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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For nearly six years and counting, I’ve had the misfortune of using Microsoft Teams, an infernal piece of shit 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 all or 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 ou
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
I am very little concerned with confronting, disrupting, or disturbing. I am too tired, too old now to be about that sort of activity. No longer do I wish to be an irritant, but rather a spreader of balm.
A graduate student used the word “voluntold” in conversation. I’d never heard of it and love it.
Some Textile Patterns from the 1920sI photographed these at a 2015 exhibit in Chicago and saved them to perhaps use as funky webpage backgrounds. I still remember them being so beautiful and absolutely hypnotic in person. They were designed in Austria, Paris, Munich, and Russia.