2017 was a watershed year for me. Roughly in chronological order, I: Went to therapy for the first time in 5 years Got over a case of prostatitis Got a Nintendo switch, which is dope; Zelda: BoTW is clearly one of the best games ever made Drifted away from close friends and romantic partners in … Continue reading
Author Archives: abehmiel
Areas in which I’d like to explore during my career
When I was entering into graduate school in nanoscale science, I did not have very many clear career goals besides, “I’d like to perform cutting-edge research in computational physics”, “I’d like to work on green energy technology”, and maybe “I’d like to use my talents to make the world a better place.” Perhaps if I … Continue reading
What I did at RC
An inexhaustive list of things I’ve done during my retreat at the Recurse Center: (explanatory links will be added when summary posts are finished) Worked on the Instacart Market Basket Analysis competition (1577th place at 0.3772453; max score 0.4091449) Did some introductory exercises with javascript coding and syntax on Freecodecamp Tried to implement a way … Continue reading
What Time Does the Shock Arrive at the Top of the Pipe?
During my first few days of unemployment, I wrote/mixed/mastered a quick 3-song release with 1 original (Melt Glass) and two covers (Mehmet Ali Ağca by Self Defense Family; Savings by Lungfish). It’s called “What Time Does the Shock Arrive at the Top of the Pipe?” and is available for free download on the Holistic Wellness … Continue reading
Body stuff / Feelings / Life / Photos
Periwinkle
Sheila used a ~1:1 dilution of the Arctic Fox “Periwinkle” hair dye with conditioner to achieve this effect. I love it! My hair was so dark that it required 3 bleachings to get to a point that it would properly take color, and we didn’t read the instructions properly on the 1st bleaching. Anyway, it … Continue reading
Recurse Center Admission!
Good news, everyone! My admission application to The Recurse Center has been accepted and I will be moving to New York City in early May to attend the Summer I batch from May 22 to August 10th. I’m really excited for this opportunity and think it’s perfect for my career trajectory. I’ve been dissatisfied with … Continue reading
Langton’s Ant in Python
I started a new repo on github that computes the Langton’s Ant cellular automata in python. For more information on Langton’s Ant, see its wikipedia page. Using classes in OOP is relatively unfamiliar to me, since most of the programing I’ve done in the last several years has been analysis scripts to extract trends and … Continue reading
