Xanda
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Technology |
| Occupation | PhD Student, Machine Learning |
| Location | Ithaca, NY, United States |
| Introduction | Hi, I'm Xanda. I have a lot of opinions. I will likely share some with you. I grew up in the Seattle area, went to a wee college outside of LA, then worked in the bay for a while before starting a PhD at Cornell. I like crosswords, Rubik's cubes, fuzzy animals and sleeping in. |
| Interests | Reading, websurfing, unicycling, webcomics, Shakespeare, theatre, music, science fiction |
| Favorite movies | Kill Bill, Fight Club, Saving Grace |
| Favorite music | Alternative, soundtracks, musicals, quirky songs |
| Favorite books | Ender's Game, Hamlet, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Dune, The Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon |
Do you believe that forks are evolved from spoons?
I believe that forks and spoons potentially share a relatively recent common ancestor, but that their seperate purposes and beings make them two branches from the cutlery tree rather than the spoon giving way to the fork.