I’m cyclopentane, or Vanessa/Alex in real life. I’m a theoretical
physics student from Heidelberg, Europe, but also do computer science
stuff as a hobby.
My interests:
theoretical physics (mainly particle physics, quantum field theory,
general relativity and their intersection)
Nix/NixOS
Rust and Julia
Internet decentralization
, la .lojban.
hard science fiction, science fantasy
rationality and cognitive science
transhumanism
cats
Favourite stuff:
books (fiction):
Stephen Baxter: Xeelee Sequence
Liu Cixin: Three-Body Problem
Andreas Eschbach: Lord Of All Things
Phillip Pullman: His Dark Materials
Andy Weir: The Martian
James Corey: The Expanse
Eliezer Yudkowski: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
books (nonfiction):
Leonard Susskind: The Theoretical Minimum
Lancaster, Blundell: Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted
Amateur
movies and TV series:
Ghost in the Shell (both the anime and the live-action one)
Interstellar
video games:
Outer Wilds
Stray
Undertale
Kerbal Space Program
Portal 1&2
Stardew Valley
This website
I built this website with a simple bash script running
pandoc and envsubst from gettext
inside a Nix derivation. Previously, I experimented with larger static
site generators like Hugo or Jekyll, but I found them way too complex
for the simple task of converting Markdown to HTML and inserting it into
an HTML template.