https://khirokhito.tech/ Notes from an AI/ML engineer in Bishkek, read in Internet Explorer 6. en https://khirokhito.tech/blog/hello-world https://khirokhito.tech/blog/hello-world Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT This is the first post on a blog that lives inside a Windows XP desktop, which lives inside a browser tab. If you are reading it in Internet Explorer 6 with a Bliss wallpaper behind it, everything is working. https://khirokhito.tech/blog/hollow-knight-after-eight-skyrims https://khirokhito.tech/blog/hollow-knight-after-eight-skyrims Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT I found a second game I want to come back to. Work is not letting me enjoy it yet - maybe early March, maybe the end of it - but it is on the list. https://khirokhito.tech/blog/the-burnout-society-chapter-by-chapter https://khirokhito.tech/blog/the-burnout-society-chapter-by-chapter Sat, 07 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT Read Byung-Chul Han's The Burnout Society this week. It is short - an evening, if you do not stop to write in the margins. I stopped a lot. These are the margins, collected so I can come back to them. https://khirokhito.tech/blog/white-nights-an-angry-review https://khirokhito.tech/blog/white-nights-an-angry-review Sun, 23 Mar 2025 12:00:00 GMT Coming back from Issyk-Kul, passing the village of Ottuk. A good trip - the road wears you out, but the views calm you down again. To pass the time in the car I read Dostoevsky's White Nights, on a friend's recommendation. It may be Dostoevsky, but the narrator can go to hell. https://khirokhito.tech/blog/aristotle-s-three-kinds-of-friends https://khirokhito.tech/blog/aristotle-s-three-kinds-of-friends Sun, 18 Aug 2024 12:00:00 GMT How do you tell a real friend? https://khirokhito.tech/blog/la-la-land-past-lives-and-the-endings-that-are-right https://khirokhito.tech/blog/la-la-land-past-lives-and-the-endings-that-are-right Sat, 16 Mar 2024 12:00:00 GMT Flying to Copenhagen for the weekend. Last night I watched Past Lives, and it left the same residue as La La Land did last summer. Two films with the same kind of ending - the two people understand they cannot be together - and both of them are right about it. I did not know how to describe the feel https://khirokhito.tech/blog/one-flew-over-the-cuckoo-s-nest-or-we-are-the-system https://khirokhito.tech/blog/one-flew-over-the-cuckoo-s-nest-or-we-are-the-system Sun, 04 Dec 2022 12:00:00 GMT Can one person change the system? Can one person help a society free itself from a System that took years to build? Despite the quizzes and the algorithms deadlines, I decided I had to watch One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I do not regret it. I came out with a pile of emotions and a pile of questio