Thoughts and rambles, and sometimes useful tips from Dr. Dongyang...
I have so many interests and have ended up subscribing to hundreds of newsletters. So naturally, I thought: why not let AI filter it all for me? Let's unpack: I maintain an interests.md with a list of topics: e.g. AI Evaluation Tools and frameworks, open-source local inference engine, macroeconomy trend, workforce and education development . Then I created a workflow (first in OpenClaw, then moved…
So when your boss asks what's going on with OpenClaw, here is a quick primer. What is it? OpenClaw is a local-first agent runtime that lets you run persistent, tool-using AI agents on your own machine. You define workflows in markdown, connect them to chat channels (Discord, Telegram, iMessage), and schedule them — without writing application code or deploying a server. The problem it solves There…
Quick reference based on Alison: AI Governance and Ethics and some extra follow-up readings Five Pillars of Responsible AI Pillar Core Question Fairness Does the system produce equitable outcomes across demographics? Transparency Can stakeholders understand how decisions are made? Accountability Is there a clear owner for AI outcomes and harms? Privacy Is personal data protected throughout the AI…
Free, private and minimal Curio - Start Your Day with Curiosity : local and private web content management, powered by local AI model. https://tools.rmv.fyi/ : A collection of small, low stakes and low effort tools. No logins, no registration, no data collection. Long live the handmade web. Minimal Monthly Task Planner : Your plans stay on-device—no logins, no sync, just local storage.
From 100+ articles I read closely, I picked the following 5 as highlights of the year 2025. Find Your People - Jessica Livingston How Jensen Works How to build a coding agent: free workshop Surviving the AI Capex Boom 2025 LLM Year in Review | karpathy
Let’s see if they are true in a year by EOY 2026 AI Coding agents will weigh more on security and develop more guardrails into the process. Vertical integration of GenAI continues, but it will look like a more typical software building where deep insights about the problems win the customers LLM foundational capability will still improve but few and at a smaller magnitude. We will see more…
Wisdom of numbers It's about the population, not the individual. In a binary category, 99% might seem like a very high probability, but the 1% exists and represents a real data point if the population exceeds 100. You could very well be that 1%. How do we use this information? To counter the argument that "most people do A this way, so you must do A." A could be "attend an elite school to get your…
List of My LLM Use Cases (Daily or Weekly) Chat & Learning TA: Rephrase and ask questions to understand text. Especially when someone speaks obscurely or from another field. Image-based concept explanation (math, etc.), term extraction, etc. Turn screenshot of slides to structured markdown text One-time unstructured data to structured (small size) Summarize transcription into study notes Socratic…
Freeze your credit Three major credit bureaus govern the credit of Americans. I advise everyone to freeze them if you are not actively using them for mortgages and credit cards. Why? Data breaches Breaches happen, and SSN is not immune: National Public Data, a background check company, leaked 2.9 billion records in 2024; and Experian 2017 leaked 147M Americans' private records. The unfair thing is…