A working notebook. Not a blog, not a wiki — an evergreen garden of ideas that grow, branch, and connect.
Notes start as seeds (sketches), grow into saplings (refined), and a few become evergreen (load-bearing). The graph view (the centerpiece of this site) is the truest map; what follows is a hand-curated entry path.
Clusters of thought
AI & Machine Learning
Foundations through frontier. How learning systems are built, why they work, and where they don’t.
- Machine Learning · Deep Learning · Neural Networks
- Large Language Models · Generative AI · NLP
- Federated Learning · fastai
Data Science & Math
The substrate underneath the modeling.
Software Engineering
The craft — from cat | grep to distributed systems.
- Software Engineering · The Pragmatic Programmer · SE at Google
- Algorithms · Operating Systems · Computer Networks · Unix
- Python · Julia · JS Design Patterns
- Risk Management in SE · Massive Data Management
Markets & Wealth
Capital allocation as a problem in incomplete information.
- Markets · Economics · Quantitative Finance
- Algorithmic Trading · Antifragility
- Wealth Creation · Wealth Sustainability
Philosophy & Mind
East and West, ancient and contemporary.
- Philosophy · Cognitive Science
- Plato · Aristotle
- Buddhism · Daoism · Confucianism
Practice & Meta
The work about the work — learning, writing, researching, building in public.
- Learning How to Learn · Research · Open Science
- Writing · Writing Ideas · Notes
- Blog · Ruminations · Tools
Navigating
- Hit / anywhere to search across every note.
- The graph in the background is interactive — drag, zoom, click a node to open it as a stacking modal.
- The complete, flat index lives at Threads.
- Source: github.com/rnair98/mind-palace.