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- 04:05, 21 February 2025 The Palms (hist | edit) [797 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The apartment building Julie and I live in is called The Palms and this is its address: The Palms 555 4th Street San Francisco, CA 94107 There are quite a things specific to the building but they aren't stored anywhere so I decided to just put them here. == Unit Paint == These can be bought from [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sherwin-Williams+Commercial+Paint+Store/@37.7810236,-122.4048751,16.15z/data=!4m10!1m2!2m1!1sSherwin-Williams!3m6!1s0x8085807e1b0fea01:0x18...")
- 05:44, 20 February 2025 Blog/2025-02-19/Twitter Coincidences (hist | edit) [4,794 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "I had a pair of Twitter coincidences recently. The first was when I adamantly insisted to my friend Ben that I would waste all the food in Asia before I would risk food poisoning and then promptly getting food poisoning. The second was when I suggested a simple UI for disability insurance wage calculation and moments later was asked by Julie about why it was calculated for a certain period. == Food Poisoning == {{Tweet | name = Ben Podgursky | username = bpodgursky | t...")
- 02:02, 16 February 2025 Blog/2025-02-15/Fully Autonomous (hist | edit) [2,612 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Zoox Pilotless AV.png}}|thumb|It handled the intersection quite smoothly]] Today, on our way to Costco we saw a [https://zoox.com/vehicle Zoox AV]. It honestly looked pretty cool. If the government and unions don't get in the way, I anticipate that these AVs are going to revolutionize public transit. While the obvious thing is point-to-point transport, the ideal would be if we could add more fixed-route vehicles of this form. A mix of a larger min...")
- 21:40, 14 February 2025 Blog/2025-02-14/Deli Board (hist | edit) [1,188 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Tuesday, Julie and I went around town doing some chores and while walking about it struck us that we could stop at [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Deli+Board/@37.7775876,-122.4096388,16z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x80858083ba147b83:0x7f293054a3647a6!8m2!3d37.7775834!4d-122.4070585!16s%2Fg%2F1thlznzx?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDIxMS4wIKXMDSoJLDEwMjExNDUzSAFQAw%3D%3D Deli Board], which has enormous sandwiches that I feel have gotten a bit smaller over the years but which are...")
- 19:45, 14 February 2025 Blog/2025-02-14/Fertility Rate (hist | edit) [2,303 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Screenshot of Baby Opportunity Cost Visualization.png}}|thumb]] Everyone writes about the fertility rate crisis at some point. There are many theories as to why it occurs: chemicals, gender divides, doomer culture, and so on. My pet theory has been opportunity cost. A little while ago, [https://dianey.substack.com/p/the-fertility-rate-cant-be-fixed my friend Diane wrote about this same thing]. Now, the first thing to note is that the availability o...")
- 23:49, 13 February 2025 Blog/2025-02-13/Sarap Shop (hist | edit) [3,035 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "thumb Monday was Julie's first day of maternity leave so we thought we'd walk down the street and have lunch somewhere together. We originally intended to go to [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Oren's+Hummus/@37.7867343,-122.4047904,17z/data=!3m2!4b1!5s0x87a2e945c7399b23:0x80dc6c6198d144c2!4m6!3m5!1s0x808581af83ff6585:0x7662028ee4a721bb!8m2!3d37.7867301!4d-122.4022101!16s%2Fg%2F11f7n7ncqb?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1 Oren's Hum...")
- 02:15, 9 February 2025 Factional Colony Ecology (hist | edit) [5,532 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Initial post)
- 00:54, 8 February 2025 Blog/2025-02-07/A Confused Kolmogorov (hist | edit) [2,955 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "There's a classic blog post about Kolmogorov called [https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=3376 The Kolmogorov Option] about how, if you want to do Mathematics, it's better to shut up and not pick fights you cannot win. Fair enough, fair enough. I, personally, sympathize with this position. In India, it would have been unlikely for me to have stood up against ethnoreligious violence of any sort. I'd rather just hide from the Eye of Sauron. Fighting back was for braver men than m...")
- 20:34, 4 February 2025 Blog/2025-02-03/Romadan (hist | edit) [1,609 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Recently, I hit a new peak in my weight because I haven't been paying too much attention. After gorging myself in India and then again on my birthday, I reached the massive heights of 199.8 lbs as read on my bathroom scale. This sort of thing is pretty risky and I'm entering into Tirzepatide territory so I thought I should do something drastic. Now, a classic drastic fad diet is One Meal A Day, and that sort of reminds me of this festival the mum's side of my family has...")
- 03:54, 4 February 2025 Blog/2025-02-03/Intelligence Estimation (hist | edit) [4,978 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Tweet | name = Armand Domalewski | username = ArmandDoma | text = the weird thing is Elon is just like randomly ripping the wires out at USAID when he could hand Trump a list of programs to cut and the GOP could send a bill to his desk to cut them in a few days | date = Feb 2, 2025 | ID = 1886251770323841156 }} {{Tweet | name = Roshan George | username = arjie | replyto = ArmandDoma | text = There's a lot he's done in his life that I think makes no sense and yet it ha...")
- 00:31, 31 January 2025 Taleb's Ugly Surgeon (hist | edit) [3,769 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Initial)
- 23:55, 29 January 2025 Preparing for a Newborn (hist | edit) [11,128 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "These are the things we're doing to prepare for a newborn. This was made much more easier by the fact that we received an extraordinary number of things from our friends and family: * Anne and Charles gave us the majority of what we have * Isha and Rishabh offered us a large number of things, of which we took all that didn't overlap * Julie's sister Jaja and her husband John gave us a bunch * Many of her coworkers and our friends bought us things from our [https://www.b...")
- 19:55, 29 January 2025 Ergopathy (hist | edit) [285 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Ergopathy, unlike pseudo-sciences like osteopathic medicine, is a board-certified and managed discipline of science.")
- 19:55, 29 January 2025 Board of Ergopathy (hist | edit) [151 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The board of ergopathy currently consists of: * Roshan George - Founder and President of the Board of Ergopathy")
- 22:17, 28 January 2025 List of Bad Product Names (hist | edit) [1,854 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "This is a list of bad product names and renames. == Google Cloud == {{Tweet | username = ThomasOrTK | name = Thomas Kurian | text = We’re announcing Duet AI for Google Workspace will now be Gemini for Google Workspace. Consumers and organizations of all sizes can access Gemini across the Workspace apps they know and love. We’re introducing a new offering called Gemini Business, which lets organizations use generative AI in Workspace at a lower price point than...")
- 21:46, 28 January 2025 Global Entry (hist | edit) [4,085 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "If you travel internationally a lot, [https://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-traveler-programs/global-entry Global Entry] is totally worth it. Most travel-oriented credit cards offer credit every few years for the application cost of $120 and you get rapid entry to the US and [https://www.tsa.gov/precheck TSA Precheck] which lets you keep your laptops in your bags and so on. == As an Indian == This is particularly beneficial if you are an Indian passport holder, since thi...")
- 21:28, 16 January 2025 Blog/2025-01-16/Superheap (hist | edit) [5,001 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Superheap Bloomberg RSS Feed Example.png}}|thumb|Overall, not too bad]]When friends got on Substack, one of the things that annoyed me is that it doesn't have an RSS feed. This is completely untrue. It does have an RSS feed, it's just that my friend [https://porterwestling.substack.com/ Porter] had chosen the Twitter-like version of Substack instead. But I didn't realize this and decided that I'd prefer if I received this stuff as an RSS feed anywa...")
- 21:47, 15 January 2025 Blog/2025-01-15/Spatial-Textual Memory (hist | edit) [6,952 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/11/sweden-says-back-to-basics-schooling-works-on-paper A recent bit of news has Sweden switch off computers for studying and homework to paper]. The usual criticism of computer homework and studying is: * Eye-strain from backlit displays * Trouble with focusing on a general-purpose device with recreation tools built-in These are legitimate concerns, for sure, but one thing that I've found interesting in my current use of e-re...")
- 22:47, 14 January 2025 Blog/2025-01-14/Hives 2.0 (hist | edit) [3,521 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Roshan With Hives Again.jpg}}|thumb|left|Older, heavier, hivier]] Shreyas and Karen had their final wedding on Jan 13. I was there, and apparently so was some fateful dish that I would consume. Interestingly, the last time I got hives was exactly 6 months ago to the day, and on that occasion it was the week before ''my'' wedding. In any case, since this time I don't have any strict constraints on my life, I decided to exp...")
- 21:22, 9 January 2025 Blog/2025-01-09/California Wildfires (hist | edit) [539 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Los Angeles from the Hollywood Hills during the Jan 2025 Sunset Fire.png}}|frame|center]] Yesterday, my cousin sent me this photo of the hellish view you get of LA during these latest wildfires. They've had to evacuate South out of the Hollywood Hills because of the fires.")
- 20:30, 9 January 2025 Blog/2025-01-08/Chinatown Block Party (hist | edit) [759 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Chinatown Night Market - Jan 2025 - Zhu.jpg}}|thumb|frame]] San Francisco has been organizing these street market events recently. We've been to a couple of them, most recently First Thursdays on 2nd Street, and now this the Chinatown Night Market on Wednesday, Jan 8. First Thursdays tend to be quite expensive, with food costing between $15 and $25, and sometimes more. But Chinatown delivered as usual with almost everything costing $5. File:Chin...")
- 20:11, 9 January 2025 Suffering Theology (hist | edit) [542 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Suffering Theology is the belief that increased suffering comes with increased future reward. It is a cargo cult converse of "No pain, no gain". It is likely adaptive under some circumstances since people with this belief are likely to persevere through temporary adversity to reach prosperity. It is likely maladaptive in the form where people wikipedia:Goodhart's Law|intentionally inflict suffering on themselv...")
- 19:51, 6 January 2025 Blog/2025-01-06/Athene OS (hist | edit) [4,979 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Athene-os-indigo.jpg}}|thumb|left]] Back in the day, I was the kind of teen common in the late '90s / early millennium who installed a bunch of Linux distros and looked at all the configuration options in all the menus available there. Apart from the usual drama of deleting one's parents' presentations without backups and so on, I did manage to try a bunch of fun things which history has now forgotten. Back in the day there was this operating syst...")
- 05:35, 6 January 2025 Blog/2025-01-05/Mahjong Spreadsheets (hist | edit) [1,848 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Screenshot - Mahjong Scoring Sheet.png}}|thumb|As you can see, I'm not doing too well on this particular game. It's still only East Wind prevalent, though. Lots of time. Lots of time.]] My friends and I play Mahjong quite often. We use [http://mahjong.wikidot.com/rules:chinese-official-scoring these rules for scoring] but the annoying part with using chips is that you always have to do the math and pass them around and avoid knocking them and stuf...") originally created as "Blog/2024-01-05/Mahjong Spreadsheets"
- 22:18, 4 January 2025 Blog/2025-01-04/Cheerful Is Spooky (hist | edit) [3,180 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A fun thing about how cultures evolve is that as you age, you get to see the changes happen, and sometimes you can tie it to specific artistic choices that your own generation made. It sometimes makes me think about our own stereotypes that are perhaps accidental results of the previous generation attempting subversion. {{Tweet | name = erm | username = plumjae | text = I was in an Uber share today and a song came on that had the most sinister vibes ever and all three o...")
- 21:56, 4 January 2025 Blog/2025-01-04/Emperor Norton Not Forgotten (hist | edit) [659 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Emperor Norton Reborn.png}}|thumb|Pretty good impression]]I dropped Julie off at lunch with her girlfriends and was driving to the dry cleaner's when I spotted this chap leading a tour group. I'm a huge fan of people who're doing bits, so I went up and said hello and it turns out he's reprising the role of Emperor Norton, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico. He's got these tour groups going on around th...")
- 23:48, 3 January 2025 Blog/2025-01-03/First Past The Post (hist | edit) [1,935 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "One of the interesting thing about state proportional representation systems with first-past-the-post is that you ideally want to get as many people as you can into your state, ''including members of opposition parties''. That is, if Californian Democrats had a ruthless pursuit of power they would want as many Republicans as possible to come to the state. This is because California's number of seats in the House of Representatives is determined by its population. Simulta...")
- 01:34, 3 January 2025 Blog/2025-01-02/Politics in the New Year (hist | edit) [2,240 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Tweet | name = Bernie Sanders | username = sensanders | text = Elon Musk is wrong. The main function of the H-1B visa program is not to hire “the best and the brightest,” but rather to replace good-paying American jobs with low-wage indentured servants from abroad. The cheaper the labor they hire, the more money the billionaires make. | date = Jan 2, 2025 | ID = 1874918027982172626 }} When I talked about politics before the election...")
- 21:44, 2 January 2025 LLM Conversational Level (hist | edit) [2,318 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The LLM Conversational Level (LCL) of a piece of text is the size of the smallest general-purpose LLM that can correctly decode the writer's intention in the text, given that mainstream larger LLMs also concur in the meaning. Texts where the writer's intention has changed or where the writer's intention cannot be decoded by any LLM have an undefined LCL. Conversationally, the LCL of an individual is bounded above by the LCL of a text that that individual cannot deco...")
- 18:42, 1 January 2025 Blog/2024-12-31/End of the Year (hist | edit) [17,286 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "This has been quite the year for us. == January == Julie and I spent New Year's Day last year in Torres Del Paine, hiking up to Mirado Britanico and then to Refugio Paine Grande - the mountain lodge. thumb|center|I rushed Julie to this point saying that we needed to get there before the trail closed. Fact: there was no one to close it We use to live just off 4th Street in San Francisco's SOMA district. The building we w...")
- 20:54, 23 December 2024 Vande Bharat (hist | edit) [7,777 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Recently, I visited India for my friend Shreyas's wedding in Bangalore. And then I wanted to go visit my parents in Chennai, which was a good opportunity to take India's newest superfast train: Vande Bharat. thumb|center I took the Mysore-Chennai route from Bangalore to Chennai and it was quite pleasant, but I'd gotten it into my head that this was going to be like East Asian or British trains and it's not that. I have a po...")
- 21:13, 22 December 2024 Blog/2024-12-22/Class Action Settlements (hist | edit) [1,465 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "thumb|This is the best way to receive money - electronic, immediately usable Because my data is out there on the Internet everywhere, I often get notification of class action settlements. It's usually pretty easy to check if they're real and then submit one's information. The easiest ones arrive as Venmo money. The funny thing about the whole thing is that I even do this stuff because it's never a lot of money. Still, it...")
- 19:04, 21 December 2024 Anti Pigeonhole Principle (hist | edit) [870 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The Anti Pigeonhole Principle is that if there are <math>n \in \mathbb{N}</math> pigeons and <math>m \in \mathbb{M}</math> pigeonholes such that <math>n < m</math> then there must be some pigeonholes that are empty. For sets <math>A</math> and <math>B</math> and function <math>f: A \to B</math> with <math>|A| = n ; |B| = m</math> where <math>n < m</math>, then <math>\exists b \in B</math> such that <math>|f^{-1}({b})| = 0</math>. Also, see wikipedia:Pigeonhole pr...")
- 00:52, 28 November 2024 Blog/2024-11-27/LA Koreatown (hist | edit) [2,867 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Jun Won Dak - Indoors.jpg}}|thumb|Charming little place with 4 seats]] We're in Hollywood, Los Angeles for Thanksgiving with my cousin and decided to go to Koreatown for lunch since there isn't anything like this up in San Francisco. We walked about a little and ended up at this place Jun Won Dak, which turned out to be a small 4-person version of a bigger restaurant called Jun Won that had to close due to pandemic restrictions preventing patrons...")
- 21:46, 26 November 2024 Benevolent Terrorist (hist | edit) [4,700 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Many societies cannot do things because they are trying to preserve what came before. For anyone who has played video games or run a business, they know that things often have not just a capital cost but also an operational cost. Societies are the same: over time they accumulate many things that add operational costs. Often, these things cannot be removed despite their costs because doing so is not politically palatable. A Benevolent Terrorist serves such societies...")
- 04:18, 24 November 2024 Samsung S90C (hist | edit) [599 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Trouble Staying Logged In == Samsung TVs have a problem with email addresses that have a `+` sign in them. If you do that with your Samsung account then you won't be able to stay logged into your streaming service logins since your Samsung account is how your TV stores the login state (I know, crazy). This also makes Airplay unusable for things like streaming Youtube since the way to use accounts is to keep hitting the button over and over again until it suddenly lo...")
- 00:25, 21 November 2024 Blog/2024-11-20/What Stopped Me (hist | edit) [3,110 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "People often say that something or someone forced them to stop doing things. In tech, this is often because someone made fun of them not knowing something and so on and so forth. For me, I've never quit doing something because of that. I have sewn, fenced, shot a bow and arrow, rode a motorcycle, skated, wrote code, danced, and so on and loads of these things involve looking foolish to many people. And to be honest, I'd always wonder why someone "quit programming because...")
- 01:03, 19 November 2024 Legibility Is Immortality (hist | edit) [2,389 bytes] Roshan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "There are things that form the backbone of anglophone historical knowledge: the World Wars (particularly the Western Front), the Roman Empire, Jesus Christ, the Pyramids. The primary thing which these things share is English language legibility. Important works have been translated into or written in English and rendered into an accessible style. This alone determines whether they're remembered forever, or consigned to some dedicated historians record. Perhaps the most...")
