I’m a sommelier–so I work all night, and by day I play. And by “play,” I mean I study and explore. Sometimes this means digging into guitar and piano and music production (Rock and flamenco speak most to my soul, but I can also groove out to hip hop, oldies, blues…and very occasionally, classical or country. Sometimes I obsess over languages (Italian is my favorite). It often means matters of money and investing (I’m a believer in Amazon). And my latest intrigue is technology: coding, website design (hence me here now), with the eventual notion that I might learn about machine learning, neural networks, and data science. But wait! For somebody who’s always thought of himself as good at math, and “academically-oriented,” I recently discovered I’d forgotten quite a bit of algebra, particularly when it came to factoring quadratic equations, and I know my Trig knowledge doesn’t go much beyond SOH CAH TOA, and while I remember the concepts of integrals and differentials, I’ve got some brushing up to do. Khan Academy, here I come…