Aphorisms
Ideas are fleeting. This will be my space to document my thoughts.
1) Prevention is better than cure, but preparedness beats prevention.
2) In the search for truth, process matters.
Research Statement
I still find it hard to imagine how people got around before GPS was a thing or how anyone could wait for days, if not weeks, to receive a response before telephones - in the not too distant past. Couple years later, would people wonder "How did people write and/or code before LLMs"? Back towards the end of 2020 as I was wrapping up my internship at Biogen (perhaps the best 6 months of my life, as of September 2024, will probably write a blog on it next time I want to procrastinate), I decided that I wanted to pursue a PhD developing interpretable, handcrafted imaging biomarkers. The struggle of writing the statement of purpose (SoP) was REAL (and I still do struggle with writing a lot)! Back then, Prof. Priya Narasimhan's tweetorials helped a lot - Link 1 , Link 2 . Perhaps the one tweet that really helped me get started was You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page. — @jodipicoult — Prof. Priya Narasimhan (@YinzcamPriya) November 14, 2020 I spent se...
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