Projects
- Building a personalized reading buddy/assistant at Recurse Center as part of the Summer 2 '24 batch.
- Collaborating on an archival Somali music project (followup to this post).
- Writing a paper on a new physics-inspired Monte Carlo sampler with a secondary application in nonlinear programming.
Piano
- Refreshing:
- Perpetuum Mobile by Simon Jeffes (arranged by Paul Barton)
- Étude Op. 10, No. 9 by Frédéric Chopin
- All the Warm Lives by Masakastsu Takagi
- Learning:
- Ball by Duval Timothy (arranged by Zhiwen Liang)
- Summerland by William Grant Still
Reading
- Just Ride by Grant Petersen
- The Duties of Brotherhood in Islam by Al Ghazali
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
- Pan-Africanism: A History by Hakim Adi
- Bad Diaspora Poems by Momtaza Mehri