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Links November 2025
I will update this page throughout November with interesting stuffs I find over the internet this month! HKUST receives Hong Kong Government approval for establishing 3rd medical school in the city source:HKUST. Analog computing with memristor array source:Na…
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Quantum Hologram Highlight
Earlier this year, our research team, led by Professor Jensen Li, received coverage from the Croucher Foundation for our work on developing metasurfaces for quantum holography! left-to-right: Qinmiao, Me, Prof. Li, Tailin Read the full story here: Quantum hologra…
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Minimizing HDD Noise
What I did not anticipated before when I setup my NAS was how loud the enterprise HDDs are. WD Ultrastar is as loud as it could possibly be. See this video for a reference. It really makes me thought that my HDDs arrive broken (especially the fact that they are secondhand). Apparently, these are nor…
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Setting up Homelab with TrueNAS Scale
Around the end of 2024, I started to search for homelab NAS builds. One big driving force is the expensive cloud storage pricing offered by Google, and the fact that One Drive on my University started to reduce the available storage 5TB in 2020 to merely 50GB in 2025 (outrageous 99% reduction!). I b…
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Hello World
Hey all, Stefan here. It's the Hello World to open up this blog series. If you know me personally, you know that my hobby is to tinker my way through linux and setup my homelab server. In this blog series, I will share guides that I use for my setup, and perhaps also share my perspectives on scient…