About myself
I'm an undergraduate in the University of Helsinki. My major is mathematics, minors are physics and computer science. The current objective is to get a bachelor's degree in the natural sciences, then a master's degree in biomathematics or applied analysis. The third option is bioinformatics, which combines applied mathematics, statistics and computer science for research in molecular biology, possibly bringing new applications to genetics and medicine.
My hobbies and other interests are music, comics, books and philosophy, especially ethics and philosophy of science.
This is a personal webpage which reflects the author's opinions, not the organizations with which I'm affiliated. Comments and feedback, especially reports on misspellings and broken links, are welcome. You can send email to my GMail account and tell me your thoughts.
Articles
I support the pro-life movement. I find the careful study and consideration of bioethics very important for responsible advancement in science. These issues are also very important in culture and society, because they reflect how humans view themselves and other human beings. The way people see themselves and other human beings is a foundational premise in ethics and therefore of utmost importance.
Wikipedia is known to almost all who use the Internet. It aims to create through individual user contribution a comprehensive encyclopaedia of human knowledge. Unfortunately its governance of knowledge has some possible drawbacks which diminish its objectivity and reliability on controversial topics.
BOINC is a program for networked computer processing. BOINC projects use the processing power of individual PCs for scientific research. This way you can contribute some computing power for a scientific project of your liking. The program itself is free, the only cost comes from the electricity.
Memes are an interesting cultural concept popularised by Richard Dawkins. It's intended as an analogy from biology to model cultural development and the transmission of new ideas. There's however a philosophical weakness which rests on the self-referential nature of the concept of memes.