Essays on robotics, startups, artwork.
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Vibe doodling
As a kid, I spent a lot of time doodling in my notebooks. I imagine myself scribling away in class when I should have been taking notes. This may seem frivolous, but I recently made the connection between these squiggles and the Dutch notion of niksen, which translates to doing nothing. It’s different from meditation,…
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Office layouts
The first office I got to lay out was a robotics lab in grad school. We had a sandbox, a climbing wall, and a tree for robots to climb. One wall was entirely for tiny drawers with electrical and mechanical components. It was also right next to the machine shop. Oh yeah, there were some…
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How to leave your company
as a good leader and set the remaining team up for success Research has shown that the way you recall memory is 50% determined by the peak intense point and 50% is determined by the ending [1]. So you might as well get the ending of your tenure at a company right. And let folk…
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Running for the cure
I’ve run a half marathon before. During this shelter in place directive, it seems like now is as good a time as any to go for that full marathon. I’m thinking to run a half marathon this quarter and aim for a full marathon by end of Q3 and establish a route through the trails…
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A machine learning based clock
I wanted to gain more understanding of machine learning. I learn best by doing and also find that I can fool myself (and others) into thinking I know something by reading a book and watching a couple videos. But until I implement something myself, I don’t really know it. As Richard Feynman said: “what I…
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Next chapter for Jimmy and Transcriptic/Strateos
We started Strateos (formerly Transcriptic) as outsiders to the industry with little experience but enough chutzpah (aka ignorance) to think we could make biology easier to engineer. We charged a whopping $100 for our first run of growth curves to a class of undergraduates at Stanford. I was enamored by the science being executed at…
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Reflecting on how much easier it is to take a panorama compared to 10 years ago
This photo was taken circa 2007 in Philadelphia, PA. Back then digital photography was still becoming popular and panoramas weren’t as easy as a rotating your phone. This is a combination of HDR (blending 3 photos with 3 different exposures taken from the same position) and panaroma (stitching together photos from 10 different positions) for…
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Robot sketches
Ink and copic marker.
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Landscape sketches
Ink and copic marker.
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Random Walkers
Try the interactive version yourself.
Got any book recommendations?