Stats
Fun numbers about me, this industry, and the wider world
About me
| Statistic | Value |
|---|---|
| Current age | |
| Based in | New Taipei City, Taiwan |
| Client reach | Worldwide (remote) |
| Languages | English & 中文 |
| Undergraduate | NYCU | Information Engineering, 2014–2018 |
Industry notes
| Statistic | Value |
|---|---|
| AI product launches that used the word "revolution" | still counting |
| New LLM names the industry shipped in 2024–2025 | dozens |
| Client time zones on my phone clock | 4+ |
| Systems back online on a typhoon day off | worth it |
| AI features shipped with an off switch | all of them |
| Night-market runs that turned into sync meetings | several |
| Keyboards owned vs. keyboards actually loved | ratio skewed |
Numbers worth knowing
| Statistic | Value |
|---|---|
| The first famous computer "bug" was literally | a moth (1947) |
| Approx. synapses in a human brain | 100 trillion |
| Stars in the Milky Way (best estimate) | 100–400 billion |
| Time for sunlight to reach Earth | 8 min 20 sec |
| Distance light travels in one second | 7.5× around Earth |
| Lines of code in a typical modern car (ballpark) | 100M+ |
| 7-Eleven stores in Taiwan | 6,500+ |
| Humans who have walked on the Moon | 12 |
| Age of the oldest known living tree | ≈5,000 years |
| Heartbeats in a long human life (rough guess) | ≈3 billion |
| The first website ever published | info.cern.ch |
| Wikipedia articles, all languages combined | 60M+ |
| Open-source developers on GitHub (2024, rounded) | 100M+ |
| Years the HTTP protocol has been around | 35+ |