poems, essays, criticism, math, and videos — all in one place. https://ubermayinch.si/ 2026-11-03T12:40:33.000Z Chinmay Sharma https://pathlessgeodesic.substack.com/p/fi-11 2026-11-03T12:40:33.000Z 2026-11-03T12:40:33.000Z

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZanwdOHhcg 2026-11-02T21:32:46.000Z 2026-11-02T21:32:46.000Z

[YouTube] goated song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fJPs_ccDfc 2026-11-02T21:11:51.000Z 2026-11-02T21:11:51.000Z

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GDxKwykQS0 2026-11-02T20:55:51.000Z 2026-11-02T20:55:51.000Z

[YouTube] can't believe we got robbed on this one keys - sarthak vocals - vaibhavi and Arusha guitar - autrio and radhikesh bass- siddharth drums - Chinmay

https://pathlessgeodesic.substack.com/p/kalai-2-scopes 2026-11-01T22:38:16.000Z 2026-11-01T22:38:16.000Z

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https://pathlessgeodesic.substack.com/p/cruelty 2026-10-28T21:12:06.000Z 2026-10-28T21:12:06.000Z

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https://pathlessgeodesic.substack.com/p/uncertainty 2026-10-27T10:18:30.000Z 2026-10-27T10:18:30.000Z

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https://pathlessgeodesic.substack.com/p/kpimax 2026-10-26T09:38:55.000Z 2026-10-26T09:38:55.000Z

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https://pathlessgeodesic.substack.com/p/intension-extension 2026-10-24T20:13:52.000Z 2026-10-24T20:13:52.000Z

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https://pathlessgeodesic.substack.com/p/rut 2026-10-24T20:10:29.000Z 2026-10-24T20:10:29.000Z

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https://pathlessgeodesic.substack.com/p/cantelliver 2026-10-24T08:40:31.000Z 2026-10-24T08:40:31.000Z

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https://pathlessgeodesic.substack.com/p/dear-dairy 2026-10-23T10:33:37.000Z 2026-10-23T10:33:37.000Z

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https://pathlessgeodesic.substack.com/p/compliable-wish 2026-10-14T12:25:07.000Z 2026-10-14T12:25:07.000Z

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https://pathlessgeodesic.substack.com/p/flavors-of-masculinity 2026-10-12T06:47:06.000Z 2026-10-12T06:47:06.000Z

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https://pathlessgeodesic.substack.com/p/life-updates-long-overdue 2026-10-11T01:54:31.000Z 2026-10-11T01:54:31.000Z

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https://pathlessgeodesic.substack.com/p/cut 2026-10-08T07:35:21.000Z 2026-10-08T07:35:21.000Z

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https://pathlessgeodesic.substack.com/p/pangs-of-betrayal 2026-10-06T03:10:19.000Z 2026-10-06T03:10:19.000Z

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https://pathlessgeodesic.substack.com/p/hyperreal-clarity 2026-10-04T04:47:07.000Z 2026-10-04T04:47:07.000Z

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https://pathlessgeodesic.substack.com/p/the-structure-of-attention 2026-10-01T18:50:38.000Z 2026-10-01T18:50:38.000Z

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https://pathlessgeodesic.substack.com/p/human-slop 2026-10-01T04:30:10.000Z 2026-10-01T04:30:10.000Z

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https://pathlessgeodesic.substack.com/p/shinzou-wo-sasageyo 2026-09-25T12:50:42.000Z 2026-09-25T12:50:42.000Z

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https://pathlessgeodesic.substack.com/p/siddhartha-in-an-auto 2026-09-25T12:39:33.000Z 2026-09-25T12:39:33.000Z

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https://pathlessgeodesic.substack.com/p/dolores 2026-09-24T23:06:01.000Z 2026-09-24T23:06:01.000Z

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFHhs_6Gxic 2026-09-21T07:40:41.000Z 2026-09-21T07:40:41.000Z

[YouTube] the first performance ever from project theseus. upon this rock we shall build an empire (sorry for bad audio quality, ts is more archival) Bass - Attharva Gogate Drums- Chinmay (me lol) Guitar - Siddharth Sinha and…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJkutK30FGo 2026-09-18T23:52:31.000Z 2026-09-18T23:52:31.000Z

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cplMBl2Ytgk 2026-09-16T19:25:07.000Z 2026-09-16T19:25:07.000Z

[YouTube]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJhap0x6an4 2026-09-16T19:23:17.000Z 2026-09-16T19:23:17.000Z

[YouTube] my girlfriend makes boring practice look aesthetic

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SKj5ujk7974 2026-09-14T19:57:36.000Z 2026-09-14T19:57:36.000Z

[YouTube]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vKr87i8ChZ8 2026-09-10T02:29:30.000Z 2026-09-10T02:29:30.000Z

[YouTube]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mL7lfqDx_Hs 2026-09-10T02:27:13.000Z 2026-09-10T02:27:13.000Z

[YouTube]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PhVU_q4rbcI 2026-09-10T02:26:09.000Z 2026-09-10T02:26:09.000Z

[YouTube]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IY_melLJcfI 2026-08-23T02:05:21.000Z 2026-08-23T02:05:21.000Z

[YouTube]

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2026/08/motiveless-fi10.html 2026-08-14T22:10:01.000Z 2026-08-14T22:10:01.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] the google pixel 8 pro has shit battery life. i know that because that's the phone i own. a beautifully coloured cover I got the same semester I met my beautiful girlfriend. it was a reminder of colour rushing into a…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2026/08/fwa-fi-9.html 2026-08-10T06:32:15.000Z 2026-08-10T06:32:15.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] pushing the boundaries of an art. pushing the boundaries, its a start. rhythm and tone. metered over phones. phony truths dont last long. phony truths die in songs. there's a rhythm internally. and now make it slower.…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2026/08/karma-yoga-fi-8.html 2026-08-09T17:59:10.000Z 2026-08-09T17:59:10.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] Feldenkrais. Where there is effort there is no yoga. Efficiency. Crashing waves. A slight insecurity over the truths i've accessed in the past. can truths really be forgotten? where am I now? in music. my journey with…

https://toomanycents.substack.com/p/emergence-premium 2026-08-08T10:22:56.000Z 2026-08-08T10:22:56.000Z

[Emergence Premium] May 2026 - Aug 2026

https://midnighthysteria.wordpress.com/2026/08/03/qualt/ 2026-08-03T16:44:13.000Z 2026-08-03T16:44:13.000Z

[Midnight Hysteria] Black holes of desire. Unabashed and unashamed The slip of a nightdress From the cold hardness of a nipple A bossom that blossoms In the tender embrace of the lantern. It’s contours shaped by the fervourous labour of…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfYZ8BhNhXI 2026-08-03T16:13:24.000Z 2026-08-03T16:13:24.000Z

[YouTube]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CETqHr8rit8 2026-07-28T18:02:04.000Z 2026-07-28T18:02:04.000Z

[YouTube]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGIsrEQaMfI 2026-07-28T17:58:03.000Z 2026-07-28T17:58:03.000Z

[YouTube]

https://midnighthysteria.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/bag/ 2026-07-20T08:24:16.000Z 2026-07-20T08:24:16.000Z

[Midnight Hysteria] bags under your eyes Bags of cash The quiet sobbing And widened apertures You my lady have looked into the abyss more than your fair share. And I see them reflecting on to me. The wailing banshees of old. They wail and…

https://midnighthysteria.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/a-thing-of-sorrow/ 2026-07-20T08:23:09.000Z 2026-07-20T08:23:09.000Z

[Midnight Hysteria] is incomplete forever. It’s loneliness increases It will never Pass into compassion . The very human dearth Of noble natures Of hustling hoecruxes And horrid creatures Of bodies that scream And their tanks And their…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2026/05/hegel-not-really-everyday-7.html 2026-05-18T23:52:34.000Z 2026-05-18T23:52:34.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] I took up again today my project of working through Hegel's Phenomenology that I started almost 4 years ago and my last engagement with was nearly 2 years ago:…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2026/05/an-unclaimed-terrain-thousand-plateaus.html 2026-05-08T18:12:00.000Z 2026-05-08T18:12:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] “साहित्य समाज का दर्पण है” - Munshi Premchand In this term paper, we conceptualize caste as a specific particularity of a drive to stratification. We locate this general urge as an outcome of a phenomenological…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-labor-and-practice-of-ethics.html 2026-05-02T08:08:00.000Z 2026-05-02T08:08:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] (done as part of literature and the ethics of telling a story term paper 2) Introduction "Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor." — Alexis Carrel The word ethics derives…

https://midnighthysteria.wordpress.com/2026/04/28/loverboi-hours/ 2026-04-27T21:07:32.000Z 2026-04-27T21:07:32.000Z

[Midnight Hysteria] दिल हारने के खुमार में जो डूब जाए वो कैसा आशिक? रूह-ए-सुकून की नफ़स से जिसका गला सूख जाए वो कैसा आशिक? ख्वािश-ए-ज़िंदगी के लिए जो ना आलम से लड़ जाए वो कैसा आशिक? आशिकी तो इन्किलाब-ए-खुदा है,जिसमे संसार का चिह्न रह जाए…

https://midnighthysteria.wordpress.com/2026/04/22/%e0%a4%98%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%b5/ 2026-04-21T19:48:52.000Z 2026-04-21T19:48:52.000Z

[Midnight Hysteria] I am scared. Not of you leaving me, Or of the inevitability of life tearing us apart, But of every moment I forget the smell of your dried sweat every day I don’t see the simplistic lustre of a face glowing mundanely…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2026/04/critikal-analsis.html 2026-04-17T08:32:00.000Z 2026-04-17T08:32:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] Ajay Navaria's Unclaimed Terrain is a harrowing account of the juxtaposition of financial mobility and social stratification. But I'll probably analyse that in a term paper sometime soon. Today, I want to talk about the…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2026/04/on-stories-shoah-night-and-fog-night.html 2026-04-14T19:20:00.000Z 2026-04-14T19:20:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] This was done as part of a term paper asking me to differentiate and make claims about the specific differences between the given holocaust media we engaged with in class. Introduction To understand how these stories…

https://midnighthysteria.wordpress.com/2026/03/29/die-arbeit/ 2026-03-29T03:30:48.000Z 2026-03-29T03:30:48.000Z

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https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2026/02/aparigraha.html 2026-02-25T15:55:00.000Z 2026-02-25T15:55:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] My younger self has saved me multiple times. Every single time I decided to stay with my thoughts and emotions and digest them and understand them, it has been an act of rebellion against the superficiality of society.…

https://midnighthysteria.wordpress.com/2026/01/06/laya/ 2026-01-06T10:16:00.000Z 2026-01-06T10:16:00.000Z

[Midnight Hysteria] The gentle murmur of a wardrum Matches the steady crescendo of a heartbeat The cries of a valkyrie pierce the air And tears stream down your face The golden glow of your brother Basks you in it’s radiance And bounces of…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2025/12/bukowskis-bukkake.html 2025-12-15T14:16:00.000Z 2025-12-15T14:16:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] oh hey. you're here again. looking out of a car window. obsessively overthinking some random detail as the city lights and mundane chatter blend in with the smog into a panoramic cocktail of absolute apathy. wanting to…

https://midnighthysteria.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/%e0%a4%b6%e0%a4%b0%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%ae%e0%a5%80%e0%a4%b2%e0%a5%87-%e0%a4%a4%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%b2%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%82-%e0%a4%95%e0%a5%80-%e0%a4%a4%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%b2/ 2025-12-12T18:18:05.000Z 2025-12-12T18:18:05.000Z

[Midnight Hysteria] Possession. A pound of flesh Is what we agreed on The first time we locked eyes my love For you to dig your fingers into my back And for me to hold your delicate warm breaths in front of mine For me to cherish your…

https://midnighthysteria.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/feelingmyself/ 2025-12-12T18:14:30.000Z 2025-12-12T18:14:30.000Z

[Midnight Hysteria] This one’s a little crazy gng So let me get underneath my sheets My left hand goes to sleep And my sinus is a G.O.A.T’s bleat A Muslim goat that got massacred Muhammed Ali I be feeling myself, I be feeling myself…

https://midnighthysteria.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/sirens/ 2025-12-12T18:07:01.000Z 2025-12-12T18:07:01.000Z

[Midnight Hysteria] Hope,My favorite ropeTo hang myself with. A drunk exAnd a night of intense desireWhere might it lead?Curiosity kills the cat. A cute face,A deep conversationThe purity in her eyesThe purity of her skin. I am a bitch,For…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2025/11/queer-foundations-for-masculinity.html 2025-11-18T12:14:00.000Z 2025-11-18T12:14:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] what happens to a thought deferred? does it fester and explode? I have been coming to accept my creed as a writer slightly more through my practice of writing to understand myself everyday. I'm only up to 87 out of…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2025/09/hysteria.html 2025-09-21T22:36:00.000Z 2025-09-21T22:36:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] Welcome to Midnight Hysteria. Not my Poetry blog but rather the feeling, or the state of frenzy it was meant to express. There's a restlessness that resides within me. It is a feeling I felt again today after a long…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2025/09/avenged-sevenfold.html 2025-09-15T21:22:00.000Z 2025-09-15T21:22:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] I was trying to draw a deathbat from Hail to the King when your subtle remark reminded me that my sense of view had been twisted and my eyes had been deceived. Why was it that I had not been able to see a simple…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2025/09/all-one.html 2025-09-07T19:08:00.000Z 2025-09-07T19:08:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] I set aside my phone and close all the tabs that dig the fingers of distraction into my skull. I have a rough idea of what I want to write about, a stew of thoughts that has been churning in my head for the past couple…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2025/08/watch-my-eyes.html 2025-08-26T10:00:00.000Z 2025-08-26T10:00:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] I could not turn and live with animals. I see a dog sleeping on the ground, the weight of his body pushing into the gravel on the road. A warm monsoon breeze floats on the air, and a replete smile dons his face as he…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2025/08/hi-life.html 2025-08-24T21:18:00.000Z 2025-08-24T21:18:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] hi life, I don't think we've met before. I am. None of those qualifications that I add to the phrase after that. I'm just me, a bundle of memories tasting your lapping waves against the shores of my mind for the first…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2025/08/strong-independent.html 2025-08-12T00:10:00.000Z 2025-08-12T00:10:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] A cold hard smack. And I landed right on the ground. I grumbled and turned to look upwards into the expanse of the night. Or what I could see of it trapped within a concrete cage. There was a rememberance of a dream…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2025/08/blog-post.html 2025-08-11T16:45:00.000Z 2025-08-11T16:45:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] An aphorism is the most pretentious form of writing. Except for every other form. There is a certain rhythm to the internal tone with which a paragraph is written. A sense of song and improvisation as these words leave…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2025/04/on-change-bojack-horseman-and-friends.html 2025-04-02T23:17:00.000Z 2025-04-02T23:17:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] as I walked back from my lab after another late night Netflix binge, the humid breeze lapped against my skin doing no justice to the storm brewing within. When I walked past the lights and chatter of the people around…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2025/02/on-society-and-individual-by-ehcarr.html 2025-02-27T05:33:00.000Z 2025-02-27T05:33:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] This is my attempt to understand EH Carr's Chapter on 'The society and the individual' by articulating my thoughts about it. There are mainly two arguments that the chapter seeks to make. The first is whether the…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2025/02/on-what-is-history-by-eh-carr.html 2025-02-26T20:15:00.000Z 2025-02-26T20:15:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] I have been assigned the reading 'What is History' by EH Carr. This is my interpretation of the first chapter as I attempt to make sense of it in my head. The chapter is arranged quite similarly to a dialectical…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2025/02/anima.html 2025-02-22T22:13:00.000Z 2025-02-22T22:13:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] The kids played by the river. For that is how they had grown. The wisp bearded guru watched in stoic solitude with his legs crossed, as the seasons passed. He watched as the boys grew up; From scratching their knees as…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2025/01/maya.html 2025-01-17T23:42:00.000Z 2025-01-17T23:42:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] Each word I write is a prayer of gratitude to that which comes through me. It is only with this evocation that I may begin writing in the earnest. I am a child of the ancient east, a land rooted in such spiritual depth…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2025/01/divergence.html 2025-01-08T01:27:00.000Z 2025-01-08T01:27:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] A whispered prayer escaped the dream of an artist's most sleepless night. It asked god in a sincere manner whether it would be allowed to piece together a necklace of words for its own amusement today. The innocent…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2025/01/notes-on-creativity.html 2025-01-05T20:39:00.000Z 2025-01-05T20:39:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] My drum teacher once told me that every great musician stops hearing the sound of others music after a point in their career. They no longer look at others engagement with their instrument with greedy eyes that try to…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2024/12/halo.html 2024-12-28T21:29:00.000Z 2024-12-28T21:29:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] Humans are beings born of thunder. Stolen from mother nature in her throes. Each of us has a grand potential. A message in a glass bottle, a prayer cast out into the chaos of the universe. Sincerity is the bedrock of…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2024/12/clothes-for-king.html 2024-12-10T18:48:00.000Z 2024-12-10T18:48:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] The reluctant prince must learn to use the scepter. The flourish of magnificence is the beginning of the end. Power flows and multiplies uncontrollably The applause, the praise, the cheer the money. Yet the deafening…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2024/11/song-of-free.html 2024-11-25T18:08:00.000Z 2024-11-25T18:08:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] Terrence Tao said in one of his interviews that sometimes some problems are just not solvable within one lifetime. Because of being born at the wrong time, your attempt to look at the problem is like trying to climb the…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-day-i-remember-well.html 2024-11-17T10:20:00.000Z 2024-11-17T10:20:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] Those books do not interest me which are not written in the author's blood and tears The carefree bounce of the sunlight from the leaves of a tree. The child's carefree singing as he skips along a path laden with autumn…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2024/11/abstraction-and-complexity.html 2024-11-17T09:28:00.000Z 2024-11-17T09:28:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] Beauty is life itself. Here I attempt to describe what I find beautiful within the intellectual landscape in which I exist. Abstraction is a key idea in computer science. Each piece of the technology we use has…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2024/11/mastery.html 2024-11-17T09:27:00.000Z 2024-11-17T09:27:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] Advertisment and Propaganda thrives on humans insistence that there is something that needs to be "fixed" about themselves. The conditioning creates the tendency to remain trapped in problems, and most solutions offered…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2024/11/live-smart.html 2024-11-14T21:17:00.000Z 2024-11-14T21:17:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] The human is engaged in a battle everyday. A battle between the magnificence of his being and the finitude of his existence. He does not realise this. With all his movements through life, he is sloppy and inefficient.…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2024/11/caskets-of-mud.html 2024-11-09T04:43:00.000Z 2024-11-09T04:43:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] In the bustle of the everyday, when we adorn our masks and present confidently, callously in the world around us, we forget that people are not strong. Life is never strong, never hard. It's a subtle magic that works…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2024/11/going-back.html 2024-11-09T03:37:00.000Z 2024-11-09T03:37:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] A human can only channel what he possesses. For a beginner to expect world class performance of himself is inauthentic. A judgement free watching of the seed of our potentials is all we can offer to life. All the while…

https://ubermayinch.github.io/blog/posts/2024-11-9-Modularity_Maximization/ 2024-11-09T00:00:00.000Z 2024-11-09T00:00:00.000Z

[rhizoMorphic]

https://ubermayinch.github.io/blog/posts/2024-11-6-LaplaceEigenmap/ 2024-11-06T00:00:00.000Z 2024-11-06T00:00:00.000Z

[rhizoMorphic]

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2024/11/specialization.html 2024-11-05T08:38:00.000Z 2024-11-05T08:38:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] Wherever pure awareness touches, it creates abundance; In solving problems we uncover deep connections to areas of knowledge we would have thought never existed. It furnishes the collective psyche. The collective psyche…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2024/11/negentropy.html 2024-11-05T08:08:00.000Z 2024-11-05T08:08:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] At the end of the day, you are a being born of light. How you live, how you spend each day is a reflection of this. There is a subtle magic that comes as we become aware of things. With our bodies, we start to notice…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2024/10/gordian-knot.html 2024-10-29T12:26:00.000Z 2024-10-29T12:26:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] Suffering is a gordian knot. The one who is suffering is caught, in a spiderweb of silky steel. Each proverbial struggle only tightens the noose around their neck. The light of reason can slash through it in an instant,…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2024/10/mistborn-and-human-potential.html 2024-10-27T13:31:00.000Z 2024-10-27T13:31:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] One of my favourite authors when I avidly read fantasy was Brandon Sanderson. His world building and pacing was something that always kept me on the edge of the page while reading through the first few books of the…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2024/10/words.html 2024-10-10T21:49:00.000Z 2024-10-10T21:49:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] Impermanence is the nature of all things. This is not a platitude or something that merely meant to sound deep. This is a fundamental truth of life. It is love that gives us a temporary relief against the great tragedy…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2024/10/fi-7.html 2024-10-09T21:21:00.000Z 2024-10-09T21:21:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] This is me attempting to have a rational conversation with myself about something that I struggle with, because no one else in the world will really fully understand my experience. At the end of the day, this is still…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2024/10/truth.html 2024-10-07T18:42:00.000Z 2024-10-07T18:42:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] The pure sincerity of revolution. The fire in the revolutionary's eyes. The steadfastness of his being. That is the essence of truth. In trying to express that through a framework, a need for others to understand…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2024/10/bullshit.html 2024-10-04T23:54:00.000Z 2024-10-04T23:54:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] The child gleefully laughed as his parents pretended to be weak and playfight with him. In the childish innocence of the fantasies the group had weaved together, he found reprieve from a world that was already growing…

https://ubermayinch.github.io/blog/posts/2024-9-27-Variational-Bayes/ 2024-09-27T00:00:00.000Z 2024-09-27T00:00:00.000Z

[rhizoMorphic] Recently I came across Variational Bayes which is a very powerful technique in bayesian inference. The idea is that we want to find out a posterior using bayes theorem. Formulating the problem: Z , X Z, X Z , X are in…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2024/09/loneliness.html 2024-09-25T19:36:00.000Z 2024-09-25T19:36:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] Another late night, spent alone in a lab. Another sleepy evening spent grinding iron, and kicking against the cobalt. Another average day spent sleepwalking through class. Another deadline forcing my brain to move from…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2024/09/limits-of-thought.html 2024-09-22T19:05:00.000Z 2024-09-22T19:05:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] The limits of thought is a series of conversations between Jiddu Krishnamurti and David Bohm. I remember being fascinated by this book two years ago, which made me stay up all night trying my hardest to grasp at the…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2024/09/romanticizing-rogue.html 2024-09-16T09:43:00.000Z 2024-09-16T09:43:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] The archetype of a rogue, a subtle, dandy mysterious thief - moving through life with a certain poise and lightness is what I wish to talk about here. This is a selfish excercise in the exposition of beauty I see. Life…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2024/09/random-thoughts.html 2024-09-13T01:57:00.000Z 2024-09-13T01:57:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] The only question that matters in my life is understanding the mystery and wonder of consciousness. Over the past few years, everything that I have learnt and experienced has been in the background of this question. I…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2024/09/freedom-is-within-grasp.html 2024-09-12T22:45:00.000Z 2024-09-12T22:45:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] Wherever you might be in life, there are a lot of things that are being thrown at you. But what you can realise is that a lot of it is really garbage. Societal expectations, projections, judgements. Your own…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2024/09/creativity-sex-metalearning-fi-6.html 2024-09-07T13:18:00.000Z 2024-09-07T13:18:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] The best way to learn something is to create something with it. Every interaction in life is an oppurtunity to learn. I have let these thoughts ruminate in my head for way to long, I wonder if they have gotten stale in…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2024/09/apathetic.html 2024-09-03T01:22:00.000Z 2024-09-03T01:22:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] Why are there aspects of my life in which I continue to be apathetic and indifferent? I know that movement is life and stagnation is death, not as an intellectual observation, but as a fact. Then what is it that allows…

https://toomanycents.blogspot.com/2024/09/dialogic-exploration-fi5.html 2024-09-03T01:09:00.000Z 2024-09-03T01:09:00.000Z

[My Too (Many) Cents] What is the relation between collective knowledge and personal ingenuity? In a recent interview Ido Portal said that there is immense power in collective knowledge. A fighter could train by himself in perfection for 20…

https://ubermayinch.github.io/blog/posts/2024-8-22-IPA/ 2024-08-22T00:00:00.000Z 2024-08-22T00:00:00.000Z

[rhizoMorphic] In this week’s Theory Thursday we covered the IPA chart, the Sapir Whorf Hypothesis and Optimality Theory. I learnt about how modern linguistics analyses language. Meaning(Content) Discourse Pragmatics Semantics Form…

https://ubermayinch.github.io/blog/posts/2024-8-15-Nim/ 2024-08-15T00:00:00.000Z 2024-08-15T00:00:00.000Z

[rhizoMorphic] This week in Theory Thursday we covered the Nim game. Nim is basically what all impartial games are reducible to. Impartial games are those where both parties have perfect information about what moves the other player…

https://ubermayinch.github.io/blog/posts/2024-7-28-AFWeek6/ 2024-07-28T00:00:00.000Z 2024-07-28T00:00:00.000Z

[rhizoMorphic] Intro Understanding larger neural networks in terms of functional circuits and their relations RLHF and Scalable oversight are not enough to deal with issues like deceptive of sycophantic behaviour If we can understand…

https://ubermayinch.github.io/blog/posts/2024-7-10-AFWeek4/ 2024-07-10T00:00:00.000Z 2024-07-10T00:00:00.000Z

[rhizoMorphic] collecting human feedback, fitting a reward model, and optimizing the policy with RL.

https://ubermayinch.github.io/blog/posts/2024-7-10-NMW1D2/ 2024-07-10T00:00:00.000Z 2024-07-10T00:00:00.000Z

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https://ubermayinch.github.io/blog/posts/2024-7-9-NMW1D1/ 2024-07-09T00:00:00.000Z 2024-07-09T00:00:00.000Z

[rhizoMorphic] 1. Tutorial 1 Konrad Kording What model: Description of Data - No promises about meaning How Model: Mechanistic Understanding. Why Model: Which things matter, what’s optimized ecologically or evolutionarily Steinmetz…

https://ubermayinch.github.io/blog/posts/2024-7-6-AFWeek3/ 2024-07-06T00:00:00.000Z 2024-07-06T00:00:00.000Z

[rhizoMorphic] AI Safety Remastered video what’s the most important problem in your field? Why are you not working on that? Problem of AI safety: Sooner or later, build an artificial agent with General Intelligence. Agent: Has goals…

https://ubermayinch.github.io/blog/posts/2024-7-1-Gitinternals1/ 2024-07-01T00:00:00.000Z 2024-07-01T00:00:00.000Z

[rhizoMorphic] I’ve been using git for a good amount of time but haven’t gotten really good at it. I think that learning how things work under the hood often helps me use them better which is why I’m attempting to learn git better.…

https://ubermayinch.github.io/blog/posts/2024-7-1-Gitinternals2/ 2024-07-01T00:00:00.000Z 2024-07-01T00:00:00.000Z

[rhizoMorphic] In the previous post I went over the internal workings of git commands. In this post we initialize a new git repository only using linux utilities and git plumbing commands. What are plumbing commands: In an analogy…

https://ubermayinch.github.io/blog/posts/2024-6-29-AFWeek2/ 2024-06-29T00:00:00.000Z 2024-06-29T00:00:00.000Z

[rhizoMorphic] Why are people building AI systems article article Automating tasks McKinsey estimate of 0.1 to 0.6% growth rate in productivity (!?) which leads to a value addition of $2.6 to 4.4 Trillion dollars. this is a disputed…

https://ubermayinch.github.io/blog/posts/2024-6-19-AFWeek1/ 2024-06-19T00:00:00.000Z 2024-06-19T00:00:00.000Z

[rhizoMorphic] 1. Neural Network and Gradient Descent Basics Videos videos: video1 video2 Later Layers capture bigger patterns in data. Everything is just weighted sums and activation functions. Activation function = measure of how…

https://toomanycents.substack.com/p/productize-yourself-a-measured-response 2024-06-03T09:01:36.000Z 2024-06-03T09:01:36.000Z

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https://ubermayinch.github.io/blog/posts/2024-3-30-NatIsoVectSpaces/ 2024-03-30T00:00:00.000Z 2024-03-30T00:00:00.000Z

[rhizoMorphic] Anyone taking an introductory course on linear algebra has probably seen the statement “There is a natural isomorphism between a vector space and its double dual” In some sense we realise that it makes sense. But what…

https://ubermayinch.github.io/blog/posts/2024-2-24-RandWalkRiemanZ/ 2024-02-24T00:00:00.000Z 2024-02-24T00:00:00.000Z

[rhizoMorphic] In this week’s meeting of theory thursday, we discussed random walks in higher dimensions. Specifically the statement that a drunk human can return back to where they started from but a drunk bird can’t. This is related…

https://toomanycents.substack.com/p/consistency 2024-01-16T11:12:27.000Z 2024-01-16T11:12:27.000Z

[Emergence Premium] I planned to be consistent with this letter but recently I haven’t been writing at all even though the ideas I had to write about have been piling up.

https://toomanycents.substack.com/p/content-creation 2024-01-07T11:15:41.000Z 2024-01-07T11:15:41.000Z

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https://ubermayinch.github.io/blog/posts/2024-1-5-SSGCA/ 2024-01-05T00:00:00.000Z 2024-01-05T00:00:00.000Z

[rhizoMorphic] This is a neat number theory problem I came across while discussing the Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange in this week’s meeting of the Theory Group of my college. The idea of the protocol is that we choose a generator g and…

https://toomanycents.substack.com/p/musashi-movement-and-modernity 2023-12-31T10:56:17.000Z 2023-12-31T10:56:17.000Z

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https://toomanycents.substack.com/p/a-framework-for-replicating-success 2023-12-17T06:30:36.000Z 2023-12-17T06:30:36.000Z

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https://ubermayinch.github.io/blog/posts/2023-11-29-Cool-Problem/ 2023-11-29T00:00:00.000Z 2023-11-29T00:00:00.000Z

[rhizoMorphic] Here is a cool problem that I had in one of the problem sets for my Probability and Random Processes course. Let ( X 1 , X 2 , … , X n ) (X_1, X_2, \ldots, X_n) ( X 1 ​ , X 2 ​ , … , X n ​ ) be independent random…

https://toomanycents.substack.com/p/beginning-again 2023-11-26T06:31:40.000Z 2023-11-26T06:31:40.000Z

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https://ubermayinch.github.io/blog/posts/2023-11-14-FreeEnergy2-PerceptionActionCoupling/ 2023-11-14T00:00:00.000Z 2023-11-14T00:00:00.000Z

[rhizoMorphic] Hello everyone, welcome to the second post where I will discuss Perception and Action Coupling in Karl Friston’s Model of Free Energy. The idea here is pretty simple. From the Markov Blankets described in the previous…

https://ubermayinch.github.io/blog/posts/2023-11-7-AssAlgebra1/ 2023-11-07T00:00:00.000Z 2023-11-07T00:00:00.000Z

[rhizoMorphic] Hello everyone, today I would like to talk about Algebras which have a simple definition but are still very beautiful to me. This is possibly part of a series where I build up to Lie groups, or other exotic mathematical…

https://ubermayinch.github.io/blog/posts/2023-11-7-FreeEnergy1-MarkovBlanket/ 2023-11-07T00:00:00.000Z 2023-11-07T00:00:00.000Z

[rhizoMorphic] Hello everyone, this is going to be a series of posts building up to Karl Friston’s Free Energy Principle. All of this came about as a result of me reading a paper on the free energy principle being applied to…

https://ubermayinch.github.io/blog/posts/2023-10-31-FockSpace1/ 2023-10-31T00:00:00.000Z 2023-10-31T00:00:00.000Z

[rhizoMorphic] Hello everyone, today I would like to talk a series of posts building up to Fock Spaces, which came up while we were discussing identical particles in my Introductory Quantum Mechanics Class. The idea behind Fock Spaces…

https://ubermayinch.github.io/blog/posts/2023-10-15-C-Algebras/ 2023-10-15T00:00:00.000Z 2023-10-15T00:00:00.000Z

[rhizoMorphic] I recently came across C and W algebras which are basically just formalizations of the spaces we do quantum mechanics in. Formally, we start with the following: Definition: A C ∗ C^* C ∗ algebra is a (complex) banach…

https://toomanycents.substack.com/p/the-folly-of-self-improvement-and 2022-08-25T18:30:18.000Z 2022-08-25T18:30:18.000Z

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