October 20, 2024 [1740]: Sorry, I've been busy with a bunch of stuff lol, but in case there's anyone looking at this, I'd like to say that this page probably won't be updated regularly at all, but I won't take this page down because.. well.. history preservation to see how the switch between physics and CS went? And at this point my Twitter is my main blog, so I will just leave it at that. I am considering making the account private due to reasons I will detail on later, but presently Twitter is all I will use.
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July 28, 2024 [1100]: Ok so basically what I'm doing is to put the timestamps on the main blogposts. So I won't be updating this page too much unless I think it isn't relevant enough to be on the main blog section. But anyway, I have officially left physics academia for CS and to all the physics academia peeps that were being cunts: too bad, you suck.
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July 15, 2024 [1014]: Well, I wrote a blogpost about algorithms on which I will follow up in a while. right now I have to go outside with mom, get back home, do some more coding, and basically figure out some basic Laravel site functionality and RTC protocol before doing anything more. But yeah algorithms and cryptography are seriously thrilling and I am going to go ahead and make myself more comfortable with these things before doing much further with the site. On that note I realise I have lost track of hep-th, but at this point I am trying to complete a few tasks I gave myself. well, breakfast today will be seriously late and I am famished. I will try to update this page more often because wtf is this irregularity with the posting smh.
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June 18, 2024 [1219]: Here is a free pro-tip for all my music peeps out there. If you have orchestral plugins or even recordings and you realise it sounds weird so you put an EQ and it still sounds bad, 99% chance the issue is that there is reverb on EACH instrument without EQ causing this weird muddy-bleh sound. So, here is my big brain advice: put reverb on a stereo bus routing every instrument categorized accordingly (violas should not be mixed with double basses, for instance), and THEN put reverb. This way, you get extra equalizer-ease on every instrument and you can control everything accordingly. The over-roomy reverb on every instrument all together makes the whole thing sound clearly computerized, whereas a real orchestra would clearly have reverb ON ALL instruments, giving them that crystal clear large hall effect. So, put reverb on the stereo bus for the orchestra, routing every other instrument category bus into the main orchestra bus. Add in post-production gains, delays, compressors or whatever and you can get that nice orchestral sound with your zero dollar plugin ;)
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June 15, 2024 [1811]: Ugh I honestly wanted to update this page earlier, but I am seriously in a pretty hectic schedule (between procrastination, scoring and physics). I'm working on my version of the Strings open problems in Part 3a of the next Bulk Physics, Algebras and All That edition. I am almost completed on a paper as well, which should be out this week sometime. Sorry, gotta go lol. (Go watch Dune Part 2.)
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June 8, 2024 [1649]: Just wrote a blog spot from my Strings Twitter post. Will have to do some work today, mostly with typing up slides for a talk, but will also have to get back to music production. Hoping to do some interesting synthesizer works today, mostly about granulating (or doing granular synthesis on) an electric guitar sample to make it sound very rusty and reverby. There are some papers to read and some meetings to be had, but I am really really comfortable right now with the temperature which is at 26 degrees and my tea is at the right temperature to be drank, and so I am thinking of doing some thinking on minimal strings.
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June 3, 2024 [2338]: Today was the first day of Strings 2024. There were some very interesting talks, particularly the Lessons on JT gravity talk by Stanford et al. While I cannot comment on much since most of the Virasoro minimal string aspects linked to JT stuffs throughout today, there are certainly some aspects that I would be interested in writing longer blog posts on. I will probably do some music production, with the main theme almost complete and a track already done. But as of now, the first thing I have to do is to listen to Kiss The Ring ;)
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May 27, 2024 [1856]: Ok so I had a setback in the completion of the paper, which I think should be announced this week. I am still making some changes and currently as it stands it is the first paper in two papers on the semiclassical gravity dual of the crossed product and coarse-graining. But I am doing a lot of scoring works, and still trying to complete the first track (which has been impeded because the BBCSO Discover plugin kept slowing and glitching down the session). However, this is only the sample track so far, so won't be too worrisome.
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May 23, 2024 [1511]: Was busy with a lot of work the last couple of days, did a lot of music production as well. Currently I have to go for lunch, but will soon be back with a stringy post today ;) Meanwhile, listen to Dune Part 2 soundtracks.
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May 19, 2024 [2341]: Yeah it is night again for today, but today was a busy day. I did a lot of work, primarily on my paper (which is the first part of the papers) and almost completed the draft, did some synth work (mostly with Duduk sampling [yes, I can play one note on Duduk] and synth production), but it was for very little time. I had plans to go on with a more stringent work schedule since summer is near, but I think I will let it be a little open-minded. Once this paper is done (which it should soon since it isn't too complicated nor the one where I talk about explicit computations), I will probably arXiv it and work on synths for a while before getting back to the continuation papers. Hopefully I get some resolution from my collaborator about this, but otherwise today was a good-ish day. It, however, did not rain. Back to listening to Kiss The Ring :)
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May 18, 2024 [2231]: Took a while to update this status, but was mostly busy in trying to complete my paper. Had a meeting with my collaborator, and did some synth study earlier in the day. It rained today, and I watched the Rain Man, which is a great movie and is top 2 in my list. Will update early tomorrow though. Maybe also complete the paper, do some work and study BBS which has been left out for a while.
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May 17, 2024 [1551]: Working on the same stuff as yesterday, but I realised that there is a clear nesting principle I missed with these wedges. Also, trying to figure out how to make a duduk sound with the synthesizer I'm using, which seems very complicated with the subtle harmonics. Will probably also go back to BBS, which has been impeded for a while because of my other works. Posted a thread about de Sitter holography, on which I hope to add in some points. Altogether, I will post the tweets for now as a blog post here. For now, I probably want to do some work and eventually do some study on synths.
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May 16, 2024 [1800]: Working on AdS/CFT, will also be doing some music production stuff. Basically, I'm trying to make a duduk sound on a synthesizer. A meeting with a collaborator is probably going to be the evening plan today, but I hope to get some more work done on this AdS works. Seemingly, a part of the conclusion is that the coarse-graining we have in mind is purely algebraic and doesn't involve bulk modifications with some subtleties, but all of this has some interesting points with the perturbation schemes by Engelhardt and Wall. Well, some more readings are needed before I can substantiate any statement. Back to listening to Harkonnen Arena for now while working though :)
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May 14, 2024 [2034]: Tired today after travelling, I didn't quite do much other than read a paper on some related works, and work on some music production stuff. Hoping to catch up with a collaborator to write a draft on the thing we're discussing, and hopefully the paper will be done this month, seeing that most of the works seem to be purely formal. Of course, there is nothing ``purely formal" about QES and semiclassical AdS/CFT, but as of now it seems that way for our work. I want to try out Zebralette synth, but I have to restrict it because of my current computer performance limits. However, I do find some interesting tweaks with Vital and Surge XT, which are my workhorse synths.
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May 12, 2024 [1547]: Working on some semiclassical stuff, the thing is the classical limit makes sense -- the semiclassical one seems weird. In the midst of the whole issue of defining things that we are working with, there is also the issue of perturbations. Like I said, this stuff is weird and I am really bored right now. Hoping to get some inspiration with reading some papers in my library. One thing I have not done yet is to consider the relative entropy in this sense as well, but it seems obvious now because we can take cuts of the Killing horizons to define things like one-sided modular Hamiltonian, etc. Haven't had lunch yet, had a late breakfast. Will probably continue reading War of the Worlds for the millionth time and listen to Dune Part 2 soundtracks while working. Better get back to work now.
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May 11, 2024 [1335]: Tweeted an AI version of Maldacena doing the Lil Yachty walk, inspired by Flux posting a similar version of Ed Witten for his M-theory work. Going to get back to work once I finish this chess game I am in. Made some good-ish progress in understanding what I wanted to do with a particular relative entropy identity from the semiclassical coarse-graining thing. Will also type some more in the paper, but hopefully I can get a better perspective on the QES bulk shock. I also want to do some BBS and get to my supersymmetry notes, and the RNS formalism part is done. The GSO projection and GS formalism bits are the ones to do next. Not going to have lunch anytime soon since I had a late breakfast (noodles are not very good appetizers for lunch). Ok I better get back to work while listening to Arrival, Harvester Attack, Harkonnen Arena and the other tracks.
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May 10, 2024 [1722]: Procrastinated the whole day from getting back to AdS works. Will probably get myself to do supersymmetry, and maybe do some reading (I haven't opened arXiv's hep-th listing for today yet either). I probably will also try to think more about this issue of the coarse graining saturation bound, but I don't quite understand what the original semiclassical argument itself is. But I do know that there are some direct lines from the algebraic description I am working with. Maybe also the QES bulk shock at $v=0$? Seems that way, maybe the $O(G_{N})$ perturbation case is something to look at more concretely. Seemingly the calculation that Onkar Parrikar and someone else did last year was to re-derive (?) the QES bulk shock, but I feel that an algebraic description is better suited since it is natural to deal with such constructions in the two-sided AdS setting. I'll probably try to do it today.
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May 9, 2024 [1645]: Reading on supersymmetry from BBS currently. Also am typing some notes into an informal note for myself on supersymmetry. Otherwise, not much to do today apart from maybe getting to Banks' paper. The thing is I am not sure how I want to work around the semiclassical coarse-graining thing, so I am taking some time to think about it. I am going to continue working on the susy notes as of now. Maybe after I get some snacks I will try to get back to AdS works, but as of now I feel unexcited about anything non-stringy. Also, had tweeted pictures of GSW, Polchinski and BBS saying ``Let's go." on Twitter yesterday, which received surprising amounts of attention. Seems like a lot of people like Polchinksi :) Link to the post: Let's go. [BBS, Polchinski, GSW]
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May 8, 2024 [1715]: Doing string theory (duh), woke up from an afternoon nap (imo it isn't a nap if it is more than 15 minutes long), about to have some tea. In a while I'll get to typing the AdS/CFT paper, but I should have called my collaborator which for some reason has been long impeded. Bousso and Geoff's paper on entanglement wedges in their Holograms In Our World paper is interesting, but a majority of their paper is left out. de Sitter is also a little complicated with Banks' recent paper, which is shrouded in mystery to me, but I'm trying to understand the BRST arguments nonetheless. Maybe I'm just thinking of things in an overcomplicated fashion. Got my tea and I am going to continue string theory.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------May 7, 2024 [1418]: Reading on Banks' recent paper 2405.01773 [hep-th] which proposes a different identification of the Hilbert space. Still yet to understand it, but seems like an interesting thing. Apart from this, I'm still working on AdS stuff, with a slightly different perspective as well. Nothing interesting apart from this and watching Kitboga (lol). I probably should start thinking about de Sitter more formally, and especially this notion of Hilbert spaces that Banks has brought back up to light. Interestingly, Banks was one of the group of people (including Lenny) that made the advent on de Sitter Hilbert space and the entropy $S=A_{\Lambda }/4G_{N}$. There are also some interesting BRST aspects that this paper discusses that I want to understand. I am getting bad at time management as well, having skipped three meetings yesterday, so I will start working from now. Or after lunch. How is it that I am updating my status everyday at lunch time? Mysteries.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------May 6, 2024 [1312]: Got a nice thing done with my AdS/CFT work while listening to Harkonnen Arena. Spent sometime thinking about de Sitter, but to not much extent because it is a rabbit-hole I don't quite want to go down right now. But perhaps I want to do some string theory notes, because I have not gotten to Ramon-Neveau-Schwarz sectors yet (almost there). Have to type a write-up to send to a collaborator, and hopefully this work gets on track. Fun fact, we've been working on this for a year on-and-off, but it all boils down to a subtlety in using the crossed product construction. We're basically establishing a classical result (a re-proof, if you will), and extending it into the semiclassical limit. But now I am hungry. P.S. Just realised that Paul looks back again at Gurney after Chani leaves, because he forsaw that Gurney would say that the Great Houses have refused Paul's ascendency. Mind blown.
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May 4, 2024 [1246]: Thinking about $T\overline{T}$-deformations. Not sure what I want to do but probably I'll just get back to work on AdS/CFT. Into some interesting discussions on Cauchy slice holography, and some things about algebras and deformations are in my mind. Spent the better half of yesterday thinking on algebraic coarse-graining but did not really do much apart from that. Eventually I have to get back to BBS and Polchinski. Also had a realisation (thanks to Flux) that people who do ML in physics are probably the most smug people and I have no intention of being one of them. Ah, lunch is ready.
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April 29, 2024 [1927]: Typing some notes, had some evening snacks. Back to BBS, but hopefully will watch a movie tonight. Trying to pick a movie but Netflix has too many good options. Might watch Ted, but seemingly it is clear that the present works I have are way too miserable. String theory is turning out to be very exciting though, and I am keeping myself entertained by trying to complete some notes on bosonic string theory. Might also type a blog post about RN and GS supersymmetry, just to get a feel for it. Would be dope to add in the $\textsf{string theory}$ category.
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April 27, 2024 [1328]: Currently studying string theory from Becker, Becker and Schwarz. Opened Twitter a while ago for arXiv listing tweets but today is Saturday. Thinking on QES and algebras, hopefully will play some chess in a while.
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April 26, 2024 [2041]: Bored, tried to complete Part Three of Bulk Physics, Algebras and All That but trying to find a way to explain the CPW paper. Trying to understand some things about subspaces in type II$_{\infty }$ algebras. Listening to Arrival and Kiss The Ring by Hans Zimmer, obsessed with Dune Part 2.