YoungForest's blog

A split-focus contest revisited through repeated-element sampling, maximum-width ramps, minimum rectangles and compact expressions.

Restarting timed practice for a phone interview through complete trees, cyclic cells, diagonal regions and order-preserving column deletion.

A 2018 review of internships and career exploration, followed by goals for health, exchange, and deeper systems learning.

Three demanding technical internship interviews, followed by a choice to value hands-on engineering and a lifetime of writing code over job-title prestige.

Recently, because of English study needs, I often download large files from Baidu Cloud. As everyone knows, Baidu Cloud limits download speed. Without their membership, the download speed is only a few dozen KB/s. I really could not tolerate it, so I searched for speed-limit bypass tools and got the download speed up to 15 MB/s, haha. Sharing it here with everyone.
One thing to note: Baidu Cloud also updates its speed-limit mechanism to prevent abuse, so it is not surprising if the method in this article stops working. You can still search online for other updated methods. Trust the power of programmers.
As of November 5, 2018, this method is workable.

Feeling pulled by graduate school, an advisor, an internship, and other people's expectations, while still trying to regain agency in fragmented time.

Designing a randomized set with hash-based lookup, swap-with-last deletion and average constant-time operations.

Classic 3Sum revisited from an interview hash approach and timeout to sorting, two pointers and duplicate skipping.

Restarting practice after four weeks: replacing repeated subtraction with doubled chunks while handling signs and integer bounds.

A trip from Beijing through Guangzhou, Macau and Hong Kong, mixing food, transport, surprises and carefree play with reflections on work and home.