About

Thermal Noise

is the noise generated by the equilibrium fluctuations of the electric current inside an electrical conductor, which happens regardless of any applied voltage, due to the random thermal motion of electrons in the conducting medium.

Thermal Noise (The Blog)

is a set of noisy posts generated by the equilibrium fluctuations of thought patterns inside my /dev/brain, which happens regardless of any topic, due to random seeks performed on the brain device.

Who

I am a twenty-something Systems Programmer working on the Websearch Stack at Google. I live in the fascinating city of Dublin, Ireland. In a previous life, I have been a Systems Programmer at Sun Microsystems Bangalore, working on (Open)Solaris Device Drivers and Userland Libraries.

Computers and Programming have been a passion since I was 8 years or so. When I wrote my first program in LOGO

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And saw a square appear on the screen, I fell in love. My primary areas of interest in computing are Operating Systems, Computer Architecture, Theoretical CS (Computability,  Incompleteness, Complexity Classes). I enjoy programming in C, C++ or Python (although I have forgotten more languages than I care to remember).

I find Mathematics (Number Theory, Sets, Euclidean Geometry, Equilibrium in Games, Bipartite Graphs), History (Political, Cultural and Scientific), Physics (Thermodynamics, String Theory) fascinating and try to read up literature every now and then.

I have been a reasonably consistent writer on the internet for a few years. There is no specific “reason” that I write other than as a way of offloading thoughts from the brain. But I think atleast a part of it was influenced by my three most favorite clobs of text on the internet: This, This and This.

Disclaimer

You have no right to judge me by these posts. Nor do you hold the right to form some abstract mental picture of me and hold me responsible because I don’t fit your assumptions. These are words that are let out in moments of joy or sorrow or boredom or pain or fear or anticipation or delight or disappointment.

But the fact is that these words represent my own views. They don’t necessarily represent the views of my employer, dog or girlfriend.