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I'm a student at the University of Michigan studying econ and pure math. I hang out on Hacker News, reddit, and Project Euler as user jsomers; my International Scrabble Club handle is uTactics.
Update: For the summer (2008) I will be participating in the Google Summer of Code through the Center for Complex Systems here at the U of M; check out the details of my project.
If you could only read one more book I'd make it Siddhartha by Herman Hesse; if you had time for two, add Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid. Everyone should check out David Foster Wallace's essay, "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction [PDF]" and spend some time perusing TED videos, Paul Graham essays, and Calvin and Hobbes strips. I'm a disciple of Strunk and White and an avid LaTeX evangelist. English and Python are my languages of choice.
The intended focal point of this site, though, is my essays: