Greetings. I’m Youwen. I study math and hack on computers at UC Santa Barbara.

Here is my GitHub, university transcript, CV/resume, and a picture of my cats.

I am interested in the nPOV and how we can apply higher structures to solve hard problems. In general, I prefer to use free-as-in-freedom software. I contribute to NixOS and other foss projects.

In my spare time, I play guitar and spend too much money on guitar pedals. I also hate coding.

See my about page for more about myself, or my now page for what I’m up to right now. Or explore the other pages on this website.

It’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower.

— Paul Graham

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Stop using the wrong quotes! May 19th, 2025 Three isomorphism theorems in linear algebra May 19th, 2025 Parallelizing this website for free May 12th, 2025 Doing web development in Typst May 10th, 2025

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