Chinar artwork
Where are you?
Nov '25 — Present
Front End artwork

Front End

About the learned Joshi's front end, exploring

something adn something

Palo Alto

Review

780 words

Middle End artwork

Middle End

About the isomorphic Joshi's middle end, exploring

begrudging and belonging

Palo Alto

Review

700 words

Back End artwork

Back End

About the formal Joshi's something, exploring

moments and memory

Palo Alto

Review

800 words

Simulation artwork
Where am I?
Aug '25 — Oct '25
Phenomenalist artwork

Phenomenalist

About why the 5-modal Joshi is the only one in his head, exploring

solitude and solipsism

Palo Alto

0 words

Berkeley: Reprise artwork

Berkeley: Reprise

In which the graduated Joshi revisits his wayward words, exploring

pretention and purpose

Palo Alto

Review

2.0k words

P ≟ NP artwork

P ≟ NP

About why the quiet Joshi might never find the right words in polytime, exploring

decision and decidability

Palo Alto

0 words

SELECT * FROM things ORDER BY love LIMIT 5 artwork

SELECT * FROM things ORDER BY love LIMIT 5

About that which the opinionated Joshi’s can’t live without, exploring

Symbols and storytime

Palo Alto

Soon

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Again. artwork

Again.

In which the constipated Joshi explodes while cooking, exploring

metaphysics and metametaphysics

Palo Alto

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Attention is All You Need artwork

Attention is All You Need

In which the responsible Joshi takes the scenic route, exploring

FSD and floaters

Palo Alto

Soon

1.2k words

Ouroboros artwork

Ouroboros

In which the broken-record Joshi says the same shit over and over and over and

over and over

Palo Alto

0 words

Hawking Radiation artwork

Hawking Radiation

About the transient Joshi’s art-making, exploring

rumination and revelation

Palo Alto

370 words

^C^L^P\n artwork

^C^L^P\n

Is this really all there is...?

Palo Alto

Soon

190 words

Multiverse artwork
How many am I?
Jun '25 — Aug '25
God’s Eye View artwork

God’s Eye View

About the non-deterministic Joshi’s infinite branches, exploring

entropy and epistemology

Palo Alto

3.4k words

Laundry Day artwork

Laundry Day

About why the intergenerational Joshis love folding clothes, exploring

mistakes and multiplicity

Palo Alto

700 words

Baryogenesis artwork

Baryogenesis

About the physical Joshi's first phase, exploring

antimatter and asymmetry

Palo Alto

230 words

fork() artwork

fork()

In which the pathetic Joshi takes 4 months to learn a simple lesson, exploring

longing and lament

Palo Alto

Review

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Two Drifters, Off to See the World artwork

Two Drifters, Off to See the World

About the tethered Joshi’s race’s Rat Race, exploring

matter and mind

Palo Alto

320 words

More Sonic Capacitors artwork

More Sonic Capacitors

Which relates the sonic Joshi’s checkpoints, exploring

commits and catharsis

Palo Alto

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Shit's Calm artwork

Shit's Calm

About why the ‘cursed’ Joshi’s problems are actually solvable, exploring

depth and depression

Palo Alto

1.3k words

Beauty is Fragile artwork

Beauty is Fragile

...

Palo Alto

0 words

Chinar = Px, P ∈ ℝ^(3×n) artwork

Chinar = Px, P ∈ ℝ^(3×n)

In which the 3+1D Joshi makes biryani, exploring

purpose and projection

Palo Alto

Redacted

2.4k words

Agency artwork
What am I?
Mar '25 — Jun '25
Tensor Residence Scheduling artwork

Tensor Residence Scheduling

In which the Pareto-optimal Joshi abuses the NUMA hierarchy with NVLink-C2C, exploring

memory and mechanism

Atlanta

150 words

Inconsolatra—Garamond artwork

Inconsolatra—Garamond

In which the Markovian Joshi falls in the middle, exploring

routine and residue

Palo Alto

2.0k words

Bad Egg artwork

Bad Egg

Decoding a 322 millisecond embedding between the lucid Joshi and GPT-12x, exploring

insight and I/O-bounds

Palo Alto

2.7k words

std::queue<Being> existence artwork

std::queue<Being> existence

In which existence[n] addresses his neighbors, exploring

fate and FIFO

Palo Alto

Soon

1.0k words

Serpentdipity artwork

Serpentdipity

About the conversation the delusional Joshi had on his birthday, exploring

sincerity and solitude

Palo Alto

470 words

Thousand-Bite Dinner artwork

Thousand-Bite Dinner

In which the bored Joshi almost steps on something, then does, exploring

surplus and scarcity

Palo Alto

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1.5k words

Echo Chamber of the Living artwork

Echo Chamber of the Living

About the arbitrary Joshi's loss function, exploring

gradients and gravity

Palo Alto

380 words

𝑀 artwork

𝑀

In which the lucid Joshi dissects free will with 5 sentences, exploring

sets and stochastics

Palo Alto

80 words

Kangaroo Court artwork

Kangaroo Court

In which the amortal Joshi finally goes to sleep, exploring

salvation and surrender

Palo Alto

Redacted

5.0k words

Balance artwork
Who am I becoming?
Oct '24 — Dec '24
2020 artwork

2020

In which the clumsy Joshi accidentally destroys the spacetime continuum, exploring

gratitude and growth

Johns Creek

160 words

My Nails Reek of Flesh artwork

My Nails Reek of Flesh

About why the culinary Joshi wanted to go vegan for a week, exploring

tastes and tinkering

Johns Creek

1.2k words

Poetry is Pointless artwork

Poetry is Pointless

About why the cynical Joshi thinks philosophy is just another coping-mechanism, exploring

vulnerability and vindication

Atlanta

180 words

Inception 2 artwork

Inception 2

About why the sleeping Joshi savors the mundane, exploring

sights and surreality

Atlanta

1.7k words

Half Man, Half Machine Learning artwork

Half Man, Half Machine Learning

In which ChatGPT is always there for the dependent Joshi… until it isn’t, exploring

availability and autonomy

Johns Creek

1.7k words

Sonic Capacitors artwork

Sonic Capacitors

In which the cathartic Joshi discharges some of his favorite songs, exploring

sounds and sentiments

Atlanta

1.2k words

iPhone 26 Nouveau Ultra+ artwork

iPhone 26 Nouveau Ultra+

In which the panpsychist Joshi’s new phone acts a little off, exploring

sentience and singularity

Atlanta

2.9k words

My Cold Fingers Say artwork

My Cold Fingers Say

Which relates vignettes of the nostalgic Joshi's favorite tactile memories, exploring

touch and thoughtfulness

Atlanta

440 words

2030 artwork

2030

In which Sir Joshi saves this journey from an anticlimax, exploring

humility and hope

Johns Creek

340 words

Identity artwork
Who am I?
Aug '24 — Oct '24
Three(ish) Words artwork

Three(ish) Words

Describing the contradictions of the indescribable Joshi, exploring

expectation and expression

Atlanta

280 words

DFS artwork

DFS

In which the caffeinated Joshi attends a lecture on space complexity, exploring

wondering and wandering

Atlanta

110 words

CTRL-z CTRL-y artwork

CTRL-z CTRL-y

In which the mutable Joshi is convinced that something has changed, somewhere, without his knowing, exploring

perfectionism and paranoia

Atlanta

60 words

Practicing for Disappointment artwork

Practicing for Disappointment

Which relates the conversation the sweaty Joshi expects to have on his next date, exploring

anxiety and apocalypse

Atlanta

970 words

Masochist Mountain artwork

Masochist Mountain

About why the restless Joshi will never let himself be satisfied, exploring

valor and validation

Atlanta

870 words

A Solipsist Language artwork

A Solipsist Language

Relating the amusing musings of the confusing Joshi concerning the nature of nature, exploring

TMs and termination

Atlanta

80 words

The Other Side of the Pond artwork

The Other Side of the Pond

In which the haughty Joshi sees a hottie staring back, exploring

virtue and vanity

Johns Creek

560 words

Customer Disservice artwork

Customer Disservice

In which the unstoppable Joshi meets an immovable object, among other legendary events, exploring

motivation and Murphy's law

Johns Creek

4.4k words

Severed Finger artwork

Severed Finger

In which the disillusioned Joshi silences the noise, exploring

industry and identity

Atlanta

3.9k words

Awakening artwork
What have I done?
Jun '24 — Aug '25
Wandering Elsewhere artwork

Wandering Elsewhere

About what happened to the young Joshi's first romance after myriad missteps, exploring the timeless themes of

meandering and maturing

Atlanta

1.6k words

Lucid Dreams artwork

Lucid Dreams

About the inconvenient realizations had by the tipsy Joshi after the sixth beer, exploring

begrudging and belonging

Charlotte

1.0k words

Ephemera artwork

Ephemera

About the destroyed coffee cups that made the clingy Joshi let go of the past, exploring

moments and memory

Atlanta

640 words

Ballad of the Balance Wheel artwork

Ballad of the Balance Wheel

In which the nihilist Joshi dissects his beloved wristwatch, exploring

morality and mortality

Atlanta

340 words

The Stood-Up Fool artwork

The Stood-Up Fool

In which a further account is given of the resigned Joshi's first romance after overhearing some gravely unwelcome news, exploring

rejection and resilience

Atlanta

1.4k words

United In Censorship artwork

United In Censorship

In which the unmasked Joshi decodes a garbled soliloquy, exploring

avoidance and acceptance

Atlanta

1.3k words

The Great Rat Race artwork

The Great Rat Race

About the contrived and prolonged game of numbers imposed upon the carefree Joshi by none other than the ambitious Joshi, exploring

perfection and purpose

Atlanta

790 words

Runaway Train artwork

Runaway Train

In which the steadfast Joshi dishonors his post to play ball with friends, exploring

satiety and sacrifice

Atlanta

210 words

Captain Obvious artwork

Captain Obvious

In which final resolution is given of the sappy Joshi's first romance upon revisiting some awfully briny messages, exploring

stagnation and self-actualization

Atlanta

2.9k words

Tradeoffs artwork
What can be done?
May '04 — Dec '24
Chinar’s Molarious Mole Jokes artwork

Chinar’s Molarious Mole Jokes

Plus, other very high-quality puns

Johns Creek

580 words

How to connect to WiFi artwork

How to connect to WiFi

Plus, unwinding Linux's network stack

Atlanta

1.5k words

Shell Shock artwork

Shell Shock

Plus, a survey of undesigned software

Atlanta

1.1k words

English + sh artwork

English + sh

Plus, the history of natural language interfaces

Atlanta

1.2k words

̅C̅o̅d̅i̅n̅g artwork

̅C̅o̅d̅i̅n̅g

Plus, the Monkey Comparison problem

Atlanta

2.7k words

The N in NLP artwork

The N in NLP

Plus, a way to unit test LLM prompts through embeddings

Atlanta

1.3k words

VERSION artwork

VERSION

Plus, sexy libc functions

Atlanta

2.7k words

Algorithmic Monism artwork

Algorithmic Monism

Plus, A labor-market approach to inference scheduling in soft-real-time

Atlanta

3.2k words

The Tradeoffs of Compression artwork

The Tradeoffs of Compression

Plus, why we'll never declaw intelligence due to Moore’s law

Atlanta

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