About me

Hello world! I like:

• Discovering that a difficult theorem is actually trivial
• Tuning my piano and playing it
• Everything written by Chopin
• Watching chess grandmasters lose to computers
• Internet forums and written discussions
• Finding patterns that nobody has noticed before
• Discovering contradictions in social norms
• Project Euler
• C++
• Software that starts instantly
• Being able to understand everyone in a conversation

• Mosquitoes
• Traveling
• Hiking
• Phone calls
• Doing things because everyone else does
• Unnecessarily complicated explanations
• C
• Software that takes 20 seconds to start
• Being surrounded by conversation I cannot understand

More about me

I was born deaf, but can hear some sounds. With hearing aids, one-on-one conversations are okay, group conversations are impossible. Phone calls are impossible. I strongly prefer Discord and internet forums to group conversations in real life. I do find social media too performative for my tastes, but I participate in it every once in a while.

Despite being born deaf, I was raised orally without sign language for some reason, so I spent my whole life developing my ability to understand and guess spoken English, but even at best, understanding speech is a slog, especially in groups. My reading skill is much better, and reading takes far less mental effort than listening.

I have a PhD in mathematics, though I like understanding mathematical structures more than producing theorems.