Hi, this is Conan, ex-mathematician, ex-theme park painter, ex-management consultant, ex-software engineer and generally someone who refuses to settle.
This blog and myself started off in mathematics. In fact, for six years (2007-2013) math was almost all I did. At the beginning of 2012, while working towards my PhD back at Princeton, a trip to Walt Disney World reminded me of what I really want in life and hence changed my trajectory forever. Since then, I do all sorts of things in random parts of the world =)
If you have comments/questions/suggestions or just want to day hi, please feel free to e-mail me at conan777@gmail.com.(I check that continuously and will do my best to recall what I was thinking when I was writing the post)
A video that deeply inspired me: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams by Randy Pausch — A CS professor in Carnegie Mellon.
Finally, a not up-to-date keyword cloud of stuff on this blog~
Area777 
Dear Conan,
How do you make your beautiful diagrams? Are they purely “hand drawn”, or do you have systematic ways of making them look the way they do?
-A.
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Hi~(Sorry I can’t guess what that ‘A’ stand for)
Glad you like the images! Yes they are pretty much ‘hand drawn’ (in Adobe illustrator), I just follow my instincts and adjust them until they are aesthetically pleasing :-P
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I started to read your blog again, because you talk about painting instead of only maths (which i don’t quite understand) now. Get inspired by your new journey!
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You are my new hero.
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Hi.Could you tell me what’s your WordPress blog theme?I like its style.
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missed this message looong ago… Sorry about that. In case anyone is still curious, the theme is called ‘white as milk’ if I remember correctly
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