Thoughts (deeply) modified by

• Joyce, J. A. A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
• Dostoevsky, F. M. The Brothers Karamazov.
• Hofstadter, D. R. Godel, Escher, Bach.
• Abbott, E. A. Flatland.

Thoughts (recently) modified by

• Forster, E. M. A Room with a View. (2016 Mar.)
• Shakespeare, W. Hamlet. (2016 Mar.)
• Heinlein, R. A. Starship Troopers. (2016 Feb.)
• Caldwell, E. P. Tobacco Road. (2016 Jan.)
• Joyce, J. A. A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. (2016 Jan.)
• Cain, J. M. The Postman Always Rings Twice. (2016 Jan.)
• West, N. The Day of the Locust. (2015 Dec.)
• Campbell, B. J. American Salvage. (2015 Dec.)
• Spark, M. S. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. (2015 Nov.)
• Anderson, S. Winesburg, Ohio. (2015 Sep.)
• ...

Thoughts (being) modified by

• Tolstoy, L. N. Anna Karenina.
• Orwell, G. 1984.

Employers:

• cv (pdf) (last updated 2013)

Some undergraduate work:

• a derivation of the heat equation (pdf)
• the secant method and fixed-point iteration (pdf)
• a collocation method using chebyshev interpolation (pdf)
• the "resource curse" (natural resource economics) (pdf)
• evolutionary computation in economics and finance (pdf)
• cheong social ventures: proposal for a community technology center in baltimore, m.d. (pdf)
• computational methods and optimizations on the cox-ross-rubenstein options pricing model (pdf)
• elementary proofs:
  • proving that the product of two integers is an integer (pdf)
  • proving that a non-zero element of a field has at most one multiplicative inverse (pdf)
  • proving that an infinite sequence in the reals can have at most one limit in the reals (pdf)
  • proving that if two real-valued functions are continuous at a point then so is their product (pdf)
  • proving that the common notion of "distance" is indeed a metric (pdf), then a generalization (pdf)
  • proving that a subset of a metric is closed iff the limit of every sequence in that subset is itself in the subset (pdf)
  • proving that the boundary points of a non-empty subset of a metric space is a closed subset of that metric space (pdf)

Transient preoccupations:

• craft beer, moderator at beer.stackexchange.com
• stack overflow, founder of SOCVR
• surfing
• mathematica
  • fastest known arbitrary-window min/max-filter
• remix contests

Updates:

• 2016 Mar 17 - updated reading list, etc.
• 2015 Dec 12 - updated reading list, preoccupations
• 2015 Aug 27 - updated reading list
• 2015 Jul 16 - updated reading list, started recording dates books finished
• 2015 Jun 11 - updated reading list
• 2015 May 14 - updated reading list, preoccupations
• 2015 Feb 19 - updated reading list, preoccupations
• 2014 Dec 20 - updated reading list, preoccupations
• 2014 Oct 15 - updated reading list, preoccupations
• 2014 May 04 - updated reading list, preoccupations, resume (minor)
• 2014 Mar 17 - updated reading list, reordered updates (most-recent-at-top)
• 2014 Feb 09 - updated reading list, shortened reading list
• 2013 Dec 18 - updated reading list, shortened reading list
• 2013 Sep 18 - updated reading list
• 2013 Aug 26 - updated reading list
• 2013 Aug 05 - updated reading list, preoccupations
• 2013 Jun 13 - updated cv, reading list, preoccupations
• 2012 Dec 10 - updated reading list; added cv, undergraduate output
• 2012 Nov 15 - started blog
• 2012 Oct 30 - added reading lists, preoccupations, skills
• 2012 Sep 21 - created page to serve as motivational stub