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Personal update

It has been a while. I haven't come to write anything here on my gemini capsule because of my studies: I started studying mathematics at Aalto university. I have focused on my studies and social life, not writing these nerdy glog posts.

The mathematics I study is quite engineer-y, or at least it has been this far. What matters is being able to calculate things, not being able to understand them.

I'd like to say that it's a shame. I'm kind of drawn to pure mathematics. Who wouldn't be? But alas, pure maths is best suited as a hobby, unless one is aiming for a career in academia. This was a wise career choice. And all hope is not lost! I'll have a course in metric spaces next period, and that should be quite theoretical.

As a side note, I fixed stdu for you, in case someone would like to use it. Now it can actually handle binary data. What a dumb error to output usind printf and not fwrite. I'll add a link to the repo below. In case you happen to find any bugs, please contact me at joel dot kronqvist at iki dot fi!

=> https://git.cron4.fi/stdu.git

My goal is not to stop writing here entirely. I'm quite a technical person, but I try to keep my perspective broad. Actually writing text now and then helps with that quite a bit. Now I've got to go to the gym, who knows if I'll find time for it during next term ;)

Happy new year everyone!