My good friend and former Sonar Mellowship bandmate Dr. David Ehrlich asked me if I’d contribute to the neuroscience class he was teaching at UW Madison entitled, “Music and the Brain.” The topic was creativity, improvisation, and algorithmic generation of music. It made for some fascinating research, and I learned a lot about both the … Continue reading
Author Archives: abehmiel
Piles of Rags to Love and Cherish
I released an album today that I’ve worked on for a year and a half, off-and-on. Continue reading
Anthopogenic Methane Considered More Harmful; Total Methane Budget Considered More Manageable
I’m beaming with pride today. My brother, Benjamin, published his first first-authored peer-reviewed journal article in Nature. It’s gotten a lot of feature articles already in the mainstream press and has huge implications for climate change policy and fossil fuels; the equivalent of a grand slam at one’s first at-bat. Essentially, my brother’s team conducted … Continue reading
Pyedgeon news
Pyedgeon, my first pip package, was recently featured in a Recurse Center Joy of Computing blog post I did a lot of refactoring and ease-of-use additions to it, and have plans to create some weird side-projects with it + flask + twilio or something. I’ve got a lot of ideas recently and I am feeling … Continue reading
2017 and me
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
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
