Thoughts (deeply) modified by

• Abbott, E. A. Flatland.
• Beerbohm, H. M. Zuleika Dobson: Or, An Oxford Love Story.
• Card, O. S. Ender's Game.
• Dostoevsky, F. M. The Brothers Karamazov.
• Forster, E. M. A Room with a View.
• Hofstadter, D. R. Godel, Escher, Bach.
• Nabokov, V. V. Pale Fire.
• Joyce, J. A. A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
• Woolf, A. V. To the Lighthouse.

Thoughts (recently) modified by

• No longer maintaining this list. See goodreads.

Thoughts (being) modified by

• No longer maintaining this list. See goodreads.

Employers:

• cv (pdf) (last updated 2017)

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:

• stack overflow, founder and room owner of 3rd most active chat room, SOCVR
• modern library reading club, co-founder and host
• bouldering, the cliffs lic
• mathematica
  • fastest known arbitrary-window min/max-filter

Updates:

• 2017 Jul 29 - updated reading list, cv, preoccupations.
• 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