Nikhil Anand — Des Moines, Iowa

Hello!

I’m Nikhil Anand. I'm a student at the department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University where I'm learning to love and survive both graduate school and New York City as my wife and our diva husky send me good vibes from home in Iowa

Here’s a little more about me and what I’m up to now. I’d love to hear from you and hope you have a most splendid day 🖖🏽

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FlüfpecksMy friend Mark asked me what I thought this image depicted. I was totally stumped and guessed fungal mycelia or birds. Drones? Terrible. Nope, they’re wolf packs! 🐺 And the map shows how territorial wolves are. They created it “from 68,000+ GPS
Scenes from the Mahabharata by Giampaolo TomassettiA wonderfully fresh take. I especially love this one.
On What You're Supposed to be DoingVia Catherine: This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from (your people), not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to
For nearly six years and counting, I’ve had the misfortune of using Microsoft Teams, an infernal piece of software that I am not entirely unconvinced isn’t sadistic psychological research into discovering novel UI/UX anti-patterns.
Assorted Deep Thoughts™ on AI/LLMs(Addressed to myself. I look forward to eating crow over most of this.) To use LLMs effectively as a programmer, You still need to know what to tell them1. Be explicit. Especially with success/failure conditions. Especially when laying out a bra
Dogma for TypographersPaul Stiff wrote this inspirational list of dos and don’ts for typographers in 1999. It was written in response to an email circulated by Robin Kinross requesting typographic equivalents for the Dogme 95 injunctions of Danish film-makers. Readers