来源之一：孤独
  • 性放纵是解决办法之一，但是和酗酒类似，如果没有其他方式摆脱孤独，结局只能是越来越孤独
• 不成熟的爱：共生有机体
• 积极性：关心、责任、尊重、认识
• 母爱：无条件的爱
• 爱不是一种关系，是一种态度，不取决于对象，而是能力
  • 博爱：所有爱的基础，对他人的关心、尊重
  • 母爱
  • 性爱：独占性，只同一个人灵魂和肉体上融为一体
  • 自爱：爱自己是一生浪漫的开始

爱的实践：

• 坚持、专注、耐心

1. Burrata

Similar to mozzarella but with a unique twist

• Outer shell: solid mozzarella
• Insider: mixture of curd and fresh cream

Usually served as addition to salads, over crusty bread, paired with tomatoes

2. 打呼噜

睡眠时呼吸道部分阻塞

• 体重原因：颈部有更多脂肪，呼吸道变窄（平躺时最明显）
• 睡眠姿势：仰睡时舌头和软腭后坠

1. Intro

Goal: control life, make the full-time job unnecessary

Step

1. Find interest and strengths
2. Understand what kind of job is suitbale
3. Create online profile
4. Search for job opportunities

2. Interest

Self-Assessment

• Professional skills. Focused on computer vision / image processing / robotics (path planning, motion planning, control)
• Experiences: I enjoy building robots and develop useful algorithm that can be used in real life

Skill Inventory

• Hard skills:
  • Programming: Python, C++
  • Computer Vision
  • Image Processing (from RAW image to final result)
  • Robotics
• Soft skills
  • English and Chinese
  • Leadership: managed a team of 5
  • Time management

Personality:

1. Intro

Try to learn the best pose for photograph.

• Capture the beauty of body? What is beautiful about the body
• How to emphasis the beauty
• How to create the beauty of body

2. Beauty of Human Body

• Proportion and Symmetry
• Definition and Tone, defined muscles
• Posture and Poise, good posture
• Smooth skin

3. How to Enhance

• Lighting
  • Soft lighting
  • Directional lighting
  • Backlighting
• Posing
  • Angle, use angle, turn to side and make the waist appear smaller, shoulder broader
  • Tension, keep muscle slightly tense
  • Line and curveL emphasize natural body curve
• Background
  • Clean, simple background

4. Learn from Sculpture

Sculpture: idealized human form

David