Hello! I’m Justin! I’m just a data scientist/software engineer who likes learning things in his free time. Specifically, my interests generally fall into Open source/emacs, applied mathematics/statistics, Catholic history, poetry, and general pop-culture/anime/manga/-insert nerdy thing here-.
Background
I draw inspiration from Gwern, in design, not content (mostly, I’m not rewriting this into Haskell), but maybe I’ll grow the writing chops eventually, but I also do not necessarily have the want to engage in survive-the-end-times-canticle-of-st-leibowitz type of writing. I plan to focus more on general notes and learnings. I would like to venture into longform writing more, but that remains a future goal. If you can’t tell by now I’m pretty freeform-thought-of-conciousness in my thoughts. Hoping the more I write the better I get about it. I was good at writing papers in college, but that was when I -had- to. Those skills have kind of lapsed a decade later.
Technical
In my day-to-day when working I’m generally using Python, at home I’ve started to use Julia for more projects but I don’t see as much non-research employment opportunities in it yet. I admire the beauty of correctness in Rust/Haskell/Idris, etc. but that’s more of a side-hobby. If you can’t tell I tend to get nerd-sniped pretty easily, it’s been something I’ve been working on. It’s honestly interesting how useful a plain linear regression is in the age of deep learning. I think even new-entrants to the field could find enough low-hanging-fruit to keep themselves busy with classical statistical methods and rudimentary machine learning.
That being said, I’m mostly self-educated when it comes to mathematics and coding. My undergraduate degree was in business and real estate. I actually was doing a double major with religion but didn’t finish it. (Not so fun) fact, I originally wanted to be a priest. I did a graduate-degree in decision sciences, but there’s only so much you can cover in two years. I primarily focused on optimization and information systems at that time with my “capstone” focus on education system turnouts in Bolivia.
This site
This site is created with a fork of PaperModX, which I’m calling PaperModulo. Almost everything is written as org-mode documents that I parse with ox-hugo. Hoping that having -everything- as org mode documents makes it easier to write in general, since I use org-mode for my agenda/todo lists, reading (org-noter + pdf-tools) and Okay, sometimes I still use Jupyter and VSCode. Sue me. There’s also some usage of Google docs for things I need there to be less friction on (e.g. - what I’m doing)
Using
I have my own little battlestation that I do my work on, I’ve never been a big laptop person. This is probably (one of the many reasons) I’d do poorly as a consultant. I like using Linux because See my dotfiles. Outside of not being able to (easily) do VR, I don’t particularly miss Windows, and I’ve never been a fan of MacOS. I’m just waiting for the day they put Asahi Linux on the ARM chips.
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Beep. Beep. Future TODO, show rig, details on toolings, etc.
Still need to do this. Sorry.