For most of history, superstition and mythical beliefs flourished to work as a placeholder for the unknown causes in the cause-effect game. All unknown phenomena and events were attributed to actions of mythical creatures and deities. A lot of stories were told around these events: extreme weather, earthquakes, eclipses, etc. However there was always this… Read More »The Unknown Knowns
Once in a conversation with some friends, They asked me the existential question: what do you do anyway? Now I have a lot of cached canned responses that I use depending on the situation, time constraints and audience interest. The short answer is that I work in IT support. A longer version ponders on the… Read More »IT and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
I was once watching a video course about Convex Optimization, and the lecturer said something very interesting. He said that “there will come a time in your life when you realize that everything is an optimization problem, the question is when do you realize it? in early college years? or later in life?”. I still… Read More »Everything is an Optimization Problem, Isn’t It?