I find writing to be a very fascinating and therapeutic activity. There’s nothing quite like twiddling a bunch of words into a sequence, reading the result out loud, grimacing, and adjusting until it sounds just right. It’s the reason I started this blog yet I find that I haven’t been able to write as much as I would like to. It sucks, but articles on here have usually been academic and because I prioritize quality over quantity, finding the time to write them has been very challenging.

To combat this dry spell, I’ve decided to create a new section of the blog entitled Miscellany, where I’ll post on a variety of topics such as interesting research papers, books I read, and philosophical ponderings of life. I still intend to publish on the main section, but posts there will be reserved for tutorials and research expositions primarily in machine learning. I’m aiming to write once a month and while it’s not much, it’s still better than nothing. As Andy Dufresne puts it beautifully in The Shawshank Redemption:

Get busy living, or get busy dying1.

  1. A tad bit dramatic for my case, but I couldn’t resist.