June 23, 2023
Last semester I found myself sitting on a kitchen floor at a house party in Cambridge. To my left, a bag of boxed wine, and to my right, a very inebriated guest vigorously explaining to me how doing a Ph.D…. Read more
February 27, 2023
I want to learn about ideas, and I want to use what I learn to create something new. I want to do research, to invent, to combine ideas, tear them apart, and create new ones of my own. I want… Read more
December 27, 2022
At the NeurIPS conference in 2022, Geoffrey Hinton proposed a new architecture for training neural networks using an algorithm called Forward-Forward. Forward-Forward is a biologically plausible alternative to the conventional backpropagation approach to training neural networks, and here I demonstrate… Read more
August 08, 2022
The age old understanding of social media’s harms is that it manipulates our desire for the approval of others as well as our natural tendency to compare ourselves against others, to form an addiction to platforms that monetize our attention…. Read more
August 06, 2022
On my team there is one other intern, and today was her last day. We never talked much, she sat perpendicular to me in an adjacent row of desks, and since she started before me, I sometimes read her code… Read more
July 17, 2022
Clement’s shop lives on a street full of life — not the life that spends its waking hours “getting ahead” by adorning facades in the world of white collar American employment, but a life who lives in second story flats… Read more
October 19, 2021
Deep thanks to Spencer Belsky and Rebecca Swernofsky for their valuable contributions to this list and beyond, from a time when we were deep in the throes of redesigning TAMID Tech Consulting. I WILL REFRAIN FROM USING @CHANNEL TODAY MY… Read more
May 15, 2021
Hey! This hasn’t been updated in a while. Has Marc learned anything after January of 2021? That’s a good question. I’m writing this in mid-May of 2021. The past few months I’ve been kept busy between my co-op at Vicarious… Read more
January 01, 2021
Hello! Thanks for checking out my 2020 recap! I’m super fortunate to have done some exciting things this year, and I hope you find them interesting! In March, I came back to the Bay Area for spring break. Midway through,… Read more
December 18, 2020
Given a Hermitian operator $\hat{H}$: 1. The Eigenvalues are Real Let’s say we apply our Hermitian operator $\hat{H}$ to a state $\vert\Psi\rangle$. We’re going to get some scalar of an eigenvalue of $\hat{H}$, call this $h$. Also consider what happens… Read more
December 07, 2020
These are my notes from CS 3000, Data Structures and Algorithms. I took this class in the fall of 2020. See the outline on the left to jump to a relevant section. Here’s where the second half of the semester… Read more
November 10, 2020
Earlier this week, Lebanon announced its plan to introduce a new digital currency in 2021. This feels natural to anyone following the rise of cryptocurrencies in recent years, starting with Bitcoin’s explosion in popularity in 2017. But Lebanon isn’t simply… Read more
November 06, 2020
Listing of quantum physics and quantum computing courses I found. Current as of November 2020. Foundational QC Courses Quantum Computing. Less Formulas - More Understanding Coursera (5 weeks) Course by the same professor at St. Petersburg University who taught this… Read more
November 04, 2020
Stuart Dalziel, a leading fluid mechanics scientist, has spent the last few weeks running between lecture halls on Cambridge University’s campus, performing experiments to see just how safe these classrooms are for in-person teaching. Using a fog machine to simulate… Read more
October 13, 2020
You probably know browser cookies as the reason why you’ll Google something and then suddenly start seeing advertisements for it on your Instagram feed. More specifically, this spooky action is the work of third-party cookies – little bits of data… Read more
September 20, 2020
In early September, the American Academy of Pediatrics hosted a webinar on wildfire and smoke exposure in children, where leading pediatricians Dr. Stephanie Holm and Dr. Petra Steinbuchel discussed the physical and mental health risks of wildfire smoke to children…. Read more
August 21, 2020
A quick cheat sheet I threw together about things that I wanted to remember as I was taking a course on deep learning. Architectures Convolutional Networks Convolutional networks work by applying a filter or set of filters to input data…. Read more
April 18, 2020
I recently worked on a very exciting project with my friend Vedant Rautela. We were inspired by the question, “Where should one stay when one visits Boston?” When we visit a new city, we don’t know what to expect, but… Read more
April 15, 2020
This past semester, I have taken CY2550: Foundations of Cybersecurity, taught by Dr. Abhi Shelat. Throughout the course of the semester, I’ve transcribed my in-class scribbles to a cohesive outline of the major topics and takeaways from the course. I’ve… Read more