duck_master's personal website

about me

Have you ever wanted to know what kind of person I really was? Then look no further.

stuff I did

• mathematical research at MIT PRIMES STEP (2017 - 2019) and MIT PRIMES (2020 - 2022)
• attend AwesomeMath (summers of 2018 - 2021), HCSSiM (2020)
• briefly participating in Burning Man 2020
• competing in:
  • AMC {8, 10, 12}
  • AIME
  • Duke Math Meet
  • HMMT/HMMO (HMMO replaced HMMT Nov 2020 due to the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic)
  • Math Kangaroo
  • (virtual) MATHCOUNTS 2020
  • MathWorks Math Modeling Challenge
  • OMO
• sort-of helping to run HMMT Nov 2022, HMMT Feb 2023, PUMAC 2022*
• being a "quizzer" in "Bible quizzing" (2014 - 2020)
• learning piano at home (c. mid-2010s?)
• participate in NaNoGenMo 2020
• bike (unfortunately, I didn't bring my bike(s) to campus :'( )

stuff I do

• study!!!
• attend random social events
• mathematical research, sometimes
• write code in {Java, Python, Swift} on GitHub and Replit (coming soonsometime: {Lean, Mathematica, SageMath, terminal}; I do not use R because it is an abomination)
• attend the MIT Student Information Processing Board
• help expand and maintain English Wikipedia and Wikidata
• play piano (very occasionally)

stuff I will (potentially) do

• grok (and potentially research?) deep STEM concepts, such as
• the computational trilogy
• topological data analysis
• AI safety/alignment
• become good at intuitively predicting the future
• grow up
• get some kind of career?
• get a girlfriend/family???