Suriya
Hi! 👋
I’m Suriya (pronounced Soo-r-ya)
I’m an Engineer, who loves to write. Suffice to say, I write here when I’m trying to think through something or when I’ve solved something.
I’m currently doing my Masters in Privacy Engineering at CMU, and my research is on the intersection between Machine Learning, Privacy and Systems Software.
I Love reading and experimenting with Distributed and embedded systems.
I enjoy meeting new people. So definitely send a shout-out to me at, hi at suriya.cc. 🙂
📚 books that I’ve read/reading
🧑🏻🏫 Readlog
🛍 ToDo
📜 essays
You can find the table of contents here
Recent Posts
🪣 Leaky Abstractions, or How we Understand the world, Oct 2 2024
Languages are a lossy communication framework. You meant one thing, but your friend understood something else. The same words don’t mean the same thing even a few hundred miles apart, etc....click to read
🌆 Atlanta, Sep 6 2024
Atlanta is what happens if you put too many white collars in the same space. Downtown was very immaculate and the roads were slick, not to mention wide....click to read
🌏 Postmortem from building an AI speech coach, Sep 1 2024
The problem International Students have a hard time understanding and integrating with the culture. This is true even if there’s a good grasp of the language....click to read
🏗️ LLMs and unstructured data, Aug 31 2024
Close on the heels of running a batch processing job over 1M documents, I was thinking about how LLMs are changing the way we process unstructured data....click to read
🧩 Solutions vs Feelings, Aug 31 2024
A friend of yours is going through a tough breakup. What should you do? I typically start offering solutions and ranting on and on about strategies to attack the problem....click to read
✉️ journal, Aug 20 2024
Journaling is going to become an important thing....click to read
🤺 Tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage, Aug 20 2024
YC is looking for evidence that you are clever. The ability to think out of the box and manipulate large systems to your advantage are critical to gaining an edge on the market when you have no capital advantage (which is usually the case with startups) https://medium....click to read
🖥️ Unix, Aug 19 2024
If you are on a unix-like environment, ports < 1024 (like 80) will require superuser privileges. Disk mounting and unmounting sudo mount -o discard,defaults <diskid> <dir> you can get the disk id by...click to read
🥘 ZSH, Aug 19 2024
Setting up new zsh with oh my zsh firs installing zsh involves brew install zsh While I don’t really trust and run randomly downloaded shell files....click to read
📚 Library of Congress information, Aug 17 2024
Library of Congress is really an incredible repository of content. Just scrolling through library of congress is a fascinating mental exercise....click to read
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