Download what-remains.mp3 When I wake up, wash my face, and make myself a hot drink, I feel energized and ready to work. Engineering is the one profession I've ever wanted, and there's always the thrill of designing systems, building, testing, fixing, solving problems. My professional work (my logical brain ) is exactly what my emotional brain enjoys doing, and that's one of the lotteries I feel…
Download Humility-Horizon.mp3 For as long as I can remember, we’ve been bombarded with advice to stay humble. Don’t be too confident. Don’t act like you know everything. Always doubt yourself and strive to be better. On the surface, that’s absolutely true. I’ve been in plenty of situations where someone’s complacency was so annoying that it completely derailed a good conversation. The first step…
Download Midrange-Horizon.mp3 A lot of life feels like learning how to balance on a moving thing. Money is a simple example: if you save nothing and just burn through everything you earn, you end up with no safety, no cushion, nothing that actually belongs to you. But if you save every single cent and never spend, life becomes this grey boring tunnel where you never actually live. Same with…
Here are a few life lessons I’ve found useful, ones that have stuck with me over the years. I often catch myself referring to them or practicing them in day-to-day life. Writing them here isn’t about giving advice (because I know future me will read this and cringe), but simply to record them somewhere so I don’t forget. Never Bring Your Phone to the Shower Honestly, most of my ideas or solutions…
Download Chapter_1_home.mp3 The train finally stopped. After hours of sitting, she was free. She had been desperately waiting to arrive, checking the time and location again and again. Yet, when the moment came, she didn’t rush to get up, grab her bag, and leave. If it wasn’t for the young man beside her who wanted to slip out fast, she might have stayed longer. Did she really want to leave, or…
Download ket-hello-world.mp3 This is my first single-qubit quantum circuit I wrote today: dev = qml.device("default.qubit", wires=1) @qml.qnode(dev) def apply_hxh(state): if state: qml.PauliX(wires=0) qml.Hadamard(wires=0) qml.PauliX(wires=0) qml.Hadamard(wires=0) return qml.state() print(apply_hxh(0)) print(apply_hxh(1)) It applies a sequence of Hadamard–X–Hadamard gates with optional initial X…
Download Una-Mattina-FA.mp3 "The Intouchables" is a great, heart-warming movie that tells the true story of a beautiful friendship. The film closes with the song "Una Mattina" by Ludovico Einaudi. It's a lovely piano piece. But recently, I realized there's something about that song that makes me listen to it over and over. I'll find myself randomly pulling out my phone in the middle of the day,…
Download The-Beauty-of-Not-Optimizing-FA.mp3 I've always been fascinated by mathematics. I was never exactly at the top of my class. Not a math prodigy in school or university, but something about the elegance of math and how it underpins the very fabric of nature has always blown my mind. Sure, when most people hear "math," they think of calculus, integrals, or Fourier transforms, topics that…