WOOHOOOOOOO

More inchoate thoughts

Some days I wake up with a fire burning inside ... that usually dissipates by the time I finish brushing my teeth. Oh well. Pity, some of that fire might actually motivate me to do something useful in life.
I'm going to write down some of the thoughts that stick for those 15-to-30 minute intervals, and maybe that part of me that mediates the daily hustle and lets it take over before breakfast is over will pick up on some of them and decide to do things with / about them.
It bothers me that the society we live in (broadly speaking) is so unfair. Maybe it's just the way the world is. But I don't believe it's the way the world must be.
There is not enough empathy in this world. There should be more. I should do something about it.
Elon Musk is doing awesome stuff. There're all these shops shuffling digits around in some form or another, and then there's Tesla and SpaceX. I should get on his level.
I should make it a life-goal to learn (and retain!) as many languages as possible.
Maybe you are more than your work. Maybe you can still be the change you want to see even if you don't choose to become a social activist or political organiser. 

Ὁ βίος βραχύς, ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρή,

ὁ δὲ καιρὸς ὀξύς,

ἡ δὲ πεῖρα σφαλερή,

ἡ δὲ κρίσις χαλεπή.

-- Hippocrates

Disinvigorate

Just a unnecessarily convoluted way of saying "weaken", or different and a useful addition to the English language? Discuss.

Blei describes his profession

"There are many names for it ... this one [data mining] is bad. This one [statistics] sends people running, this one [data science] is good for finding a job, and this one [machine learning] people who've watched The Matrix are into."

You are what you are

You'll go where you go and carry your long and fragmented history with you wherever you go. And you will learn to be at peace with that and draw strength from it and see it as a source of support, not a weakness to be overcome. Others have done it. You have done it. You might change a little in the process, but why are you so afraid of that? Let those changes happen. You'll be fine.

Meh

I feel like the ground has been pulled out from underneath my feet all over again. It really, really sucks.
But I guess this was bound to happen at some point, since you don't fundamentally agree on where home is. You can't have everything you want all the time, and whatever they propose to do is perfectly within their rights. They have already done a lot for you. Time to stop depending on them and face up to reality. 

Thesis deadline minus 16 hours

"At some point in the next 16 hours I'll write my results chapter ... meaning I'll run my code, generate my results, and write about them."

Well, godspeed.