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I work at the University of New South Wales, where I use Ruby to analyze biological data.

In part of my spare time, I work on fun programming projects. One was trying to analyze what underlies Wikipedia's Get to Philosophy game. I also worked on one called the "Small Eigen Collider".

I'm currently learning Japanese, and I'm an active participant in lang-8.com, a website where you write journal entries in a language you're learning, and get corrected by native speakers of that language. In return, you correct people writing entries in your native language. Recently, I've been asking a few questions prompted by slightly incorrect English I've encountered on lang-8.


Feb
28
comment where can I find digitised versions of Japanese war documents in original Japanese?
Are you trying to learn about Japanese history, or practice your Japanese?
Jan
23
comment Is there a civilization that never believed in God in the ancient times?
I once asked one the defunct Atheism Stack Exchange, and the consensus was that there weren't any that we were aware of.
Oct
20
awarded  Student
Oct
20
asked Do onsen geisha still exist?
Aug
10
comment Did Japan ever pay Russia a reasonable amount of war reparation after WW2? Why or why not?
Technically, the two countries are still at war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan-Russia_relations
Aug
3
comment Continent-wide common languages in human history
Australia is a continent, and pretty much speaks a single language.
Apr
21
comment Why didn't Russia help Saddam Hussein as it is helping Syria now?
-1 per Dan Neely.
Apr
10
comment Did anyone warn about the potential for stock market crashes in 1929, and if so why were their warnings ignored?
cbc.ca/news/business/story/2009/10/26/f-langan-great-crash.html mentions the anecdote of Joseph Kennedy bailing the stock market because a bellhop gave him a stock market tip. Don't know whether it's true or not.
Dec
13
comment Why did Meiji consider switching from Japanese to English?
Which variety of English were they planning on using? British English, or American English?
Dec
13
awarded  Supporter
Dec
13
awarded  Autobiographer