Forgotten Legends
A gallery of overlooked minds in computation, information theory, physics, and cognition, thinkers whose ideas outran their fame.
JD Ranpariya
Exploring the intersection of AI, biology, neuroscience, and embodied cognition
Latest posts
AGI
My AGI research roadmap: sixteen subfields to work through, a month-by-month reading list built like a self-taught graduate seminar, and the people worth following.
Exercise
Working beliefs on training frequency, sets, and recovery, plus a running list of strength and fitness resources to dig into.
Recon
A working reference for bug bounty recon: horizontal and vertical asset correlation, subdomain enumeration, OSINT tooling, and early exploitation wins.
Sleep
Personal beliefs and habits for protecting sleep: wind-down routines, light exposure, naps, plus notes on the circadian biology behind them.
ICRA 2026 Vienna
everything happening at ICRA 2026 in one place. schedule, tech talks, innovation stage, keynotes, socials, and vienna survival tips.
Tardigrade: A Palm-Sized Quadruped
A full-stack physical AI project (from custom brushless actuators and PCB design to sim2real reinforcement learning) inspired by nature's most indestructible micro-animal.
Everything Worked. That Was the Problem.
A wrong simulation is most dangerous when it still produces working behavior. Lessons from a year of sim2real on a real balancing system.
Ball Balancing on Arc
Nonlinear control of a ball balancing on a curved surface mounted on a linear cart: a deceptively simple system with rich dynamics.
The School of Life: An Emotional Education
An emotional education for the challenges of modern life.
Outliers: The Story of Success
Just as researchers had to look beyond the individual to explain health in Roseto, Gladwell looks beyond the individual to explain success.
The Handbook of Emotion Regulation
I've only read first chapter, just curious about emotions
Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a curious character
If you're curious about many things, you will enjoy this book immensely!
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Brief history of our kind, it's eye opening.
building different box of tools
Having different tools matters more than having superior ones.
Henri Poincaré: great mind
Idea is to learn more about poincare and see if I find anything interesting
The First Fires: Zucchini & Cauliflower
My first logged cooking experiments
don't be the drunken sailor
on living intentionally, or what to do when everything's going fine but something still feels off.
what I think education is missing
What reading about sleep, maturity, and emotions made me think schools should do differently.
Codex: Compass of my learning
A personal quest to build the most complete, connected understanding of existence - uniting the scientific, philosophical, and humanistic worldviews.