Welcome!
I'm Thomas, a kiwi studying computer engineering at Brown University. Many people know me online as metaterminal.
Currently, I do research on classical computation problems, including machine learning and software sustainability. I work as a research assistant at Brown's Center for Computation and Visualization, as well as an undergraduate researcher at the Scalable Energy-Efficient Computing Systems (SCALE) Laboratory. In the future, I'm interested in pursuing questions in quantum computing topics.
In my spare time, I create puzzlehunts, write fiction, host a podcast, sing sea shanties, play guitar, help run an annual awards show, read and analyze literature, and make other cool things. (Some of the cool things are on this website!)
Current work
Carbon-Conscious Schedulers for Research Computing Environments
Quantization Methods for Machine Learning on Embedded Systems
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Technical details
This site is run using the static site generator Zola, which is powered by Tera, and individual pages are written with Markdown. The site is deployed using Netlify. I don't use a default Zola theme or anything like that; any functionality on here, I have implemented myself.
(Should I have used React or some other kind of framework? Perhaps! But I enjoyed creating everything from scratch; implementing new features is fun! I also enjoy how lightweight the end result is.)
This site is entirely static. That means no ads and fast load times. I plan to keep my site like this for as long as I have it up.
I also host the websites for Brown Puzzle Club and the Bravo Puzzle Awards, which use an identical tech stack.
The font on this website is Hack.
Contact me
If you're interested in reaching out to me about my research, you should contact me at my institutional email thomas_gordon@brown.edu.
Otherwise, the best place to reach me is my personal email address, which is altmetaterminal@gmail.com.