2023: A Year in Review and Looking Ahead

title: [Year-End Review] 2023 Review and Outlook
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date: 2023-12-25 00:00:00 UTC
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canonical_url: http://www.evanlin.com/summary-2023/
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## 2023 Annual Review

![A picture of a person reviewing many memories, realistic style, with AI robot dialogue, a trip to the UK, and a picture of parents and their elementary school daughter playing together.](http://www.evanlin.com/images/2022/OIG.jpeg)

# Quick Summary

The most memorable things this year are:

- In August, I took a trip to the UK and France.
- Because of the LLM explosion last year, I was fortunate enough to participate in a bunch of fun projects and internal training this year. (There are [28 new Repositories](https://github.com/kkdai?tab=repositories&q=created%3A2023-01-01..2023-12-31&type=&language=&sort=))

At this age, it's really important to be able to do work you love, have your family happy together, and have a healthy body.

## Data Summary

![image-20231226210639947](http://www.evanlin.com/images/2022/image-20231226210639947.png)

![image-20231226210713001](http://www.evanlin.com/images/2022/image-20231226210713001.png)

- Total reading time: 2418 minutes, 14 books (1 on another platform)

- Blog post writing:

- Fitness exercise:
  - 2023: 3595 mins
  - 2022: 3966 mins
- On Github Contribution:
  - 2023: 1062
  - 2022: 828
- Because of LLM, there were many projects this year: (There are [28 new Repositories](https://github.com/kkdai?tab=repositories&q=created%3A2023-01-01..2023-12-31&type=&language=&sort=))

- In terms of gatherings, 2023 was more relaxed, and I had more opportunities to see old friends this year:
- In April, I had dinner with my Soochow University classmates.
- In December, I met with old friends from Corel.

![image-20231226213125460](http://www.evanlin.com/images/2022/image-20231226213125460.png)

# Miscellaneous Numbers

![image-20231226213208547](http://www.evanlin.com/images/2022/image-20231226213208547.png)

![image-20231226213211321](http://www.evanlin.com/images/2022/image-20231226213211321.png)

![image-20231226213307846](http://www.evanlin.com/images/2022/image-20231226213307846.png)

![image-20231226213829531](http://www.evanlin.com/images/2022/image-20231226213829531.png)