# ape on tilde club

hello! I'm new to tilde.club. as for this site, please pardon the appearance; I'm doing as much as possible "by hand" for sake of some imagined, improbable learning.

if you're unlucky, you may one day see some speculative writing from me in this space.

### some topics of interest to me:

• math, especialy representation theory, category theory, and topology
• machine learning, especially NLP and reinforcement learning
• language
• philosophy of mind and language, especially Wittgenstein
• aphantasia (I have it)
• trail running
• climbing (all disciplines, perhaps except for bouldering)
• spending time in the mountains
• skiing
• good writing
• good food
• programming
• Twin Peaks, especially The Return
• the Pacific Northwest of the US and Canada

you're welcome to reach out to me on my tilde.club email about any of these.

### what I'm currently reading (as of 2019-09-21)

• Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet
• Alan Kendle, Aphantasia: Experiences, Perceptions, and Insights (I really don't like this one! but it's useful as a source of first-hand accounts of the experience of aphantasia)
• Ted Nelson, Possiplex
• Helen DeWitt, Lightning Rods
• B. S. Johnson, Trawl

### below, I'm just trying stuff out

syntax highlighting (using highlight.js):
# python

import string

crappy_cipher = list(enumerate(string.ascii_lowercase, start=1))

// rust

[#derive(Debug)]
enum Shape {
Circle(f64),
Square(f64),
Rectangle(f64, f64),
}

nice looking math (using MathJax): sometimes math $$\int_0^1 x^2 dx = 1/3$$ is inline, and sometimes $$H_1(X; \mathbb{Z}) \cong \mathbb{Z} \oplus ( \mathbb{Z} / 2 )$$ it takes up a line of its own.