Big edit: After sharing this I had the sudden panic (because, of course, this post has such a huge impact on the world) that I forgot to mention the gigantic assumption that I’m only looking at the sensible heat of the system, which is why I can treat the energy...

edited 2016/07/15. I put together a list of my publication. At first I wanted to use Google Scholar as it has a nice, automatically updated list but their site is ugly and I don’t know of a way to integrate it into my own. But I also keep on top...

The problem of tiny apartment space and controlled brewing is a major problem for this poorly paid grad student in an expensive part of town. Having naturally constant temperatures for two weeks seems like it wouldn’t be a problem for LA, but I always run into gigantic weather and temperature...

Update: I reformatted a computer in my lab with Ubuntu 14.04. I went through installing LIGGGHTS and the Python wrapper – along with an mpi4py instead of pypar for parallelizing with Python. It was actually much simpler than the process I’ve outlined here. I’m going to leave this here for...

This is a beautiful homage to coffee as written by the great Honore de Balzac (translated from the French by Robert Onopa). I am compelled to share it as I sit on the patio with a cup. And here it goes… Coffee is a great power in my life; I...