/home/kspaans

I'm Kyle Spaans and this is my site. See my interests, in the form of a DOT directed graph. That's just an outline though, I'm interested in a lot more (see the cool software for example). Take my schooling as another example. I'm currently working towards a Bachelor of Mathematics in Computational Math at the University of Waterloo. I'm leaning heavily towards Computer Science, as you can see from my course flow graph, but that's just because I know I'll enjoy those classes. What I'm really aspiring towards it applying the powers of computers and computability, specifically through accessible systems like the Beowulf Cluster. That is to say, I'm interested in High Performance Computing. I'd like to work in a Science / Research & Technology place, but I'm not as interested in the science itself per se, but moreso letting dumb computers do the heavy lifting so that us smartfolk can do the fun stuff. That's why I find physics fascinating. There is so much to compute! I'd like to get into quantum or particle or gravitational physics, I may program a model for fun at some point.

Blog

My blog is thusly.

Why a cheesy website?

Obviously because cheese is awesome. Also because I think it's fun to have a small place to put things, where others can see.

Why this cheesy domain name?

It's my dad's domain. It means East in Cree. I don't mind.

Interests

More details about what kind of things I'm interested in.

http://kyle.wapanok.com/interests.html

Projects

Have a look at my projects page for the Spring 2008 term. I'll carry a lot of these over into the future, but it's what I'm trying to work on right now.

Links

My del.icio.us page is where I store all of the links I find on the net. Though, you'll notice on my projects page I'm working on changing that.

Cool Software I Use Daily

Irssi, stumpwm, mutt, screen, vim, mzscheme, dot and the graphviz package, LaTeX...

Activities and Conferences

CSC Exec, CMC Exec, MathSoc Council

OLF 2007, BSDCan 2008, OLS 2008, OSDI 2008, OLF 2008, ...

20081205

I've installed some blogging software. See the top of the page, or here.