Web Hacker
I spent friday at the new england networks and systems day in Boston. It was surprisingly doable to get up to Boston, something I hadn’t really processed living on the west coast. It was also great to see a bunch of people in the community that I don’t get to see very often.
Walked from brooklyn back to manhattan yesterday evening. It was great to chat with Justin Cappos, a professor at NYU Poly who was previously at UW. It’s valuable to get glimpses into other schools, and to start getting a sense of how phd work transitions in academia.
I’m living in New York this fall. It has been nice to begin to hit a routine here, although there are still plenty of places to optimize. My only other previous big city experience was in Beijing, and NYC is different in many ways, but has much of the same raw energy and constant bustling… Continue reading New York
Now that I have a non-biking commute I’m excited to start reading more. I’m not sure I buy into the whole good-reads thing that Amazon is pushing on me, but the kindle form factor is nice in that it’s small enough to fit in my back pocket and pull out on the subway. Also interesting,… Continue reading kindle
The GitHub offices are pretty impressive.
I completed the Generals requirements at UW today, and have advanced to a doctoral candidate.
