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.

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Hinweise zur deutschen Sprache [WIP]

Eine Anmerkung jedes Mal, wenn mich die deutsche Sprache verwirrte

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

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

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

Autumn Equinox 2024 links

the best of the internet over the last season

Summer Solstice 2024 links

the best of the internet over the last season

The Tortured Poets Department

Taylor Swift's eleventh studio album is out!

Infinitesimal Worms

A discontinuity paradox

Vernal Equinox 2024 links

the best of the internet over the last season

Richard Hamming on Claude Shannon

An anecdote that stuck out to me from Hamming's You and Your Research

Automatic Content Selection

Notes from Stephen Wolfram's blog

Winter Solstice 2023 links

the best of the internet over the last season

Reorganizing Site Content

GitHub issue tracking much needed changes

F. Scott Fitzgerald about the first world war

from Tender is the Night

1989 (Taylor's Version)

The re-recording of Taylor Swift's fifth studio album is out!

How do you know what you care about?

Correspondence with a friend

Book 22, The Odyssey

At the time of the grand reveal

Katalin Kariko and UPenn

UPenn apparently fired a future Nobel Prize winner and are attempting to recoup their losses

Autumn Equinox 2023 links

the best of the internet over the last season

On LinkedIn

A rant

On short form video content

A rant

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

A review of the Richard Rhodes book

Für Therese

Some cool facts about Beethoven's masterpiece from John Carlos Baez on Mathstodon

Why is Sapiens so polarizing?

Partly a book review, partly a rant

the inexorable march of time...

where does this phrase come from?

Muse, tell me of the man of many wiles

The opening lines from Allen Mandelbaum's translation of The Odyssey

Speak Now (Taylor's Version)

The re-recording of Taylor Swift's third studio album is out!

Summer Solstice 2023 links

the best of the internet over the last season

Get Some Free Speech While You Can

Freedom of expression isn't the tool of the powerful; it's the tool of the powerless

Field Trip to Citi Neuro Hospital

a travel journal of sorts

Vernal Equinox 2023 links

the best of the internet over the last season

Midnights

Taylor Swift's tenth studio album is out!

Act III Scene II, Julius Caesar

The greatest speech ever written in my opinion, I'm learning to perform this

The Genius of The Crowd

by Charles Bukowski

4th BongCloud Classical Chess Tournament

My first OTB chess tournament!!

Summer Solstice 2022 links

the best of the internet over the last season

The Hellespont

something about crossing water bodies

Productivity Culture

why aren't we working lesser hours even with technological advancement?

Death [WIP]

Lecture Notes of the 2007 Series at Yale taught by Shelly Kagan along with some personal opinions.

Nietzsche's "Morality is Cowardice"

harmless =/= moral

Thoughts on Privacy

the burden of proof of a crime falls upon the state, or something along those lines

If, by Rudyard Kipling

easily the greatest poem ever written, with emphasis on my favourite lines, which is like 80% of the poem.

So, you think you're bad at math...

A video from Prof. Courtney Gibbons I revisit a lot

Justice

Lecture Notes of the 2009 Series at Harvard taught by Micheal Sandel along with some personal opinions.

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

April 2020 Release Notes

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

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.