Hi! I'm Avery, a computer science grad student at the University of Waterloo with a background in both math and CS (as well as Greek and Roman studies). My professional/academic web page can be found here.
Besides CS and math, I'm interested in Latin literature, poetry, fencing, Esperanto, juggling, and basically anything else that has no real-world applications.
I don't really use social media, but like everyone else I occasionally want to share my miscellaneous thoughts on the internet in some way.
Most of the blogging advice that I've found on the internet seems to be aimed
at people who are trying to use their blog to market a product, or who want
the blog itself to be a product. The idea of a "personal blog"
almost seems antiquated (they've been replaced by social media, I guess).
So in an attempt to discover my own personal
interpretation of what a blog should be, I've decided to embrace antiquity and
model my work on the Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gellius.
Gellius compiled personal notes on "whatever took his fancy, of any and
every kind, without any definite plan or order," and the (curated) results
are still read almost two thousand years later, so he must have been doing
something right.
My choice of the title Noctes Mathematicae (Mathematical Nights) is described in more detail here.