Shaoqing Tan

Sanskrit (English) Chinese Buddha: Derived from the Sanskrit root "budh," meaning "to awaken" or "to know." Buddha refers to an enlightened being who has achieved complete wisdom and liberation from samsara. 佛陀 (Fótuó): 佛陀源自梵语“Buddha”，意为“觉悟者”，指彻底觉悟并脱离轮回的觉者。 Bodhisattva: "Bodhi" means "

I finally had enough friction with my old blogging stack of Hugo with an unmaintained theme, and decided I needed to move to properly managed, feature rich blogging SaaS. I am trying digitalpress.blog and it seems promising so far!

I always wanted to make my resume publicly downloadable, so I could put it on my profile pages, etc. However, I didn't want to get spammed by scammers. A few years ago, I came up with a solution called cgar, but it was quite complicated and required Kubernetes

So. I have a Whirlpool dishwasher that came with my newly built townhouse. A few months ago, there was a minor problem. I called the service center, they sent a technician who fixed it promptly, and it was a good experience I hardly remember. Last week, it broke again for

While traveling in Lisbon, I attended two meetups for entrepreneurs. This was my first peek into the entrepreneurial side of the city. General Observations * Meetups in Lisbon are predominantly attended by English-speaking foreigners. * Portugal offers a Golden Visa program: Foreigners can obtain citizenship in 4 years by investing €500,000

One day, I was trying to explain to my wife (a financier) how to use Gain Margin to gauge the stability of a system, ending up having to explain what is a linear system and a state space. It came off as very vague and mystical, but I rather believe a second order linear system is the simplest system

A narrative is a storyline in the presentation that the audience can easily follow, it connects the material and promotes effective discussions. A narrative oriented presentation creates and satisfies the train of curiosity of the audience, keeping their precious attention on what matters.