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authorYuchen Pei <id@ypei.org>2023-08-14 13:25:06 +1000
committerYuchen Pei <id@ypei.org>2023-08-14 13:25:06 +1000
commit71e3c04095a82ba6617a8c9c3d88eaf4b545baae (patch)
treea79d7179c9ede7e95e4a46af62c3853e655153bd
parent92d1664eb9d320706c4283bb4856ddfc4696b5d5 (diff)
Updating a few old pages.
index.org: stop linking to my-computing until the latter is updated my-computing.org: flag for updates also minor formatting changes.
-rw-r--r--pages/index.org30
-rw-r--r--pages/my-computing.org13
-rw-r--r--pages/teatime.org31
3 files changed, 50 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/pages/index.org b/pages/index.org
index 88bfe4d..08692f1 100644
--- a/pages/index.org
+++ b/pages/index.org
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2013-2021 Yuchen Pei.
+# Copyright (C) 2013-2023 Yuchen Pei.
# Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
# document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
@@ -7,7 +7,11 @@
# no Back-Cover Texts. You should have received a copy of the GNU
# Free Documentation License. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-# This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.
+# This work is licensed under the Creative Commons
+# Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of
+# this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
+# or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA
+# 94042, USA.
#+title: Yuchen Pei
@@ -15,23 +19,21 @@ Hello! I am Yuchen. You have reached my personal website.
I am a programmer, mathematician and free software advocate.
-I did a PhD at the [[https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/masdoc][MASDOC program at Warwick]], and spent two years in a
-postdoc position at [[http://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu][CMSA at Harvard]] and another one and a half years
-at the [[https://www.math.kth.se/RMSMA/][KTH RMSMA group]]. My research was on probability and algebraic
+I did a PhD in Mathematics and Statistics at the [[https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/masdoc][MASDOC program at
+Warwick]], and spent some years in postdoc positions at [[http://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu][CMSA at Harvard]]
+and the [[https://www.math.kth.se/RMSMA/][KTH RMSMA group]]. My research was on probability and algebraic
combinatorics.
-After retiring from academia I worked as a full stack web developer
-for two years, writing C++, Python and Typescript, as well as
-occassionaly grilling people on algorithms and data structure (aka
-tech interviews).
+Since leaving academia I have been mainly working as a computer
+programmer. In my personal capacity I enjoy writing Emacs packages,
+and you can find many of them on [[https://g.ypei.me/][my cgit instance]].
As a free software advocate, I am an associate member and licensing
volunteer of the [[https://fsf.org][Free Software Foundation]], and a maintainer of [[https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/][GNU
-LibreJS]] and [[https://h-node.org][h-node.org]]. You can read about [[file:./my-computing.org][how I do my computing]] as a
-person on the [[https://fsf.org/campaigns/campaigns-summaries#ladder][freedom ladder]]. In my past academic life I also applied
-the philosophy of free software to knowledge and research. For example
-I shared my research in Robinson-Schensted algorithms as a [[https://toywiki.xyz][wiki]] under
-a free Creative Commons license. I believe anyone can be an academic,
+LibreJS]] and [[https://h-node.org][h-node.org]]. In my past academic life I also applied the
+philosophy of free software to knowledge and research. For example I
+shared my research in Robinson-Schensted algorithms as a [[https://toywiki.xyz][wiki]] under a
+free Creative Commons license. I believe anyone can be an academic,
seeking truth and sharing their findings with the public.
I can be reached at: xU)U1M2fEQL6bfYGpwSG (PGP key: [[/assets/ypei-pubkey.txt][47F9 D050 1E11
diff --git a/pages/my-computing.org b/pages/my-computing.org
index d67ed5d..b422c84 100644
--- a/pages/my-computing.org
+++ b/pages/my-computing.org
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2013-2021 Yuchen Pei.
+# Copyright (C) 2013-2023 Yuchen Pei.
# Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
# document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
@@ -7,11 +7,20 @@
# no Back-Cover Texts. You should have received a copy of the GNU
# Free Documentation License. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-# This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.
+# This work is licensed under the Creative Commons
+# Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of
+# this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
+# or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA
+# 94042, USA.
#+title: How I do my computing
* How I do my computing
+ :PROPERTIES:
+ :UPDATED: [2023-08-14 Mon 13:17]
+ :END:
+
+/Note on 2023-08-14: this was written in early 2022 and is outdated./
The way I do my computing is evolving and in flux, but here it is.
diff --git a/pages/teatime.org b/pages/teatime.org
index 42cd77e..04cd952 100644
--- a/pages/teatime.org
+++ b/pages/teatime.org
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2013-2021 Yuchen Pei.
+# Copyright (C) 2013-2023 Yuchen Pei.
# Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
# document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
@@ -7,24 +7,39 @@
# no Back-Cover Texts. You should have received a copy of the GNU
# Free Documentation License. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-# This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.
+# This work is licensed under the Creative Commons
+# Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of
+# this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
+# or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA
+# 94042, USA.
#+title: TeaTime
* TeaTime
+ :PROPERTIES:
+ :UPDATED: [2023-08-14 Mon 13:20]
+ :END:
-Fancy a tea or coffee meetup? You're hereby invited to join me for a short break--I'd like to take the time to reconnect with old friends and make new ones.
+Fancy a tea or coffee meetup? You're hereby invited to join me for a
+short break--I'd like to take the time to reconnect with old friends
+and make new ones.
-I'm happy to talk about most topics, but the ones I'm most interested in are as follows:
+I'm happy to talk about most topics, but the ones I'm most interested
+in are as follows:
- Free software movement, activism, organisation, and licensing
-- Free culture and knowledge, anything the late Aaron Swartz would be interested in
-- GNU/Linux, emacs
+- Free culture and knowledge, anything the late Aaron Swartz would be
+ interested in
+- GNU/Linux, Emacs
- Functional programming, Haskell, formal verification, computer science
- Machine learning
- Mathematics
- Tea
-If you're up for it, do reach out with your proposed time slots via email. My timezone is Australian Eastern Time, and my platform of choice includes Jitsi, Mumble, or Jami (but any other free software tools would do). If we're complete strangers, (hello, and don't panic, I don't bite!) just include a discussion topic in your email.
-
+If you're up for it, do reach out with your proposed time slots via
+email. My timezone is Australian Eastern Time, and my platform of
+choice includes Jitsi, Mumble, or Jami (but any other free software
+tools would do). If we're complete strangers just include a discussion
+topic in your email.
+
Credit: TeaTime is an idea stolen from [[https://tailrecursion.com/~alan/CoffeeTime.html][Alan Dipert]].