Miscellaneous

Here’s for miscellaneous:

• I have a cat named Fore.
  
  Fore having fun

  

  Backyard, Spring 2023

• At various points in my life, I seriously thought about doing analytic philosophy—that switch has not happened as of now.
• When I go cycling, it’s usually on the East Bay Bike Path. It has really nice views!
• Kendo practitioners use a shinai—a bamboo sword made from four slats—to fight. As an engineering student it was naturally quite fun to see how this works. It bends a lot!
  
  FEM simulation results

  Yes, the strike is surprisingly powerful! Shinais actually bend this much in competitions and such.
• When I was at UWC Atlantic, we were told that the Bristol Channel, where we kayaked, had the world’s second highest waves. I still don’t know where the first is.
• Through watching anime, I miraculously gained a fragmented, but sizable, set of Japanese knowledge. Later I found out that people now call this “unsupervised learning”.