Angadh Nanjangud

worksinprogress.coInflatable space stations - Works in Progress MagazineIf we ever want to live in space, we need to work out a way of creating artificial gravity.

23 Nov 2025

It’s time to build inflatable space stations. worksinprogress.co/issue/inflat...

While Starship prepares for flight 14 — hopefully its first successful orbital flight — here's Opus 5.5 rendering a Mars lander in Blender flying the powered descent guidance trajectories from JPL's classic paper: arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2...

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New animation from Opus 5.5!

hailey@hailey.at

i had to see it so you do too

youtube.comLec 16 Pedagogy in the Times of AIYouTube video by NPTEL - Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

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I‘ve felt similarly obliged to keep up with AI, but suspect most academics I work with are unaware of recent progress or refusing to talk about it openly. Many unis are sleepwalking, but if you’re using newer models then you’d be as grim as this IISc prof. youtube.com/watch?v=N2a1...

Shriram Krishnamurthi@shriram.bsky.social

People on Mastodon and Bluesky get hella mad at me for getting my hands dirty with AI. But I believe, as a professor, I have an *obligation to my students* to stay on top of what is happening in the tech world. Sometimes I deeply disbelieve in it, like blockchain, so I mostly just read. ↵

angadh.comA Vacuum of the ImaginationYet it is clear that in many cases there is indeed no good reason why an invention was made at a particular point in time and not centuries earlier. It is ...

29 July

Wrote a thing examining just how much earlier could rocket propellants have been improved and why they weren’t. angadh.com/rockets-1

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this is so painful to read, i love it github.com/stephenturne...

Got tired of copying and pasting plans/msgs between codex and Claude code; built a TUI chat for them to confer with me but also just themselves. github.com/angadhn/botf...

github.comGitHub - angadhn/botference: A TUI chat for you, Claude Code, and Codex to collaborateA TUI chat for you, Claude Code, and Codex to collaborate - angadhn/botference

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angadh.comBritizenship and the Cheeky PintI am writingBut editing was done on day 1 of Inkhaven. this on a flight to Copenhagen, from where I will head to Inkhaven in Berkeley. The last couple days i...

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angadh.comA Taxonomy of My Irritation and AngerI get irritated at things. In fact, I can get very irritated at most things in life, like physical infrastructure, software user interfaces, but also people,...

angadh.comImmediate Reflections on Writing during InkhavenThe month-long Inkhaven residency has come to a close; I do not know if I am a better writer at the end of it, but I have more public evidence to prove that ...

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angadh.comMontage-Finale (for Inkhaven)This is the final piece written for Inkhaven in my Montage series. If you are starting here, and would rather read one long-form piece, then go to [[Memoirs ...

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angadh.comMemoirs of a Long-time Luddite_This is a memoir-style essay where I trace, to the best my memory can, my early years around the internet and computing. It combines five serial...

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angadh.comMontage-Part 3The Taliban would throw a serious spanner in the works for our planned migration; Appa was supposed to fly to New York on 9/11 but obviously his flight was c...

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angadh.comMontage-Part 4I got on the internet much later than my friends, most of whom seemed to have unfettered access to a personal computer by their teenage years. Their only com...

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angadh.comMontage-Part 1My dad, Appa, bought his and, in some sense, my first personal computer when we lived in Lagos. This computer appeared in roughly 1995 or 1996, when I was li...

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angadh.comMontage-Part 2We moved back to India in 1998 (I think) because Appa decided he needed to make some changes. I’ve overheard some of the more gossipy reasons for this as a c...

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angadh.comCelebratory MomentsYesterday, I was lunching in Edinburgh when I got word that a piece I authored for Works in Progress(WiP) was finally published. Today, I am in bed—continuin...

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angadh.comNano Banana-pilled, Nano Banana-shilled for Spaceship EngineeringI have written several blogposts surveying [[ISS Connectors various]] [[ISS Rendezvous & Docking aspects]] of [[Some Space Stations...

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worksinprogress.coInflatable space stations - Works in Progress MagazineIf we ever want to live in space, we need to work out a way of creating artificial gravity.

23 Nov 2025

It’s time to build inflatable space stations. worksinprogress.co/issue/inflat...

23 Nov 2025

NotebookLM-pilled. What a crazy tool.

24 Nov 2025

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angadh.comGlobal Oases Are Easier For Me Than Local Ones[[Building an Oasis with Friends]] isn’t something I thought I’d want to do because it felt unnatural for the longest time. Some days, it felt like a borderl...

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angadh.comStoner: A Book ReviewIt has been a while since I finished a book in one sitting—it is not that doing so is a luxury but that there are at least two other skill issues at work in ...

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Just arrived in the mail today!! 😁

worksinprogress.coInflatable space stations - Works in Progress MagazineIf we ever want to live in space, we need to work out a way of creating artificial gravity.

21 Nov 2025

What a fun ride it was to work on this piece with @scientificdiscovery.dev and the rest of the @worksinprogress.bsky.social team.

Saloni@scientificdiscovery.dev

Never before have I been as intrigued by a phrase as I was after reading the title "Inflatable space stations" Super cool new article by @angadh.com on how to create artificial gravity in space 🛞 worksinprogress.co/issue/inflat...

angadh.comThe Perils of Working with the Garage Door UpSomeone recently expressed their dismay with the title and contents of one of my Inkhaven essays, [[Aldous Huxley Predicts Adderall and Champions Alternative...

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angadh.comBuilding an Oasis with FriendsOn my second weekend at Inkhaven, I hiked up Panoramic Hill1, which lies on Berkeley’s doorstep. Plentiful panoramic views of the Bay Area are littered acros...

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angadh.comThe Selfless Driving CarYesterday, I was in the parking lot with Morgan, sharing the experience of my twenty-fifth ride. There are only 3 other cars parked with us right now; the ot...

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angadh.comNew AttachmentsAnother “last day in Northern California” has rolled around—it’s the second time in two months that I’m leaving, from my friend’s family home in the Outer Su...

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angadh.comDating Apps are Indian Parents-as-a-ServiceOne of the most common reasons for creating technology is to do what humans do, but faster, better, and cheaper (or a combination of these). But there are ve...

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angadh.comTheir TechnocautionismI enjoy listening to sci-fi authors who suggest that technology has neutral valence. Despite being queried about AI risk in a recent Existential Hope podcast...

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angadh.comThere is Such a Thing as Timeless ArtSome artists think their art is constrained by the times they are situated in and the technologies of that moment. So they conclude that their art is not tim...

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angadh.comHow it feels to be an outsiderYesterday, I made a passing comment about being an outsider to my coffeemateA person, not the brand. who proceeded to ask me how it felt to be an outsider. W...

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angadh.comMeditation as non-symbolic educationAldous Huxley claimed that our society needs [[✅(Inkhaven Ideas) What a Piece of Work is a Man 2#A non-verbal and non-symbolic humanities|non-symbolic educat...

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angadh.comHuxley says Education is a Technology[[✅(Inkhaven Ideas) What a Piece of Work is a Man 1 Yesterday’s notes]] on the last of Huxley’s MIT lectures, What a Piece of Work is a Man,...

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angadh.comThe Button of Mass DistractionThe share button is responsible for the mass destruction of human attention. It is the single most insidious software invention of this century. It is, in my...

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angadh.comVignettesI’m walking up Telegraph Avenue, when I realise I forgot to window-shop at Moe’s. So I begin to make my way back when a tall, blonde woman crosses my path; h...

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angadh.comAldous Huxley Predicts Adderall and Champions Alternative TherapiesIf delivered today, the last of Huxley’s 7-part lecture series at MIT would probably be categorised under motivational talks or self-help strategies. It expl...

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angadh.comBest and Worst Advice for Academic WritingAmong the countless pearls of wisdom on academic writing, the one that I consider the best and worst advice was from my late PhD adviser. Having never drafte...

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angadh.comNotes on Google’s Space Data Centers[!warning] Early DraftThe radiator sizing math below will be double-checked over the next 24 hours. That said, my qualitative comments on the heat radiatio...

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angadh.comWhat I Learned from Living in EnglandOne of the most important things I learned in England from the people around me was the observance of this thing called a weekend. Most people I know in Engl...

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angadh.comOn Submitting Your Research to a JournalBackground

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