https://quangminhdinh.github.io/tags/personal/ Recent content in Personal on Quang Minh Dinh Hugo en-us Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://quangminhdinh.github.io/garden/world-in-a-grain-of-sand/ Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://quangminhdinh.github.io/garden/world-in-a-grain-of-sand/ Blake's image, read through world models: the whole inferred from the detail, both as a design principle and as evidence the model worked. https://quangminhdinh.github.io/garden/why-royal-road-fascinates-me/ Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://quangminhdinh.github.io/garden/why-royal-road-fascinates-me/ Legendary Moonlight Sculptor is one of my favorite novels, and the things that hooked me as a kid turned out to be my research. https://quangminhdinh.github.io/garden/phd-motivation/ Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://quangminhdinh.github.io/garden/phd-motivation/ A personal note on the path from audio processing at Huawei to wanting to spend six years on world models.