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Who am I online & what have I done? Contact information; sites I use; computers and software tools; things I’ve worked on; psychological profiles T his page is about me; for information about Gwern.net, see About This Website⁠. A transition from an author’s book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur and magnificence; but when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke. Samuel Johnson⁠; The Rambler⁠, No. 14 (1750-05-05)⁠⁠1⁠ Behind a remarkable scholar one often finds a mediocre man, and behind a mediocre artist, often, a remarkable man. Friedrich Nietzsche⁠, Beyond Good & Evil⁠ §137 The reader lives faster than life, the writer lives slower. James Richardson, “Even More Aphorisms and Ten-Second

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