some of my favorite personal websites

2024-12-01

- https://guzey.com/ - https://www.benkuhn.net/ - https://gwern.net/ - https://moretothat.com/ - https://near.blog/ - https://www.george-mack.com/ - https://www.joelonsoftware.com/ - https://blog.codi......

why i think having a personal website is a good idea

2024-12-01

reasons i think that having a personal website is a good idea - like minded people can quickly vibe check and learn a lot about you - easy way to share ideas and send them to friends - written log ......

hash table from scratch in prolog (boo)

2024-10-24

i'm currently taking knowledge representation at university, a core part of this unit is logic programming for which we use Prolog. i seriously dislike Prolog as a programming language. i find it unna......

Goals for the rest of the year

2024-07-27

How I set goals My goals for the rest of the year, when I like to set goals I prefer to set goals for systems not results, if I set a goal like "I want to get an A in x unit" this is a bad goal, sin......

Life hacks

2024-07-27

Inspired by alexey 1. lot's of alpha in low status 2. go first 3. assume that everyone is a friend 4. indifference 5. there's no speed limit 6. risks are less risky than you think. take as many a......

Chasing Excellence book best quotes

2024-07-16

On a recent plane ride I read Chasing Excellence by Ben Bergon. I really liked the book and resonated with a lot of ideas discussed. It was one of those reads that manages to articulate some of your i......

Small Shapes go brrr, dipping my toes into the world of Cellular Automata

2024-06-19

Simulation Link I was watching this video when the guest started talking about Cellular Automata. Earlier in the year I wasted quite a few hours on this site playing around with gliders, spaceships, l......

Making a ball bounce cost me my sanity, but forced me to learn maths

2024-06-12

Recently this video came up on my YouTube, I liked the idea of making satisfying simulations with code and had some post-exams free time on my hands so I thought I would try it for myself. This was *......

Quick Select Makes Sense

2024-05-30

I was studying for an exam and came upon this question Design an algorithm for finding the k-th smallest element in an unsorted array of length n that is faster than O amortized. Analyse the compl......

Opportunities increase exponentially. Skill increases linearly

2024-05-24

Something I have come to realise in my athletic career that is an important north star to keep in mind is that opportunities come to you when you deserve them the least. They increase on an exponentia......

Disjoint Sets are really cool

2024-05-24

Quick little post to consolidate knowledge and quickly talk about a new algorithm and data-structure that I think is really cool. Disjoint set's are set's in which the union of said set's results in......

Min Knight Moves Bfs

2024-04-26

Lately I've been doing a lot of dsa in preparation for technical interviews. My favorite algorithm and solution at the moment is using bfs to find the optimal amount of steps to get from point A to p......

What I learnt from bombing a technical interview

2024-04-09

Today I absolutely bombed a technical interview. We are talking about levels of stuttering and brain-fog that I didn't know I was capable of. But determined to make this a learning experience and not ......

Heroes from History: Ad Santel

2024-04-02

Stumbled upon this guy when doing some research into the origins of catch-wrestling and thought he was awesome. Ad Santel or his real name Adolph Ernst was one of the greatest practitioners of catch ......

Software for grappling

2024-03-31

Grappling is my obsession and has been for the last few years. I’m also very interested in software, especially in how software can be used to improve human performance . I am convinced that there ar......

Allocating tasks based on mental energy

2024-02-09

One of the things I've found trying to train like an elite athlete and still grind personal projects and code cocurrently is sometimes I'm dead tired which leads me to be less productive behind my key......

Notes on confidence

2024-02-02

Today I was watching this video from Alex Hormozi, Alex is a bit of a "business guru" on YouTube but personally I see him more of a philosopher and see his advice as beneficial to general life instead......

Post Content Clarity

2024-01-31

Post content clarity Short summary of a framework from Chris Willaims that's been super useful in my day to day life. I all too often find myself consuming content that I don't actually want to be c......

How I'm doing spaced repetition for grappling at kenku.org

2024-01-18

To be totally honest, at the moment, I don't really know what I'm doing. I've got a rough version working, but it's far from optimal. I thought I would write this to try to figure it out for myself, c......

Every feature kenku.org currently has

2024-01-13

This post is intended to talk about what kenku.org offers; it also acts as an onboarding guide for new beta-users. I expect this to change over time as I continue working on the project. For those who......

I miss making pots by hand

2024-01-09

I miss coding pre-chatpgt. It's an amazing technology but I’ve realized that using it over the last year has severely negatively impacted my skills as a programmer. Moreso, it seems like we’re headin......

Using Caffeine as a psychedelic

2024-01-04

For context: I drink a lot of caffeine and like a lot of people have developed a bit of a tolerance. I estimate my daily intake is anywhere from 120-300mg everyday. There were a couple things that s......

What I've learnt the first week of programming my "startup"

2023-11-10

I wanted to write a post about what I've been doing in my first week of university break. Kenku is an application that I'm busy developing that hopes to help combat sports athletes better manage the......

Why you should outsource your opinions

2023-11-03

Epistemology is fucked. Knowing things, and knowing that you know things is really hard. After learning about philosophical skepticism, induction and other brain-breaking epistemological problems in u......

Maybe being bored isn't so bad

2023-10-21

Most people look at being bored as wasted time, time that could have been spent experiencing, making memories or learning. Sure. Sometimes that’s true but by embracing and seeking intentional boredom ......

All the best posts about why you should start a blog right now

2023-10-12

These two posts pushed me over the edge when i was tossing up about whether or not to start a blog Ben khun Alex Guzey And also great writing advice from Scott Alexander here...

Hello World!

2023-10-11

I've finally decided to go ahead and start a blog. "Blog" is probably pushing it, to be honest. You can think of this as a collective home for all of my ramblings that won't get me canceled. I've bee......