Katie Keller

Dearest Little One, I know you’ve been having a rough time.

Dearest Little One, I know you’ve been having a rough time.

"All that you touch You Change.

"Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is.

"If a machine can think, it might think more intelligently than we do, and then where should we be?"

"What I cannot create, I do not understand." ~ Richard Feynman In my last post, I talked about what molecular dynamics (MD) is and why it’s such a powerful tool for studying biological systems.

Joseph Campbell talks about “following your bliss” and heeding the hero’s call to adventure.

"If we don't change, we don't grow.

"If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself." ~ Zanele Muholi Biology (and science in general) has always fascinated me since I was young.

⚠️ This post refers to an old, discontinued version of Fern!

"One is most nearly themself when they achieve the seriousness of a child at play." ~ Heraclitus (edits are my own) I discovered a very cool idea called the Old Computer Challenge just last week!

Even though I’ve used Linux for a long time, it’s always been largely from the comfort (confines?)

⚠️ This post refers to an old, discontinued version of Fern!

⚠️ This post refers to an old, discontinued version of Fern!

There is a tradition wherein Recurse Center (RC) alumni write what is called a “Return Statement” to capture their thoughts and feelings on their time in batch at RC.

My laptop came with a fingerprint reader for logging into its original Windows OS.

Layer 0: A Splinter in the Mind Sometimes the most profound journeys begin not with excitement, but with unease.

I have been looking around for a new place to host this website for a while now.

If you’ve ever delved into low-level programming or Assembly language, you’ve likely encountered function prologues and epilogues.

What is Gemini?

"Debugging becomes significantly easier if you first admit that you are the problem," ~ William Laeder I recently wanted to connect my hearing aids to my laptop to watch a movie.

"Don’t give up on it.

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." ~ George Bernard Shaw Recurse Center(aka RC) is an opportunity to explore and dive deeper into topics in a safe and supportive environment.

⚠️ This post refers to an old, discontinued version of Fern!

I always find the transition from one year to another hard.

I have always struggled to figure out how to efficiently deal with dotfiles for my operating system when it came to managing multiple machines/servers.

"The most dangerous phrase in the language is, 'We’ve always done it this way'." ~ Grace Hopper Memory leaks are a sneaky class of bugs that come about when memory is allocated for something and not reclaimed.

I thought it might be useful exercise, both for readers and for myself, if I walked through a simple RISC-V Assembly program and broke down what was going on and how it all worked.

"People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like.

Quarter 2 of my self-study journey was a bit of a mixed bag, involving a few course corrections and minor detours.

"The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'.

"Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday’s code." ~ Dan Salomon After spending the last quarter getting into the C language and building a few little projects with it, I thought it’d be good to…

"It generally feels better to run toward something than to run away from something.

"Turn me over, I'm done on this side" ~ Saint Lawrence We know the look.