The cover image was generated by ChatGPT.

The year 2023 marked the rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence. From large language models to a wide range of AI-powered applications, artificial intelligence gradually became part of everyday life, making deep learning one of the most prominent and widely discussed technologies of the year.

For me, 2023 also marked the beginning of my journey into the world of deep learning, as I built and experimented with my first deep learning models.

The cover image is a downloaded typhoon satellite image. It is a satellite water vapor cloud image produced by the Central Weather Administration (CWA) using CCU/SSL. The image was captured at 07:10 on July 11, 2026, and was obtained from the Weather Image Archive of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at Chinese Culture University (Atmospheric Science Research and Application Databank).

This is a small program that was originally written to download typhoon satellite images and related data. Its initial purpose was to collect image data for image recognition research. Since the program was developed at an earlier stage, it still contains several relatively immature implementation approaches. Therefore, this article serves only as a record and reference for the data download process, and does not provide an in-depth discussion of the program architecture or optimization methods. The programming language used in this project is Python.

The Forbidden City, now home to the Palace Museum in Beijing, served as the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties. It is the largest and best-preserved ancient palace complex in the world, consisting of nearly 10,000 rooms and representing the pinnacle of traditional Chinese imperial architecture.