Lila Prime

Ray Nayler 's novella The Tusks of Extinction follows the consciousness of a scientist fighting elephant poaching, in her life before a...

I jotted down many quotes in this time interval, because every. single. social. interaction. now feels deeply meaningful and like a carefull...

Months of persistent nagging, often several times a day , was insufficient this time. Most of the class defaulted and failed to submit any s...

This post on sexual harrassment as a long con in academia is worth a signal boost. As such, defeating sexual harassment... will require a ...

This article in Nature offers a bleak outlook for science postdocs. The problem is the aggregation of individual human actions. If the sy...

The sun is shining, the air is frozen, the snowfall is coating the ground. Winter is here. I have defended, with success. This post...

I am compulsorily a member of the graduate student union. It looks increasingly likely that we will go on strike later this month. In my ...

No, not framing it for a crime. I just read the article A Revolution in Mathematics? What Really Happened a Century Ago and Why It Matters ...

Months of persistent nagging from various Harvard offices have yielded results. I wrote my 5-year reunion summary of myself. Apparently th...

One of the nicest things about being a graduate student is the freedom to set my own hours. If I am up early (as today) I can be in the off...

Over the weekend A1 and I had the opportunity to talk with A2. (They are numbered for the sake of clarity; my identity-protecting initial s...

It is the end of the semester for undergraduates. Do you know what that means? Big project time! The engineers who share the building wit...

I just read Martin Schwartz's note "The importance of stupidity in scientific research." In simple language, it explains how ...

For the first time, I have read a reference, in a work written by another person , to my own research. It feels good. It feels like I'...

Another acceptance, at a big conference this time. Whoo! This post's theme word: convoke, "to call together for a meeting."

This month feels like an aggregation of small and irksome tasks -- emails to act upon, articles to read, travel to arrange, deeds to follow-...

Some weeks, I just don't like graduate school. It's not the merry romp through fascinating ideas that I imagined; instead, it's...

I deal with a certain level of awkwardness every day. Huzzah for CS grad school. It has taught me that often, silence is the best response...

While at the Cory Doctorow reading , a nearby audience member caught my attention and said, "Excuse me. Is that a Radcliffe rugby swea...

I gave a seminar today, entitled "An introduction to Kolmogorov complexity." The abstract I provided: This week, I'll cover s...