CURRENT MISSION

to understand as much of the world as possible.

ABOUT ME

Hello, I am a graduate student in neurobiology, though in truth i spend more time engineering than anything else. I agree very strongly with Nietzsche: "all great ideas are conceived while walking". Considering all the time I've spent walking, you'd think that I would have had more good ideas by now ;)

PHILOSOPHY

iterative optimization

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I like to travel & meet people & host if anyone bothers to visit Durham...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Alas, I only know couch surfers at this point, and all their experiences have been positive!

Interests

hiking, sailing, skateboarding, designing things, taking things apart, traveling, swimming.

• walking
• traveling
• socializing
• hiking
• sailing
• skateboarding
• swimming
• engineering

Music, Movies, and Books

William Faulkner, New Yorker / Economist / Harpers magazines, John Cheever, any good short stories (time is of the essence!). Music? Gershwin, Albeniz, Saint-Saens, Piazzola, Underworld, Xploding Plastix, Squarepusher, Arca, many others!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I dated a little portuguese woman.

Teach, Learn, Share

I like to mutter stuff about computational entropy as it relates to feedback systems naturally occurring (metabolic, neural) and human created (government, economies). Everything can be related to, or cast in terms of, the ability of individual elements to reduce disorder & the availabitiy of multilevel auditing / feedback.

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, Peru, Portugal, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States