DEAD<code/>

A place where I share things (mostly those related to my profession) with humanity. Humanity … do I like it? Let's say, I have mixed feelings. I love the song though!

The story behind the name DEAD<code/> is straightforward: the majority of code that software engineers write in their spare time ends up being unused, i.e. being dead—hence the name.

Personality

This particular page is about sharing something with regard to my personality rather than technical things. Here are a few examples of lyrics and quotes/sayings I like:

• "it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place.¹ If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"
  Lewis Carroll, "Through the looking-glass, and what Alice found there", 1871
• "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
  Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania Assembly: Reply to the Governor, November 11, 1755
• "Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig."
  Robert A. Heinlein, "Time enough for love, the lives of Lazarus Long", 1973
• "When the going gets tough, the tough get going."
  this saying is ridiculously interpreted in "South Park" s16e7
• "Do your duty, come what may."
• "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

I like to play computer games and spent a lot of time playing Quake and Unreal Tournament series at university and for some time after graduating. I am still playing, but mostly non-competitive games because they do not require investing time regularly. My nickname is Male sometimes with the tag stInc. This tag is now quite useless because I suppose I am the only one who still uses it. stInc means Starfuckers Inc, or sometimes it may mean "stink" 😛 I also was taking part for 3 years in developing (unfortunately mobile) games at ZeptoLab.

Following are examples of YouTube channels I am subscribed to and watching regularly, which may tell you something about my interests beyond professional ones:

• 3Blue1Brown by Grant Sanderson
  A combination of math and entertainment, depending on your disposition.
• Robert Miles
  Videos about Artificial Intelligence Safety Research, for everyone.
• Healthcare Triage by Aaron Carroll
  Videos that explain healthcare policy, medical research, and answer a lot of other questions you may have about medicine, health, and healthcare.
• Kurzgesagt—In a Nutshell by kurzgesagt.org
  Videos explaining things with optimistic nihilism.
• Real Engineering by Brian McManus
  Interesting answers to simple questions.
• PBS Space Time hosted by Matt O'Dowd (originally hosted by Gabe Perez-Giz)
  The channel explores the outer reaches of space, the craziness of astrophysics, the possibilities of sci-fi, and anything else you can think of beyond Planet Earth.
• Science without the gobbledygook by Sabine Hossenfelder
  No hype, no spin, no tip-toeing around inconvenient truths.
• Fermilab by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, hosted by Don Lincoln
  Videos on basic particle physics and cosmology.
• World Science Festival by World Science Foundation, hosted by Brian Greene
  Long and short-form videos on nearly every science-related topic including physics, biology, the brain, robotics, medicine, space, engineering, and the Earth.
• Jordan B Peterson
  Jordan B. Peterson is a Canadian professor of psychology, clinical psychologist, YouTube personality. This channel features videos from his classes, his podcasts, interviews, book tours and lectures.