Lost & Found

This site is hosted on GitHub Pages. The registrar for the domain is Squarespace or Google Domains or whatever. The domain name refers to a stack of stacks of white printer paper, my constant companion for going on three decades. I am writing to write. I think Mencken said that he wrote for the same reason a hen lays eggs. And Lamport said that writing is Nature’s way of showing us how sloppy our thinking is. You don’t need a reason to write, but there are good ones.

I have included links to socials at the bottom mainly because I think it’s pretty. I had fun adapting arXiv’s logo to fit in with the others. As far as I can tell, that account still works and I will try to post there this year. Something about convexity. It is not clear where things are headed in academic publishing. Have you looked at arXiv recently? Many papers are rendered in HTML. This is good because everyone already knows that papers are just blog posts with a well-worn veneer of prestige. Anyway, YouTube I regard as a utility. If I really need to demonstrate something visually, then I will post it there and embed it here.

Before rebooting my writing effort, I tried Substack. One of the lies that I told myself was that I was not merely avoiding the few hours’ work of standing up a static site. Another was that Substack gives the benefits of Twitter without Twitter’s asinine glibness. Logging in to my ‘dashboard’ made me hate myself, and I published literally nothing. Substack reminds me of those sacks of honey-glazed nut clusters sold as paleo or keto snacks at Costco. I guess Pages is glib too 🤪

This site uses a heavily modified hugo-blog-awesome theme.

A subset of $\LaTeX$ is supported by $\KaTeX$. This is enough to write about linear algebra, optimization and control systems 🙏