duck_master's website

whoami

I am duck_master: a

• high school student
• mathematics enthusiast
• coder
• (post)rationalist
• writer
• pianist

I am not, however, the Twitter user of the same username.

stuff I did

• take part in MIT PRIMES STEP, MIT PRIMES (2017 - present)
• attend AwesomeMath, HCSSiM
• learn piano
• participate in (one event for) Burning Man 2020
• compete in:
  • AMC {8, 10, 12}
  • AIME
  • Duke Math Meet
  • HMMT/HMMO*
  • Math Kangaroo
  • (virtual) MATHCOUNTS 2020
  • MathWorks Math Modeling Challenge
  • OMO
• participate in NaNoGenMo 2020

*what the replacement virtual HMMT event for November 2020 was called due to the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic

stuff I do

• conduct math research
• write code in {Java, Python, Swift}* on GitHub and Replit
• write/shitpost online at:
• Wikipedia**
• Disqus/Substack***
• Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
• play piano
• bike

*coming soonsometime: {Lean, Mathematica, SageMath, terminal}; I do not use R because I believe that it is an abomination unto the world.

**I modified the username to "Duckmather" because (if I recall correctly) the variations on my normal pseudonym were, unfortunately, already taken.

***unfortunately, I'm not cool enough yet to start my own Substack newsletter.

stuff I might do

• grok deep STEM concepts
• attend a high quality university*
• discover the secrets of the universe

*I will almost certainly study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

my accounts

(note: in no particular order)

• GitHub: duck_master
• Substack: duck_master
• LessWrong: duck_master
• Leanprover Zulip: duck_master
• Disqus: duck_master
• Replit: duckmaster
• Twitch*
• Discord: duck_master#8022
• Burning Man: duck_master (inactive)
• AoPS (defunct)
• short-form blog
• long-form blog
• Scratch (defunct)

*I have not yet figured out how to log back into my Twitch account. I'm not a streamer.