# sλrthak > personal notes on inference systems, high-performance computing, distributed systems, and things built along the way. ## navigation - [home](/): about sarthak, current interests, experience, and projects. - [all writings](/blogs/): every article, ordered newest first. - [rss feed](/feed.xml): the latest writing in rss 2.0 format. ## writings - [make cool stuff](/blogs/make_cool_stuff/): building soulful projects, escaping tutorial hell, and learning from first principles. - [why you should learn ocaml](/blogs/learn_ocaml/): functional programming, immutability, type systems, and why ocaml changes how you think. - [on randomness and its implementation](/blogs/randomness_impl/): pseudorandom numbers, random number generators, and monte carlo integration.