An unordered set of facts about me:
- I live for the outdoors, whether it’s backpacking, rock climbing, river tubing, or just working outside
- I’ve been long-distance trail running for over a decade and powerlifting for the last 7 years or so
- I’ve spent a good chunk of winter taking care of an off-the-grid cabin in Alaska along with its 10 resident reindeer
- When I was much younger, I played Pokemon cards at a nationally competitive level
- My first “machine learning” project was coding a genetic algorithm (but back then I just knew it as “stochastic optimization”)