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I care about practicality.

With tools like Claude Code and Codex, I think typing speed is starting to matter more, and I haven’t seen anyone mention this yet.

I was nominated to submit a commencement speech for my grad school’s 2026 commencement.

I just upgraded the processor in my Framework 13, and all things considered, it went well.

I try to use default keybindings and keyboard layouts as much as possible, but as a vim user, I’ve always mapped Caps Lock to escape wherever possible.

I just published a novella that I wrote during the summer of my PhD thesis defense.

0x0d-I: March 13th, 2181, 10:00pm “Hi Ari, it’s Ari.”

Just upgraded my Framework Laptop 13 Mainboard from a Ryzen 7640U to a Ryzen AI HX 370.

Like many edgy teenagers, I once embraced nihilism—the belief that nothing matters, that existence is fundamentally meaningless.

My latest paper is available on arxiv: Low Rank Factorizations are Indirect Encodings for Deep Neuroevolution.

If all goes well, I’ll leave Brandeis University with a PhD degree in computer science this summer.

I used to have a mental block against casually reading things that weren’t designed to be casually read, like old papers, textbooks, documentation, etc.

Starting from REINFORCE, the original deep reinforcement learning algorithm, we will trace the evolution of policy gradient methods to the Group Relative Policy Optimization algorithm used to train Deepseek r1.

I just finished The Story of Civilization, Vol. 1 (1976) by Will Durant.

I don’t think r1 will get us to artificial super intelligence, but whatever comes next probably will.

I’m doing an internship right now, and thankfully, I read a few books on software design before starting.

Wikipedia translates the Greek philosophical concept of Eudaimonia as “Human Flourishing”, particularly on the spiritual level.

It used to be good enough just to copy others.

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA - Apple today announced the release of the groundbreaking iPad Pro Max, the world’s first tablet powered by the all-new quantum Q1 processor.

I installed linux on a OnePlus6T.

Contents: Introduction, Step away, come back later, Focus, but not too much, Generalization comes after specialization, Don’t bother if you don’t need to, Let Go Introduction I recently read Zen in the Art of Archery, which isn’t a book about archery as m…

I’ve been an author on a few papers before, but I recently published the first research project where I was responsible for most of the work and direction.

punk.ist - A list of increasing importance Unix - The philosophy of modular programs vi key bindings - Comfortable computing Artificial Life - Life in silico 100 Rabbits - Low-tech maritime artist collective Antifragility - Strength from setbacks Lauryn H…

How great would it be if the solution to most errors you face were in the first place you looked?

Excerpts I found interesting from Alan Watt’s The Way of Zen, grouped by vibes: Definition Convention Feel Growing Spontaneity Pointing Ego Interference Present Negation Liberation Za-zen Widespread Art Definition Zen Buddhism is a way and a view of life…

Flash attention, a recent implementation of attention which makes less calls to high-bandwidth memory, uses a version of the softmax function which is numerically stable.

Kittyplot is a program designed to plot experiment data in the kitty terminal using the kitty graphics protocol, primarily for use on HPC clusters.

Make a fucking website already, Owen.

Matthew Carlson’s blog post “Fighting Distraction With Unit Tests” inspired me to share some extra benefits of writing test code I’ve discovered during my PhD program.

I don’t know anybody in real life who blogs regularly, and I think that kills my motivation to write blog posts myself.

I love the look of LaTeX but hate the experience of writing in LaTeX, at least compared to Markdown.

An ever-expanding list of concepts in the field of AI to give myself and others an easy reference.

There is a great tool known as pandoc that can convert documents from one filetype to another.

Is it better to have no facts about a topic and thus no opinion, or have access to a few “out of context” facts and thus a misinformed opinion?

Not all rules are made equal.

The more I learn about the world, the less certain I become about it.

Here’s the problem with advertising AI-based technology that doesn’t exist: You cannot promise anything about your product.

Jeff stepped over a beer can, then over a water bottle and onto a mat, whose faded lettering vaguely resembled the phrase “Welcome!”

Some thoughts on Happiness: Happiness doesn’t come from wealth.

Introduction In this essay we will give a brief history of crytocurrency leading up to Bitcoin, give an overview of the Bitcoin protocol by summarizing key sections of the whitepaper, and briefly discuss Bitcoin’s use of cryptographical proof and computat…

What happened to “Don’t give out your name on the internet?”

Forgiveness has a negative connotation these days.

Choosing sides is fun.