The digital garden of Sathvik Joel — essays and field notes on tech, life, and philosophy.https://sathvikjoel.github.io/https://sathvikjoel.github.io/posts/writings/15062026_wealth/https://sathvikjoel.github.io/posts/writings/15062026_wealth/Money is entirely a human invention, so hoarding it can't be richness. A reflection on what it actually means to be rich.Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:27:00 GMTwritingsmoneylifephilosophyhttps://sathvikjoel.github.io/posts/life/29052026_greek/https://sathvikjoel.github.io/posts/life/29052026_greek/Five Greek myths I picked up while walking through the House of Dionysus in Paphos, Cyprus.Fri, 29 May 2026 08:45:03 GMTlifemythologygreektravelcyprushttps://sathvikjoel.github.io/posts/tech/15062026_weaklinks/https://sathvikjoel.github.io/posts/tech/15062026_weaklinks/An annotated AAMAS 2026 lightning talk on why multi-agent systems break under adversarial prompting — and DHARMA, a tool for pinpointing exactly where.Mon, 25 May 2026 06:30:03 GMTtechtalksagentssafetyhttps://sathvikjoel.github.io/posts/life/05152026_visa/https://sathvikjoel.github.io/posts/life/05152026_visa/VISA chaos, Singapore wedding, and a lesson in not blindly trusting AIFri, 15 May 2026 09:30:03 GMTlifevisatravelAIhttps://sathvikjoel.github.io/posts/tech/15062026_msrexit/https://sathvikjoel.github.io/posts/tech/15062026_msrexit/Code doesn't bleed. An annotated farewell talk after two years at Microsoft Research — from intelligent code agents to medical AI, with a hard look at AI safety along the way.Wed, 13 May 2026 06:30:03 GMTtechtalksagentsai-safetymsrhttps://sathvikjoel.github.io/posts/philosophy/23042026_process/https://sathvikjoel.github.io/posts/philosophy/23042026_process/We invent reasons because having no reason is psychologically unbearable. But the reason is unknowable, and what is unknowable is unusable. Focus on the process instead.Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:58:00 GMTphilosophyphilosophylifeprocesshttps://sathvikjoel.github.io/posts/philosophy/14052026_bad/https://sathvikjoel.github.io/posts/philosophy/14052026_bad/A simple criterion for distinguishing good people from bad people — and why the 'why' doesn't matter.Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:30:03 GMTphilosophyphilosophyethicshuman naturehttps://sathvikjoel.github.io/posts/life/12222025_kora/https://sathvikjoel.github.io/posts/life/12222025_kora/Practical mechanics for a night out in Koramangala — cover charges, dance-floor rules, food, transit, and what it costs.Mon, 22 Dec 2025 09:30:03 GMTlifeclubbinghttps://sathvikjoel.github.io/posts/life/13042024_gyp/https://sathvikjoel.github.io/posts/life/13042024_gyp/Sharing my enriching experience as a POSCO GYP Scholor at POSTECH, South KoreaThu, 11 Apr 2024 11:30:03 GMTlifegyphttps://sathvikjoel.github.io/posts/tech/05032024_activationfunctions/https://sathvikjoel.github.io/posts/tech/05032024_activationfunctions/Revisiting Activation Functions in Pytorch and their detailsTue, 05 Mar 2024 11:30:03 GMTtechllmmathhttps://sathvikjoel.github.io/posts/tech/04032024_tokenizer/https://sathvikjoel.github.io/posts/tech/04032024_tokenizer/Decoding details from Andrejs video on TokenizerMon, 04 Mar 2024 11:30:03 GMTtechllmmathhttps://sathvikjoel.github.io/posts/life/14112023_toefl/https://sathvikjoel.github.io/posts/life/14112023_toefl/My personal notes, tips and tricks for TOEFL iBTSat, 11 Nov 2023 11:30:03 GMTlifetoeflhttps://sathvikjoel.github.io/posts/tech/31082023_subtlemathindl/https://sathvikjoel.github.io/posts/tech/31082023_subtlemathindl/A focused walk through the mathematical subtleties of FlashAttention — the online-softmax trick and IO-aware tiling that make exact attention fast on GPUs.Wed, 30 Aug 2023 11:30:03 GMTtechllmmathhttps://sathvikjoel.github.io/posts/life/22082023_mitacs/https://sathvikjoel.github.io/posts/life/22082023_mitacs/A practical guide to the Mitacs Globalink application — timelines, recommendation letters, choosing referees, and the logistics of landing a research internship at UBC.Tue, 22 Aug 2023 11:30:03 GMTlifemitacsexperiencehttps://sathvikjoel.github.io/posts/life/22082023_mitacs_2/https://sathvikjoel.github.io/posts/life/22082023_mitacs_2/Lake Okanagan, a research project at UBC, and the quiet charm of Kelowna.Tue, 22 Aug 2023 11:30:03 GMTlifemitacsexperience