Musings

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• Maintenance is Underestimated
  Published on October 31, 2024
  Tags: musings
• Come As You Are
  Published on August 9, 2024
  Tags: academia, musings
• Underestimating Users
  Published on August 6, 2024 (last updated on August 9, 2024)
  Tags: academia, research, musings
• I Don’t Understand AI Alignment
  Published on July 5, 2024 (last updated on July 6, 2024)
  Tags: academia, musings
• Thoughts about my Research Philosophy
  Published on June 11, 2024
  Tags: research, musings
• What I Use
  Published on May 26, 2024
  Tags: musings
• The Monoculture of Machine Learning
  Published on April 29, 2024
  Tags: academia, research, musings
• Doing ML Research: Gates Open, Come on In!
  Published on March 6, 2024 (last updated on March 18, 2024)
  Tags: academia, research, musings
• There Are Probably No Silver Bullets
  Published on February 21, 2024 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: academia, research, musings
• Tools for Decreasing Your Productivity
  Published on February 20, 2024 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: academia, research, musings
• Misinformation Does Not Need Large Language Models
  Published on February 13, 2024 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: research, musings
• 2023 in Numbers
  Published on January 11, 2024 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: news, musings
• Quality First and Other Advice
  Published on December 25, 2023 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: academia, musings
• Riding the Storm Out
  Published on December 13, 2023 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings
• Contra Posturing
  Published on November 5, 2023 (last updated on September 11, 2024)
  Tags: musings
• Chesterton’s Invisible Fences
  Published on September 17, 2023 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: academia, musings
• The Great Desolation: Thoughts on Mastodon and BlueSky
  Published on August 24, 2023 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings
• The Missing Screwtape Letters from Academia
  Published on August 20, 2023 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings, academia
• Most AI Interactions are Like Junk Food
  Published on July 14, 2023 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: research, musings
• Why Write?
  Published on June 17, 2023 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: academia, research, musings
• How to Write a Scientific Paper
  Published on May 27, 2023 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: academia, research, musings
• Inhale and Exhale Days
  Published on April 23, 2023 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: academia, musings, programming
• Human in the Gaps: Thriving in the New AI Age
  Published on April 16, 2023 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: research, musings
• Reducing Ambiguity
  Published on April 1, 2023 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: academia, musings
• The Great Deprival
  Published on March 23, 2023 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings, software
• Rewiewing is a Contract
  Published on March 12, 2023 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: academia, musings
• Open Peer Review Considered Harmful?
  Published on February 12, 2023 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: academia, musings
• Musings on Mobility: The Ping from Hell
  Published on February 1, 2023 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings
• Stuck in the Past? Scaling up Academia
  Published on January 21, 2023 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: academia, musings
• Web of Science: A Web of Nonsense
  Published on January 14, 2023 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings, academia
• No Comments
  Published on January 7, 2023 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings
• Apparent Complexity Can Be Deceptive
  Published on January 1, 2023 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: academia, musings
• The Machine Learning Scientist as Toolsmith: Remembering Fred Brooks
  Published on December 29, 2022 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: academia, musings, research
• Reluctant Philosopher Kings? Leadership in Academia
  Published on December 15, 2022 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: academia, musings
• We Are All Nerds: The Literary Works of Neal Stephenson
  Published on August 27, 2022 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings
• Put it on the Crazy Pile: Ideas and Creativity
  Published on August 20, 2022 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: academia, musings
• A Sustainable Pace Gets You to the Finish Line
  Published on July 30, 2022 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings, academia
• Open Source and Academia
  Published on July 2, 2022 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: academia, musings
• In Defence of the Boring Web
  Published on January 30, 2022 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings
• My Experience with Lenovo Premier Support
  Published on January 27, 2022 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: software, musings
• T-Shaped People and Academia
  Published on January 8, 2022 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: academia, musings
• Things You Are Allowed To Do, Academic Edition
  Published on November 13, 2021 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: academia, musings, research
• Rejections, Resilience, and Rejoicing: Getting a Tenure-Track Position
  Published on September 19, 2021 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings, academia
• Absurdest Academia (A ‘Darkest Dungeon’ Parody)
  Published on August 21, 2021 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: academia, musings, research
• A Brief Analysis of My Review Scores
  Published on August 8, 2021 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: research, musings
• Societal Donatism
  Published on April 11, 2021 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings
• Carthusian Citation Credits
  Published on March 28, 2021
  Tags: academia, musings, research
• Taming the E-Mail Avalanche
  Published on February 13, 2021 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings
• Developing and Maintaining Gratitude
  Published on January 3, 2021 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings
• How to improve your mathematical writing
  Published on November 14, 2020 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings, research
• On Being a Postdoctoral Researcher
  Published on November 2, 2020 (last updated on September 18, 2024)
  Tags: musings, research
• Minimum elucidating examples
  Published on September 28, 2020
  Tags: musings, research
• Why your academic code needs a software licence
  Published on August 1, 2020 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: programming, musings, research
• The meddling middlemen of academia
  Published on July 12, 2020 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: academia, musings, research
• The Power of Admitting Ignorance
  Published on May 1, 2020 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings, research
• Keeping a Bibliography
  Published on March 22, 2020 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings, research
• Delayed gratification and gratitude
  Published on March 9, 2020 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings, research
• Getting started with a Ph.D.
  Published on March 4, 2020 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings, research
• A Method(ology) to the Madness
  Published on February 15, 2020 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings, research
• Machine Learning Needs a Langlands Programme
  Published on January 19, 2020 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings, research
• The Power of Defaults
  Published on January 12, 2020 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings, research
• The Misunderstood Stoic
  Published on December 23, 2019 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings
• Ideas and Creativity
  Published on November 17, 2019
  Tags: musings, research
• On Writing Reviews
  Published on October 20, 2019 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings, research
• A vademecum for those that are new to machine learning
  Published on September 29, 2019 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings, research
• Why every academic should have a personal website
  Published on August 11, 2019 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings
• I dislike the new web
  Published on June 23, 2019 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings
• Maintaining your mental health in academia
  Published on April 7, 2019 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: howtos, musings, research
• On writing
  Published on March 16, 2019 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: howtos, musings, research
• A Mathematician’s Utility
  Published on January 5, 2019 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings, research
• Ten noteworthy books I read in 2015
  Published on December 31, 2015 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings
• Some leaky abstractions in C++11
  Published on November 6, 2015 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: programming, musings
• Why I love compilers
  Published on October 8, 2015 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: programming, musings
• keybase.io
  Published on July 28, 2015
  Tags: news, musings
• Some Thoughts on Giving a Good Talk About Your Research
  Published on May 31, 2015 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings, research
• Explaining the need for privacy
  Published on April 12, 2015 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings
• A brief critique of the singleton pattern
  Published on August 24, 2014 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: programming, musings
• Why the Heartbleed Bug does not invalidate the spirit of open source
  Published on April 18, 2014 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: security, musings, software
• Crypto smells
  Published on January 3, 2014 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: security, musings
• Prove, don’t claim
  Published on November 9, 2013 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings, security
• Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2013: Codebreaker
  Published on September 23, 2013 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings
• The wrong tool
  Published on September 10, 2013 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: koans, programming, musings
• Why E-Mail made in Germany is a farce
  Published on August 11, 2013 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: security, musings
• Jabber is the new ICQ
  Published on July 7, 2009 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings, security
• Web 2.0 mortuus est, vivat Web 3.14159…
  Published on March 30, 2009 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings
• Promoting Privacy
  Published on July 12, 2007 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: musings, security
• Using LaTeX code with Instant Messengers
  Published on May 12, 2006 (last updated on February 28, 2024)
  Tags: freebsd, software, musings