Bill Hsu's Blog

1. Some Fun Facts

• 一天只有 24 小时
• 人需要睡觉
• 人需要放松
• 人生的目的不是刷题，盲目的勤奋是没有意义的
• 人不可能通过讨好心态获得他人尊敬

原本 4 月份就该开始做月度总结，但被我一直拖到了现在。这是我第一次做月度总结，想了很多，但我意识到其实没必要都记录下来，所以便结合这个月的实践和反思，简明扼要地谈谈对这个月的生活学习科研安排与实践的思路和效果，并制定下个月的学习思路。

慎终如始，则无败事。 (《老子 · 德经》)

To improve efficiency, it is time to set a goal. September 9th is the target date. In addition, I will try my best to catch up with AAAI2024. There are only 81 days left, so I'll need to work hard.

Here's a summary of last week's progress.

Here is the progress of last week.

I came to HKUST GuangZhou campus this Tuesday. This is a beautiful university and the group members are very kind. I like conducting research here! Although it is very busy this week, I learned a lot and enjoyed everything. This is a good state for me.

However, one of the mistakes I made is that I did not balance my time and did not achieve my goal as planned. Besides, I need to adjust my current timetable to make sure I can finish everyday self-study tasks as well in this new environment.

In the last two weeks, I had to take a physical examination and move house, which reduced my study time. After returning home, I prepared for an interview with Prof. Liang and learned more details about the application.

I also participated in LCCUP 2023 Spring and ranked in the top 6%, which proved that my coding skills had improved after two months of persistent practice.

I have been very nervous this week after failing the interview with Prof. Chen. This is not a good state for me. While walking around the park, I found several things that are very important to me.

From this post, I will use English to write blogs including weekly summary and technical blog. I am going to summarize this week and plan for the next week a little earlier, as I found many shortages during today's interview. Next week, I will try my best to improve myself. Time and tide wait for no man. I must seize each opportunity.

上周久违地吃了一回卫龙辣条，然后就被干倒了，这真是未曾设想过的结果。

故不积跬步，无以至千里；不积小流，无以成江海。骐骥一跃，不能十步；驽马十驾，功在不舍。锲而舍之，朽木不折；锲而不舍，金石可镂。蚓无爪牙之利，筋骨之强，上食埃土，下饮黄泉，用心一也。蟹六跪而二螯，非蛇鳝之穴无可寄托者，用心躁也。（《荀子》）

Update: All the reading notes will be posted on my personal notebook.

受到一位前辈启发，决定从今天开始每天至少精读一篇 paper 并做简单总结记录，以备将来快速检索。论文类型不限，可以是领域内的重要工作，也可以是其他领域的基础工作。目前准备结合自己的需求，先从感兴趣的老师组里的工作开始读起。

记录具体该怎么做还没有完全想好，首先开始坚持做记录，然后再慢慢完善。记录的目的不是重复论文的主要内容，而是简明扼要地结合自己读后的理解，将文章的一些基本情况、主要方法、亮点、缺陷等总结下来

1. Title: LightGCL: Simple Yet Effective Graph Contrastive Learning for Recommendation
2. Conference: ICLR'23 International Conference on Learning Representations (Spotlight)
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