Debugging Epohul

almost forgot how fun this is

2026 QNS Summer School A hands-on, interdisciplinary summer experience in Quantum and Nano Science at the Center for Quantum Nanoscience (QNS), Seoul. The submission deadline is 11 January 2026. link

Is there someone here who had to renew their passport in Ethiopia? I would like to hear what you did and your experiences?

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on my way to play with expert players after watching The Queen's Gambit and learning chess on duolingo for a week

Figure 2.1 relative comparison of mental state in a month although seeing my calendar and confirming the impending doom feeling is just hormones having play time is oddly comforting

It applies to other conference too, it could help you much if you are going to attend AI/ML conferences How to attend an ML conference the right way: ahead of NeurIPS 2025 (30k attendees!) here are ten pro tips: 1. Your main goals: (i) meet people (ii) regain excitement about work (iii) learn things – in that order. 2. Make a list of papers you like and seek them out at poster sessions. Try to talk to the authors– you can learn much more from them than from a PDF. 3. Pick one workshop and one tutorial that sounds most interesting. Skip the rest. 4. Cold email people you want to meet but haven't. Check Twitter and the accepted papers list. PhD students are especially responsive. 5. Practice a concise pitch of unpublished research you're working on for "what are you interested in rn?". Focus on unanswered questions and exciting directions, *not* papers. 6. Skip the orals. Posters are a higher-bandwidth, more engaging, more invigorating. Orals are a good time to go for a walk or talk in the hallway. 7. Do NOT work on other research in your hotel room. Save mental bandwidth for the conference. (This may seem obvious; you'd be surprised.) 8. Talk to people outside your area. There are many smart people working on niches <10 people understand. Learn about one or two that won't help your own work. 9. Attend one social each night. Don't overthink it or get caught up in status games. They're all fun. 10. Take breaks. You can't go to everything, and conferences consume more energy than a normal workweek Source

applies to email, phone calls, texts....

when the meal isn't good and I can't blame someone else cause I made it

quality family time 🤝 watching them like a livestream show

using my privilege of looking like a man to walk around my neighbourhood at night

learning about the coffee industry made me appreciate software engineering more. the other thing is I'm bit more patriotic cause I think Ethiopian coffee is the best (tasted Colombia, Switzerland..) (also I am a tea person)

the concert is soon guys

eh

having Giveon's playlist as a background slowly turns into karaoke night (the drawing app crashed 5+ times hence the one leg....i tried)

I used to love his livestream study sessions back in 2020-ish Recently I found him on my feed and I thought what if we do that here too cause I want to make a structured time for learning.

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