About Me
Hi!
Welcome to my personal webpage. This is the space where I rant, accumulate notes on various topics that interest me and log the things I do. In general, this place is where I regain a sense of personal joy from the collection of walled gardens that is becoming internet.
Hope you have fun!
Work
I’ve been a scientist and more recently an IT worker (I’m a generalist, but mostly Python, if you have to ask). Came here to see my CV? This is no longer the place. But you can always just drop me a mail at: sanyi [dot] personal [at] Google’s mail service.com; mention this website and we can talk.
About the PhD bit: In 2021 I earned a degree in Cognitive Science and Language as part of the Cognitive Biology of Language group, led by Cedric Boeckx (University of Barcelona). I studied the evolution of the Homo sapiens cognitive profile relative to other human species (Neanderthals, Denisovans), from genotype to expression data to phenotype - or at least that was the ambition. Nowadays I barely keep up with the field, to be honest, though I still love to hear about it from time to time.
Interests
Apart from the professional stuff, in my free time I like to play bass. I try to expose myself to different music every day, with uneven success. You can see how that is going here.
At other levels, I enjoy: running, wikipedia rabbit holes, mate, dogs, raw liquorice, sci-fi, caving and climbing, ecology and philosophy, rpgs (virtual and pen-and-paper kinds), cooking. Climate change activism is a topic dear to me.
Blogposts, log & wiki
I log several of my activities as a form of self-accountability. Here’s why.
From time to time I like to write posts about my former research field, technical tips and courses. I don’t add many these days, rather preferring to expand my personal wiki instead, but occasionally more fully formed posts still might end up there.
What’s new?
03I09I’ve been active lately at mastodon. You should search for me there! Also, I dropped the CV from here. It no longer suits the spirit of this website.
You can see the historic of these status posts here
Disclosure:* I don’t collect visitor data, and use no LLM assistance whatsoever (ChatGPT or else), except when explicitely disclosed. All content here is purely human, personal and mine. Welcome!