Welcome to my corner of the internet!#

Greetings fellow traveler! Salutations! Callooh! Callay!

My name is Nathan Barry. I’m a CS graduate student at UT Austin and am interested in systems and machine learning. I love working on hard problems with great people. Occasionally, I write about things that interest me.

Below are some of the things I’ve been doing.

Life#

Outside of school and work, I enjoy pickleball, badminton, climbing, playing the guitar, and reading! You can see what books I’ve read on my Favorite Books page.

I think that the spirit of my life philosophy is tersely captured by the quote below, which I came across in the book The Empire of Pain.

“I believe that a man should strive for only one thing in life, and that is to have a touch of greatness” — Félix Martí-Ibáñez

While the previous quote expresses the grand and aspirational, the following gives a needed dose of conscientiousness.

“The thoughts of others
Were light and fleeting,
Of lovers’ meeting
Or luck or fame.
Mine were of trouble
And mine were steady;
So I was ready
When trouble came.”
— A.E. Housman

There are many more pieces that I enjoy, many of which you can find on my Favorite Quotes page.

Hacker News Archive#

Some of my posts and projects have appeared on the front page of Hacker News! Below are links to the discussions:

Personal Records#

Here is a list of some personal feats I’ve done (featuring the impressive and the useless).