Context

Sustaining the habit of writing is incredibly hard and something I’ve recognized is quite challenging to sustain. I really like looking at my notes and keeping my mechanical part of my brain active to ensure my recall capacity is fully functional. Although it seems pointless to other, I’ve always considered my daily notes as a great source of comfort because I know there is one place I can reliably go and fetch information that I’ve come across when I’m tinkering something random. That said, why do this publicly, well after observing a lot of people give me raised eyebrows when they look at my obsidian notes coupled with the fact that I’ve been recommended to have my notes made public, I gave into the idea that there is some public utility to my notes. But I guess more importantly, there is greater benefit for me to fetch important information when needed/required immediately (+1 if its on the web).

Be kind to yourself and your ideas

Writing and reading are intertwined with one another and any person who just likes one, without seeing and reciprocating the other is selfish to some degree. Also, I’ve always waited for a perfect opportunity to release my blogs because part of me always was fascinated reading blogs from Lilian, Chris Olah, and last but not least Gwern. And if you know something about these people, you do realize they have an elevated sense of taste, opinion, presentation of material that makes it so satisfying to read. Equally, you know you are reading some quality material.

But everyone is different i guess, so I personally felt I shouldn’t stop myself from documenting moments of honest reflection, learning, knowledge sharing from my personal journey just because they aren’t complete or polished. I know it is a classic case of mimicking ideal behaviour, but I honestly grew out of this facade. To that extent, as much as this statement is for myself, it is also to you to rememember to be kind to yourself, your ideas and publish that damn blog.

I don’t like living on the edge, but disabling spell check and grammar checks and writing this in vim/obsidian is giving me tingly sensations.

Labeling matters; sometimes

The meta connection between a $\textit{label}$ and its perceived meaning plays a dominant role in how we give stimulus. Considering these writings/scribes as $\textit{notes}$ made me rewire or reconsider the effort I would potentially put in to write and push the material out compare to $\textit{blogs}$. So, labeling matters I guess, or at the very least it is a compelling enough reason for me to write more often.

I sometimes wonder if being verbose is a feature/bug of spending more time in school.

Introducing “notes”

Well, if you’ve skipped the above part and want a TLDR version of this page, this section is your friend. I plan to push a personal conversational style written vlogs that are messy, dense, all over the place compared to the perfect blogs because these “notes” allow me to incrementally explore the progression of an idea over a set of topics that are personally fascinating to me when it comes to science, math, and programming. So, say hi to notes

I rm -rf blog/*, so you’re never going to find them anytime soon. :)