A California road trip with Hertz 24/7: good prices and new cars, but the management system is buggy—reservations cancel randomly, charges appear incorrectly, and you must remember to manually end your trip.
C++ or MATLAB for research?
Compares C#/C++ and MATLAB for research work, arguing MATLAB is better suited for rapid prototyping while compiled languages excel at building production systems.
Inspiration Fragments
Career insights: presentation skills matter as much as technical work, impact beats paper count, mindfulness boosts productivity, and reuse code with unit tests to debug less.
Sending Emails from Cygwin
Quick tutorial on configuring exim and email packages in Cygwin to send emails from Windows command line via SMTP server without authentication.
From "time management" to "write down what you need to do"
Reflects on simplifying time management from complex Emacs org-mode systems to pen-and-paper todo lists, finding that simpler tools lead to better focus and clearer thinking.