I'm a big advocate for not hiding your enthusiasm for things. It seems to me that there is a false stigma around eagerness in our culture of unbothered ambivalence. This outlook perpetuates the idea that it's not cool to want it. That people who don't try are fundamentally more chic than people who do.

Never be ashamed of trying, effortlessness is a myth.

Taylor Swift

Sums of random variables and convolutions

A note on how Gaussians are convolved to make the reparameterization trick work in the diffusion forward process.

Using shuf to select random ports in a cluster

A few tricks in bash to generate random numbers

JavaScript to change video playback speed

because sometimes, you want to go faster than 2x

Max Verstappen breaks Suzuka Lap Record!

and for nostalgia's sake, a couple of perfect qualifying laps from Seb Vettel

Classical Chess Stream 4

the horse jumps everywhere

Blog Checklist

Using this post to check if I have coded up everything I want in this blog.

Vernal Equinox 2025 links

the best of the internet over the last season

Tolstoy on History

he really dislikes the great man theory of history, but more than that, he dislikes Napoleon.

Hinweise zur deutschen Sprache [WIP]

Eine Anmerkung jedes Mal, wenn mich die deutsche Sprache verwirrte

Winter Solstice 2024 links

the best of the internet over the last season

Aprendiendo Español [WIP]

Notas que he tomado mientras aprendía español.

Troy, (2004) dir. Wolfgang Peterson

some of the best lines from my all-time favourite movie

Distilling Stockfish into a Transformer

My thoughts on the "Grandmaster-Level Chess Without Search" paper from Google DeepMind

Dynamic Programming [UFO]

Some notes on rod-cutting, LCS, and 0-1 Knapsack...

The Placebo Effect

My attempt to understand this strangest of phenomena. Something I think can revolutionize modern medicine.

August 2020 Release Notes [UFO]

just some links

July 2020 Release Notes

Karim Benzema and Taylor Swift's Folklore

June 2020 Release Notes [UFO]

Fermat's Last Theorem, Essay Writing and the return of La Liga and Serie A.

May 2020 Release Notes

A revision of first principles and more mathematics

Virology [UFO]

Notes from Virology Lectures by Vincent Racaniello

Proof that $\exp(x)=\displaystyle\lim_{n\rightarrow\infty}\left(1+\frac{x}{n}\right)^{n}$

A math-heavy but super elegant proof that I learnt

April 2020 Release Notes

Mathematics mostly, with some code sprinkle-tossed in. Solving puzzles never felt more exhilarating.

Google Code Jam

Analysis and Solutions for the 2020 edition of Google's annual Code Jam competition.

March 2020 Release Notes

There was always going to be only one story...

February 2020 Release Notes

Audiobooks, running, and the coronavirus.

January 2020 Release Notes

Hardcore History, Kobe Bryant and new adventures.