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Chip Huyen is a writer and computer scientist based in Silicon Valley. She works to bring the best engineering practices to machine learning research and production. Her experiences include Netflix, NVIDIA, Primer. Previously, she created and taught the Stanford course TensorFlow for Deep Learning Research. She’s currently with a startup that focuses on the machine learning production pipeline.

After high school, she went to Brunei for a 3-day vacation which turned into a 3-year trip through Asia, Africa, and South America. She's also the author of four bestselling Vietnamese books: “Xách ba lô lên và Đi” series, “Giấc mơ Mỹ – Đường
đến Stanford”, and "Tuổi trẻ không hối tiếc".

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	Xách Ba Lô Lên Và Đi - Tập 1: Châu Á Là Nhà. Đừng Khóc! 3.82 avg rating — 1,203 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Giấc mơ Mỹ - Đường đến Stanford 4.02 avg rating — 783 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tuổi Trẻ Không Hối Tiếc 4.31 avg rating — 469 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Xách Ba Lô lên Và Đi - Tập 2: Đừng Chết Ở Châu Phi 3.87 avg rating — 516 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bởi vì Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo (Goodreads Author), Huyen Chip (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.06 avg rating — 216,525 ratings — published 2000 — 96 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I had so much fun writing this blog over the last 4 years. I enjoyed sharing what I learned with you, and I learned even more from your thoughtful comments.

However, as I reluctantly accept my responsibilities as an adult, I can no longer write a post every day. My long-form writing will be posted on huyenchip.com and my fragments of thoughts will be posted on Twitter (@chi

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Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science

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Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

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How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region

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“Em bây giờ như miếng bọt biển vậy, em hấp thụ tất cả những gì xung quanh mình. Cứ đi nhiều đi, cứ trải nghiệm nhiều đi, cứ hấp thụ thật nhiều đi”.”
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“Ôi Chip, mày nhận được những gì mày xứng đáng. Ai thèm để ý đến mày hả? Hàng triệu người ngoài kia thậm chí còn không biết bố mẹ mình là ai, nói gì đến ngày sinh. Nếu mày nghĩ mày xứng đáng nhận được nhiều hơn, hãy chiến đấu mà giành lấy nó. Không ai có trách nhiệm phải làm cho mày vui cả”.”
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― Huyền Chip, Xách Ba Lô Lên Và Đi - Tập 1: Châu Á Là Nhà. Đừng Khóc!

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“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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“Like most fedora wearers, he had a lot of inexplicable confidence.”
― Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance

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“The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.”
― Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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“Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

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“That message is simple: When you come to one of the many moments in life when you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, do not, I pray, discount that you filled a dying man’s days with a sated joy, a joy unknown to me in all my prior years, a joy that does not hunger for more and more, but rests, satisfied. In this time, right now, that is an enormous thing.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

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