Dixi.

The past couple weeks have been wild.

Colton Voege⁠ Very well written piece I thought.

At JSM, no progress to report.

I’ve not been feeling too well after the conference unfortunately, so I again didn’t have much time.

I’m at USCOTS⁠ this whole week and have been preparing for a presentation this past week so haven’t done much.

Further work on measures.

Similarly, nothing much to report.

Not as much to report on as last time.

I probably should’ve been doing this weekly but I didn’t so I’m starting now—Wednesdays or Tuesday posts, probably.

I’ve made it a habit to note down funny things my friends say lest I forget them.

The evening began with an expected text.

I have a tendency to pity people who don’t read; it’s definitely not a feeling of superiority but more an indictment of induced illiteracy.

NB: This collection (book?

10/10.

8/10 Released in 2025 by Japanese Breakfast.

8/10.

9/10.

Tailscale won a Webby People’s Voice award in the “Apps and Software” category.

Thanks to Jin and Wayne for reviewing this piece to stop me from publishing anything that is overtly, outrageously, ostentatious ostrich drivel.

I’m excited to be accepted into the GSOC 2025 cohort, working on the loo R package⁠!

The Nvidia Way - Tae Kim⁠ 7/10 I like the book on the whole; the story was fantastic.

Introduction I’m enrolled in STAT 541: Advanced Statical Computing with R⁠ this quarter.

Tumse Na Ho Paayega - Utsav Mamoria⁠ Simon Wilson has espoused maintaining a link blog⁠ from time to time, and I’ve felt slow pressure suggesting that I should do so for a while now.

https://photos.visruth.com/⁠ I posit there are, very broadly speaking, two classes of photos: photos of interesting things, and interesting photos of things.

The pipe is an essential part of my R toolkit, allowing for simple and cogent method chaining, sensibly decomposing long chains of commands.

I just published⁠ my final project for my Applied Stochastics Course at Cal Poly.

I’m going to dual boot openSUSE Tumbleweed (with Plasma) and Windows—a change long coming.

I just stumbled upon this neat little R pattern which I found really nice/helpful.

I’ve happened upon Jujutsu⁠ (jj), a new Version Control System (VCS).

Subjectivity is always implied.

There can be something beautiful about things that go away.

Background I enjoy writing.

BigNum⁠ I’ll write a little here, but the readme goes into more detail.

Someone asked me yesterday, what sweeping changes I anticipated in my field that would have an impact on consumers in the next ten years.

Introduction I’ve been reading Category Theory for Programmers⁠ (highly recommend), and have been encountering Haskell a bit.

Why write?

Minimality is beautiful.

Can you ski in Tahiti ChatGPT: No, you can’t ski in Tahiti.

I took the paper bag from her as she snuck into the restroom.

When speaking of intelligence, many distinct characteristics tend to be conflated and swirl into one another—I wish to clear such ambiguity and set some definitions for different parts of “intelligence” and “smartness” that are used interchangeably, casua…

I’d strongly suggest looking through the photos first.⁠