Author: Davide Liu

Master degree graduated student in computer science at Tsinghua University. Deep learning researcher, running addicted, obstacles lover, blogging passionate.
Workout

The manual of the Elite runner: a review of the state-of-the-art training characteristics

In this post, we are going to review and analyze the training habits and training principles of some Elite World-class long-distance runners. Our goal is to understand what makes those athletes reach such high-performance levels by combining scientific literature and practice-based proven results. Most of the content comes from the paper: The Training Characteristics of World-Class Distance Runners: An Integration of Scientific Literature and Results-Proven … Continue reading The manual of the Elite runner: a review of the state-of-the-art training characteristics

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Experiences

Studying at Tsinghua University as a foreigner

In this post, I’m going to talk about my experience of studying at Tsinghua University as an international student which I had the opportunity to attend from 2019 to 2021. I was enrolled in a post-graduate full-time program in Computer Science with a focus on Machine Learning and Deep Learning. For those who don’t know, Tsinghua University is one of the most prestigious universities in … Continue reading Studying at Tsinghua University as a foreigner

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Technology, Workout

GPX Files Cleaner: Dropping Unnecessary Pauses

👉 How frequently does it happens that your running or cycling activities are interrupted by a red traffic light, the need to drink some water, or simply to wait for your partner to reach you? 🤔 👉 Even if you pause your watch during your activity, thus not recording any distance, it will still continue to record your total time which will be then shown … Continue reading GPX Files Cleaner: Dropping Unnecessary Pauses

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Spartan Race

Spartan Obstacles: technique is all you need

In this article, we are going to introduce some of the Spartan Race most difficult and tricky obstacles and learn useful techniques to conquer them. Most competitors may think that strength is the key and that strong men are advantaged when going through the obstacles. However, in this article we are going to see that technique is (almost) all you need, and that no matter … Continue reading Spartan Obstacles: technique is all you need

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Machine Learning, NLP, Technology

RPGMaker-MV Translator

🎮 Use AI to translate all the dialogs and texts of your RPGMaker automatically. 👊 You worked hard to make your game, now let AI work hard for you. Why should you use it? 👉 RPG games usually consist of many thousands of dialog events and other forms of text displaying valuable information to understand the plot of the game, but also to know the effect and proprieties of various objects … Continue reading RPGMaker-MV Translator

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Technology, Workout

Running Performance Calculator: Altitude, Elevation Gain, and Temperature

👉 Have you ever wondered if you ran 10km at 2000m altitude, how fast would you run the same distance at lower altitudes? How would elevation gain and temperature affect your performance? ðŸ¤” 👉 The goal of this application is to calculate how your running pace and time would change given different elevation gain, altitude, and temperature. Features Support for default or custom distances Compute pace and time … Continue reading Running Performance Calculator: Altitude, Elevation Gain, and Temperature

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Workout

Benefits of Contrast Hydrotherapy

Contrast showers, sometimes also known as contrast hydrotherapy, are showers in which our body temperature changes from hot to cold and back again by alternating between hot then cold water. A contrast shower usually consists of three to five complete cycles of hot and cold water. The hot water causes blood vessels to dilate, thereby pushing the blood to the skin’s surface, and cold water … Continue reading Benefits of Contrast Hydrotherapy

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Spartan Race

How I got top-5 in an Elite Beast Spartan Race

The ultimate Spartan test; a soul crushing half marathon with 30 obstacles. You’ll rarely find a Beast on flat ground, so your legs will burn with brutal ascents and descents. The Beast is notorious around the world for its difficulty. Beast Spartan Race In this post, I’m going to write about how I prepared my first Elite BEAST Spartan Race and will share my impressions … Continue reading How I got top-5 in an Elite Beast Spartan Race

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Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning

Visualizing Loss Landscape of GAIL

This post aims to visualize the loss landscape of some imitation policies (IL policies) trained with GAIL, and their discriminator trained in three common environments: Cartpole, Lunarlander, and Walker2d from Mujoco. The expert policy of Cartpole and Lunarlander is a simple Double DQN while the expert of Walker2d, which supports continuous actions, is a DDPG policy. The imitation policies are the same policies employed by their … Continue reading Visualizing Loss Landscape of GAIL

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