Blog Archive

Archived posts from my old Hakyll/Jekyll/Hugo/Zola blogs. Caveat emptor, may no longer hold the same views in $CURRENT_YEAR, time wasted reading old ramblings is not refundable, etc.

2024-09-01 MSR
wrapping up thoughts
2024-06-15 Maslow
advancing up the hierarchy
2023-11-18 Not Doing
pondering life
2022-08-31 Incentives
from the other side of things...
2022-06-01 Today you, tomorrow me
over a decade since that was posted
2022-04-30 Rollercoaster
up and down and round and round
2021-11-25 Chapter close
in the style of the hollow
2021-11-17 Auto update
the desire to retreat into a cave
2021-11-10 Role model
it is so nice to have one
2021-09-25 Ah Pang
the personification of consideration
2021-05-14 Maudlin
approaching the halfway mark
2021-05-07 DSR Number 2
another doctoral student review, another blog
2021-02-18 Weather
white clouds
2021-01-20 Follow-through
well...
2021-01-07 Riot
on living in interesting times
2021-01-02 Split
on splitting the difference
2020-12-30 Space
more scattered thoughts
2020-12-29 Faith
scattered thoughts
2020-12-09 Black Friday
or apparently, doctoral student review now?
2020-12-05 Thanksgiving
reflecting a little
2020-11-22 Back
unstuck
2020-11-09 Breather
i've never felt so unpressured in my life
2020-09-06 Duty
or purpose?
2020-07-16 Worry
how do you tell people that they are making a big mistake...
2020-07-08 Melatonin
is this what people normally feel like?
2020-06-30 Roadmap
Happy from an interview? When did that last happen?
2020-06-12 Win condition
on advice recognized but not taken
2020-06-07 News
absolutely brilliant with information
2020-05-30 Protests
2020-05-26 Equal opportunity
appleby, appleby...
2020-05-18 The way the world ends
democracy dies in broad daylight too
2020-05-16 Favorite matrix multiplication
linear algebra is cool
2020-05-12 My life in numbers
life statistics?
2020-03-23 Visit Day
Thoughts from visit days at Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, and UC Berkeley.
2019-12-11 Boundaries
hard to draw and hard to keep
2019-12-06 Qué
what is a queueing theory
2019-11-25 Self
seems like I'm finding myself again
2019-11-20 TA Seminar
on 418 and training for TAs
2019-11-17 Inaction
not acting is also a choice
2019-11-10 Purpose
2019-03-08 Ginger tea
a little under the weather
2019-01-20 Grit
2018-12-30 Pause
break flying past
2018-12-19 wau
way
2018-11-10 Queues
a little annoyed
2018-11-01 不枉此生
A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.
2018-10-22 Watchmen
scattered thoughts
2018-10-21 Midterms
wau
2018-10-19 Pause
receding sea
2018-09-30 ARIES
recovery
2018-09-05 Mistakes
never again
2018-08-23 RTFM
throwback to taking distributed systems
2018-08-18 Budget
income stats, wrapping up summer administrivia and getting ready for the term
2018-06-25 Nostalgia
2018-06-23 Scribble
bored on the bus.. a collection of teaching-related notes that I think worked out this year
2018-06-07 Reset
two year mark
2018-05-21 Thinking
thoughts for future, future thoughts
2018-05-04 Elephants and lions
apples and oranges?
2018-04-12 Random walks
is it actually spring yet
2018-04-07 Decisions
making decisions on what to TA
2018-03-24 Truths, feedback, and priorities
elven truths and more prioritizing
2018-03-15 Around the world in 58 hours
end of break, assorted thoughts
2018-03-09 Plans and planes
teaching distributed with mcdonalds
2018-02-20 Juggling and Balancing
on coffee, wants, and needs
2018-01-29 Rusty C
distributed's project 1 is a pain
2018-01-12 Spring 2018 resolutions
3/8ths of the way through CMU!
2018-01-01 Defeating "web security" in Singapore
going through some old stuff
2017-07-31 Great Practical Ideas in Chicken Farming
Notes from a few years of chicken farming.
2017-07-15 CMU Quickstart
Some questions which I've asked and answered prior to coming to CMU.