Hobbies

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

Program optimization: today, optimized research-related code, currently obsessed

Piano: yesterday, improvization on themes of Silksong

Anime: yesterday, The Ancient Magus' Bride

Orchestral timpani: yesterday, with Stanford Philharmonia, Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 and Mandelssohn's Symphony No. 4

Memes: yesterday, trans memes and anime_irl

Other sports: 2 days ago, badminton with friends

Classical music listening: 2 days ago, Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1

Cooking: 4 days ago, gyudon

Converse with LLMs: 6 days ago with DeepSeek, on expression, growth, metaphors, meta-cognition, desires, vulnerability, and loneliness

Drawing on myself: 1 week ago, impossible triangle with Bic BodyMark

Card throwing: last thrown 1 week ago, last practiced 5 years ago

Other photography: 1 month ago, Roaring Camp Redwood Forest

Research-style shopping: 1 month ago, Hifiman Ananda

Ping pong: 1 month ago, overtaken by badminton

Bird photography: 2 months ago, Lake Lagunita with Stanford Birdwatching Club

Reading: 2 months ago, Johannes Brahms by Jan Swafford

Clothes shopping: 3 months ago, Uniqlo and MUJI

Rule-golfing: 4 months ago

Wave dodging: 4 months ago, where I walk on a beach and stay as close as possible to the water without getting wet

Function curve designing: 6 months ago, research-related distortion energy design

Generative art: 9 months ago, used my dithering algorithm to generate the homepage profile picture

Metal casting: 9 months ago, casted a beer opener and a name seal using the new induction furnace V5

Other DIY project: 10 months ago, made induction furnace V5

Origami: 10 months ago, recreated Michał Kosmulski's Rosette

Other coding projects: 1.5 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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