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Semi $\implies$ 2.

— moving fast, and then something in between, and then it begins to stop — rest stops We exit our multi-hour moving enclosure air then inside time buzzes, and compresses, and squishes to a point, and I blink, and it’s awfully quiet a chime plays I take a…

buy our shovels, please, dig, ignoring the fact that your graves are now made Were it a gold rush, only then would this make sense.

buy our shovels, please, dig, ignoring the fact that your graves are now made Were it a gold rush, only then would this make sense.

I use Discord and iMessage every day, and I vastly prefer one over the other - here are a few reasons why.

I guess the goal of this exercise, for me, is to see what has changed with regards to my mindset surrounding memory (that’s a very oddly phrased sentence).

Welcome to Rambletown!

I was talking with a new friend Angela yesterday, and during our email conversation she mentioned her art taking a side seat to the tech-y stuff.

Written by Joseph Nguyen This book, I thought, would be similar in spirit to Naval's Almanack.

Written by Eric Jorgenson This was an interesting read, in part because I disagreed with about a third of the book sort of fundamentally, but as a whole it made me think quite a bit.

Written by Dava Sobel This was a very cool book detailing the journey and eventual success of John Harrison, the man who invented a clock that could work at sea, which helped solve the problem of keeping track of longitude.

Written by Jim Holt My musings on this shall be brief, I'd wager.

Written by Sarah Thornton This was the first book about art that I'd properly read in years, and I have it to thank for kickstarting an interest in both art and the art of critiquing art (lol).

let nani_house = "The doors open, and it is basically all the same.

I don't want to be optimal.

This will probably be short, but I wanted to talk a little bit about making things, and the barriers I seem to have to making things.

As a part of Georgia Tech's Compiler Design course, the last sliver of HW1 was to implement part of the trace and compression algorithm from James Larus' "Whole Program Paths" paper.

For a given graph G = (V, E), a cut C is a set of edges such that there is a partition V = (A, B) where all edges e ∈ C have one vertex in A and the other in B.

Art is a conversation.

Why are we here?

I've been wondering about this for a fair few months now, ever since I heard it mentioned in a Vergecast episode, or perhaps a video before that on computational photography, or perhaps even before that, when I was writing that joyous exposé into my thoug…

Today was interesting, an unassuming sort of day which walks past you on the trail, chirping up with a short “Hi” and a modest wave of the digits, ambling about at an average pace, not a care.

I gaze outside, my eyes reflecting the clouds’ tears; The grass is bright green Branches bow and bend at the behest of bygone winds – thunder rumbles My eyes open – “Shit!”

…is all you need, all you want, all you can eat, oh wait now there’s a discount, it’s cheap, and suddenly you’re transported into a world where you have it, a future image where you enjoy this thing, where its presence envelops you and comforts you and th…

It’s there, barely, but it’s there.

In another instance of joyous self-therapizing, and because I am too busy to properly nerd out about a paper review or a fun, bite-sized project or topic, today I will be talking about doing things because they are hard.

Section 1: Impermanence A couple days ago, I was in Dallas with my family, visiting family friends for a series of birthdays and Christmas celebrations.

Betwixt all of the Marvel Rivals and drumming I've been doing since I finished my fall semester, I thought it'd be a good idea to try rewriting std::iter::zip; in the past, I've followed along with Jon Gjengset's Crust of Rust on Iterators (to make Flatte…

As before with Day 3, I won't be redescribing the puzzles in full; please check out Advent of Code for more.

So I'm doing Advent of Code this year, and hopefully we can stick through all 25 days.

As my first actual blog post, I feel like it's fitting to discuss why I want to write a blog at all, as well as some expectations for content going forward (if I ever get around to it, that is).