Archives
- 10 May Book Review: Children of Strife by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- 18 Apr Data Science: An AI LLM Wiki for DnD Session Notes
- 08 Apr Book Review: Queen Demon by Martha Wells
- 07 Mar Book Review: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- 22 Feb Book Review: The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
- 31 Jan Book Review: Cibola Burn by James S.A. Corey
- 04 Jan Book Review: Abaddon's Gate by James S.A. Corey
- 14 Dec Book Review: La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman
- 13 Sep Book Review: Translation State by Ann Leckie
- 24 Aug Book Review: Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
- 10 Jul Book Review: Isles of the Emberdark by Brandon Sanderson
- 25 Jun Book Review: Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
- 01 Jun Data Science: Querying DnD Session Notes with Vector Databases and AI
- 25 May Book Review: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
- 13 Apr Book Review: I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
- 09 Feb Book Review: Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
- 30 Dec Book Review: Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson
- 28 Oct Book Review: Dawnshard by Brandon Sanderson
- 24 Sep Book Review: Spellbreaker by Blake Charlton
- 25 Aug Book Review: Spellbound by Blake Charlton
- 04 Aug Book Review: Spellwright by Blake Charlton
- 07 Jul Book Review: Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- 23 Jun Book Review: Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- 02 Jun Book Review: Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- 10 May Book Review: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- 28 Apr Book Review: The Long Price Quartet series by Daniel Abraham
- 07 Jan Book Review: Defiant by Brandon Sanderson
- 07 Dec Book Review: System Collapse by Martha Wells
- 21 Nov Book Review: The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie
- 22 Oct Book Review: The Sunlit Man by Brandon Sanderson
- 14 Oct Book Review: Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan
- 03 Aug Book Review: The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin
- 30 Jul Book Review: The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
- 06 Jul Book Review: Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson
- 25 Jun Book Review: Witch King by Martha Wells
- 04 Jun Book Review: The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson
- 30 May Book Review: Encounter with Tiber by Buzz Aldrin and John Barnes
- 30 Apr Book Review: The Lost Metal by Brandon Sanderson
- 04 Feb Book Review: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- 14 Jan Book Review: Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
- 15 Dec Book Review: At the Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard
- 30 Oct Book Review: The Redoubtable Pali Avramapul by Victoria Goddard
- 18 Sep Book Review: Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
- 21 Jul Book Review: The Fires of Heaven by Robert Jordan
- 19 Jun Book Review: A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark
- 18 May Book Review: Network Effect by Martha Wells
- 01 May Book Review: The Return of Fitzroy Angursell by Victoria Goddard
- 09 Apr Book Review: The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard
- 18 Mar Book Review: Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
- 24 Feb Book Review: A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
- 16 Jan Book Review: The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan
- 04 Dec Book Review: Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson
- 20 Oct Book Review: The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan
- 09 Oct Book Review: The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan
- 28 Sep Book Review: The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
- 12 Sep Book Review: Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- 13 Aug Book Review: Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
- 01 Aug Book Review: Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- 04 Jun Book Review: All Systems Red by Martha Wells
- 30 May Book Review: Ten Arrows of Iron by Sam Sykes
- 29 Dec Data Science: An Update on my Goodreads Reviews as of 2020
- 23 Dec Book Review: Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson
- 14 Nov Book Review: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
- 10 Oct Book Review: Blackout / All Clear by Connie Willis
- 23 Aug Book Review: Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
- 04 Aug Book Review: The Last Days of New Paris by China Mieville
- 28 Jul Book Review: To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
- 28 Jun Book Review: A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
- 24 Apr Book Review: The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
- 04 Apr Book Review: Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
- 15 Mar Book Review: Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
- 15 Feb Book Review: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
- 26 Jan Book Review: Steel Crow Saga by Paul Krueger
- 10 Jan Book Review: Starsight by Brandon Sanderson
- 31 Dec Book Review: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
- 20 Oct Book Review: Seven Blades in Black by Sam Sykes
- 14 Jul Book Review: Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
- 07 Jul Data Science: MongoDB Sky Searches with Geospatial Queries
- 16 Jun Data Science: MongoDB Sky Searches with HEALPix
- 01 Jun Data Science: Astronomy FITS Headers in MongoDB
- 18 May Data Science: Python Dataclasses and MongoDB
- 21 Apr Book Review: Children of Earth and Sky by Guy Gavriel Kay
- 24 Feb Book Review: The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi
- 26 Jan Book Review: God's Last Breath by Sam Sykes
- 26 Dec Favorite Books of 2018
- 14 Dec Book Review: Skyward by Brandon Sanderson
- 06 Nov Book Review: The Magician's Land by Lev Grossman
- 08 Sep Book Review: The Mortal Tally by Sam Sykes
- 30 Jun Book Review: The Wandering Earth by Liu Cixin
- 24 May Book Review: Ringworld by Larry Niven
- 08 Apr Book Review: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
- 01 Mar Book Review: Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
- 21 Feb Book Review: The Tyrant's Law by Daniel Abraham
- 15 Jan Book Review: Provenance by Ann Leckie
- 31 Dec Favorite Books of 2017
- 13 Dec Book Review: Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson
- 10 Nov Book Review: Edgedancer by Brandon Sanderson
- 16 Sep Book Review: The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
- 27 Aug Book Review: River of Stars by Guy Gavriel Kay
- 13 Jul Book Review: Rune of the Apprentice by Jamison Stone
- 23 Jun Book Review: Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
- 04 Jun Moving to Baltimore
- 21 May Book Review: The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi
- 24 Apr Book Review: Iron Council by China Mieville
- 02 Apr BDNYC and Beyond
- 11 Jan Book Review: The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
- 03 Jan Book Review: Caliban's War by James S. A. Corey
- 28 Dec Favorite Books of 2016
- 02 Dec Book Review: The Blinding Knife by Brent Weeks
- 02 Nov Book Review: The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K Dick
- 19 Oct Book Review: Death's End by Liu Cixin
- 20 Sep Data Science: What Should I Read Next?
- 20 Sep Book Review: Tau Ceti by Kevin J. Anderson and Steven Savile
- 13 Sep Data Science: My Goodreads Reviews
- 05 Sep Book Review: The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
- 24 Aug Book Review: His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
- 07 Aug Book Review: Hyperion by Dan Simmons
- 01 Aug Data Science: Republican & Democratic Conventions
- 29 Jul Data Science: The Divided States of America
- 22 Jul Data Science: Principal Component Analysis of Twitter Data
- 15 Jul Data Science: Presidential Candidates on Twitter
- 17 Jun Bokeh Plots in Blogger
- 16 Jun Book Review: A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan
- 26 May Book Review: The Children of the Sky by Vernor Vinge
- 06 May Coding: A Python Notifier for the NYC Subway
- 27 Apr Book Review: The Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson
- 12 Apr Data Science: Essentials of Data Science Bootcamp
- 25 Mar Data Science: Creating my First Web Application
- 23 Mar Book Review: Calamity by Brandon Sanderson
- 16 Mar Book Review: The Crippled God by Steven Erikson
- 15 Feb Blog Update: February 2016
- 27 Dec Advent of Code 2015
- 24 Dec Favorite Books of 2015
- 25 Nov Novella Review: Perfect State by Brandon Sanderson
- 22 Nov Moving to New York City
- 19 Nov Book Review: Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie
- 17 Oct Book Review: Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson
- 04 Oct Leaving Chile: The Next Adventure
- 06 Sep Book Review: The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
- 31 Aug Data Science: My Blog with R
- 12 Aug Book Review: Eight Skilled Gentlemen by Barry Hughart
- 12 Jul Book Review: The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
- 23 May Book Review: Mort by Terry Pratchett
- 20 May Astronomy: Young Stars and Planets Near the Sun
- 02 May Book Review: The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
- 30 Apr Astronomy: On Leaving Academia
- 12 Apr Book Review: The Scar by China Mieville
- 11 Feb A Journey to Southern Patagonia and Tierra de Fuego
- 16 Jan Book Review: Firefight by Brandon Sanderson
- 13 Jan Astronomy: The 225th American Astronomical Society Meeting
- 11 Jan Book Review: Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie
- 02 Jan Book Review: Afterparty by Daryl Gregory
- 31 Dec Favorite Books of 2014
- 17 Dec Short Story Review: The Wandering Earth by Liu Cixin
- 14 Dec Book Review: The City Stained Red by Sam Sykes
- 15 Nov Book Review: The Fear Index by Robert Harris
- 01 Nov Book Review: Sixth of the Dusk by Brandon Sanderson
- 26 Oct Book Review: Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- 23 Sep A Journey to Northern Patagonia
- 05 Sep Book Review: Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder
- 19 Aug Book Review: Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
- 27 Jul Book Review: The Story of the Stone by Barry Hughart
- 20 Jun Book Review: The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
- 19 Jun Astronomy: Cool Stars 18 Meeting
- 09 Jun Book Review: Storm Front by Jim Butcher
- 06 Jun Book Review: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- 10 May Book Review: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
- 20 Apr Book Review: Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
- 06 Apr Book Review: Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
- 28 Mar Astronomy: Observing at CTIO
- 23 Mar Book Review: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa
- 13 Mar Book Review: Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
- 02 Mar Book Review: Dust of Dreams by Steven Erikson
- 24 Feb Book Review: Wild by Cheryl Strayed
- 31 Jan Book Review: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
- 29 Jan Astronomy: Cloudy Weather on a Nearby Brown Dwarf
- 18 Jan Astronomy: The 223rd American Astronomical Society Meeting
- 01 Jan The Blog in Review: 2013
- 28 Dec Favorite Books of 2013
- 28 Dec Book Review: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
- 07 Dec Book Review: Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
- 21 Nov Astronomy: Comet ISON in Chile
- 03 Nov Book Review: The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
- 25 Oct RIP Kindle
- 20 Oct Book Review: The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
- 12 Oct Astronomy and Middle Earth
- 01 Oct Book Review: Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
- 25 Sep Book Review: The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
- 21 Sep Astronomy: Observing at VLT
- 10 Sep Book Review: The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
- 02 Sep The 2013 Hugo Award Winners
- 02 Sep Book Review: Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
- 22 Aug Astronomy: ALMA Observatory on Strike
- 17 Aug Book Review: Toll the Hounds by Steven Erikson
- 29 Jul Astronomy: Protostars and Planets VI
- 27 Jul Book Review: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- 03 Jul Astronomy: Las Campanas, Round Two
- 26 Jun Book Review: The City & The City by China Mieville
- 25 Jun Astronomy: New Potentially Habitable Planets
- 14 Jun Astronomy: A Video of the Local Universe
- 31 May Book Review: The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson
- 26 May Book Review: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- 18 May Book Review: Reaper's Gale by Steven Erikson
- 07 May Smog in Santiago
- 19 Apr Astronomy: More and More Planets
- 13 Apr Book Review: Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
- 06 Apr Astronomy: Observing at Las Campanas
- 10 Mar Book Review: The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
- 27 Feb Chile: 3 Years after the 27F Earthquake
- 18 Feb Astronomy: Observing at La Silla
- 09 Feb Book Review: A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
- 02 Feb Fund Me Maybe
- 29 Jan Book Review: The Drowned Cities by Paolo Bacigalupi
- 24 Jan Astronomy: Nine Years On Mars
- 21 Jan Astronomy: The 221th American Astronomical Meeting
- 17 Jan Book Review: The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
- 03 Jan Blogging for A Year
- 31 Dec Book Review: The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
- 29 Dec Favorite Books of 2012
- 24 Dec Novella Review: Legion by Brandon Sanderson
- 22 Dec Novella Review: The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson
- 10 Dec Book Review: The Bonehunters by Steven Erikson
- 06 Dec Hetu'u Global Network Results Published
- 26 Nov Chile: Summer and Winter
- 05 Nov Astronomy: Young Stellar Moving Groups
- 25 Oct Poetry: Isildur's Bane
- 16 Oct Four Stars and One Planet
- 10 Oct Exoplanet Visualizations
- 03 Oct A Year as a Postdoc Astronomer in Chile
- 25 Sep Book Review: The King's Blood by Daniel Abraham
- 18 Sep Chile on September 18
- 11 Sep Chile on September 11
- 07 Sep Video Book Reviews
- 01 Sep Book Review: A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
- 26 Aug Of Hurricanes, gods, and planet Jupiter
- 22 Aug Poetry: The Fellowship
- 17 Aug Book Review: Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
- 14 Aug A Line of Fire Across The Andes
- 13 Aug Book Review: Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
- 09 Aug Replacing our Moon with a Planet
- 05 Aug Book Review: Midnight Tides by Steven Erikson
- 02 Aug Astronomy: Mars Curiosity
- 29 Jul Marketing for Scientists Workshop
- 24 Jul LoTR Mini-Round Up
- 15 Jul Astronomy: Cool Stars 17 Meeting
- 12 Jul Book Review: The Winds of Khalakovo by Bradley P. Beaulieu
- 05 Jul Short Story: The Plane and the Calculator
- 29 Jun Book Review: The Ice People (La Nuit des Temps) by Rene Barjavel
- 24 Jun Book Review: Redshirts by John Scalzi
- 21 Jun Morning Mountains
- 20 Jun The Transit of the Earth... from Mars!
- 18 Jun Easter Island: Tourism! (3/3)
- 15 Jun Book Review: The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin
- 12 Jun Easter Island: Transit of Venus (2/3)
- 10 Jun Easter Island: Outreach Activities (1/3)
- 05 Jun The Day of the Transit of Venus
- 02 Jun The Solar System at Easter Island
- 27 May Book Review: Railsea by China Mieville
- 20 May Measuring the Distance to the Sun with the Transit of Venus
- 16 May Book Review: House of Chains by Steven Erikson
- 10 May A Memory of Light Cover for Kindle
- 08 May Astronomy: Spitzer Sees Light from Super Earth
- 01 May Exciting May Book Releases
- 28 Apr Transit of Venus: June 2012
- 28 Apr Chile After the Rain
- 25 Apr Astronomy: Observing at APEX
- 22 Apr Book Review: Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
- 19 Apr Book Review: Embassytown by China Mieville
- 16 Apr Direct Imaging of Extrasolar Planets
- 09 Apr Astronomy: MOSFIRE First Light
- 07 Apr The 2012 Hugo Award Nominees
- 06 Apr Book Review: Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
- 03 Apr Astronomy: ALMA Observations of Fomalhaut
- 02 Apr Iguazu Falls Trip: Brazil (3/3)
- 31 Mar Book Review: Crystal Rain by Tobias S. Buckell
- 29 Mar Iguazu Falls Trip: Paraguay (2/3)
- 27 Mar Iguazu Falls Trip: Argentina (1/3)
- 23 Mar Avatar: The Last Airbender
- 19 Mar Sunspots Group 1429
- 18 Mar Book Review: Memories of Ice by Steven Erikson
- 17 Mar Chilean Sunset: 3/16/2012
- 14 Mar WISE All-Sky Data Release
- 10 Mar ESO Conference: Observing Planetary Systems II
- 07 Mar Chilean Sunrise: 3/7/2012
- 03 Mar How to Make 3D Images with GIMP
- 29 Feb Of Years and Leap Years
- 27 Feb Supernova 1987A
- 27 Feb Chilean Anti-Sunset: 2/27/2012
- 26 Feb Suvudu Cage Match 2012: Initial Thoughts
- 20 Feb Book Review: The Dreaming Void by Peter F. Hamilton
- 16 Feb Distance Units in Astronomy
- 11 Feb FloridaTech... 6 years later
- 07 Feb Book Review: The Kingdom of Gods by N.K. Jemisin
- 04 Feb Science Education Standards in America
- 04 Feb GJ 667Cc: A Potential Life-Supporting Planet
- 03 Feb Book Review: Anathem by Neal Stephenson
- 30 Jan Game of Thrones Season 2 Trailer
- 28 Jan Solar Activity
- 23 Jan Santiago a Mil: El Encanto del Rio Amarillo
- 22 Jan Santiago a Mil: Titanic
- 20 Jan Book Review: The Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan
- 18 Jan SOPA: Stop Online Piracy Act
- 18 Jan Chilean Anti-Sunset: 1/18/2012
- 15 Jan Planets in Binary Star Systems
- 13 Jan Astronomy: The 219th American Astronomical Meeting
- 10 Jan Astronomy: Debris Disks
- 06 Jan Chilean 'Sunset'
- 06 Jan Book Review: Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
- 05 Jan Saturn, Titan, and more!
- 03 Jan Favorite Books of 2011
- 02 Jan Introduction
- 02 Jan Book Review: Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson