{Name} · nblane Profile

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Identity

• Name: {Name}
• Domain: {e.g. Robotics / ML / Embodied AI}
• Journey: Year {X} of 5
• Current Role: {e.g. PhD student / Engineer at ...}
• North Star: {One sentence. What does "大佬" look like for you in 5 years?}
• North Star Brief: {Safe short version for the daily dashboard}
• North Star Visibility: discreet

Core Competencies

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| Area | Status | Notes | |------|--------|-------| | {Skill Area 1} | learning | {brief context} | | {Skill Area 2} | solid | {brief context} | | {Skill Area 3} | locked | want to start in Q{X} |

Skill Tree

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• x] {Foundation skill}
• ] {Current target}
• ~] {Blocked on: reason}

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Research Fingerprint

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Papers I keep returning to:

• {Author et al., Year} — why it matters to me

Open questions I obsess over:

• {Question 1}

My research taste (what good work looks like to me):

• {e.g. I respect clean ablations over cherry-picked demos}
• {e.g. I care more about whether it works on real hardware than in sim}

Current Focus

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<!-- BEGIN GENERATED:current_focus --> Active (this week):

• {Task}

Queued (next):

• {Task}

Blocked:

• {Task} — blocked by: {reason}

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Thinking & Communication Style

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• I explain intuition before formalism
• I prefer {Chinese / English / mixed} for technical writing
• Technical terms stay in English even in Chinese text
• I distrust results without failure cases shown
• {Add your own patterns}

Growth Log

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| Date | Event | Why it matters | |------|-------|----------------| | {YYYY-MM} | {Milestone / paper / skill unlocked} | {one line} |

Influence & Output

Papers:

• {none yet / Title, Venue, Year, link}

Projects:

• {project name} — {one line description}

Talks / Posts:

• {none yet / Title, Platform, link}

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