Dec 31, 2022Comes, The Wolf.The wind, gentle and cool, tumbled through the window. The fire, warm and tame, bathed the room. His breath, slow and steady, filled his body, and against all reason, felt real. “Come now, where are you going?” it said with a voice of tumbling rocks. “ What is this place…2 min read2 min read
Dec 31, 2022Dopamine & Dota 2 : Why I don’t Play Anymore.Motivation and Introduction I had a blessed childhood. Even though I grew up in Sri Lanka, a developing country wrapped up in what was the tail end of a violent civil war, my parents managed to get me access to many of the things a growing boy could ever want…Dota 29 min readDota 29 min read
Sep 18, 2022Home To YouIf you lived on a floor high enough, with a window-garden green enough and an imagination broad enough, you could pretend that the city didn’t exist. You could imagine that down there, just past those elevator doors wasn’t a meat grinder waiting to be fed with the only thing it…2 min read2 min read
Jul 31, 2022The Pain Must Mean SomethingA kid goes to school, seated at the back of the bus. Around him, people that look like him, talk like him and act like him doesn’t give him the light of the day. He sits and watches, quietly so as to not disturb them, so as not to attract…4 min read4 min read
Feb 28, 2022What is the “good life”? — A Beginner’s Guide“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” …Philosophy8 min readPhilosophy8 min read
Jan 30, 2022Good DaysSeated to the left of the head of a decorated table, Arthur looked across through the window into the meadow outside. The cool September breeze rolled in across the hills. The entire family was in the room, seated around the long table, talking about everything and nothing, waiting for his…2 min read2 min read
Dec 23, 2021Mind The Flowers“Ha! I win. I win!” yelped the little red haired boy, rolling around in the grass. His friends sat around in a circle, dazed and confused. Behind them, a mighty tree rose up into the sky, alone on top of the grassy hill. The the hill on which the children…Fiction2 min readFiction2 min read
Oct 17, 2021Constant CompanionHe sat down at the mouth of the cave, exhausted from the climb. From the ground below, outside in the biting cold and beating rain, he had seen the dull, pulsating glow far above him. He remembered starting the climb but not the climb itself. …Short Story2 min readShort Story2 min read
Published in Learning Statistics with DotA·Aug 18, 20214 — The Z-test: An Illustrative Hypothesis TestMurder your darlings If you here require a practical rule of me, I will present you with this: ‘Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it — whole-heartedly — and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings. — Arthur Quiller-Couch In a…Statistics12 min readStatistics12 min read
Published in Learning Statistics with DotA·Aug 5, 20213 — Hypothesis TestingScience does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas: its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at any stage final and complete accuracy has been acheived. — Bertrand Russell, ABC of Relativity At this point, I think it’s well worth making a…Statistics10 min readStatistics10 min read
