Angadh Nanjangud @angadh.com · 28/09/2026While 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... 000
Angadh Nanjangud @angadh.com · 22/09/2026I‘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...youtube.comLec 16 Pedagogy in the Times of AIYouTube video by NPTEL - Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 110
Angadh Nanjangud @angadh.com · 29/07/2026Wrote a thing examining just how much earlier could rocket propellants have been improved and why they weren’t. angadh.com/rockets-1angadh.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 ... 010
Reposted by Angadh Nanjanguddan @danabra.mov · 06/04/2026this is so painful to read, i love it github.com/stephenturne...github.com 918222
Angadh Nanjangud @angadh.com · 01/04/2026Got 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 000
Angadh Nanjangud @angadh.com · 23/11/2025It’s time to build inflatable space stations. worksinprogress.co/issue/inflat...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. 100
Reposted by Angadh NanjangudSaloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 21/11/2025Just arrived in the mail today!! 😁 1272
Angadh Nanjangud @angadh.com · 21/11/2025What a fun ride it was to work on this piece with @scientificdiscovery.dev and the rest of the @worksinprogress.bsky.social team. 041
Angadh Nanjangud @angadh.com · 04/11/2025inkhaven posting # 1 angadh.com/inkhaven-1angadh.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... 120
Angadh Nanjangud @angadh.com · 17/08/2025American border-crossing with an Indian passport was so stressful when I studied here; I’ll never take for granted the ease of doing the same since becoming British. 10/10 would recommend Indians move to countries with better citizenship pathways than America. 010
Angadh Nanjangud @angadh.com · 12/08/2025angadh.com/spaceship-en...angadh.comWhat is a spaceship?Dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space program. Larry Niven 010
Angadh Nanjangud @angadh.com · 30/07/2025Part 2 of the Claubsidian series. angadh.com/claude-essay...angadh.comClaude's Suggested Essays from My NotesI recently published an annotated AI-generated essay, [[Claude finds Contradictions in My Thinking]], which found some interest on Hacker News. Basically, I ... 000
Angadh Nanjangud @angadh.com · 29/07/2025AI-slop will rule the world. A user on HN linked to a post on my site from 1 hr ago containing Claude-words after letting it loose on my obsidian vault to find contradictions in my thinking. It sorta blew up? I've spent more time on other posts with <50 reads. The writing game's gone, lads. 100
Angadh Nanjangud @angadh.com · 20/07/2025@modularprincess.bsky.social what an incredible album! One of the best I have heard in an age! arushijain.bandcamp.com/album/under-...arushijain.bandcamp.comUnder the Lilac Sky, by Arushi Jain6 track album 110
Angadh Nanjangud @angadh.com · 13/07/2025Scored these but burned a hole in me pockets, a week ago at the Folio Society sale. Some really beautiful books out there. 010
Angadh Nanjangud @angadh.com · 12/07/2025angadh.com/jurassic-par...angadh.comJurassic ParkJurassic Park has aged so confusingly. Undoubtedly awe-inspiring visually—not just for its action set pieces but also its sweeping vistas where dinosaurs pop... 100
Reposted by Angadh NanjangudJeroen Baert @jbaert.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Good read: "Where's my Von Braun wheel?" angadh.com/wherevonbrau... 092
Reposted by Angadh NanjangudJeroen Baert @jbaert.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2025Good read: "Where's my Von Braun wheel?" angadh.com/wherevonbraunwheel 011
Reposted by Angadh Nanjangudderekkozel.com @derekkozel.com · 04/07/2025@angadh.com I really like the formatting of your blog. The typography, suggested soundtracks, clear links, and organizations work well together. I'm enjoying the variety of topics as well. Thanks for sharing your writing! 121
Angadh Nanjangud @angadh.com · 28/06/2025Space data centres will not be cheaper than terrestrial ones. There may be something underlying the idea but it won’t be found in a business case premised on 2 digit/kg launch cost. Radiators are killers. angadh.com/space-data-c...angadh.comThere’s no way that Starcloud can put a data centre in space at $8.2 million using one Starship launchAbstract 100
Angadh Nanjangud @angadh.com · 24/04/2025I recently read Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience — it’s an exemplary demonstration of what an essay can be. Thoreau’s wit and style are striking but also reveals how little things have changed with govt and the problems civil society has with it. angadh.com/thoreau-1angadh.comRevisiting Thoreau in the Twenty-first CenturyWhen I meet a government which says to me, “Your money or your life,” why should I be in haste to give it my money? It may be in a great strait, and not kn... 021
Angadh Nanjangud @angadh.com · 24/04/2025There was a brief moment when NASA was figuring out how to build von Braun wheels. Then Apollo’s messed it up. I unpack this and more in the link below. angadh.com/wherevonbraunwheelangadh.comWhere is my von Braun wheel?In 1962. There — that answers the clickbaity title right away. 031
Angadh Nanjangud @angadh.com · 24/04/2025I often meet people who dunk on London (& the UK/Europe generally) a lot. But one of my first convos, upon moving here from California, with a barista caught me off guard when he said he owned a home. angadh.com/london-1angadh.comMy first week in London 010
Angadh Nanjangud @angadh.com · 25/01/2025Not qualified to say Claude et al will replace SWE but I will pronounce myself Claude whisperer. The kinds of things I want in my static website in appearance and writing workflow (Obsidian+Jekyll+css) would simply not be possible for someone at my skill level without Claude+Cursor. angadh.comangadh.comHomeAngadh Nanjangud 220
Angadh Nanjangud @angadh.com · 06/01/2025"Flow" was the best movie I watched at the London Film Festival. Pleased that it won the best animated film at the Golden Globes. Cannot recommend the movie enough. 010
Angadh Nanjangud @angadh.com · 01/01/2025Something I am sitting with and find striking is how inhuman the humanity of ChatGPT’s advanced voice mode is. I just can’t get myself to take it seriously. When does data become humanity? Can it? 100
Angadh Nanjangud @angadh.com · 29/12/2024I remember a time I used to stay up to watch India bat. I’m glad that Bumrah has changed that for the last 6 or so years. What a dude. 000
Angadh Nanjangud @angadh.com · 28/12/2024Reading this, it hit me that the “attention economy” could also be called the “inattentive economy”. 110
Angadh Nanjangud @angadh.com · 22/12/2024Very tempted to use the 3rd definition of incredible more often in my life. 031
Angadh Nanjangud @angadh.com · 20/12/2024Remarkable story on the first developments of the rendezvous at NASA, pre-Apollo. 110
Angadh Nanjangud @angadh.com · 20/12/2024I’ve read some different perspectives on Apollo and skipping the focus on LEO. Might be worth collecting them in a thread as and when I come across them again. Here’s one I recently read. 100
Angadh Nanjangud @angadh.com · 11/12/2024Some thoughts on Graeber vs Thiel: angadhn.com/opinions/Pos...angadhn.comGraeber and ThielThis is a summary towards a longer form essay that will eventually go into “Longer Form” writing 200
Angadh Nanjangud @angadh.com · 09/12/2024Some quick thoughts on the Wired video on Moravec's Paradox: angadhn.com/opinions/Pos...angadhn.comMoravec’s ParadoxOver lunch, I watched Chelsea Finn discuss Moravec’s Paradox with people across age and skills groups from kids to expert researchers. It is the idea that humans think any task easy for humans is hard... 000
Angadh Nanjangud @angadh.com · 06/12/2024Autonomous robots and liberated humans. Not the other way round. 100
Angadh Nanjangud @angadh.com · 27/11/2024I think inflatables are key to making larger-than-ISS space stations but I read more than I write about them. Luckily, some final year UGs wanted to work on space station design so I rapidly wrote 2-3 quick posts to kick things off for us: www.angadhn.com/large%20spac... bsky.app/profile/anga...angadhn.comSome Space Stations in Fiction and RealityAn earlier post in my teaching resources for a final year undergraduate project had a pretty helpful AI-generatedthanks to Claude table. This is a quick post about Wernher von Braun’s 1950’s concept... 120
Angadh Nanjangud @angadh.com · 27/11/2024Okay. So I have been a bit shy about writing/sharing in public (though I have definitely spammed some people here with my blogpost). But I was curious to see if I can get the bsky comments working with my blog so here goes! www.angadhn.com/large%20spac...angadhn.comInflatable von Braun space stations: an idea worth revisiting?Background Kepler’s SomniumAt the time of my writing this post, his sci-fi story was archived here in 1608 and Edward Everett Hale’s Brick Moon 1 from 1865 are early fantasy science-fiction of space... 010
Angadh Nanjangud @angadh.com · 25/11/2024LLMs overwhelm me with the amount of information but every now and then, I get some crazy fundamental reminder like this about the potential they hold. 010
Reposted by Angadh NanjangudJérémy Cours 🌳 @jeremycours.bsky.social · 23/11/2024First post on Bluesky, let’s share some websites offering many free illustrations for scientific figures 🖼️ 🧪 🌍 : scidraw.io bioart.niaid.nih.gov www.phylopic.org More well known but very nice though: www.freepik.comscidraw.ioSciDraw | Scientific Drawings SciDraw - an open repository of science drawings 57901224
Angadh Nanjangud @angadh.com · 22/11/2024My experience in teaching uni kids to code with AI has been terrific- the downside is witnessing their inability to ask deep follow-up questions. I think some of us loquacious types take prompting for granted. I do think much younger kids excel at prompting so early use of AI should be encouraged. 010