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github, youtube posts, for my hobby have small visibility. Doesn't matter. I enjoy the project for fun of creating and building.

Open source hybrid piano. Been a very part-time hobby for several years.

I put this on the back of my phone after completing my PhD. "in the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few" - Shunryu Suzuki

Great quotes! I had an EE graduate degree (systems, dsp, control...) and returned to school for a physical chemistry graduate degree. Initially was nervous about my first QM class …

And something else for any future intelligent species: Today, fossils are dug up and flown around the world to museums etc. We publish but if that storage doesn't last or is undeci…

Its interesting to see the influence of Debussy through time. For example the wonderful work of Bill Evans.

This might be a stupid question, but, airplanes are computerized, can they be programmed such-that they simply won't fly into buildings, cities, restricted airspace, etc..

My team at work. We are racing to an important deadline. Everyone is working well together. Its just fun.

And given the possibility some interviewers experiencing their own imposter syndrome, around being qualified to assess qualifications, perhaps that could explain some of the questi…

"naming is the origin of all particular things" - Tao Te Ching. That quote, first page, stopped me in my tracks for a long time. I often recall it when I'm tempted by the naming (c…

Yeah, my first exited to $0 as well.

With you there. My '68 Camaro, small-block, and requisite Muncie 4-speed. Can't imagine it any other way.

Yeah, back then we would spend massive amount of time hanging around with friends, with few distractions. Cruising was popular, confined to one block, and lots of people, because i…

I wonder if mid-30's could be a point of going either direction? At 34 I discovered a career passion around serving others, whereas previously the orientation was mostly toward mys…

"There is a duality between zero and infinity, expressed in the elementary identity 1/0 = ∞ . If one side of the duality does not occur in nature, also the other side ought not to.…

My company has a tuition assistance program that allowed me to complete an MS and PhD, while working full-time. Took 10 years. Loved it! And, it wasn't just the money that helped, …

I enjoy combining piano and computer programming and have so many musical composition and animation ideas but they are all fragments of completion. For the past year I've been tryi…

I learned to program on my own then studied EE and hard sciences in school. Figured I already knew everything about programming. Hubris of my youth. I'd have taken more CS courses …

I worked as an engineer at a startup early in my career (looong time ago). Company went under, stock => $0. However, I am extremely grateful for that time. It taught me a wide rang…

I have the book the author of that article wrote (The Birth of Insight: Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw). Its an interesting book. Historical perspec…

Mindfulness style meditation without any goals or objectives, no clock or apps. No expectations. Just the beauty of it. For me, that has been most consistent with the nature of the…

Yes. And, When I was younger, I would over-train, recover quickly, repeat (I run, weight train, cycle). Now, I don't heal so fast. Instead, I try to maximize my strength and fitnes…