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ETHAN FAST
I'm an entrepreneur, scientist, and writer. Find more on my academic and professional pages, subscribe to my feed, or follow me on twitter, dribbble, or github.

AFFILIATIONS

I'm a CS PhD student at Stanford, an alumnus of Y Combinator, and a graduate of UVa.

OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS

  • TypedJS: Sanity check your JavaScript.229 Followers
  • Gajure: A genetic algorithm framework in Clojure.
    42 Followers
  • K-means: A Haskell library.
  • Finite Automata: A Haskell library.
  • Clogger: A blogging framework in Clojure.11 Followers

THOUGHTS?

I respond to email, and I'm happy to give advice about academia and startups.

WRITINGS

Here are a few of my essays, tutorials, and articles.

  • Go Meta07 Sep 2012
  • The Signal is not the Goal27 Jul 2012
  • The Ocean-lake of Old Earth16 Jul 2012
  • Old Palo Alto15 Jul 2012
  • Reciprocity and the Status Quo24 Apr 2012
  • Ask the Question23 Apr 2012
  • See Things as They Are22 Apr 2012
  • Counterintuition Killed By Bayes07 Apr 2012
  • Code that Writes Code13 Mar 2012
  • More on Coderacy and Mental Models10 Mar 2012
  • The Aspirational Polymath09 Mar 2012
  • Programmers Can Be Artists07 Mar 2012
  • Don't Jump off the Cliff with a Parachute05 Mar 2012
  • You're Afraid to Be Anything04 Mar 2012
  • The Rise of Coderacy29 Feb 2012
  • Follow Up to Unknown, Unknowns27 Feb 2012
  • Website A/B Testing and Unknown, Unknowns25 Feb 2012
  • Automatic Regression Testing in JavaScript03 Feb 2012
  • A Case Study in Readability30 Jan 2012
  • Programming, Education, and Rationality29 Jan 2012
  • The Programming Djinn26 Jan 2012
  • Deconstructing a Successful YC Application04 Oct 2011
  • Minimalist Running24 May 2011
  • The Artful Mastering of Goals19 May 2011
  • Advice for Undergrads13 May 2011
  • State Your Purpose06 Apr 2011
  • Metaprogramming Ruby09 Dec 2010
  • The Allure of the Asymmetrical28 Mar 2010
  • On Parallelism in Gajure07 Oct 2009
  • A Genetic Algorithm Framework in Clojure03 Sep 2009

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