What I’m looking for:
I’m offering to be a friend to chat with occasionally over XMPP messenger. Platonic only because I am happily married, and I’d rather not chat with anyone under 18 just because I would feel like a creep.
My interests:
I love listening to music, but more often weirder music like neoclassical, industrial, and various subgenres of extreme metal.
In general I try to support libre software, but I’m not perfect with it and definitely make exceptions for games. I especially like pokemon and other monster-collecting games. I want to learn to program but haven’t gotten any deeper than what’s necessary to do the first fifty or so project euler programs in haskell.
I was abd in mathematics, and my qualifiers were in category theory and algebraic topology. I got burnt out for a while but I’m starting to enjoy math again now that I’m not under pressure to perform.
I follow the NHL. Since the playoffs in 1998 I was watching Capitals games every once in a while, but about ten years ago I started watching them religiously and still am.
Politically I identify as pretty far left, but I don’t have good knowledge of theory.
About me:
Honestly, I can be very flaky and I know I might not be the ideal friend. Things have been hard lately. I am unemployed and have been very sick with post-covid symptoms since my recovery end of March. Still, if anyone wants to talk I would be happy to.
Hi Christian, it’s good to have you here.
Thanks for the offer. Hope you find chat partners.
Hehe, never heard that before but Wikipedia enlightened me.
That’s not a language I’d advise for anyone wanting to learn Programming. However it makes sense to Mathematicians (the concepts of functional programming are closer to those of mathematics). In case you’re wondering what language I’d suggest, it’s either Python or Javascript. Both are very easy to try out (just need a browser), the second also serving as a basic calculator.
That’s awesome, I’m happy for you.