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I currently work as a Director of Engineering at Apple in Cupertino, CA. Prior to that, I spent 11 years as a Senior Software Engineer at Meta (Facebook), 8 years as a Software Engineer at Kodak, and 3 years as a Professor of Mathematics at MIT.
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It's 3:45 am, and I'm typing at my computer because I got some deep and profound technical insight into a certain class of computer algorithms.

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So tomorrow's agenda is to do laundry and then make a road trip to Santa Monica.

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Oh boy. HR gave us this lecture about how we can't be drinking alcohol at work. Then our divisional head proceeds to give everyone in our division booze at a company event in order to celebrate reaching a major engineering milestone.

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Shares of Tesla fell 14.3% on Thursday, as Elon Musk ramped up his public criticism of President Trump’s domestic policy bill. The plunge wiped out about $150 billion from Tesla’s market valuation. nyti.ms/4dVWWQg

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It's almost 10 pm, and I'm working on a really hard algorithm instead of sleeping. Gawd I hate computers. Also, I'm getting too old for this crap.

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The atmosphere is a needy sponge, demanding more and more water as it warms. This "atmospheric thirst" is largely responsible for the increase in drought severity and areal extent seen in the last 40 years, a new study finds. "A hotter world is a thirstier world." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/c...

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That's enough computer crap for one day. Time to once again leave my smartphone and social media behind. I'm going to head home and sit on my porch and drink beer.

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Spectral colours of meteors based on their elemental composition #colours #colors #meteors #elements #spectrum

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Oh wow

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On the 15th day of Sean Combs’s trial, a security officer gave a detailed account of how the music mogul gave him $100,000 — delivered in a brown paper bag — in exchange for surveillance footage that captured Combs beating his longtime girlfriend Casandra Ventura in 2016.

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Ugghh...So I wasted an entire Sunday at work -(.

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Cats 1. Wife 0.

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Mostly the Pacific Ocean.

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Oh boy.

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Jesus cripes. I feel like I'm reliving my days at MIT by drinking massive amounts of caffeine, and functioning on next to no sleep, while writing code.

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Yes.

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Chuckys dead.. But the American version is in the Oval Office.. www.kfvs12.com/app/2025/05/...

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I think my IQ dropped by 30 points after writing a web app in React.

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Japan says there is no easy concession on US tariffs, seeks more talks in June reut.rs/4dPUbQo

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That's enough for one day. Time to leave the smartphone and social media behind. Now I'm going to go home, sit on the porch, and drink beer while avoiding computers like the plague.

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Global warming?

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I don't have a plush office job. Instead, this job reminds me of when I worked as an overnight grocery stocker in undergrad school. In both cases, the job is about how quickly I can get things done.

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What a moron.

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Ugghh.. I really can't do anything at work until the engineers fix the software bug.

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Hooray. It's not even 5:30 pm, and I got all my work done. Time to leave the smartphone behind. I'm going to enjoy this three day weekend by making a road trip from Berkeley to Santa Cruz.

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This is kind of new and exciting... www.npr.org/2025/05/22/n...

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The declarative gui framework for Android sucks, and not that well either.

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Jim Irsay, the longtime owner of the Indianapolis Colts who took over the business from his father, has died at 65. nyti.ms/44Pm0pw

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I don’t think it’s too much to ask to bar convicted felons from running for President.

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The president of the United States has spent more time attacking Bruce Springsteen than addressing the fact that 771,480 men, women, and children were counted as homeless last year.

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How does a graduate engineering student make over $300,000 a year by peddling computer parts and then say that business isn't his thing?

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And the excitement for the day when I get home is sitting on the porch and drinking beer. Minus the smartphone and social media.

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It's over 70 degrees outside and I'm stuck at work -(.

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Oh wow.... www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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It's almost 11:30 pm and I can hear my neighbor having sex.

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BING BONG 🔔 The New York Knicks have knocked out the defending champion Boston Celtics to advance to its first Eastern Conference Finals in 25 years.

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Anyone who has worked on intelligence matters understands the importance of apolitical analysis and speaking truth to power. In firing intel officials who did just that, Gabbard proved once again that she is unfit for her position.

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Amgen owes $406 million for monopolizing cholesterol drug market, US jury says reut.rs/4kfu7Qw

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Official says Iran would forego highly enriched uranium for deal, NBC reports reut.rs/4mznZor

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I apparently reached a different conclusion about computers than the university Computer Science professors. A lot of the professors say the central idea in Computer Science is logic. I say the central idea is learning how a computer works. Who's right?

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