Ramin: HAL-9001

Currently working at a start-up AI and machine learning consultancy as a software (product development) engineer.

Who, and what things, I love

My family and friends, above all else. But also...

Programming Languages and Software

• the Haskell programming language
• the Scheme programming language (especially Guile)
• the Emacs app platform
• the GNU/Linux operating system (especially Xubuntu, but also NixOS and GuixOS)

Classic computers

• Apple IIc
• Apple IIe
• Apple IIgs
• Macintosh II (whole series, but especially the IIsi)
• Macintosh Performa 630CD (last of the Macs using the Motorola 68000 ISA)

Music

• Nirvana (Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, Lori Goldston, Pat Smear, Chad Channing)
• Gorillaz (Damien Albarn, Jamie Hewlett)

Contemporary political figures and philosophers

• Noam Chomsky
• Edward Snowden
• Slavoj Žižek
• Richard M. Stallman

If Emacs were written in Haskell

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                       . | .
                  -  - --^-- -  -      |
                        /|\          -- --
             |         /   \           |
           -- --      |  n  |
             |        |  U  |
                      |  U  |
                      |  U  |
                      |  U  |      |
                      |  U  |    -- --
                      |  U  |      |
                      |  U  |
         |            |  U  |
       -- --          |  U  |
         |            |  U  |
                      |  U  |             |
                      |  U  |           -- --
                      |  V  |             |
                      |     |
                      | /|\ |
                   (  |<(O)>|  )
                   \\_| \|/ |_//
                    ^^^|   |^^^
                       )///(
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                      <|===|>
                       ^\V/^
                         ^
"By the theory of Lambda, I... have... the POWER!"