Weston Beecroft
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Technology |
| Location | Boston, MA, United States |
| Introduction | Hello—thanks for stopping by. I'm Weston, a programmer-philosopher kind of person. I used to program video games, then I messed up my wrists via excessive typing and mousing, and got into math, CS theory, linguistics, and philosophy. Now I think too much and write about it here.
Personal page: http://symbolflux.com Email: westoncb[at google's mail service] |
| Interests | good company, good books, mathematics, cognitive science, writing, Go, real-time 3d rendering, software architecture, programming languages, philosophy of science |
| Favorite movies | Waking Life, Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, Fight Club, Shaun of the Dead, The Machinist, Clerks, Army of Darkness, The Man Who Copied, The Science of Sleep, the original Star Wars trilogy, Pulp Fiction, Anchor Man, Lord of War, A Scanner Darkly, American History X, Persepolis |
| Favorite music | Mostly old rock 'n' roll tunes (Credence, The Guess Who, Steppenwolf, Zeppelin, The Eagles, Journey, Pink Floyd, Bob Seger, The Beatles, The Doors, you know). Especially if they've gotta a bluesy sorta sound to them. And a fair bit of progressive rock (Kansas, Jethro Tull, old Judas Preist). And some jazz fusion (Return to Forever, Al Di Meola), other jazz (Kurt Elling, Dave Brubeck Quartet), experimental guitar stuff(Zappa, Vai, Satriani), some old hip-hop (Pharcyde, Tribe Called Quest), metal (Maiden, Slayer, Megadeth, Between the Buried and Me, Sonata Arctica). |
| Favorite books | The Double Helix, Franny and Zooey, Gödel's Proof, Neuromancer, Hackers, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Three Scientists and Their Gods, The Double, Metamagical Themas, Cryptonomicon, Men of Mathematics, H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine," also: Marvin Minsky, Bertrand Russel, James Gleick, Isaac Asimov, Rudy Rucker, and Douglas Hofstadter |