About Me
I'm a software development engineer on Bing at Microsoft. In May 2009, I graduated from Swarthmore College, where I studied Computer Science, Mathematics / Statistics, and Economics. I particularly enjoy statistics, machine learning, information retrieval, natural language processing, and similar topics at the intersection of math and computer science.
On the side, I'm interested in the topic of evaluating different charitable actions, including philanthropic donations, in terms of their cost-effectiveness, which in my opinion can vary by many orders of magnitude from one cause to another. I think the question of what we should do to relieve large amounts of suffering in the world is not obvious, but requires extensive research and deep thinking about hard philosophical problems related to consciousness, mathematics, physics, decision theory, and Bayesian epistemology. Feel free to email me if you'd like to talk more about these topics, or anything else on the site!
