Michel Liao
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Hey—I'm Michel, a computer science student at Princeton.

Hey—I'm Michel, a computer science student at Princeton.

That aside, I'm interested in law, literature, and sustainability. I like to run and rock climb too.

Blog Posts

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My Top 5 Books of 2024
Books

My Top 5 Books of 2024

Table of Contents I read 81 books in 2024. Here are my 5 favorites and some takeaways from reading too
Reflections

Perilously Pursuing Passion

It starts in elementary: “What do you wanna be when you grow up?” And it masquerades as a new question
Computer Vision

How to Write a Custom Dataset and DataLoader

This code is all available in my GitHub. Datasets & DataLoaders PyTorch’s abstract class representing a dataset is Dataset
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College Admissions

Research as an Extracurricular

Note: This post largely applies to people applying as STEM/hard science majors. I don’t have the experience to
Computer Vision

Computer Vision — Week 9

Hey! My name’s Michel Liao. I’m a computer science first-year at Princeton University, hoping to get a PhD
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Books

The Hunger Games — Book Review

TL;DR 4/5. “I volunteer as tribute!”: Katniss is thrown into an arena with 23 other minors to battle
Computer Vision

Computer Vision — Week 8

Hey! My name’s Michel Liao. I’m a computer science first-year at Princeton University, hoping to get a PhD

Resources

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Princeton Notes

Princeton Notes

Princeton coursework notes on math and physics.
High School Math

High School Math

Math notes from high school including AMC, cryptography, calc 3, and linear algebra.
Standardized Tests

Standardized Tests

High school standardized test advice and resources.

Projects

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Vision Transformer from Scratch

A CuPy implementation of the Vision Transformer without PyTorch or TensorFlow.