Epistolary Purgatory

@epistolary_purgatory@robot.villas

Sumanth Srinivasan's essays on music, books, programming, language, travel, trains, and life in New York City.

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Odd Parallels Between LLM Tokenization and 六书 #AI #Linguistics #Writing
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Oct 30, 2025
Ten Years in New York City #NYC #Life #Essays
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Aug 26, 2025
Not A Review: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance #Books #Essays #Philosophy
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Jul 5, 2025
Blog Amnesty: 5 Posts in a Trenchcoat #Essays #Blogging #Life
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Dec 31, 2024
Fate Tectonics #Essays #Life #Personal
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Nov 12, 2024
Tech Setup for the Reckoner East Asia Tour #Tech #Music #Travel
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Jun 19, 2024
Kitchen Log #Essays #Life #Personal
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Mar 18, 2024
My 2023 Integrity Report #Essays #Personal #Reflection
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Mar 4, 2024
On Watching Movies #Movies #Essays #Culture
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Dec 2, 2023
A Tourist's Guide to JPEG #Photography #Tech #Art
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Nov 26, 2023
Japanese Music and Washing Dishes #Music #Culture #Lifestyle
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Oct 31, 2023
On Traveling #Travel #Essays #Life
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Oct 18, 2023
On Summers #Life #Essays #Reflection
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May 28, 2023
On Making Friends #Life #Essays #Community
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May 26, 2023
Review: Honeymoon in Tehran by Azadeh Moaveni #Books #Review #Travel
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Dec 18, 2020
Chronicles of the Reckoner Gearspace #Music #Essays #Life
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Oct 31, 2020
A Spring Of Farsi #Essays #Language #Culture
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Jun 28, 2020
On Using Kekulé Structures For Music #Music #Science #Essays
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Jun 20, 2020
A Brief History of Stopping Trains #Trains #History #NYC
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May 24, 2020
Trains: Gradients in the NYC Subway #Trains #NYC #Urban
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Mar 12, 2020
Fall Of Another Year (II) #Essays #Life #Reflection
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Dec 24, 2019
Fall Of Another Year (I) #Essays #Life #Reflection
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Nov 8, 2019
Trains: The Best Starter Train in New York #Trains #NYC #Travel
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Mar 19, 2019
Review: If On A Winter's Night A Traveler #Books #Literature #Reviews
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Nov 12, 2017
Different Trains #Trains #Travel #Essays
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May 6, 2017
Experts Advice -- A tutorial (sort of.) #Essays #Life #Advice
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Mar 22, 2017
Spectrogram of a Penderecki Composition #Music #Art #Analysis
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Feb 20, 2017
Fan Chirp Transform #Essays #Music #Life
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Feb 5, 2017
Unboxing Jugaad #Essays #Life #Innovation
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Jan 27, 2017
Moving On #Essays #Life #Reflection
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Nov 6, 2016
Wavelet Experiments #Essays #Music #Life
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Apr 26, 2016