Arya Garg — Writinghttps://aryagarg23.com/feed.xml2026-10-26T00:00:00ZArya GargIt was a spontaneous trivia night at Upside Cafe.https://aryagarg23.com/writing/upside-cafe2026-10-08T06:00:00.000Z2026-10-25T00:00:00ZWe do futures research at a Lab. My job is to work out how different changes could affect each other, then describe possible futures in enough detail that…Arya GargMy granddaughter calls it the wibbleshttps://aryagarg23.com/writing/the-wibbles2026-09-30T12:00:00.000Z2026-10-25T00:00:00ZI sat next to a woman named Karen on a flight to Boston for MIT Future Fest. She worked in environmental science. We talked for a few minutes about what we…Arya GargPsychobabble Tuesdayshttps://aryagarg23.com/writing/psychobabble-tuesdays2026-09-22T23:48:16.207Z2026-10-25T00:00:00ZI've been trying to be more open as a radio host, so I spent the day waving at random people on campus. Enthusiastically. Picture your mom saying goodbye at…Arya GargWhat do we do after we beat the Ender Dragon?https://aryagarg23.com/writing/after-the-ender-dragon2026-09-22T10:46:18.167Z2026-10-25T00:00:00ZOn September 21, 2026, OpenAI announced that an internal model had “resolved more than 100 long-standing open problems across most areas of mathematics.”Arya GargFriction — prototyping a future keyboardhttps://aryagarg23.com/writing/friction2026-10-26T00:00:00ZDifferent crew this time: Haley Potter, Miami Celentana and me, at Figma's FigBuild. The brief was open-ended, so we deleted the constraints and used the…Arya GargGyrus — agents working alongside your browsinghttps://aryagarg23.com/writing/gyrus2026-10-26T00:00:00ZRaihan Rafeek, Kaaustaaub Shankar and I had built enough AI things by then that the easiest kind of AI help was starting to bug me. You ask a question, get an…Arya GargG-Code Assembler — rebuilding a shape from printer instructionshttps://aryagarg23.com/writing/g-code-assembler2026-10-26T00:00:00ZI was too tired to do another hackathon project. Then I noticed Kinetic Vision had a 3D printer as the prize, and only one other three-person team was…Arya GargHi-Five — building a representation for introductionshttps://aryagarg23.com/writing/hi-five2026-10-26T00:00:00ZA lot of social matching starts from the stuff two people share. Same music, same school, same game or movie, or the same pile of interest tags. I was more…Arya GargTerminally Addicted — video, audio, and everything else in a terminalhttps://aryagarg23.com/writing/terminally-addicted2026-10-26T00:00:00ZAt HackOHI/O, Raihan Rafeek, Kaaustaaub Shankar and I wanted to make a joke. Then we decided the joke should be unnecessarily difficult to build.Arya GargWhiteBox — following an answer back to its sourceshttps://aryagarg23.com/writing/whitebox2026-10-26T00:00:00ZBy WhiteBox, a few things I'd been playing with started turning into the same problem. Memento had retrieval. I'd also gotten more interested in giving messy…Arya GargMemento — asking questions of a journalhttps://aryagarg23.com/writing/memento2026-10-26T00:00:00ZRaihan Rafeek, Kaaustaaub Shankar, Grant Kilgard and I mostly started because we wanted to work together. We were making a dance app. More computer vision…Arya GargBuycott — from a barcode to company newshttps://aryagarg23.com/writing/buycott2026-10-26T00:00:00ZBuycott started with a reel Kaaustaaub Shankar had seen about the war, where somebody was trying to boycott companies connected to it. We ended up talking…Arya GargKUKA — an interactive seven-joint armhttps://aryagarg23.com/writing/kuka-arm-viz2026-10-26T00:00:00ZFast forward a few months from SignLink. I was still ridiculously salty about how useless I'd felt at Purdue, internship season was happening, and I'd already…Arya GargSignLink — recognising hand shapes at my first hackathonhttps://aryagarg23.com/writing/signlink2026-10-26T00:00:00ZArleen Monteiro randomly invited me to BoilerMake X about four months into college. Reeve Fernandes, Arleen and I went in wanting to collect an ASL dataset…Arya Garg