From 027c1d2a66405dbb913f75d082376456c2a94a20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kai Stevenson
- This site is hosted on my own server, which is a machine I hacked together from some random components--a
+ This site is hosted on my own server, which is a machine I hacked together from some random components I had lying around--a
4790K, 16GB of DDR3, SSD storage. The server runs Arch Linux, which was probably a bad idea, but it hasn't
caused any problems yet. It serves content through an apache webserver, and has a pretty simple backend:
I use PHP for templating, CSS for styling, and no JavaScript at all. The server supports HTTPS using Let's Encrypt.
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- As previously stated, my name is Kai Stevenson. I don't really like doing the whole biography thing,
- but here's a quick summary: I was born (and still live) in Victoria, BC, Canada. I went to school
+ As previously stated, my name is Kai Stevenson. Here's a quick summary of my life so far:
+ I was born (and still live) in Victoria, BC, Canada. I went to school
briefly but dropped out in grade 1 due to extreme boredom, and pursued my interests with the support
of my family. As a result, I had an early start on some things--I started programming in C at around 7.
I took one course at my local public high school in grade 9, and then elected to attend a private school
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I was accepted into UVic social sciences.
- Also, I have some opinions about some things. Wrong though they may
- sometimes be, they are--I hope--reflective of my character. To that end, the writing page of my
- website is an attempt to collate some of my thoughts. Maybe it will be of interest to you.
+ Rather than writing about myself, I would rather write about subjects that are of interest to me,
+ in hopes that my particular interpretations of those subjects is reflective of my character in general.
+ To that end, the writing page of my
+ website is an attempt to collate some of my thoughts.
- No. If you want to support me, contribute
+ I don't accept donations at this time. If you want to support me, contribute
to one of my programming projects, or just write me a nice email.
I'm Kai Stevenson, and this is my personal Web site for things that I like, such as programming, music, philosophy, and photography.
- Whereas I've done some cool things and whereas people sometimes like looking at cool things, you may want
- to follow one of the links below.
+ I've set up this site as a sort of living document to catalogue my work and thoughts. Some pages are hidden behind other pages,
+ and the specific arrangement of hyperlinks between them generally correlates with the personal connections I make between those
+ subjects or ideas. In that sense, by exploring this site you are following along with my personal interpretation of the world.
+ You can start at one of the following index pages, which each contain more domain-specific information. Alternatively, you can
+ view the about page, which details the web technologies used to build this site, as well as my own short bio.
- An absence of personal information on this site is to be attributed less to modesty and more to
- laziness. That said, I recognize
- that some may wish to believe that I am a real human with a real human life, so I've collated some
- official Kai Stevenson trivia:
- I was born in 2004, making me ($CURRENTYEAR-2004) years old! My favourite movie is the 1939 propaganda piece Ninotchka I live in the Pacific Northwest, south of the 49th and north of the border I was at home minding my own business on the night of January 16th 2020. Please stop asking I have a cat and a dog
- If you want to learn more about me (and I'm sure you do), you'll find that on the about page.
-About This Site
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-~/doc/ /* My writing and notes */
~/pic/ /* My photography */
~/etc/ /* The rest */
About Me
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+ The phrase "The Hard Problem" was coined in 1994, and is the subject of no small controversy. It is something that + I have attempted to create a satisfactory explanation for over most of my life, to constant frustration. I am writing + this article now, not because I have solved the problem, but because I have failed to solve the problem enough times + that I am confident I can clearly describe the exact nature of the problem. It is in describing the very nature of the + problem that many authors begin to introduce confusion; through a careful propositional structuring of my argument, I + intend to avoid this error, and to then convince the reader that my specific interpretation of the hard problem is both + the only reasonable belief, and intrinsically, fatally flawed. In doing so, I hope to enable the reader to share in my + frustration as it concerns this unsolveable problem. +
+ diff --git a/src/writing/index.php b/src/writing/index.php index f138822..7526983 100644 --- a/src/writing/index.php +++ b/src/writing/index.php @@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ require($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . "/header.php"); ?>This is the index page for my writing. Each link leads to a different thing that I've written! - Writing happens to be one of the better ways to express logically structured ideas, and it also - happens to be something I find relatively easy. For those reasons, I prefer communicating through - the written (or spoken) word than through mathematics or art. + Language in general tends to be fairly efficient for communicating certain types of thought, and + while I typically prefer spoken language, written language enables more carefully structured logical + argumentation--which is useful for philosophy and mathematics.
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- My writing in Greek. + Math textbooks sometimes explain ideas in a strange and convoluted way. These articles are intended to be + direct, and clear, explanations of various topics in mathematics.
- Plural. For future-proofness. + Multi-page documents detailing my interpretations of particularly complex or controversial topics.
- The fun stuff. + This section contains articles that are structured in an unusual way, or those pertaining to unusual subjects.