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diff --git a/microposts/stallman-resign.md b/microposts/stallman-resign.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..adba78f --- /dev/null +++ b/microposts/stallman-resign.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +--- +date: 2019-09-29 +--- +Last week Richard Stallman resigned from FSF. It is a great loss for the free software movement. + +The apparent cause of his resignation and the events that triggered it reflect some alarming trends of the zeitgeist. Here is a detailed review of what happened: [Low grade "journalists" and internet mob attack RMS with lies. In-depth review.](https://sterling-archermedes.github.io/). Some interesting articles on this are: [Weekly Roundup: The Passion Of Saint iGNUcius Edition](https://jackbaruth.com/?p=16779), [Why I Once Called for Richard Stallman to Step Down](http://techrights.org/2019/09/17/rms-witch-hunt/). + +Dishonest and misleading media websites involved in this incident include [The Daily Beast](https://www.thedailybeast.com/famed-mit-computer-scientist-richard-stallman-defends-epstein-victims-were-entirely-willing), [Vice](https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9ke3ke/famed-computer-scientist-richard-stallman-described-epstein-victims-as-entirely-willing), [Tech Crunch](https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/16/computer-scientist-richard-stallman-who-defended-jeffrey-epstein-resigns-from-mit-csail-and-the-free-software-foundation/), [Wired](https://www.wired.com/story/richard-stallmans-exit-heralds-a-new-era-in-tech/). diff --git a/pages/about.md b/pages/about.md index 4982192..48c908f 100644 --- a/pages/about.md +++ b/pages/about.md @@ -4,16 +4,13 @@ title: Yuchen Pei name: index --- -Yuchen is a post-doctoral researcher in mathematics at the [KTH RMSMA group](https://www.math.kth.se/RMSMA/). -Before KTH he did a PhD at the [MASDOC program at Warwick](https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/masdoc), and spent two years in a postdoc position at [CMSA at Harvard](http://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu). +In my past life I was a mathematician. I did a PhD at the [MASDOC program at Warwick](https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/masdoc), and spent two years in a postdoc position at [CMSA at Harvard](http://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu) and another one and a half years at the [KTH RMSMA group](https://www.math.kth.se/RMSMA/). These days I am a software engineer and steadily forgetting mathematics, not cool and a problem I am trying to fix. -He is interested in machine learning, with a preference to its theoretical (which really translates to mathematical because he views statistics and theoretical computer science as subsets of mathematics) aspects. +I believe anyone can be an academic, seeking truth and sharing their findings with the public. -As an academic his job is to seek truth and share his findings with the public. +I am interested in the idea of free software, and have been attempting to apply it to knowledge and research. For example I shared my research in Robinson-Schensted algorithms as a [wiki](https://toywiki.xyz). -He is also interested in the idea of open research and open sourced his research in Robinson-Schensted algorithms as a [wiki](https://toywiki.xyz). - -He can be reached at: +I can be reached at: ypei@kth.se | hi@ypei.me | [Github](https://github.com/ycpei) | [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ycpei/) This website is made using a [handmade static site generator](https://github.com/ycpei/ypei.me/blob/master/engine/engine.py). |