Short Thoughts
Some selected thoughts, ideas, and feelings
# Programming
> I write an average of five new programs every week. Poets have to write poems. I have to write computer programs.
— adithya (@adithya_balaji) April 17, 2020
This is such an awesome sentiment, and the article is great as well.https://t.co/YsAdtn2ZLI via @QuantaMagazine
using breakpoints, debuggers, and execution profiling is a serious step up from print statements
— adithya (@adithya_balaji) February 21, 2021
it’s a shame that many CS classes don’t teach the tools necessary for software engineering
avoid all the boilerplate code for object comparison in python:
— adithya (@adithya_balaji) April 20, 2022
you implement `__eq__` and `__lt__` and use the `total_ordering` decorator
and bang, all the comparison methods are generated for youhttps://t.co/NT7WjJmhvR pic.twitter.com/XvPZa3aXJt
CPython has some semi-magical functionality that traverses the stack to check if an object is self-referential before it prints out its representationhttps://t.co/4lV5bCibeP pic.twitter.com/xuYOW7v12R
— adithya (@adithya_balaji) March 21, 2022
# Startups
totally agree--companies that operate in the world of atoms, not bits especially need to find the pareto optimal between first principles thinking and move fast break things thinking https://t.co/Wh0U72dyHg pic.twitter.com/cbL2QZZdnw
— adithya (@adithya_balaji) January 22, 2022
# Productivity
How to switch of from work from home (school from home)
— adithya (@adithya_balaji) August 18, 2020
It’s honestly not that bad of an idea to context shift your brain. pic.twitter.com/01bQDH3Bm7
A trick I've found when I'm not feeling productive is to do something small that makes me get into the zone.
— adithya (@adithya_balaji) October 4, 2020
Cleaning my desk and taking a few typing tests are my favorite examples of this.
dieting books in four lines
— adithya (@adithya_balaji) February 2, 2021
what you want to eat
when you want to eat it
how much you eat
pick two
buy business cards from your university
— adithya (@adithya_balaji) June 29, 2021
they’re great personal contact card that work well long after you’ve graduated (and are pretty cheap too) pic.twitter.com/5IMKdb9qrc
have any of you tried manipulating yourself into picking up a good hobby/habit?
— adithya (@adithya_balaji) July 14, 2021
my recent trick has been to join a subreddit (e.g. /r/running) to inject it into my daily feed
you become what you expose yourself to
# Society
pre-internet
— adithya (@adithya_balaji) February 4, 2021
you are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with
post-internet
you are the average of your 1% most engaged followers
In machine learning the boundaries between classes is important to properly understand edge cases.
— adithya (@adithya_balaji) November 12, 2020
The same can be said for people, you don’t know someone until you hit the edges of their operating window
the united states is the most interesting startup of modern times
— adithya (@adithya_balaji) January 3, 2021
• disrupted existing monarchy systems
• global market penetration / monopoly
• hockey stick gdp growth
long usa
I love how “internet culture” has slowly just become “culture”
— adithya (@adithya_balaji) April 14, 2021
america’s diversity is its strength and nothing shows it off better than our airports
— adithya (@adithya_balaji) June 15, 2021
amazing convos with really cool people if you initiate
the invention of writing becomes all the more impressive when you realize that humanity has to do a 100% knowledge transfer every 100 years
— adithya (@adithya_balaji) July 1, 2021
how long things take to begin
— adithya (@adithya_balaji) August 22, 2021
but how quickly they end
infrastructure and writing seem like the only ways to leave a legacy
— adithya (@adithya_balaji) September 13, 2021
writing prose
— adithya (@adithya_balaji) January 7, 2022
writing code
are the only two ways to change the world from the comfort of your room
# Jokes
$ alias please="sudo"
— adithya (@adithya_balaji) January 8, 2021
$ alias shutup="shutdown"
$ please shutup
main characters in movies are always picking up and staring at picture frame
— adithya (@adithya_balaji) March 19, 2021
while a side character runs through some exposition
this type of shit never happens in real life
it’s a well known fact that the reason SQL keywords are uppercase is because shouting at databases is more effective
— adithya (@adithya_balaji) May 3, 2021
I’m 3 inches taller than Napoleon so I must be 4% more effective at conquering Europe, right?
— adithya (@adithya_balaji) June 1, 2021
I love how in the original avengers they have holograms but not smart phones
— adithya (@adithya_balaji) June 26, 2021
I have a proof for the collatz conjecture
— adithya (@adithya_balaji) August 9, 2021
… but it’s too large to fit in a tweet
you don’t brush your teeth in the shower?
— adithya (@adithya_balaji) August 30, 2021
do you hate efficiency
who needs a dslr when I can just take off my glasses and get natural depth of field
— adithya (@adithya_balaji) September 7, 2021
forget the CPI, I want to talk about inflation in scam emails
— adithya (@adithya_balaji) October 14, 2021
looks like 1 million dollars just isn't cutting these days pic.twitter.com/ni5AbHI9d0