About

I'm a PhD student at Stony Brook University in the department of linguistics. I like to work on formal learning problems, especially ones involving function decomposition! You can contact me with academic things here.

Papers

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• Learning the Decomposition of Homomorphisms and Simplex ISL Functions Benjamin Evans, Adam Jardine (M. 2026)

Teaching

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• F2025 LIN 431 co-TA

Other

Software

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I "maintain" a running document of my daily drivers. I have also written some mostly complete software:

• ufeed [git]
  Micro RSS feed parser for POSIX

  Has no networking, no displaying capabilities, and does no string manipulation. Extracts meaningful information from a RSS stream.

  Ex// Open NASA's photo of the day:
  curl -s https://www.nasa.gov/feeds/iotd-feed/ | ufeed | dmenu | cut -f2 | xargs firefox

• uircd [git] [log]
  Micro IRC daemon for POSIX

  uircd supports a small subset of the original rfc1459 standard intended to contain the minimal required commands to effectively run a private IRC server. User management is non-existent and all identifying commands have been left out. Connection administration should be controlled on the network level (e.g. SSH); the only filtering that uircd has is a simple PASS check. uircd is designed to be as transparent as possible -- patching should be painless.

• ssrs [git]
  Simple Spaced Repetition Software

  Handles the underlying SRS logic, so you can mix and match the bare cli, some shell script, or even software built on top of ssrs, without loosing progress!

Contact

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Work email: benjamin [dot] evans (at) stonybrook [dot] edu
You are always welcome to use PGP! Key: Download[gpg], or Plain[txt].

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