Hello everyone! I have just finished setting up a WordPress theme which matches my personal website. Now I am ready to start blogging. This will soon be updated with all sorts of fun insights into stochastic dynamical systems, their numerical approximations, and what they illuminate about biological organisms. Yes, I will be making liberal use of $$\LaTeX$$ and code. Sounds like fun to me.

Why am I doing this? There are many reasons. Honestly, for the most part it’s personal. Terance Tao among many others repeatedly writes/says that the only way to learn math/science is to simply do it. I have quickly learned that “reading” isn’t “doing”. It’s easy to procrastinate by simply reading a whole bunch of lovely math and science papers, but you really aren’t doing much until you’re digging deep into it, whether you’re explaining what you read or using it. Thus following the teachings of the greats, I began meticulously writing a personal research journal on all on the new ways of tools I learned from my readings, the sleeker proofs, and most importantly, the new research ideas. With all of this that I am writing, I felt like I should share it to get some feedback and help new researchers break into the discipline.

Besides, expository articles lower the barrier of entry into my local discipline and only helps build the research hype. This is especially true for software development projects like I am looking to do with Julia. Since it’s a newer language, I think that by documenting how I am adjusting to Julia from MATLAB/Python/R will help future researchers do the same. And by documenting all the little quirks, it will make it easier to use the packages I am writing since I will have loads of information on how I’ve used it just a Google search away. We’ll see how this works out.