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Welcome to my garden!

Hello! I’m Damie Pak, and welcome to my digital garden. This is where I keep all my notes. Most of them are related to my work and career (epidemiology, mathematics, statistics, data science, and more). But this garden also features other parts of my life, such as opera, art, and other things I like to collect online.

The idea of this garden is to keep taking notes and not get complacent on relying too much on AI. So all notes are typed up by hand as well as all figures (either created in Illustrator or coded up in R). Claude does help with the formatting of the website and for literature search.

My professional and personal website is here: https://pakdamie.github.io. But I’ve been trying to rely more on my digital-garden to host more of my ideas.

FAQ

What is a digital garden?

There’s a lot of definitions, but the general consensus is that it should be an ever-evolving, living thing. You can create notes. You can delete notes. This shouldn’t be like a personal blog where it’s polished. No, a digital garden shows the organic process of getting information and trying to link them together.

I personally like it because I don’t feel pressured to make it perfect.

How is this made?

I use Obsidian and use the free plug-in Digital Garden. It's super simple to make (and free!)

Why are a lot of notes unfinished?

The idea of a Digital Garden is that it's constantly changing. I will add more things. I will delete some things. I might change around somethings.