Notebook 3.5
A fun place to jot down my thoughts and ideas! You'll find everything from my favorite music to political thoughts! Have a stroll, and stay a while!Featured
a quest to be more intentional (sparkle edition)
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#featured#my take#updates
Scopes Interacting with Life
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#philosophy#featured#my take#competition
my "favorite" year recapped!
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#featured#new years#reflection#article
one more day
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#featured#my take#school
Polarization
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#politics#my take#article#featured
Education
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#article#education#my take#featured
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in browser favicon diffusion! scratch-dit pt.2
2025-02-19a fun side project to learn more about kernel development + optimization#project#programming
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toy r1 implementation!
2025-02-04reproduced an ~250 line r1 GRPO training script in <24hrs#programming#experiment#ai
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visualizing who you want to be
2025-01-23a nice tool that I think helps me be more “me”#my take#reflection#tools
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notebook v3.5??? notion as a CMS
2025-01-22how I set up notion as a CMS and more streamlined blogs + notes#releases#fun#programming#project
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highschool is terrible
2025-01-16a quick rant + explanation of why I have this take#education#my take#school
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note taking in the future
2025-01-10an extensive document on my takes on notes + what I think it should look like#fun#education#my take#article
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stuff i recommend buying
2025-01-07a quick link to a notion page I made about stuff to buy!#review#stuff
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how to think fast
2025-01-05an internal model of how I process information—along with practices I do in my free time!#lesson#education#reflection#philosophy
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causality, psychology, and intuition
2025-01-04my main argument for why intuitions are dangerous to lean too deep into#philosophy#my take
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resolutions in 2025
2025-01-02a brief list of the things I want to focus on in 2025#new years#reflection
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moral frameworks & consent!
2025-01-01how to think about day to day life + how I make decisions#article#philosophy#my take
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scratche-dit pt.1 (DiT implementation in ~130 lines)
2024-08-15a writeup of a DiT I wrote from scratch!#project
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Creation Consumption and Productivity
2024-04-27some thoughts about how people create and thoughts from estonia#travel#reflection#updates
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ucla so farrrr
2023-11-12a brief not so brief update on life#fun#updates
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Kairos!!
2023-07-08I went to my first 🐀 camp (rationality is so very cool)#fun#camp#hackathons
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human relationality
2023-01-15a new perspective on how to view life (taken from paul kalanith’s when breath becomes air)#philosophy#my take
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switching around custom firmware
2023-01-08my personal history with custom firmwares & gaming consoles.#fun#games
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2023 more like 2020p
2023-01-02truly my resolution for this year (ie. this is my resolution post for this year but this is the best pun i could think of).#new years#reflection
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MyWebsite 2.0
2022-12-18Updating my website for the first time in 4 years!#programming#fun#project#releases
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consciousness
2022-12-13a little blog post about Ender’s Game#philosophy
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The Hidden Political Party
2022-06-20A cluster analysis of tweet sentiments to find sub-political parties! Hopefully this can help people understand the political landscape a little more & understand humans just a little more.#politics#programming#fun
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Simulations
2021-10-24What is a simulation, and how do they serve us in our day to day lives?#philosophy#fun#my take
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Memories
2021-09-08Sentence fragments on the nature of memories. Trying out a new writing style, read at your own risk...#experiment#philosophy#my take
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The Hacker Zephyr.
2021-07-2542 people. The worlds longest hackathon (3,502 miles). A life changing adventure.#hackathons#programming#hack club#summer
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Motivation
2021-06-27What is motivation, and how can people get more of it? Learn a bit about my perspective!#my take#article#philosophy
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End Of School Reflection
2021-06-10What are some things I could do better, things I liked, and my plans for summer!#school#reflection
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TARDIS - The Conrad Challenge
2021-05-08A cool new side project, and my experience submitting it to Conrad Challenge and winning!#project#competition#conrad-challenge#programming
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LeishNN: AI based Drug Discovery for Leishmania
2021-04-21Using neural networks to develop novel molecules to target Leishmaniasis. A documentation of my science fair project!#science fair#project#programming#ai
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AI on Politics and Philosophy
2021-04-16Using GPT-3 to generate some cool insights into current topics, from police brutality, philosophical metaphysics, and back to its thoughts on AGI!#ai#fun#philosophy
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Education Part 2: Why Nothing Gets Done
2021-03-04Here I take a look at why the education system as a whole is doomed to repeat its cycle, and how we need a strong force of change.#education#article#my take
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16th Birthday
2021-03-02Woot woot! Its my birthhhhddaaayyyyy!#birthday#covid19
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TypeScript: Yay or Nay?
2021-02-24My thoughts on whether or not to use typescript, and if its an all around good language.#programming#review#fun
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Capitalism
2021-02-10The age old debate of whether capitalism is the best economic system.#my take#politics#article
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CoviDB 4 Kids
2021-01-31My story on how I helped TeachAids in developing CoviDB 4 Kids, a COVID-19 (a new coronavirus) educational resource database for kids!#internship#covid19#project#programming#education
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Skepticism
2021-01-26What is skepticism, is it good, and is there such a thing as too much skepticism?#my take#philosophy
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Stickers
2021-01-17STICKER STICKER! Why stickers are so great for hackathons, and generally some of the best swag if done right.#hackathons#my take#fun#hack club
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End of 2020
2021-01-03Reflecting on 2020, and setting up new goals for 2021!#new years#fun
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Summer of Making
2020-11-10This summer, I helped organize the Summer of Making, with Hack Club!#summer#programming#hack club
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Political Empathy and the Importance of Frameworks
2020-11-06An in depth analysis on unstructured debates, and techniques to make sure you can get the most out of them.#article#politics#my take
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Starting at CoviDB & TeachAids
2020-06-30A fun internship where I’m working on many cool things, and learning about new technologies!#internship#programming#project#fun#summer#covid19
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Templater
2020-06-09A fast, easy way to organize and share code templates.#golang#cli#programming#fun#project
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AnimeLSTM
2020-05-17A project where I generated my own anime music using AI!#ai#project#music#anime#programming
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AI from Scratch: Flappy Bird
2020-05-11A cool game where an AI teaches itself to play flappy bird.... built from scratch with JS Core libraries!#ai#project#programming
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goJSON
2020-05-10A fun project I wrote that’s a simple and lightning fast database written in Golang!#project#go#programming#fun
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Elon Musk AMA
2020-05-04My highlights from being on an AMA with Elon musk, and some amazing points that I took from it!#article#hack club#ai#my take#education#ama
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Notebook v2.0
2020-05-03My new and improved notebook!#releases#programming#project
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Best Anime Music
2020-04-28My favorite anime music, all put into one place!#anime#music#fun
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How to Learn
2020-04-27My take on how to teach people in general#my take#education#article
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Hack University
2020-04-07Hack University! A great way to learn/teach during quarantine!#project#education#programming
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Global COVID19 Hackathon
2020-04-06A global hackathon for COVID19 which I participated in!#hackathons#covid19#project
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Hack Merced
2020-03-31My first collegiate hackathon!#hackathons
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15th Birthday!
2020-03-31My 15th Birthday!#birthday#fun#covid19
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(LATE) New Years! 🎉
2020-03-31Happy New Years! I haven’t posted in a while, so here it is!#fun#new years
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Science Fair
2020-03-31This years science fair project!#science fair#project#programming#ai#covid19
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COVID19
2020-03-31My take on COVID19 and how it’ll progress.#covid19#my take
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Google Code In!
2019-12-02A awesome competition from Google that I got to compete in for a week!#competition#programming#fun
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Marker
2019-11-19An upgrade from LinkShort, better with custom pages, and redirects!#project#programming#fun
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New Website
2019-11-19A new and upgraded personal website! Full with Next.js and React!#personal website#programming#project
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TheDebateTimer
2019-11-03A cool project where I built a timer for debate!#programming#project#fun
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npm - My First Package!
2019-10-28The first ever JS package I created on npm!#project#programming#fun
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AngelHacks
2019-10-28My experiences from hosting my first ever hackathon, from 0-10!#hack club#hackathons
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Airtable
2019-09-14A review of a cool productivity application, which also can double as a database!#review#programming
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LinkShort
2019-09-13A small simple URL shortener#project#programming#fun
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Glitch vs Repl.it
2019-09-05An honest comparison between Glitch and Repl.it#programming#review
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Running C++ & Other Languages on OSX
2019-09-04A quick tutorial on how to run other languages locally, instead of in an IDE or online!#tutorial#programming
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Flagship Summit
2019-09-03One of the best experiences of the Summer of 2019 and where I met future best friends!#summer#fun#hack club#education
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Notebook
2019-09-02Creating a new platform to write on!#releases#fun#programming
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