Things I keep returning to.

AI / ML, mostly large language models: what I've read closely lately, outside my own research line.

• The Art of Scaling Reinforcement Learning Compute for LLMsICLR 2026
• DAPO: An Open-Source LLM Reinforcement Learning System at ScaleNeurIPS 2025
• Reasoning with Sampling: Your Base Model is Smarter Than You ThinkICLR 2026
• The Coverage Principle: How Pre-Training Enables Post-TrainingICLR 2026
• GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement LearningICLR 2026
• LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn ConversationICLR 2026
• Data Mixing Laws: Optimizing Data Mixtures by Predicting LM PerformanceICLR 2025
• Learning to See Before Seeing: LLM Visual Priors from Language Pre-trainingICLR 2026
• The Polar Express: Optimal Matrix Sign Methods and the Muon AlgorithmICLR 2026
• τ²-Bench: Evaluating Conversational Agents in a Dual-Control EnvironmentICML 2026

Why these — Picked from what I read in Paperfact, my own paper reader. The thread: what post-training can and can't add on top of a pre-trained model.

I sing Mandopop on the street and write my own lyrics and songs.

• The live songbook: 172 songs I performStreet KTV
• Lyrics I've written/musings

Places I've saved and keep going back to, mostly in Taipei. Desserts are a weakness; the site is called pudding for a reason.

• 太郎製菓Japanese sweets · 大安
• Goody Pâtisserie 古迪法式甜點French pastry · 信義
• 三日月茶空間wagashi & tea · 大安
• 聚食釜Taiwanese shrimp-broth hot pot · 大安
• DOMO Yakitoricharcoal yakitori · 信義
• 木麒麟拉麵ramen · 中山
• 哦耶！旁遮普印度餐廳Punjabi curry · 大安
• 不葷主義茶餐廳vegetarian cha chaan teng · 松山
• 八分目珈琲coffee · 大安
• Ramen Oyster And Shelloyster ramen · Tokyo

Why these — Ten of the 195 favourites among 1,242 places I've saved, sorted with Mapetite, the Maps extension I built for exactly this.