Michel Liao

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

07 Jan

Reflections

Perilously Pursuing Passion

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

23 Apr

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

01 Apr

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

08 Mar

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

23 Jan

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

20 Jan

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

17 Jan

Computer Vision

Computer Vision — Week 7

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

10 Jan

Computer Vision

Computer Vision — Weeks 4, 5, 6

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

02 Jan

Computer Vision

Multiple Linear Regression from Scratch

The code for this project is available on my GitHub. Logistics This is my first “from scratch” machine learning project,

25 Dec

Books

A Little Life — Book Review

TL;DR 4.5/5. This book is about four friends living in New York—at least for the first

24 Dec

Computer Vision

Computer Vision - Week 3

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

12 Dec

Computer Vision

Computer Vision - Week 2

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

05 Dec

Computer Vision

Computer Vision - Week 1

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

27 Nov

Reflections

This is Idaho

“Where are you from?” “Idaho.” “Oh,” they say apologetically. “How’s that?” It’s great. It might not have the

10 Nov

Books

Everything I Know About Love — Book Review

TL;DR 4.5/5. I’m so conflicted on this rating because I think it could be a 5/

29 Oct

Reflections

Dear Lonely Michel

This is a response letter to my blog post, “It’s an Incredibly Lonely World.” Dear Lonely Michel, I know

21 Oct

Reflections

It’s an Incredibly Lonely World

College move-in was three days ago. Right now, it feels like an incredibly lonely world. We have many opportunities to

27 Aug