Miscellaneous
Interests
I used to write about space for Supercluster. SpaceX drew me back into space after the Shuttle retired.
I play tennis competitively (NTRP 4.5) and lift weights. I also love running on trails and hiking. I've been told I'm a good cook (Italian and Indian) when I have the time.
Asimov's Foundation and Robot series had the biggest impact on me. They're a large part of why I work on AI, and why I care about understanding intelligence, natural and artificial.
Books
I'm an avid reader. Here's a list of books that moved me in some significant way.
- Elon Musk
- Life 3.0
- Elon Musk
- Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
- Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age
- The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West
- Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
- The Nvidia Way
- Focus: The ASML Way
- Steve Jobs
- The Case for Mars
- The New World on Mars
- The Case for Space
- Empire of AI
- The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence
- The Martian
- Artemis
- Project Hail Mary
- The Foundation seriesPrelude to Foundation, Forward the Foundation, Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation, Foundation's Edge, Foundation and Earth
- The Robot seriesI, Robot, The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, The Robots of Dawn, Robots and Empire
- The Red Rising trilogyRed Rising, Golden Sun, Morning Star
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Red Mars
Game of Life
Conway's cellular automaton. Draw cells or load a preset, then watch them evolve.
Generation: 0
Population: 0
Ready
Click or drag to draw (even while running). Keyboard: Space play/pause, N step, C clear, R random.