Virie's personal site

Inspirational quotes

Wisdom is a virtue which one should strive to cultivate throughout one’s life, for it is impossible to be so wise one cannot become even wiser.

Witcher 3: heart and stone

We choose to go to the Moon! We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

John F. Kennedy

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Jacob Riis

Leisure activities

Programming

Check out my repositories on Github and Bitbucket.

Lego

I enjoy building lego sets and creating my own designs. This has been an interest of mine since I was a child. I used to make board games for my sibling and create mechanical devices to understand how things work. Unfortunately, all creations from my childhood had been lost, and I did not keep any pictures of them.

Tea brewing

I enjoy brewing tea, especially green tea. I find it relaxing and it helps me focus on my research. I can only master three aspects of tea brewing: temperature, time, and the amount of tea leaves. Right porcelains and water quality are the next frontier for me to explore.

Reading

My page turning rhythm is that of an interest-driven reader. I read books on science fictions, popular science, mathematics, and cognitive science (not in any particular order of preference).

Gaming

Gaming is where I can explore new worlds and experience new stories beyond the life I live. I have played all genres of games. But only in building and automation games that I could invest hundreds of hours into and feel no regret for the time spent. Especially because of the feeling of inspiration before starting, the arduous work during the process, and the satisfaction of seeing the hard-earned final outcomes in these games that make me feel accomplished.

My unique dyson sphere design from Dyson Sphere Program.

An Asgard inspired powerplant and a functioning Turing machine from Factorio.

My bases from VRising, Valheim, and Ark.