Hi! I'm broadly interested in:

• Simplicity and beauty
• Understanding fundamental systems, particularly the outer world (physics) and the inner world (artificial or biological minds)
• Problem-solving by hacking
• Pathological visualisation
• Algebraic topology, differential geometry, complex analysis, enumerative combinatorics and operators
• Topological quantum field theories and high-energy physics
• Solving quantum gravity with artificial scientists
• Computational models of minds and cells
• Modernist literature, especially The Gift and everything Nabokov wrote before Ada
• David Foster Wallace's essays (especially on tennis and E Unibus Pluram)
• Samurai Champloo and Vagabond
• Bach's fugues
• Decreasing pDoom
• Shigaraki pottery
• Rock gardens
• Rinzai Zen

The main reason I built this website is to have an archive - with propely formatted LaTeX - of things I care about, and therefore try to think about. The hope is that if I write down every tiny sliver of genius that ever pops into my head, I'll eventually have ideas I feel proud of. In this sense I'm also influenced by David Lynch, who said that if you don't write down a good idea, you get a 'real yearning to blow your brains out'. I want to use my time on Earth to learn as much as I can. If you think we'll get along or you want to talk to me, feel free to email me.