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2/1/2025: Grinding Algorithms and Operating Systems

My goal for this February is to read through Skiena's book and CSAPP. I downloaded Knuth's TAOCP, and may take a peruse. This week I'll go through a first pass of Skiena.

Math

Books I'm reading


Testing out Moonray... Dreamworks ray-tracing renderer

I've loved the How To Train Your Dragon series, and have marvelled at the stunning way light was incorporated into the movies (see Toothless in Cave). I've been interested in how animation pipelines work. One of the benefits of Moonray is that it is fast, and can scale across networked hardware for interactive rendering.

Exploring the animation pipeline

USD, Hydra, etc...


Projects

Realtime billionaire wealth tracker

A website that helps visualize the wealth of the elite: whoisricher.com

Atmospheric Ion Propulsion on Venus

Ion propulsion is a widely used technology in space travel. NASA uses Xenon in its aircraft

Acoustic Pressure physics engine

MEEP simulations - evolutionary antenna design

Automatically generated AMVs

Parametric speaker

Ash - custom LLM


Book Reviews

Landau: Mechanics

I am starting my journey to complete Landau's "theoretical minimum" in the hopes of making sure I have sufficient breadth of knowlege to start physics research and start applying to grad schools. I plan to go through this book rather quickly (~2 weeks) as I have a good grasp of mechanics, but I wish to be thorough (that is, do every problem in the book).

Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

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Spinning tops - Michele Audin

Building Embedded Systems - Changyi Gu

Startup Boards - Brad Feld

Venture Deals - Brad Feld

Mastering embedded linux programming - Vasquez, Simmonds

Mastering STM32 - Noviello


Thoughts

Innovation Culture

How companies kill their innovation


Drawings

Goal is to draw every day in 2025!

11/8/24


Languages I want to learn

Hindi

Japanese

Spanish

French