One of my random hyper fixations is proto-Indo-European etymology. My friend Lydia said that etymology is astrology for men. So I made a lecture on it with that title because I realized, yeah, she’s right.

what is the point of it all?

My strangest experience on Tinder was in Sichuan. Dunno why but I got >100 matches in 12 minutes, a truly bizarre experience, felt like my guts were getting swizzled with hot gravel. But something worse approaches.

In R Scott Bakker’s Second Apocalypse series, there’re these monks called the Dûnyain and these goblins called the Sranc.

I was 17 and had free period before and after lunch. So, 3 hour lunches.

I had a fun talk about this with an interviewer once when they asked me about the runtime complexity of some algorithm.

MOM Alok’s thinking about conic sections again.

But this is impossible by definition

The 2 Aspects

(written long time ago, publish or languish)

Let \(H > \mathbb{Nat}\) be unlimited.

Nonstandard analysis gives a nice link between continuous and bounded functions, which are small and large-scale notions.¹

GPT-4 did this in 1 shot.

Been going through Mosteller’s 50 challenging problems in probability.

I’ve been learning about the neural tangent kernel and some things confused me.