Ever since I’ve gotten back home and don’t have immediate concerns, I’ve been catching up on reading. Here are reviews on the first batch: With A Little Help A collection of short stories by Cory Doctorow. I’ve read most of the stories already in here, but it was a blast reading through them again, and […]

Attended some graduations Tweaked the Arimaa Icon set up to version 3 4 4.1 Attended a Classical Revolution session in Seattle Re-read Neuromancer Made progress on finding housing. I detest looking for housing. In fact, I detest looking for most anything. Failed to finish Halo: Reach Got to the Silicon Valley without dying Start work […]

So what’d I do this week? Got sick with Viral Gastroentrisis again Finished The Glass Bead Game Hit up Seattle’s Less Wrong Meetup group Finished Oryx and Crake Finished a project of mine. A small project, involving data visualization Thoughts on book reading: I don’t quite get modern literature. Or any “fine” literature, for that […]

Some forewarning: this post is going to be somewhat awkward. Okay, more awkward than normal. I’m not really announcing anything (it’s been around a week since I could’ve announced anything) and nothing is coming up (at least, nothing planned). However, it’s been 2 weeks since I’ve written anything, so I figured I should post something. […]

It’s been a long haul, but I’m done with Probabilistic Robotics, the beginning of my reading spree until the end of my time here at Columbia. If you don’t remember, I decided I should start a reading spree until I didn’t have access to the huge library at Columbia: hell, all that money has to […]

So a friend of mine recently-ish filled out one of those Q/A lists about books on tumblr, and it got me thinking about books I haven’t read, and it got me thinking. Specifically, one of the books mentioned happened to touch on an anomaly in my reading habits, one of the few books that I’ve […]