Das U-Blog by Prashanth

Even though I published a post on this blog a few months ago [ LINK ] about my intuitions about climates of the world that do a much better ...

Since I started this blog in 2009, I have been almost perfectly consistent in posting at least once every month on this blog, and even at ti...

A few years ago, a friend of mine, who is a very accomplished player of the violin & viola and who is an amateur builder of violins ...

My last post on this blog [ LINK ] about my intuitions for climates was over 1 year ago, in 2024. Since then, I have continued to read more ...

I recently read the book Noise by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass Sunstein. I will refer to it as the current book, because it wa...

I started reading the book Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman in early 2024. This was initially recommended to me by a friend, and ...

My previous laptop was an ASUS UX331UN, and I wrote a post when I got it 6 years ago reviewing it [ LINK ]. It served me well, so I figured ...

Recent conversations with friends & colleagues about probability theory reminded me of conversations with a friend of mine in graduate s...

This post is a follow-up to a post [ LINK ] about an essay by the environmental history professor William Cronon, which in turn was about th...

Over the 3 years that I physically lived in California (as I worked remotely for UC Davis remotely from Maryland for 1 year before that), I ...