Gnoled

Spent a good couple hours last night working on this website. It started off with me reading the most recent post on Shtetl-Optimized (Scott Aaronson’s Blog) called ‘The Age of Wonders and Terrors’. It was an incredibly good read. Towards the end he recommended an essay by Stanford math undergrad Logan Graves titled “Priest, Monk, and Mathematician”, which I highly recommend reading.

Anyways, to get to the point, I found his website simple yet elegant. It was quite inspiring and I felt the pull to create something similar. That is to say, the site’s aesthetic is heavily inspired by his.

I used the same font for the main text, and a bold, italicized sans-serif for headings. As for the intro, I first struggled with trying to identify myself in one sentence. At first I went with the classic “student building AI applications” but it didn’t feel like me. I thought back to a favorite quote of mine, one I think about now more than ever — “How far do we have to stretch the picture, before pixelating the human texture?” (Shing02). Paired with my curiosity, I thought it captured what I’m currently after.

I also added nods to some projects I’m proud of, influences, and a painting by Albert Bierstadt with Calvin and Hobbes added in, inspired by my good friend Justin.