[EDIT 2018/03/05: This description seems significantly less accurate to me now than it did a few years ago, both because my views/values have changed substantially, and because SPARC has changed direction substantially since I attended as a junior counselor in 2015. I'll leave it here as a reference, but should be taken with a grain… Continue reading Things SPARC
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Conversations
I've recently come to believe that "deep conversations" are overrated. Here is why. Memory Human short term memory is pretty crummy. Here is an illustration from linguistics: A man that a woman that a child that a bird that I heard saw knows loves This is a well-formed English phrase. And yet parsing it is… Continue reading Conversations
Email, JetPack, and Wintermelon
So I guess I can resume blogging now, seeing that I'm done with college applications (at last!). I'm not sure what I plan to blog about in general, but I figured I might as well put this domain name to good use :) I also realized that writing things out helped me clarify my thinking… Continue reading Email, JetPack, and Wintermelon
Power Overwhelming 