(i posted it on social media yesterday and am leaving here as is for the future record. i have a lot of thoughts i want to share about my time founding Prescient Design, joining Genentech/Toche and staying there for more than four years, but i will age them a bit further and share them over a long period …) According to Statistics Korea, the remaining life expectancy of a 41-year-old Korean male is about 41 years. In other words, I’m statistically at the turning point of my life. and, at this point, i’m wrapping up one of my most memorable
Category: Personal
MyChartExplorer: a vibe-coding journey toward accessing my own medical records
if you’ve been following me on twitter (X), linkedin, bluesky, etc., over the past few months, you may have seen me doing some random vibe coding here and there. in particular, over the past three weeks, i’ve been spending a few hours each weekend to check whether vibe-coding is real and if it’s ready for an individual, non-professional engineer to launch a web app online, from scratch without using any existing app development platform. i’m writing this blog post to list out some of the services and tools i’ve used to create a web app, to share with those who
Glen de Vries Professor of Health Statistics
i joined NYU as an assistant professor nearly ten years ago in Fall 2015. during that fall, Glen de Vries, who was the founder and president of Medidata, endowed a professorship in health statistics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU. this was celebrated in an event in the faculty lounge on the 13th floor of the Warren Weaver Hall. because i had a weekly lab session for my very first course at NYU almost at the same time, i sadly could not attend it myself, but it was how i learned of Glen de Vries, Medidata and their
Bye, Felix
Note: i wrote this on December 9 2024 but could not dare posting it because i did not want to and could not believe what just happened then. my heart still aches so much to even think about it, but i’m posting it on the last day of 2024 to remember Felix. It was sometime early summer in 2014. I was a postdoc in Montreal under supervision of Yoshua Bengio, and Felix was a visiting student who just arrived in Montreal then. I was struggling with building a neural machine translation system that can handle long source/target sentences, and in
i sensed anxiety and frustration at NeurIPS’24
last week at NeurIPS’24, one extremely salient thing was the anxiety and frustration felt and expressed by late-year PhD students and postdocs who were confused by the job market that looks and feels so much different from what they expected perhaps when they were applying for PhD programs five or so years ago. and, some of these PhD students and postdocs are my own under my supervision. this makes me reflect upon what is going on or what has been going on in artificial intelligence research and development. this post will be more of less a stream of thoughts rather