my favorite math subjects are algebra and number theory. numbers are beautiful and number theory results are so powerful despite building upon what is elementary. i also spent six weeks of the summer of 2024 doing number theory at PROMYS, which was a life-changing experience!! lately i've been getting more into abstract algebra. i have a huge stash of interesting math books that i need to read! in the distant past i've also touched on analysis and topology. this summer i took a class on differential geometry! highly recommend the Euler Circle for learning cool advanced mathematics. there is genuinely so much interesting math out there, and i've barely scratched the surface.

books: aluffi's notes from the underground, axler's linear algebra done right, princeton's companion to mathematics and applied mathematics

i'm also sorta a comp math person even though i'm a bit retired. math contests are fun though, and i attend many college tournaments and do olympiad math. my subject distribution is probably nacg but that doesn't mean i'm particularly good at those subjects. feel free to send me problems but you should understand that i'm pretty rusty oops.

also if you're a girl in STEM please check out INTEGIRLS and INTEGIRLS Bay Area! i'm involved with these two and i hope being a part of the INTEGIRLS community will motivate you to continue your math pursuits as much as they did for me! sign up for their mailing lists and participate in the competitions! i assure you that you will have a lot of fun! you should also check out athemath and the g2 (girls together) math programs which i've participated in before too :)

i've also gotten a bit into applied math stuff and mathematical modeling; i started a math modeling club at my school where we do modeling competitions and learn techniques. i've also taken physics every year in hs and it's my favorite out of the "empirical" sciences.

for cs i'm mainly into ml stuff, and recently llms? a lot of people may be unsure how to get into ai stuff, but i started off by watching 3blue1brown vids followed by some attempts to learn basic algorithms. now i like reading interesting papers and ai tech content on various platforms (stuff on substack is rlly good, along with these quanta articles). along with how ai can improve our lives, it is very exciting to me is how we can use ai to advance mathematically, like ai+lean workflows. a very recent development on alphaevolve basically does this, advancing progress in the kissing number problem. another cool subsection of ai is in interpretability. since ai has increasingly become intertwined with our lives, i think it's important to understand it better since ai models are a black box, particularly with both mechanistic and ad-hoc interp methods! and besides, if ai can write code now, we should focus on coding for ai instead of doing what ai can already do. hopefully i can delve deeper into ai safety stuff in the future :O

i've been skating for... 11 years now! i have all my doubles other than double axel :) i compete in excel and showcase, and i've passed my pre-gold tests in both singles and skating skills. i used to do toi and i also am on a hs skating team (contact me to join if you're a high schooler within the bay area! we accept all skill levels).

this is one of my career goals in the long term. the impact of my work is very important to me, whether it's liking everyone's instagram stories (lol), volunteering my time, or performing research in things that matter!

my personal philosophy isn't really solidified but there are bits and pieces that are important to me, and this underlies a substantial part of those pieces i guess? i participated in the non-trivial fellowship, which i highly recommend!

uhh one of my goals is to read more! and talk to more people! so please talk to me :D will be hopefully updating this section.

most recent book i read was Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut. recently i've really enjoyed reading scifi books and my favorite author right now is kurt vonnegut!

please recommend things i like to be carried away

goodreads (pls friend me idc who you are): profile

i am a very avid music listener!!! particularly pop (k-pop!) and r&b

new releases:

• can you entertain? by kim lip
• blue valentine by nmixx

releases that are not entirely new but are good:

• literally anything by artms or tripleS (shoutout to icarus by artms and rising by tripleS)
• only cry in the rain by chuu
• jam & butterfly by dpr live

and here's my musicboard (that i sometimes update when i'm bored) and stats.fm pages. add me on airbuds with the username @annappy. more on kpop

i guess i language-learn through duolingo? i'm doing french, spanish, and some korean. this is more like a game though. here's my account. in the future i definitely hope i can get better at these languages and be able to understand/speak them in conversation!

i also periodically sketch things from pinterest. totally not because it's part of my ceramics class hw. but to be fair sketching is fun!

ah yes, i'm taking ceramics so i make things. they're not the best but here are a few works

• here are two pinch pots and a mug and a sunflower and a grapevine thing

  

• here are the capybaras i made yay

  

i like cats. i feed three stray cats :) here is one we affectionately named "flower cat"

i also like food. for your pleasure here's a fruit crepe and a totoro-themed bakery in boston called japonaise bakery

finally i like flowers and nature. here are some pretty pictures i took from ireland

bucketlist

• rock climbing / hiking (which i already sometimes do)
• cooking/baking
• driving
• webdev
• cafe hopping (cat cafe?!)
• modular origami

  actually i kinda started making kusudama, here's my first and second ones both with 60 units (i cut and colored the 7.5cmx7.5cm squares from printer paper)

  

• cross stitching / embroidery
• cubing - i can now solve a rubik's cube yayy but i want to learn more advanced algorithms!
• getting into video games?
• geek out in geography / trivia / history
• traveling to more parts of the world
• liking running (hard)
• number puzzles like nikoli
• listening to podcasts/audiobooks

for all the interests i have that have not come to fruition

abandoned hobbies

• i had a phase of crocheting. maybe i should pick that up again but i'm not the most deft. the hooks and yarn are still sitting untouched.

  
• i used to actually take art somewhat seriously.
• i used to play piano. i did not like it which is why i stopped. but i think piano is very beautiful and people who can play are so talented.
• i used to dance competitively. i hope i can get back into it someday!
• i used to swim.