Jan 19 ~ Jan 25, 2026

本週衝刺的主題：ML Sprint!

不知不覺今年的第四周結束了！真的過得飛快！一月剩下寶貴的最後一週。

How many New Year’s Goals are you still on track?

這週解鎖了兩個新的咖啡店，一間在 Saratoga，超級多人！（假日網路限一小時免費），另一間在 menlo park downtown，多虧 Ethen 找，兩間都超讚的！最喜歡在週末下午到咖啡廳做事，Switching environments definitely BOOST my motivation & vibes!

這週給自己 Overall 評分：9/10 !
一樣用照片回顧自己的一週：

生活

• 這週一是 Martin Luther King Day，國定假日。早上健身練完胸後去 Safeway 買了接下來一週的伙食：為了開始健康飲食，買了雞胸肉蔬菜和各種健康食物。
• 去 CVS 打了 flu & Covid shot，不用錢，謝謝美國政府（自己繳的稅 lol）
• 二～五持續實行早起計畫，新的方法真的很有效。
• 週五用了 Amex Grubhub credit 點了 kakuna的 baked lion king roll，超幸福的。和崔一起看了 Me Before You 前半段。
• 週六和 Ethen, Kyle 去 saratoga 咖啡廳，位子很擠但很幸運地在長桌找到三連排的位子，超像 K書中心的座法，超有趣。吃完晚餐和 Kyle 去 Great mall 逛 Uniqlo，迷客夏好難喝 XD 聊了人生，Core Values: 關係，維持好的關係需要投入時間。聊了想要的 Life Style: 能夠早起運動，閱讀，做自我成長的事，再開啟一天的工作/生活。
• 那天回家決定洗了澡做個大伸展，打掃房間，提前把環境變暗。吃了健康的宵夜配 Emily in Paris，10:50就寢（還可以更早）
• 週日早上 5:22 a.m. 身體自動醒來，完全不會勞累，真神奇。問了 Siri 外面幾度：It’s 5 degree Celcius outside. “Damn.” In my head. 微波熱水，寫了 Journal 後出門跑步。今天挑的是 Jacky 訪問 Janis Ozolins 的 podcast, Janis(唸作 Yannis)是從 IT 專案經理（工程師）轉型成全球知名 Visuals Designer, with NO Background in Design, 幫數位超有名作家設計插畫。(Naval Ravikant, Adam Grant, Sean Puri…）超級勵志，講到如何在全職工作下持續創作自己的副業 side hustle。四年後辭職，（和妻子拿 spreadsheet 計算現在資產辭職後能夠支撐家裡生活多久：兩年）後毅然決然辭職全職衝刺。
• 今天跑完步後：真的超級喜歡這種黑暗中起床，眾人皆睡我獨醒的感覺，像我獨自升級一樣。（我相信同時間世界上還有很多人也都已經起床打拼了 XD) 心中許下堅定的願望：希望我十年後的人生也能像今天一樣，能夠早起運動，享受學習與進步的過程。
• Jacky 在 Podcast 中提到： Financial freedom is: when you are given more money, you’ll be doing exactly the same thing you do every single day.

工作

Localization & Mapping:

What I did great

• 這週解了CMB Tool Crash 的原因：Vendor 的 CM Branch contains “Merge Conflict” (<<<) so CMB cannot parse those file. Solution was to rebase their branch using “git rebase -X (strategy) theirs origin/develop.”
• 這週 Land Altitude Validator autoFix PR. (Thanks Deev for the review!)
• 這週完成 Traffic Signal “height_from_ground” 和 “type” 的 backfilling.
• 終於搞懂 Platinum Release 的 cycle，CMS Release is different from “CM Release”!

What I can improve on

• 還沒有時間 dig into why SLAM jobs failed.
• Boundary Orientations Disagreement – I should start looking into this issue.

Online Mapping

What I did great

• 完成 Data Dumping Code Updates, Submit PR & Fix PR Comments.
• Understand the training codes better (How TFRecords are loaded using DataGenie, process using features and labels, pass to MappingHead (MapFormer), how loss functions are calculated.
• Complete loss function code changes.
• Working on “disabling context map mutations for real world data.”

What I can improve on

• Be brave to ask questions.
• Solve TF Autograph issue.

自我成長

• 這週看完了 Master of Scales 第二章並更新了閱讀筆記，學到各種在企業剛起步時要做『不能規模化的事情』，匠人手作精神的重要性。
• 週四聽了 The Diary of CEO 採訪 James Clear (Author of “Atomic Habites”) 的 podcast，記下了以下幾個概念：
  • Habits are both universal (we all need them) and individual (everyone has their own versions). That’s why people are interested in building habits.
  • Your daily habits eventually lead you to your long-term visions (goals).
    • Just follow the trajectory of your habits, you can predict where you’ll be in the next couple months / years.
  • Obvious (Cue) → Attractive → Easy → Satisfying (Rewarding)
  • Stacking habits on top of an existing habit.
  • It’s all about getting started. Even if it’s so little.
    • e.g. Going to the gym only for 5 minutes → Mastering the art of “showing up”.
  • It has to be fun.
  • Grit 恆毅力 := passion & Perserverance.
  • You can’t have it all (at once) → how to prioritize?
    • Figuring out which ones are the upstream of others?
    • What habits would make your day a perfect day?
      • e.g. Sleeping, Workout, Reading, Writing (Reflect,think)
    • The four burners in life (stove)
  • Life has lots of inflection point: having a kid, change jobs, move to a new city, …
  • Habits change over time, so as systems. You need to review and optimize over time.
• 這週從週三開始，突然靈機一動：應該善用公司的 Gemini Pro，請他幫我『開始』安排一個 10-Day Machine Learning Sprint – 從 Regression, MLP, NN, CNN, RNN, Transformer (GNN), RL, Generative Models(GANs), Diffusion Models, LLMs &VLMs, VLAs, Multi-modality, The Future of ML。雖然我寫每天40分鐘的時間，顯然非常不夠 XD 但現階段我想做到的是 “Mastering the art of Showing Up” – just like what James said. 先把文章發出來，看多少算多少，日後再來慢慢用自己的筆記和額外資訊持續迭代優化— Iterate & Optimize。
• 做了崔分享的書 『人生的五種財富』，自己目前測驗的分數：，時間、社會、心理、身體、金錢
  • 時間： 5, 4, 3, 3, 4= 19
  • 社會：3, 5, 4, 4, 2 =18
  • 心理：3, 4, 4, 4, 5 = 20
  • 身體：4, 5, 4, 3, 5 = 21
  • 金錢：5, 4, 5, 3, 4 =21
  • 『如果你苦惱的事情不是因為錢不夠—你不會因為賺更多錢變得更開心』
  • 過了一定的門檻後，賺得更多金錢帶來的快樂會隨之遞減。（邊際遞減效應）

“Absorb what is useful. Discard what is not.
Add what is uniquely your own.”

Bruce Lee

這週還有一個喜歡的 quote: “Fall in love with the process and the results will follow” – Bradley Whitford.

Remember how you feel after today’s morning run: I appreciate my ankle, body, my bed, the water, the house.
Live a fun life, see you next week!

Ciao