Wen-Liang XIAO

sr fullstack dev, lifelong learner, trying hard to be true to self, interested in tech/science/economic/investment.
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[Wen-Liang XIAO @xiaowl]

@victor207755822 Deli, I applied this position a week ago, the application still in screening status. Can you help with this? More details is included in the message I sent.

[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

My parents were married for 55 years. One morning, my mom was going downstairs to make dad breakfast, she had a heart attack and fell. My father picked her up as best he could and almost dragged her into the truck. At full speed, without respecting traffic lights, he drove her to the hospital.

When he arrived, unfortunately she was no longer with us.

During the funeral, my father did not speak; his gaze was lost. He hardly cried.

That night, his children joined him. In an atmosphere of pain and nostalgia, we remembered beautiful anecdotes and he asked my brother, a theologian, to tell him where Mom would be at that moment. My brother began to talk about life after death and guesses as to how and where she would be.

My father listened carefully. Suddenly he asked us to take him to the cemetery.

"Dad!" we replied, "it's 11 at night, we can't go to the cemetery right now!"

He raised his voice, and with a glazed look he said: "Don't argue with me, please don't argue with the man who just lost his wife of 55 years."

There was a moment of respectful silence, we didn't argue anymore. We went to the cemetery. With a flashlight we reached her grave.

My father sat down, prayed, and told his children: "It was 55 years... you know? No one can really talk about true love if haven't done life with a person."

He paused and wiped his face.

"She and I, we were together in the good and in the bad." he continued. "When I changed jobs, we packed up when we sold the house and moved. We shared the joy of seeing our children become parents, together we mourned the departure of loved ones, we prayed together in the waiting room of some hospitals, we supported each other in pain, we hugged one another each day, and we forgave mistakes."

And then he paused and added, "Children, that's all gone and I'm happy tonight. Do you know why I'm happy? Because she left before me. She didn't have to go through the agony and pain of burying me, of being left alone after my departure. I will be the one to go through that, and I thank God for that. I love her so much that I wouldn't have liked her to suffer..."

When my father finished speaking, my brothers and I had tears streaming down our faces. We hugged him and he comforted us, "It's okay. We can go home. It's been a good day."

That night I understood what true love is. It is more than just romanticism and sex, it's two people who stand beside one another, who are committed to one another ... through all the good and bad that life throws at you.

Peace in your hearts.

🖊 Author Unknown

[Тsфdiиg @tsoding]

I'm extremely happy that after 2.5 years this video is finally getting recognition it deserves.

[Jerry Liu @jerryjliu0]

Building LLM Apps over Financial Data 📈

We have full slides + cookbooks outlining 3 core ways you can build advanced RAG to query different types of financial data w/ @llama_index:

📑Multi-Document Comparisons: Ask complex questions to compare between multiple financial docs

📊Embedded Tables: Explicitly model embedded tables within complex documents so that you can better retrieve/query them along with the text.

🤖Text-to-DSL: If you have a pre-defined query language over your financial data (SQL, Bloomberg Terminal, @openbb_finance), you can use RAG for instruction lookup, to translate the query into the domain-specific language used to query your data.

We gave this talk at the @MindsDB event last night, and we want to share this with you!

Check out our full slide deck here: https://t.co/Uo8yiZ4voc

[Wen-Liang XIAO @xiaowl]

@marclou Really interested in the ads on porn sites businesses 😝

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

This poster shows 220 minimalist maps of metro systems around the globe (sorted alphabetically by country and city). The Asian mega cities jump out at you! Source: https://t.co/Mmn7AdztgD

[StarKnight @StarKnight]

有位日本推友发了个系列推，讲了一个“公司断网之谜”的破案故事，过程中包括了网络工程、文化差异和一系列巧合，非常有趣，大概翻译一下给大家共赏。

出典：
https://t.co/CLGLM7fIin

[Wen-Liang XIAO @xiaowl]

@JoeCassandra The inflation looks insane. Here in China, the official cpi being same before Covid 19 but the actual costs of eating in restaurants increases, but not as crazy as US

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

What things have you had ChatGPT solve for you that you could not have done yourself?

[Wen-Liang XIAO @xiaowl]

@thinxer 我9年的pad还没遇到需要reset的情况😂

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Performance reviews are coming up.

An objective way to summarize your own achievements is to use numbers. Those numbers are facts, hard to argue with, and can be compared, should anyone want to do so.

Some ideas for numbers. What else have you seen used in perf reviews?

[Wen-Liang XIAO @xiaowl]

另外也推荐 ELSA 和 Webster 词典两个app，一个是用语音输入查词，另一个是查不到就去elsa的词典里找出来对照练习，AI会辅助纠正发音

[Bear Liu @bearliu]

19 / 这是我用手机录的一个英文视频片段，录完用剪映app的文本识别，直接就识别出95%的字幕，只���个别词或符号不对，这就说明我的发音已经“基本标准”了。同样类型的视频我在2019年时用YouTube做过实验，大概是70%左右的正确率。（当然也有可能是发音没提升，AI提升了😹）

[Wen-Liang XIAO @xiaowl]

@bearliu 这个我也在用😀😀 这两天刚领悟到的，不过我用deepl的语音输入练习

[Wen-Liang XIAO @xiaowl]

@CP24 24,576 got killed in 2020. I guess this is not a trans right thing.

[Wen-Liang XIAO @xiaowl]

It's unreasonable that Twitter web app doesn't save draft automatically

[Wen-Liang XIAO @xiaowl]

Occasionally, my little girl asked why dad cannot stay home to accompany, I used to say dad needs to work to pay bills and buy her dolls. Last time she asked, I said dad needs to work to create new things, to fix broken things, to help others. Hope that instills positve attitude

[Wen-Liang XIAO @xiaowl]

@rakyll Do a Twitter’s got Talent show?

[Bilgin Ibryam @bibryam]

After browsing latest 100+ @OReillyMedia book titles, here is what I picked for my December reading list: 🧵👇

[Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru]

🌎 Half of world’s GDP is in 3,6% of the land area.

[Wen-Liang XIAO @xiaowl]

@anammostarac So I guess the new money really don't like the "old-fashion" way of keeping investors' money safe