Lingyuan Yan’s Blog

Welcome to Lingyuan’s blog

Lingyuan is a high school student who is passionate about Linguistics and Machine Learning. He regularly wrote blogs to share his thoughts and achievement in those areas. Particularly, he is concerned about the language diversity in local community and working on help people from the community speaking non-dominant languages to realize their language’s importance to the community and the world by leverage latest ML/AI technology.

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A Modest Proposal

The following is a letter I wrote addressed to the editor of the Jonathan Swift who wrote A Modest Proposal in 1729. The work is well known satirical critique of squalid conditions that the Irish lived in. The work takes a stance that is so dehumanizing of the Irish that…

Jazz Ensemble Elementary School Tour!

Last Monday, my jazz ensemble spent an entire day performed at two local elementary schools. This was such an amazing event for so many reasons. First, performing and sharing what we are working on is ALWAYS such a pleasure. That day, we chose to play Crunchy Frog by Gordon Goodwin,…

How information changes our world.

Our perspective is formed by our past experiences. Our memories, our friends, our environment, all play a role in constructing the world we see when we view our world. In this blog, I wanted to discuss some of the ways the world we see can fundamentally affect how we interact…

Incredible Winter Concert!

While I usually talk about Linguistics or Computer Science on this blog, I wanted to share some details about my school’s winter concert this year. Background On Jazz Band Something you may not know about me is that I am a member of my school’s Jazz Band. I began last…

Little Women Theater Production at my School!

This is the first time I am mentioning this on this blog, but I am a member of the Theater Crew at my school. This means that I do not act, but I help out with a lot of backstage work and building set pieces. This upcoming weekend will be…

Kaleb Joseph and Mental Health

Last Friday October 3rd, Kaleb Joseph came to the Hill School to give a talk. Unbeknownst to me, it would be the most impactful talk I’ve ever listened to in my two plus years of listening to speakers. In this talk, he opened up about his own struggles with mental…