Khoi Vinh's Blog, page 10

Podcasting from Home

I shared my work from home setup in a post earlier this month, but I’ve since had to set up…

Times Square with No One Around

Back before our sense of normalcy was completely reset, 330,000 people used to pass through Times Square in New York…

Movies Watched, March 2020

Between all the pandemic-mandated video conferences and cooking and cleaning and my kids’ remote schooling, I watched just over a…

Visualizations of Coughing and Sneezing

This video produced by researchers at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar demonstrates the effect on the air surrounding a person when they cough.…

Working from Home from Here

In the spirt of sharing as a remedy to isolation, I thought I’d share a peek at my home office,…

Movies Watched, February 2020

Though I often post these roundups of movies I’ve watched the previous month much later than I would like, I…

Do You Compute?

In this bizarre era we’re living through, it might seem inappropriate to spend time reminiscing about the past but I…

Afternoon in the Pandemic

It was unseasonably warm and bright in Brooklyn at the end of the workday yesterday, so I took myself for…

Taj Mahal

The Taj Mahal, a study in extreme symmetry. The structure itself, built from non-porous Indian marble, is built with painstaking…

Movies Watched, January 2020

Yes it’s the last day of February, but I’m posting this roundup of what I watched in January anyway. Early…