Hobbies

A list of all my hobbies, sorted by last engagement time at the time of writing.

Piano: today, learning Brahms' Op. 118 No. 2 (and also piano tuning)

Rule-golfing: today, currently obsessed

Wave dodging: yesterday, where I walk on a beach and stay as close as possible to the water without getting wet

Anime: 2 days ago, Seishun Buta Yarou S2

Ping pong: 3 days ago, with my dad

Reading: 4 days ago, Johannes Brahms by Jan Swafford

Classical music listening: 5 days ago, Sibelius 6

Other sports: 2 weeks ago, first time pickleball with a friend

Card throwing: last thrown 3 weeks ago, last practiced 5 years ago

Cooking: a month ago, one-person hotpot

Function curve designing: 2 months ago, research-related distortion energy design

Bird photography: 3 months ago, Point Reyes with Stanford Birdwatching Club 

Other photography: 4 months ago, banana slug hunting

Research-style shopping: 4 months ago, standing desk

Generative art: 5 months ago, used my dithering algorithm to generate the homepage profile picture

Metal casting: 5 months ago, casted a beer opener and a name seal using the new induction furnace V5

Other DIY project: 6 months ago, made induction furnace V5

Origami: 6 months ago, recreated Michał Kosmulski's Rosette

Orchestral timpani: 7 months ago, in Stanford Philharmonia, Haydn 82 and Beethoven 2

Other coding projects: 1.3 years ago, trained a variational autoencoder on a dataset of ~1k selfies of a high school friend, who got ahold of my phone and took them as a prank

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