About Me

I'm Kyle Miller, an undergraduate student in mathematics at MIT. I like learning about new things, especially the technological, mechanical, and electrical. Sometimes I spend a lot of time on Wikipedia, the user-editable encyclopedia, and sometimes succumb to the urge to click on the endless links.

I enjoy music a lot, especially classical and occasional jazz. I play the piano and cello, can play a few chords on ukulele, and I plan on learning how to play the theremin. My favorite composers are Bach (because of his amazing fugues with many voices doing completely different things), Beethoven (for his classical romanticism), Elgar (for his amazing cello concerto), and Shostakovich (for his deep string quartets). I like to listen for the patterns and structure of the music, taking it apart and examining the workings. I have many printed musical scores of symphonies and quartets to see how the masters accomplished what they did.

I also like building things. When I was little I played with a lot of Legos and K'NEX sets and built many machines and robots. One thing I especially liked to do was to build a tram across a room using string for pullies and tracks and K'NEX parts for the car and the mechanism to make the contraption move. Since then I have graduated to more abstract toys such as programming languages. They seem to have much more freedom to do more intricate things and to be able to design greater architectual wonders, but can only be seen or manipulated with incantations at a keyboard. Following my desire to understand everything, I have also delved into the art of computer engineering with a homebuilt Z80 computer.

I have many projects that I have or am working on. I always need something to do. For example, this website here is one of them. Many of my ideas will never reach any form of production, but I hope to at least catalogue them here for some future use.

I also like books. I have a somewhat random library of books that I've come to acquire including those on mathematics, philosophy, the nature of the universe, fiction, and others. For a time I was cataloging the books in the library (here), but then I moved to Cambridge for school.

And so, this, in a nutshell, is sort of what I do.