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🧭 AI/ML and System Architecture Article Map: From Theory to Practice

A curated map of AI articles — from the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and prompt engineering best practices, to open-source breakthroughs in local AI, vector databases, and developer tooling — to help you quickly grasp the latest trends in generative AI.

When AI Gets Stuck in a Local-Optimum Deadlock: Why the Core Skill of the Future Isn't "Solving Problems" But "Defining the Problem Space"

From Execution to Problem Definition — The Evolution of AI Autonomy

Build Your Own AI Coding Assistant for Free with Google Colab

The Sunflower Movement, Ten Years On — Are We Chasing Traffic, or Being Led by Algorithms?

🥾 Hiking Foot Science — From Microscopic Fibers to Peak Performance

A hiker's foundation isn't the brand on their shoe — it's a deep understanding of the foot system. This learning map cuts through marketing language and guides you from fiber chemistry and rubber physics all the way to physiological safety in extreme environments. It's a practice in precise, informed choice.

The Prisoner's Dilemma Under Giant Trees: When Poachers, Undocumented Workers, and Forest Rangers Are All Trapped in a Hopeless Infinite Game

The Prisoner's Dilemma Beneath the Giant Trees — When Loggers, Missing Migrants, and Forest Rangers Are All Trapped in an Inevitable Infinite Game

The Infinite Machine — A "Chicken Game" Over AI Control and a Survival Guide for the Rest of Us

Course Recommendation — PyTorch Fundamentals: A Challenging but Worthwhile Course

Large-Scale Web Architecture — When AI Floods the Toolbox: Future Architects Win by Defining Problems, Not Knowing Solutions

After Reading Jian Li-feng's "Beyond the Sea" — The Awkward Market of 23 Million and Future Prospects

TensorRT-LLM Learning Path — 12-Week Battle Plan

A 12-week GPU-focused learning curriculum for TensorRT-LLM, from PyTorch fundamentals to CUDA optimization

AI Crossing the Rubicon — Self-Growth Journey (2026 Course Notes)

Book Burning — Scarier Than Library Fires Is the Algorithm's "Digital Amnesia" We're Chosen

Why Do Workplace Experts Play Dumb? From "Common Knowledge" Viewing Unspoken Social Games

Crisis vs. False Alarm — Why the Fed's Rate-Cut Plugin Failed and How We Survive in the High-Interest Era

Book notes on Stephen D. King's analysis of the end of monetary stimulus and the shift to financial repression

When Coding Becomes Code Review — Senior Developer's AI Collaboration Survival Guide

Kickback — How Bribery Became a Calculated Business Cost

Book notes on why bribery is the "optimal solution" in cross-border trade and how regulatory failures enable it

Harness Engineering (2026 Course Notes)

Refuse the Wild Horse — For Developers Wanting to Restart Manga Endings with AI: Context Engineering Practice Thoughts

Stop Boosting the Market — How I Built a Foolproof, Anxiety-Free Investment System with GitHub Actions

Stop Boosting Others — What "The Index Card" Taught Me About Winning Long-Term

From Prompt to Harness: As AI Giants Begin 'Harvesting' Startups, Where Is the Engineer's Moat?

From Prompt to Harness — When AI Giants Start "Harvesting" Startups, Where's Engineers' Moat?

When Masterpieces End Too Soon — Using AI as a Storyboard Editor to Revive Abandoned Stories

A technical proof-of-concept on using AI and character modeling to create continuation content for incomplete manga and stories

Taiwan Comprehensive Income Tax Practical Notes (2026 Edition)

Taiwan Stock Pledge Rolling Strategy — Complete Guide from Principle to Execution

The Battle of Midway — When Skill Meets Luck in History

Book notes on whether victory is skill or fortune, and how capability determines the floor while luck determines the ceiling

Why Does Transformer Need Positional Encoding?

Did You Get Called Out Online?

In Darkness, Seeing Human Civilization and Nature's Breath — Reading "The Map of Underground Worlds"

Accelerating Language Model Generation Speed — Li Hong-Yi 2026 Course

Understanding MCP — The Bridge Between AI and the Outside World

Understanding MCP: The Bridge Between AI and the Outside World

Understanding MCP: AI's Bridge to the Outside World

Wealth, War, and Wisdom — Historical Turning Points and Financial Resilience

Book notes on how stock markets predicted wartime outcomes and lessons for asset allocation during crisis

Silence Has Weight — On Reinterpretation, Media, and the Obligation to Take Sides

A dialogue on why remakes overshadow originals, how silence gets misinterpreted, and the modern tyranny of mandatory stance-taking

From "Island Economics" — Viewing Today's Global Economic Dilemma

OpenClaw — Introduction and Positioning

From Static to Dynamic — Hugo + Cloudflare Complete Evolution Guide

Ignorance as Protection — Reading "Self-Made Man"

Book notes on Norah Vincent's Self-Made Man — a woman who spent 18 months living as a man, and the shattering cost of seeing too clearly

Where Are the Customers' Yachts? — Do We Worship Expertise or Just a Lucky Winning Streak?

Book notes on Where Are the Customers' Yachts? — exploring the blurry line between professional skill and luck in finance and fund management

Generative AI & ML 2025 — Image and Audio Generation: The Dual-Track Convergence

Course notes on how 2025 generative AI unifies image and audio generation through autoregressive tokenization, flow-matching, and generation heads

Hiking Mosquito Protection — A Layered Science: From Physical Barriers to Chemical Defenses

A science-backed three-layer defense system against mosquitoes, gnats, and ticks on the trail — covering physical barriers, permethrin treatment, and proven skin repellents

Official Authority vs. Community Creativity — Claude Code vs. Roo Code (2026 Edition)

Comparing Claude Code and Roo Code across five critical dimensions in 2026

The Righteous Mind (The Elephant and the Rider) — Book Notes

Book notes on Jonathan Haidt's framework — emotion vs. reason, reciprocity, and finding meaning through adversity

Money Is Fiction, But We All Choose to Believe It — Book Notes

Book notes tracing money from barter to Bitcoin — trust, gold standards, and the 2008 crisis

Anomaly Detection — Learning Resources

A curated list of anomaly detection video resources

Leading Across Generations — Book Notes

Book notes on managing Gen Z — understanding the values gap between generations in the workplace

The Battle of Learning — Book Notes

Book notes on how Eastern and Western cultures approach learning, failure, effort, and identity differently

World Affairs — Book Notes

Book notes on Israel and Jewish history as a lens for Taiwan's geopolitical situation

Can You Read Other People's Emotions? — Book Notes

A practical guide to reading and responding to the seven core emotions — from empathy to perspective-shifting

Misinformation — Why Rational People Believe Irrational Things — Book Notes

Book notes on conspiracy thinking, the belief funnel, search bias, and how to have conversations that actually change minds

I've Caught the Disease of Not Wanting to Work — Book Notes

Book notes on burnout, boundaries, and redesigning your relationship with work

How to Fail Right — A Harvard Scholar's Guide to Learning from Mistakes and Mastering Uncertainty

Book notes on three types of errors, how to distinguish wise mistakes from basic ones, and building a culture where failure drives growth

The Anxious Generation — Book Notes

Book notes on how smartphone-driven childhoods are fueling a global teen mental health crisis

An Astronomer's Coffee Physics

How physics explains extraction, grinding, and the science behind perfect pour-over coffee

Hidden Potential — Book Notes

Book notes on Adam Grant's Hidden Potential — talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling

Tidy Up First — Software Design at the Personal Level

Book notes on refactoring strategy, managing technical debt, and balancing code quality with economic reality

The Power of Irrationality — Behavioral Economics in Work, Life, and Love

Book notes on why effort feels good, how we adapt to fortune and misfortune, and the economics of human behavior

Company of One

Book notes on Company of One — why staying small is the next big thing for business

From New Manager to Elite Manager — Book Notes

Book notes on the 90-day transition framework — diagnosing team problems, winning early allies, and navigating organizational culture

Decluttering Relationships — Book Notes

Combined notes on two books — one on building wealth quietly, one on pruning relationships efficiently

BCG Problem-Solving Method — Book Notes

Book notes on the core framework for problem-solving: Is it True? So What? Why So?

Survive, Fight, Live — A Soldier's Testament

Book notes on a British soldier's imprisonment during the Russia-Ukraine war and psychological survival strategies

Swiss Secrets — Book Notes

Book notes on a journalist's investigation into Swiss bank accounts and bribery

How to Survive a Winner-Take-All Workplace — Book Notes

Book notes on T-shaped skills, cross-functional moves, data fluency, and choosing the right company type

How to Create the World's Best Job — Book Notes

Book notes on the LEWIS framework for building a career on your own terms

The Grand Chessboard — Global Strategy in the 2021 Edition

Book notes on geopolitics after the Soviet collapse and the enduring importance of regional rivalries

The Path to Staff Engineer — Book Notes

Book notes on the Staff Engineer track — what it means, what it demands, and how it differs from management

What Can I Learn from History? — Book Notes

Book notes on Will Durant's lessons from history — cycles of wealth, the nature of democracy, and why heroes are shaped by circumstance

The Dip — Book Notes

Book notes on Seth Godin's The Dip — knowing when to push through and when to quit

Building the Village — A Strategy for Shared Child-Rearing and Parental Care

Book notes on how early childhood development impacts lifelong outcomes and the role of community support

18 Business Thinking Lessons for My Son — Book Notes

Book notes on micro-intuition, mid-level playbooks, and macro trend-reading — a father's framework for business thinking

The Sociology of Fraud — Book Notes

Book notes on the profile of fraud victims and what makes people susceptible

My Days as a Judicial Interpreter — Book Notes

Book notes on working as a judicial interpreter for foreign migrant workers in Taiwan

Kaggle Beginner Notes

Notes from working through a Kaggle beginner's book — feature engineering, model selection, cross-validation, and competition tips

Devil Take the Hindmost — A History of Financial Speculation — Book Notes

Book notes on the history of financial speculation from tulip mania to the Great Depression

The Twelve Rules for Survival

Book notes on self-improvement principles — compare yourself to yesterday, not others today

A Guide to Life — Book Notes

Book notes on a curated reading guide, with highlights on parenting books

5-Minute Business School — Tools Edition — Book Notes

Book notes on business frameworks (SWOT, 5 Whys) and practical productivity tools

Micro-Insights — Book Notes

Book notes on Zen-flavored aphorisms — letting go, knowing yourself, and the difference between chasing and polishing

When the CCP Attacks — Part Two: A Military Analysis of Taiwan's Defense

Military analysis comparing Ukraine-Russia war lessons to Taiwan-China scenarios, including drone tactics and civil preparedness

Manipulated — The Cambridge Analytica Exposé — Book Notes

Book notes on Cambridge Analytica — how data mining, psychographic targeting, and Facebook's loopholes were weaponized to shift elections

LeetCode — Linked List Problem-Solving Notes

Notes on solving LeetCode linked list problems — pointer manipulation, cycle detection, and edge cases

Beyond Human Weakness — Book Notes

Book notes on reframing thoughts, handling criticism, managing regret, and setting boundaries

Meat Planet — Book Notes

Book notes on cultured meat, alternative proteins, and the future of what we eat

The 10-Second Instant Response Method — Book Notes

Book notes on forming a personal viewpoint quickly — 80% information, 20% your own take

Carnegie's Guide to Happiness — Book Notes

Book notes on Carnegie's four-step worry framework, habits for staying happy, and good work habits

The Gap and the Gain — Book Notes

Book notes on measuring progress from where you started, not against an ideal you haven't reached

You Shouldn't Have to Suffer for Your Startup — Book Notes

Book notes on the legal and structural basics every founder should know — company types, taxes, IP, and fundraising

The Story of the Human Body — Book Notes

Book notes on human evolution through the lens of diet, cooking, and the shift from hunting to farming

Taiwan Tea 101 — The First Lesson

Book notes on Taiwan's tea varieties, competition culture, and how to identify tourist traps

Will Your Job Still Exist in 3 Years? — Book Notes

Book notes on staying relevant in a changing job market — building a personal brand and understanding what the market needs

Breaking Through — The Adult's Guide to Seeing Past Problems

Book notes on redefining passion, workplace dynamics, and time management

To Have Children or Not — Book Notes

Book notes on the rarely-asked question of why anyone should have children

Did You Get Scammed Today? — Book Notes

Book notes on the psychology of fraud — desire, fear, anchoring, and asserting your rights

Snakes in Suits — Book Notes

Book notes on recognizing and surviving psychopaths in the workplace

Intentional Rest — Book Notes

Book notes on presence, self-compassion, and why calm is more sustaining than happiness

A History of Vietnamese Cuisine — Book Notes

Book notes tracing how history, colonialism, and culture shaped Vietnamese food

PM, SA, SD, SE — Differences and Relationships

Clarifying the roles of Project Manager, Product Manager, System Analyst, System Designer, and System Engineer in tech teams

How to Raise an Adult — Book Notes

Book notes on stepping back as a parent — parenting styles, teaching life skills, and avoiding over-parenting

366 Rules of Power — Book Notes

Book notes on principles from a year of reflection — ambition, discipline, strategy, and self-reliance

The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing — Ten Years Later (Anniversary Edition)

John Bogle's stock and bond analysis updated with 2009 data and perspective spanning a decade of market events

Dark Data — Book Notes

Book notes on the 13 types of missing and hidden data that distort analysis and decision-making

The Worldly Economists — Book Notes

Book notes on how economists think — opportunity cost, externalities, unintended policy consequences, and the limits of government intervention

Ideas Are the Main Character — Book Notes

Book notes on hacker culture, ideas, and the values of openness and craftsmanship

The Adult's Guide to Happiness — Book Notes

Book notes on the happiness U-curve — why midlife is the low point and how expectations shape wellbeing

Emotional Blackmail — Book Notes

Book notes on recognizing and breaking free from emotional blackmail in relationships, family, and work

Waterproof Jacket Reviews — A Motorcycle Commuter's Journey

Personal reviews of four waterproof jackets over several years of motorcycle commuting and hiking

A Brief History of Business — Book Notes

Book notes on the evolution of commerce from primitive trade to decentralized networks, and the logic of competitive moats

Resistance — Book Notes

Book notes on globalization's dark side — who really benefits, and the forces pushing back

A Balanced Mindset — Book Notes

Book notes on personal finance psychology, spending, investing, and the four pillars of a stable life

Deep Learning Fundamentals — Book Notes

Book notes on a deep learning intro — from neural networks to CNN, RNN, LSTM, and reinforcement learning, with TensorFlow examples

Into Thin Air — Book Notes

Book notes on Jon Krakauer's account of the 1996 Everest disaster — where summit fever met commercial climbing

Overworking — Book Notes

Book notes on a counselor's case studies — overwork, the unconscious, and the difference between taking responsibility and making it your fault

The Gift of Fear — Book Notes

Book notes on trusting your instincts, reading predatory signals, and understanding real vs. imagined threats