Kris Yotam
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The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve JobsStanford CommencementSimplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da VinciThe future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor RooseveltSpeechInnovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve JobsInterviewMay you live in interesting times.
Chinese ProverbIf you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Harry S. Truman
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Sponsor & SubscribeI am Kris Yotam. Undergraduate in Pure Mathematics, Writer, and Developer. I write about AI, Mathematics, Education, and the Arcane. I build software in the suckless tradition and do my research in public. For the full picture, see the About This Site tab.
Kris
(KRISS)Follower of Christ
Lael
(LAY-el)Belonging to God
Uri
(OO-ree)Of Light
Mayim
(mah-YEEM)Water
Yotam
(yo-TAHM)God is Perfect
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his is the website of Kris Yotam. You have probably figured that out by now. I am an Undergrad in Pure Mathematics, Writer, and Developer. I write about AI, Mathematics, Education, and the Arcane. I am a dedicated archiver. I also put online collections of poetry, and prayers. I am an avid researcher & knowledge worker with the majority of my research being done in public between my notebooks, and notes. I develop software using the suckless philosophy usually in c and also do some modern web dev with my stack named suckmore. Most of my code can be found on sourcehut with a lot of suckless hacking projects held on my cgit instance, and code specific to academia on my school pages stagit. There is also a read only mirror of most things on my github.
There are a plethora of types of content here such as my Papers, Essays, Blog, News, Diary, Reviews, Fiction, and Verse. In addition, I run a few columns. My daily is The Soapbox, weekly Field Notes, and whenever I feel like it I might drop something on Off The Record.
Some Interesting Things about me? Well for starters I am an Intel Mac Evangelist that uses older Intel Macs with Linux for my main pc, 9plan cluster, and nas. I am a lover of fables, and train myself through the progymnasmata.
I keep some popular net culture pages such as my software stack page uses, my now, til, library, and stats, pages. Interestingly enough I keep a list of my favorite peoplefor each field/career/skill, etc. to avoid having to keep answering "Who's your favorite x?".
There are also media pages that track the films, anime, and tv that I have, and am currently watching. As well as pages that host my fav people & media from film, anime, manga, and tv industries.
This site hosts a list of all the youtubers, and twitch streamers I have ever subbed to whether I've watched a short or half their catalog. In addition to the actually maintained lists of blogs, and podcastsI follow or at some point did. You'll find a gold star next to the ones I loved.
You can browse the site via advanced full text search, categories, and tags. There is also a rather unique concept taken from lesswrong in sequences of my own work I have curated.
If you like anything I do here feel free to connect, and I always appreciate support.
I'd love to rant here about all the pages but you'd do better searching the site index.
Publicly hosted services that I maintain and operate:
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Real talk, your tea recommendation page made me switch to loose-leaf and now I look down on my past self. Oolong supremacy forever!!!
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