Gamers and Virtue(or Yin Virtue?!?) (Warning: I might misunderstand some concepts partially or entirely. Read for the idea, not the exact words, or consider it like reading a nerd's gaming blog, hehe, don't take it too seriously.) I. Overview of Games and Gaming Addiction Recently, I've been addicted to tower defense games. After playing, I looked at real life and felt "something different," so I wrote this to share my thoughts. I played a lot of Souls-like games before, and life felt like a ...

Post thoughts, feelings, and subjective interpretations for entertainment reading. It's often said that "bad people and cheaters usually win games." Upon reflection, this seems true, but often these wins are short-lived, and they might lose big in another game later on. And importantly, good people who play fairly also win. However, the media doesn't delve deep into this group because they tend to be discreet and not ostentatious. They keep to themselves, holding the loot and running. No need...

If one fine day you realize you haven't done anything soulful or done anything with soul, don't be sad; it's not 100% your fault. But condolences, after reading this post, once you gain a bit more awareness, your share of the blame will creep closer to 100%. And if you recognize and fully accept, heart and soul, that the shortcomings are 100% yours, congratulations, you've matured a bit (even though it's rather bitter with a dash of shame). Simply put, you were never taught how to do somethin...

Life has certain errors and events (negative) that can drastically change our lives for the worse. I observe life and share these tips for you to avoid 1. Various Types of Traffic AccidentsGetting into a moderate to severe accident can make life several times harder. To experience this, try living in a wheelchair for a bit. Or try doing everything with one hand or no hands. Or lie in bed unable to move. A 7 to 10-day trial will show you how much harder the game gets. And this is just a demo -...

Reflecting on it, making a good, accurate, and precise decision, judgment, or insight is a very difficult task that requires the following fundamental elements: Experience - Life Experience (or work experience or involvement in a certain field) A strong ethical foundation. This is crucial but rarely mentioned when discussing the components of intelligence. To put it simply, having solid ethics usually means choosing the long-term over the short-term. One tends to view things in accordance wit...

Lately, I've noticed many young people getting diseases that are usually associated with old age, like degenerative and incurable conditions. It's quite alarming. One thing is for sure: when a young person gets sick, their quality of life drops significantly. Light cases might reduce it by 10%, but severe cases can drop it by 90-99% (and as time goes on, it often becomes a life not worth living). That's just the reduction in enjoying life, not to mention building or achieving anything. Normal...

There are things in life that, when too abundant, are not good. And among the countless things in this world that we (can) have, these few things, when exceeding a certain threshold - when in excess - can be subtly harmful, almost invisibly so. These things include: thoughts, emotions, and information. I've separated them for fun, but this trio often goes together. When there's new information, emotions arise, and all sorts of random thoughts start popping up in your head. It's fine to have a...

Part 2 Issue 1: Local Minima and Global Minimum (Refer to the image in the comment) This concept is better explained through the "exploration vs exploitation" concept in reinforcement learning. However, this discussion is limited to supervised learning. The "distance" between the output and the target is often called "cost" or "loss". Practically, the goal of learning is to update oneself to operate with less loss. But updating consumes energy, and people generally avoid expending energy unle...

Part 1. Overview Coding is a small task within programming and software engineering. Coding can be simply understood as "translating" instructions from human language into computer language. Programming includes additional tasks like planning, designing, developing (coding here), testing, deploying, maintaining, etc. Comparing it to cooking, a skilled chef must understand the essence of ingredients (how ingredients react with each other, with spices, with fire, with water, acid, the fat and m...

Normalizing and Gradually Eliminating Dependence on Effort When we practice something, the media and many other influences often portray the image of having to train until you're spitting blood. This might be true if you find that high-intensity hardcore training suits you well. But for a lazy person like me, with poor willpower and determination, I've realized that high-intensity effort isn't quite my thing. This post is for people like me.We usually perform, learn, and showcase our best whe...