Suriya

Hi! 👋

I’m Suriya (pronounced Soo-r-ya)

I’m an Engineer, who loves to write. Suffice to say, I write here when I’m trying to think through something or when I’ve solved something.

I’m currently doing my Masters in Privacy Engineering at CMU, and my research is on the intersection between Machine Learning, Privacy and Systems Software.

I Love reading and experimenting with Distributed and embedded systems.

I enjoy meeting new people. So definitely send a shout-out to me at, hi at suriya.cc. 🙂

📚 books that I’ve read/reading

🚪 Privacy Things

🧑🏻‍🏫 Readlog

🛍 ToDo

📜 essays

You can find the table of contents here

Libraries

Criterion.rs

Has really good defaults and seems to work out of the box.
The ecosystem around criterion is really good. purely because criterion has been around for so long

Rust iai

Even though it is supported by a lot of ecosystem tools. It hasn’t been in development for the past 4 years. and bheisler is the creator of criterion, so even more reason to use criterion.

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The first animation movie, toy story was made in 1995. At that time this was a break through. It involved a lot of proprietary software (Ray tracing, shaders, motion blur) and decades of research and development. In 2025, for the first time a movie made in open source software (blender) received the oscar.

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Mar 15 2025

HeLa Cells, as they’re called by the science community. Has been through it all, exposed to radiation, injected with virus, exposed in space, treated with chemical burn. All of modern medicine depends on HeLa cells to create the medicine. HeLa cells are what are used to test vaccines, chemicals, and physics to see hwo humans cells would work under certain conditions, HeLa cells are being manufactured around the world in troves.

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Server Setup, Mar 7 2025

Oh my zsh

oh-my-zsh has hands down been a godsend for me.

for that though we first need to install zsh

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Mobile Dev, Feb 28 2025

Mobile development is probably the most highest abstracted operation possible. because of this there are too many pitfalls that trip up

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Source Code, Feb 26 2025

Bill Gates starts this story from his roots up until the point he found Microsoft and it became a really serious thing. I like that the book closes right after the founding of Microsoft. Because much has been written about that part of the story

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