Welcome to my website. I write about computing, history, and philosophy. My technical interests span machine learning, multi-agent systems, and performance-oriented backends. I work with Python, Go, Rust, C, and TypeScript. I enjoy building things that need to be fast and scale well.
I avoid being prescriptive and instead prefer to frame my experiences and how I've learned or grown from them. I write about programming, statistics, psychology, philosophy, and history.
Writing helps me think. I welcome critiques, fact checking, and fresh angles I didn't consider. Reach me at nico@salm.dev!
I am a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, majoring in Computer Sciences. I spend most of my time hanging out in the UPL on campus with my friends.
Some of my favorite classes:
A colophon is a brief statement that appears at the end of a book, providing information about its production. I got the idea from Andrew:
The site is intentionally minimal, built with Eleventy and plain HTML/CSS. JavaScript is sparse; I only include what's needed for MathJax on posts with equations, a table of contents, margin notes, and category filtering. Images get optimized automatically during the build.
You can find the source code here.
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