Nathaniel R. Reindl

I am an independent contractor working in the domain of reverse engineering and systems integration with a little bit of games development on the side. My rates and terms are reasonable, so if you have a project that you think I might find interesting, don't hesitate to contact me.

I'm a self-proclaimed failure, and I'm rather proud of that fact. I believe I've learned more by failing than I would have ever learned by succeeding.

About me

• Contact information (if you're one of a select few people with whom I potentially desire to share no words, namely individuals associated with my father and his family)
• Contact information (for everyone else)

What am I doing?

• Distracting myself from my parents' seemingly-never-to-finalize-even-after-four-years divorce
• I bought a black MacBook (model MA472LL/A) off a friend, and I've been living with that ever since. Windows is nice, but I just can't get any work done with it. Living with the HP Pavilion tx2500 and Windows Vista x64 with SUA. This has been an adventure an utter pain in my ass and an expensive distraction.
  • I would eventually like to implement a halfway decent package manager for SUA, perhaps based off of dpkg and apt, but that would almost imply that I'm trying to port Debian to SUA...
  • I want to get rid of as much reliance on GNU's toolchain as is possible. It rides the compiler toolchain shortbus.
• I don't live in St. Louis anymore, so this is largely irrelevant to me now, but the extra linkage is probably useful to someone else. Wishing the St. Louis area had better public transit infrastructure and better concern for pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly urban planning (i.e., I don't like driving my car to the grocery two miles away just to pick up a gallon of milk)
  • Metropolitan Area Transit Riders Alliance of St. Louis
  • Citizens for Modern Transit in St. Louis
  • St. Louis Regional Transit
  • Madison County Transit (Madison county in general sets a good example of good suburban/semi-rural planning)
  • MCT Trails ("Let's take old rail corridors and pave them over for the use of bicycles and pedestrians with the intent of bringing light rail trams into the picture in the future")
• Participating in the North American demoscene
  • CELLULOL by Orchestra Hit (4th at Blockparty 2009, Java/MIDP on a Nokia 5310, party version written 100% at the partyplace, final version to follow Real Soon Now™) — Thanks to the Northern Dragons, Necros, and Gargaj/CNS for an awesome competition. You guys are the best.
  • Organizing the Nurupo "NullPointerException" demoparty for MAGFest 8 between 31 Dec 2009 and 4 January 2010 in Alexandria, Virginia, USA. We'll have streaming music, oldschool music, and wild as far as competitions go with maybe others (e.g., freestyle graphics) as interest gathers. Invitation (hopefully) to be released at Assembly summer 2009.
• Writing a small essay on the mathematics of FM synthesis based on interest from Jake Kaufman and Lenore Horner
• Mathematics
  • Fall 2009 M421 Linear Algebra II
  • Fall 2009 M450 Real Analysis I
  • Spring 2010 M451 Complex Analysis I
  • Fall 2010 M465 Numerical Analysis
  • Fall 2010 M498 Senior Seminar
  • Spring 2011 M499 Senior Thesis
  • Category theory
    • Categories for the Working Mathematician by Saunders Mac Lane (Springer-Verlag Graduate Texts in Mathematics series)
  • Applied harmonic analysis
    • Illinois/Missouri Applied Harmonic Analysis seminars...
      • ... hosted by Myung-Sin Song at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville on 27 September 2008.
      • ... hosted by Richard Laugesen at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on 27 March 2009.
• Computational and mathematical physics
  • Calculating matrix elements for an elementary, antisymmetric model of the fractional quantum Hall effect, with Lenore Horner