Manav B. Ponnekanti

I have just wrapped up my third year dissertation, a harrowing experience that deeply affirmed my desire to pursue a PhD.

First, a verbose screed.

Hammerspoon is a free, open-source program that gives you deep access to macOS APIs via Lua scripting.

I don’t really care much for cricket, but my dad does.

It’s just insane that language models actually work.

I dissected the thigh today.

I really cannot emphasise enough how important realising this was for me.

I came across this poem in the New Yorker and it made me despair somewhat.

This essay was originally published in Vol VI Issue 2 of the RUMS Review magazine.

I’ve come to believe that for each respective QoL enhancement there is an optimal level of engagement at which you reap pretty much all of the benefit, and any further cognitive energy and money you funnel into it is just chasing a non-existent white whal…

A Post-Mortem Analysis This piece was written in collaboration with Aryan Arora and originally published in Vol XI Issue 1 of the RUMS Review Magazine.

I was left with some reflections (and doubts) after the psychiatry lectures I received over my first year in medical school.

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