Writings
How to start cooking [in college]
8/13/25
Why Cook • Which Tools • Where Ingredients • What Ingredients • How to Cook
Algorithms notes
7/16/25
Two Pointer • Sliding Window • Prefix Sum • Binary Search • Fast and Slow Pointers • Topological Sort • Backtracking • Dynamic Programming • Built-In
Data structures notes
7/16/25
List • Priority Queue • Tree • Binary Tree • Heap • Binary Heap • Segment Tree • Union Find • Built-In
Outlive notes
5/29/25
Longevity • Diabetes • Heart Disease • Cancer • Alzheimer's • Exercise • Nutrition • Sleep • Mental Health
Spring 2025 reflection
2/25/25
Sophomore year of college, spring semester. The weather is snowy but quite good. Updated 2/18/25.
Winter 2024 reflection
12/25/24
Sophomore year of college, winter break. The weather is great. Updated 12/25/24 from my home in California.
Fall 2024 post-mortem
12/24/24
Sophomore year of college, fall semester. Post-mortem. Updated 12/24/24.
Summer 2024 reflection
7/28/24
Freshman year of college, summer season. Updated 7/28/24 from my sublet at Brown University.
Everyday recipes
7/11/24
Fried Eggs • Omelets • Egg-Fried Rice • Garlic Noodles • Boiled Bok Choy • Sautéed Onions • Sautéed Chicken Livers • Baked Salmon • Protein Bars
How to run Dance Dance Revolution on MacOS
7/11/24
The Situation • StepMania • Project OutFox • Enjoyable
Something like a deep disinterest in intelligence
3/25/24
This semester I took a course in Deep Learning. My friend—a former TA, and now a PhD candidate at Yale—had told me that deep learning was state-of-the-art, and that if I was only going to pick one AI course, it should be deep learning.
The stories we do not tell ourselves
7/24/23
Rarely does it happen that who we are is who we want to "be." The act of "being" takes effort. We have a tendency to warp under stress...
The stories we tell ourselves
7/23/23
Part of it was that I was bad at English, part of it was that I had bad hearing, and part of it was that I just didn't pay attention to the teacher.
Personal websites
7/1/23
This is a list of personal websites I follow. Some from friends, some from strangers.
College admissions
5/23/23
Stress • Regrets • Advice? • Application • Essays • College Lists • Actually Researching the College