I read this on someone else's profile, and I decided I strongly agree with it.

"I believe I am an ordinary person, with ordinary skills and ordinary achievements. But I would like to do the upper limits of what ordinary people can accomplish. In other words, extraordinary things that ordinary people can do."

Reference: https://www.couchsurfing.com/messages/409345382

I grew up in Bendigo (near Melbourne, Australia). Since growing up there I have lived Sweden, Okinawa and Arizona. Although I live in Castlemaine I am currently enrolled in a PhD program at Arizona State University. I am involved in digital simulations of brains. Through living in various different cities and towns I have come to believe the adage: 'that the people make the place'.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I am currently travelling and problem-solving in a manner inspired by Paul Erdos. The general idea is to perturb the brain from a quiescent state.

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erdős

My primary reason for couch surfing because it is interesting, but I am also on couch surfing in order to try to legitimize my expatriated life, as CS helps me avoid packaged tourist programs.

Interests

Some sincere: Compost fungus, tree root fungus networks, Computational neuroscience (biological neuron modelling and simulation), human adult neurogenesis in the hippocampus, bicycle as total transport, GNU, Linux, open source hardware, zoological computing, comparative neurobiology.

https://github.com/fun-zoological-computing
Human echolocation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_substitution

Entropy estimates of humpback whale songs, and human language.

webserver.smast.umassd.edu/.../HumpbackEntropySuzukiBuckTyackJASA2005.pdf

Some things that I spend time thinking about include:

A spreadsheet with my weight versus time in one column, cognitive performance metrics in other columns, and time it takes to run 5km in another column. I spend a lot of time thinking about optimization of productivity by observing lifestyle variables.

Cost as a transaction, transformation, and energy expenditure:

If the folk wisdom: 'the best things in life are free', and 'there is no such thing as a free lunch', and the thermodynamic principle: 'there is no free energy' exclude each other, or if they are complementary descriptions of overlapping phenomena.

If artificial intelligence and natural stupidity are converging into a mutualism since they equally potent and compossible phenomena. Cases in point Twitter bots that backed Trump in the US presidential election, and the real case of the 'destroyed' hitchhiking robot.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/02/hitchhiking-robot-cross-country-trip-ends

• vegetarian
• marathon
• running
• meditation
• gardening
• cycling
• surfing
• neuroscience
• software
• bicycle touring
• open source
• linux
• gayfriendly

Music, Movies, and Books

1984, Animal Farm, Watership Down, The Chronicles of Narnia, the Lord of the Rings,
Aphex Twin, Baths

Edifying films like 'the Shawshank Redemption' and 'Hacksaw Ridge'. Living by pragmatic pacifism is difficult, and it's nice to see it performed faultlessly.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Moving house by bicycle.

http://leader-news.whereilive.com.au/news/story/darebin-group-shifts-houses-by-bicycle/

As usual the newspaper caption is wrong. The person in the foreground is my good friend Joel.

I am in back ground of photo.

Anyway moving house by bike was great. Most of the stuff fitted onto Moza's qaudra cycle recumbent with his custom made bicycle trailer.

Teach, Learn, Share

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I can go running or cycling with you. I can help you with nootropic advice and 'quantified self' ideas.

I can teach Raspberri+PI, and Google Cardboard, in fact I will travel with both to spice things up.

I can also teach in: growing compost fungus, move house by bicycle, GNU/Linux basics. Also I can help with English its the only language I am articulate in however this profile may have grammatical and spelling mistakes.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I am good at watering plants and turning over the compost. The gross and disgusting gardening jobs I actually enjoy. I am good at getting my hands dirty in this respect.

Some maths, a lot of open source code.

Neuroscience research.

Editing documents.

Countries I’ve Visited

Germany, Malaysia, Spain, Taiwan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Japan, Sweden, United States

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