Hello World

This is my first post on the new blog. I rebuilt the whole thing from scratch using Quartz — a static site generator designed for Obsidian vaults.

Why Quartz?

I tried a bunch of tools before — Hugo, Digital Garden, and the old Quartz v3. They all worked, but none of them felt right. What I really wanted was simple:

• Write markdown in Obsidian, just like I always do
• Drop the file into a folder
• It shows up on my website

That’s it. No frontmatter gymnastics, no HTML, no build configs to fiddle with. Quartz v4 does exactly this.

What you’ll find here

I write about whatever I’m learning or thinking about:

• Deep Learning — notes from courses, paper summaries, experiment logs
• Programming — things I build, tools I use, problems I solve
• Life — books, movies, cooking, and other things that make life interesting

A quick demo

Here’s a callout, because Quartz supports them natively:

Obsidian-flavored markdown works here

Wikilinks, callouts, tags, math — everything just works. No conversion needed.

And here’s some math, because why not:

$${\nabla }_{\theta }J(\theta )={\mathbb{E}}_{{\pi }_{\theta }}\left[{\nabla }_{\theta }\log {\pi }_{\theta }(a|s)\cdot Q^{{\pi }_{\theta }}(s,a)\right]$$

That’s the policy gradient theorem. If you know, you know.

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Thanks for stopping by. More posts coming soon.If you’re curious about any of these topics, feel free to explore the tags or reach out. I’m always happy to chat. I hope you enjoy reading as much as I enjoy writing.