Jinseo "Truewis" Park's Workshop

​Quick Update on My Whereabouts ​I started my Physics Ph.D. program at Stanford this summer. I am researching accelerator physics at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. During Thanksgiving week, I was in Sicily to attend the ERICE Particle Accelerator School. ​Thoughts on Scientific Progress ​It is difficult to predict, especially the future. As trained scientists, we are naturally inclined to be skeptical of progress. There is an old saying: If an old and renowned scientist says something is possible in the near future, it almost certainly is, but if they say something is impossible, it almost certainly isn't. ​At this conference, some technologies seemed to be a matter of time before they are realized. HTS magnets for FCC and plasma wakefield acceleration come to mind. Others, usually involving complex, chaotic systems, seemed nigh impossible. Good examples of these would be fusion and scalable quantum computing. ​More Thoughts on Breakthroughs ​I confess, I truly believe...

I came back home to spend the summer before my graduate program. There isn't much to do besides hanging out with old friends. My music production setup sits in a storage in Chicago. Research and game development also has been delayed since March; as my desktop is also in the storage, and I don't have a good working laptop right now. Well, I can still learn languages and write blog posts, I guess. Why do I write blog posts? To share new research ideas? Yes, but I find that cause overly practical. Besides, can we justify sharing all those wild imaginations and conjectures on the internet, which already suffers from a myriad of fake news? To share my life? Sure, but why would other people find my life interesting? And even if they are interested, that is not a good sign. Good people are interested in their own lives rather than the others. The reason I think is to not repeat the mistakes of the past. I don't think history repeats itself as is, but you can still often learn fro...

  After landing at Eleftherios Venizelos Airport, I hurried to retrieve my checked-in luggage. It was my last quarter at college, so I had moved out of my apartment, shipped most of my belongings through a moving company, and brought what was left with me in a small suitcase. I had done some research beforehand, so I knew I would be taking the X95 bus to get to CYA in Πανκγράτι(Pangrati). Of course, I was advised to take a taxi, but not everyone has an extra €50 to spare. The journey started with a bit of confusion, as the airport felt vast, and I was not entirely sure where to catch the bus. I went to the information desk, where the officer directed me to the bus terminal just outside the arrivals area. Once I reached the X95 stop, I saw a long line of travelers, many of whom spoke Greek (Ελληνικά). I quickly realized the X95 was a popular choice. After tapping my card (κάρτα) and paying only €6, which was a bargain compared to the taxi, I hopped on. The bus was not exactly comfor...

As I plan to move out from Chicago this summer, I am having a hard time putting efforts into my ongoing research projects. That is why I thought it is a good time to instead work on publishing the composition work I've done here. So yes, this is my first attempt at drawing an album cover, editing video clips, and so on. Plus my listening room is pretty dysfunctional as I am getting rid of my absorber blocks. I have to move out, after all. Despite all this, I hope the experience isn't too bad! I am releasing tracks one by one, hopefully a track every other week. Let's see how this turns out!

 In Tabletop Role-Playing Games(TRPGs), probabilities are often represented in terms of dice, e.g. 2d10, 2d6, etc. If the resulting sum is greater than some other number determined by the 'difficulty' of the task or the 'stat' of the player character, then the check is a success. Well, in real life, probabilities are represented as a sum of probability amplitudes of Feynman Diagrams. What if we develop a similar system for TRPGs? Of course calculating the amplitudes is not easy, especially for people who are not physics majors. But we can still examine the typical form of $\Gamma$. The final probability $\Gamma$ must be unitless. Hence it has factors of mass ratios (e.g. $m_1 / m_2$) and often some power of $\pi$ in the denominator. Now, we can leave $\pi$, just for fun, and replace the mass ratios with stat ratios (e.g. $\text{STR} / \text{Difficulty}$). Now all of this is great, but now you need a computer to actually play the game, and perhaps not having phsical dice...

I am learning SystemVerilog right now so that I can synthesize the digital section of PSEC5, the chip I am working on.