Mathemagician and Computering Person
Hi, I’m Vicfred. I’m a mathemagician, computering person
and evidence that curiosity is just a socially acceptable form of self-inflicted damage.
My favourite mathematical diseases are abstract algebra and algebraic geometry:
fields, rings, schemes, categories, and other words that make normal people
quietly leave the room. Probability also keeps following me around, especially
the kind that shows up in computer science.
On the programming side, I like algorithms and data structures.
I have strong opinions about tools, which is a polite way of saying
I have stared too long into computers and the computers stared back.
When I’m not fighting math problems or bullying Unix into working, I’m wandering through bookstores,
taking photos with my camera, reading actual paper books like it’s 1995 again,
or treating my videogame backlog as an unsolved optimization problem.
My orange cat, Pequeña 🐈, currently holds an executive position in the household,
mostly focused on supervision, morale, and walking across things at strategically inconvenient times.
Natural Languages
- Spanish/墨西哥🇲🇽(native)
- English/英国🇬🇧(fluent, with occasional compiler errors and an awesome mexican accent)
- Japanese/日本🇯🇵(~N2)
I can read technical papers in: 独逸🇩🇪 仏蘭西🇫🇷- Learning: 中国🇨🇳 香港🇭🇰 臺灣🇹🇼 (HSK 2)
I read comfortably in Spanish and English. Japanese fiction still outlevels me, but I’m catching up. My Chinese is at the "textbook only, please be gentle" stage which means I can recognise enough characters to know exactly how much trouble I am in.
Some software I run
- Operating Systems: OpenBSD on my router, Gentoo Linux everywhere else
- Programming Languages: C++, Haskell, D, Nim, Ocaml, Idris, Lua, Chicken Scheme, Forth, Rust
- Security & Privacy: OpenBSD router, PF firewall, Wireguard, Tailscale, Tor, Tails
- Command Line stuff: vim, git, zsh, sed, awk, gdb, valgrind, irssi, ssh, urxvt
Profiles
- Github: Vicfred, where some of the computering is publicly visible and therefore legally evidence.
- Goodreads: Vicfred, a monument to ambition and delusion.
Contact
- E-mail:
- Twitter: @Vicfred
- IRC: Vicfred on libera.chat
- Mastodon: @Vicfred@bsd.network
- Discord: Vicfred#1687
