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Fireside Index

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Below you will find a list of the Fireside articles.

ArticleDate
Welcome to the Fireside<2023-10-16 Mon>
Make Models Go Brrr<2023-10-23 Mon>
Todo Lists<2023-10-30 Mon>
“Let’s find time”<2024-12-13 Fri>
Pipes are so bad<2025-07-06 Sun>
Education<2026-04-21 Tue>

Houjun's Academic Home Page

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👋 Howdy, I'm Houjun Liu!

I’m a third-year coterminal MSCS and BSCS student in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, grateful to be advised by Prof. Mykel Kochenderfer. In the course of my research, I have also had the fortunate opportunity to work with Stanford NLP under Prof. Chris Manning, CMU TalkBank under Prof. Brian MacWhinney, and Prof. Xin Liu at UC Davis Engineering. I am affiliated with the Stanford NLP Group and Stanford Intelligent Systems Lab. I’m also visiting Microsoft Research Frontiers as a research scientist.

SU-EARTHSYS11 APR202026

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Melting Point

  • (denser) mafic rocks crystalize at higher temperatures
  • (lighter) felsic rocks crystalize at lower temperaturers

Bowen’s Reaction Series

Since different minerals melt at different tempreatures (as in above), we have a…

Partial Melting

Partial Melting! This results in the felsic runoff first, and then the

Technology: baiyun.jemoka.com

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Technology: MacBook Air M5

Description: Blue MacBook Air 2025

Lost

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SU-EARTHSYS11 APR012026

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Big Bang

Big Bang: 13 billion years ago

All matter and energy in the Universe started out as infinitesimally small point, universe begin 13.8 / 12.5 billion years ago (dependent measurements).

Coalesce: 200 million years after big bang

Hydrogen, etc., cluster. Swinging nebulae of hydrogen and helium. Proto-planetary disk.

Star formation: 800 million years after big bang

Stellar nucleasynthesis; elements up to 26 protons.

Planet Formation: 5 or 6 million years ago

Planet formulation in the solar system. Rings of “planetesimals” form. As gas and particples start to acrete.