Turned out that Grim Dawn is pretty good. I was looking for an ARPG like Diablo 2.
Tried out Torchlight years ago, and recently tried out Path of Exile. None of them hit the spot; both are not very engaging to me.

Tried Grim Dawn few weeks ago and it was quite engaging. The boss fight actually gave me some adrenaline rush and reading through the lore doesn’t feel like a chore. The NPCs’ notes scattered in the world are well written and made the story more immersive.

I found Imabi and decided to give it a read from the very beginning of the lesson. The very first chapter gave an overview of Japanese language. One thing that struck me as interesting, since I have never thought about it, is that Japanese is left-branching, which means that the modifiers will always appear to the left of the modified, e.g. 魚を食べた黒い猫. Contrast it with English in which modifiers can appear on both sides, e.g. a black cat which ate a fish. Or with Indonesian which is right-branching, e.g. kucing hitam yang makan ikan.

I have read quite a number of self-help and psychology-themed books in the past few years. But I just found out about self-determination theory today, thanks to this piece. Like the author, now I’m wondering why didn’t it get into the mainstream.

It’s also an interesting read for me because the author addressed the same questions that I often ponder.

The more I work with local LLM the less impressed I am with the model, while being more impressed with the infrastructure around it. I feel like the supporting infrastructures around the model (inference engine, RAG system, etc.) should have at least the same spotlight as the models, since those are the ones that bridge the LLM to real world problems.

Looking for better term for concept of a short string of words, mostly for expressing passing thought or much less fleshed-out ideas. I have considered notion, blurb, and note but nothing felt quite it. I will use “thought bubbles” for now.