A California library is (thinking about) going book-less! I love the feel of paper and the smell of books more than most (that I know, anyway), but this makes me feel like a dream is on the verge of coming true. I think that libraries are amazing. And I don’t think it’s the books that…
Monthly Archives: March 2011
Implications of blogging
I just read an article describing a sobering, not to mention chilling, tale of the aftereffects of an academic blog post.* Now, I can’t help but acknowledge the incredible self-centeredness of my own reasons to blog, which I think is the result of thinking that a PhD student blog post about computer science cannot possibly see…
Why do I want to blog?
To be a better writer, to develop a voice, and other reasons...
Yes, skepticism is healthy. But the combined experiences of people writing in blogs and forums; the information compiled by Wikipedia contributors; all that bottom-up, grassroots information is arguably less prone to being influenced by external reasons. Whatever its faults, there is no more reason to doubt its intentions than to doubt the intentions of any…
Winter 2011: AT&T Labs Fellowship, oh my!
Among other happenings this quarter, I got the AT&T Labs Fellowship! This means I'll do a summer internship at the New Jersey-based Shannon Lab.
Ukrainianness FAQs
In this post, I provide answers to some pretty frequently-asked questions that have to do with my being Ukrainian. I also list a couple resources for learning about Ukraine.