duck_master's website

whoami

I'm duck_master: a

• high school student,
• mathematics enthusiast,
• coder,
• rationalist (with {agnostic, Buddhist, generic Christian, humanist} flavors),
• writer,
• pianist,
• and sometimes philosopher.

stuff I've done

• 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
• create this website

*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, R, Swift}*
• contribute to Wikipedia**
• read various STEM papers
• write blogposts
• create content online
• play piano
• bike

*coming soonssometime: {Lean, Mathematica, SageMath, terminal}; also, I believe that R is an abomination unto the world

**I modified the username to "Duckmather" because the variations on my normal pseudonym were, unfortunately, already taken

stuff I (hopefully!) will do

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

links

• (very smol) github
• aops acc
• blogs:
  • short-form
  • long-form
• replit
• (now defunct) scratch acct