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Key takeaways from "The Power of Habit": identify key procedures, build automatic routines with cue-routine-reward cycles, and cultivate willpower for lasting change.

科研心得：麻利与急躁的区别在于预判问题，做事前想清楚为什么，多和导师合作者讨论，不要闷头搞，写paper和写代码都要多读别人的工作。

Beamer Writer update: online compiling via WriteLaTeX integration and improved error messages for faster LaTeX presentation workflow.

A simple PHP script to send automatic email notifications when someone pushes to your GitHub project, using GitHub's post-receive web hooks with JSON payload parsing.

转载田渊栋博士的博士五年总结系列，分享科研心得：心静、热爱题目、每天思考、有思路就写、多交流，以及在CMU从被动选导师到把握研究主动权的经历。

Technical notes on KinectFusion SDK: understanding WorldToCamera and WorldToVolume matrices, aligning RGB with depth images, and extracting higher-quality depth maps via raycasting the TSDF volume.

It all begins from the blog post 3 qualities of successful Ph.D. students: Perseverance, tenacity and cogency. I put it in our mailing list and here are some insightful disucssion (with authors' permission).

A California road trip with Hertz 24/7: good prices and new cars, but the management system is buggy—reservations cancel randomly, charges appear incorrectly, and you must remember to manually end your trip.

Compares C#/C++ and MATLAB for research work, arguing MATLAB is better suited for rapid prototyping while compiled languages excel at building production systems.

Career insights: presentation skills matter as much as technical work, impact beats paper count, mindfulness boosts productivity, and reuse code with unit tests to debug less.