Monthly recap (March 2019)
Major updates: * Winter => Spring, finally * Great mini-weekend trip to Asilomar/Pacific Grove Minor updates: * Red-tape-y stuff around passport renewal/visas * Some attempts at improving pe…
Interesting links: March 2019
* Headline from the Register: “Hipster whines at tech mag for using his pic to imply hipsters look the same, discovers pic was of an entirely different hipster” * Random weirdness: liquid mercury fo…
Library book haul (Mar 2019)
Me and Tara go to the library once every six weeks or so, and I was thinking of starting to make a list of the books we’ve tried/liked over time. But that is a bit too much effort, so I’m going to st…
Feynman FTW
After a few minutes, Feynman had worked out the process of spontaneous emission, which is what Stephen Hawking became famous for a year later. Feynman had it all on my blackboard. He wasn’t interested…
Monthly recap (February 2019)
Major updates: * Finished my second 1000-piece puzzle (details later) * Disney on Ice with Tara Minor updates: * Trying to get Tara familiar with Checkers * Daily 5-minute meditation for a mont…
Interesting links: February 2019
* Stumbled across Notion (seems incredibly useful, and clearly one of the apps that seem to herald our post-file future, but for me, still in a trial mode) * Learnt of the story of Anna Akhmatova *…
Monthly recap (January 2019)
Major updates: * None? Minor updates: * Getting back from India * Low fitness … * Quarterly trip to Barnes&Noble, some new books * Fun pottery outing with team at work * Cold weather, dow…
Interesting links: January 2019
* Getting a spacecraft to travel several dozen million miles, and start orbiting a small space rock in a one-mile radius is no mean feat * This one house in LA connects movies as far apart as House…
Short-form blog posts
It has to be okay to write one-paragraph posts, otherwise I’ll never end up getting what’s in my head out somewhere. I just don’t happen to be an essay-writing kind of person, I can’t bring myself to…
Interesting links: December 2018
* Mandatory Octopus story * On “efficiency” in human languages * Favorably comparing Tumblr to Twitter (I’m not convinced …) * About “brain-eating amoebas” * Sometimes it pays to have a good grad…
Monthly recap (December 2018)
Major updates: * Trip to India to visit parents/friends/relatives * A unicorn-themed birthday party for Tara at home! Minor updates: * A first movie night for me and Shivi (i.e. also a first for…
Annual recap: 2018
Me/Family: * I moved from Google to Pure Storage * Went for a memorable Warriors/Cavaliers game * Ran a 10K * Shivi moved to a new team in engineering * Experiments: gave up coffee for a month,…