Essays on robotics, startups, and art.
Every press of the Tab key spans a new bug.Some small and some big. Who will maintain what was once an orderly garden? AI slop. Ai-yay-yay. And yet,we keep on pressing Tab. Go ahead. Press that Tab key yourself: https://jimmysastra.com/doodles/bug.You know you want to. The ability to upload your own bug and add it to [ ]
Do you ever find yourself spelling out names, emails, or part numbers over the phone? For example, whenever I relay my email address over the phone, I have to carefully distinguish M versus N in MONOMER BIO . If so, I have a tool for you. The NATO phonetic alphabet was designed for spelling out letters in noisy [ ]
As a kid, I spent a lot of time doodling in my notebooks. I imagine myself scribbling away in class when I should have been taking notes. This may seem frivolous, but I recently made the connection between these squiggles and the Dutch notion of niksen, which translates to doing nothing. It’s different from meditation, [ ]
The first office I got to lay out was a robotics lab in grad school. We had a sandbox, a climbing wall, and a tree for robots to climb. One wall was entirely for tiny drawers with electrical and mechanical components. It was also right next to the machine shop. Oh yeah, there were some [ ]
as a good leader and set the remaining team up for success Research has shown that the way you recall memory is 50% determined by the peak intense point and 50% is determined by the ending [1]. So you might as well get the ending of your tenure at a company right. And let folk [ ]
I ve run a half marathon before. During this shelter in place directive, it seems like now is as good a time as any to go for that full marathon. I m thinking to run a half marathon this quarter and aim for a full marathon by end of Q3 and establish a route through the trails [ ]
I wanted to gain more understanding of machine learning. I learn best by doing and also find that I can fool myself (and others) into thinking I know something by reading a book and watching a couple videos. But until I implement something myself, I don t really know it. As Richard Feynman said: what I [ ]
We started Strateos (formerly Transcriptic) as outsiders to the industry with little experience but enough chutzpah (aka ignorance) to think we could make biology easier to engineer. We charged a whopping $100 for our first run of growth curves to a class of undergraduates at Stanford. I was enamored by the science being executed at [ ]
This photo was taken circa 2007 in Philadelphia, PA. Back then digital photography was still becoming popular and panoramas weren t as easy as a rotating your phone. This is a combination of HDR (blending 3 photos with 3 different exposures taken from the same position) and panaroma (stitching together photos from 10 different positions) for [ ]
Ink and copic marker.