List 100 - Huyen Chip

List 100

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I help companies deploy machine learning into production. I write about AI applications, tooling, and best practices.

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Things I want to do before I die. Please let me know if you have any recommendation.
Progress as of Dec 31, 2023: 40.75/92.

1. ✓ Learn Spanish
2. ✓ Live in another country
3. ✓ Start a nonprofit organization
4. ✗ See my book being sold at an airport outside Vietnam
5. ✓ Be in a movie/commercial (I’ve actually done this in 3 countries: Vietnam, India, US)
6. ✗ Become the first author of a paper at a top-tier conference
7. ✗ Get published on the New Yorker
8. ✗ Read 1000 books (~60% done)
9. ✓ Teach a graduate-level course
10. ✓ Start a company
11. ✗ Author a patent
12. ✗ Write for a TV show that I watch
13. ✗ Design and publish a game
14. ✓ Fall in love
15. ✓ Build a home (a simple one, but it’s mine)
16. ✗ Have a salad from my garden
17. ✗ Become a parent
18. ✗ Be a writer in Paris
19. ✓ Go on a trip overseas with my whole family
20. ✗ Take a hot-air balloon ride
21. ✓ Be in a submarine
22. ✗ Swim a mile
23. ✗ Run a half marathon
24. ✗ Scuba dive
25. ✓ Learn to ski
26. ✓ Surf in Hawaii
27. ✓ Fly an airplane
28. ✓ Learn to drive a car
29. ✗ Get a PhD (in CS, Neuroscience, or Psychology)
30. ✗ Body transformation
31. ✓ Dance on stage at a concert (thanks Flo Rida!)
32. ✗ Ride a horse in Mongolia
33. ✓ Publish a Python package
34. ✗ Create my own programming language
35. ✗ Start a scholarship to support brave young kids
36. ✗ Volunteer 1000 hours to help to the elderlies
37. ✗ Get involved in a publishing house that focuses on math, science, and engineering books
38. ✗ Start a research lab
39. ✓ Take a walk in the rain
40. ✓ Eat at a 3 Michelin star restaurant
41. ✓ Ask a stranger out (he said no)
42. ✓ Invite a stranger to my home (CouchSurfing)
43. ✗ Sleep in a castle
44. ✓ Sleep outside on the beach, under the sky (Eilat, Israel)
45. ✓ Go on an African safari
46. ✓ Camp in a desert
47. ✗ See auroras
48. ✓ Learn to salsa
49. ✗ Learn to play a music instrument (tried 3x)
50. ✗ Zero gravity
51. ✓ Work in a casino
52. ✓ Do stand-up
53. ✓ Travel Southeast Asia
54. ✓ Hitchhike across Africa (Egypt to Mozambique)
55. ✗ Spend at least a month in Western Africa
56. ✓ Hike Los Andes
57. ✓ Visit South Omo valley, Ethiopia
58. ✗ Sail around the Caribbean
59. ✗ Drink vodka in Russia
60. ✗ Eat sushi in Japan
61. ✗ Travel around Eastern Europe
62. ✓ See Kashmir
63. ✗ Visit Mecca
64. ✓ Do the Bible tour: Jerusalem, lake of Galilee, Jordan river, Bethlehem, Nazareth
65. ✗ Stay with an Amazonian tribe
66. ✓ Visit an Amish community
67. ✗ Visit Vatican
68. ✗ Visit Tehran
69. ✗ Visit Sicily
70. ✗ Visit 100 countries (~40% done)
71. ✗ Go to South Pole or North Pole
72. ✓ Climb Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt
73. ✗ Climb Great wall, China
74. ✗ Hike to Everest base camp
75. ✗ Reed Dance, Swaziland
76. ✗ Burning Man, the US
77. ✗ Carnival in Brazil
78. ✓ Watch a Broadway show in New York
79. ✓ Pashut Festival, Israel
80. ✓ Laos’ new year
81. ✗ Watch bullfight in Spain
82. ✗ Watch a soccer game at Camp Nou (Old Trafford is fine too)
83. ✓ Visit Googleplex
84. ✗ Speak at TED
85. ✗ Meet the Pope
86. ✗ Meet a prince
87. ✗ Meet JK Rowling
88. ✓ See a comet
89. ✓ Meet Dalai Lama
90. ✗ Have my own ice cream flavor
91. ~ Be awesome
92. ~ Be kind

P.S.: I spend a lot of time thinking about how to live, and occasionally write about it.