This website was born over the weekend of November 9-12 of 2017. I was alone at home for two reasons: My wife had traveled to the 43rd AMATYC annual conference in San Diego; and my cat J.D. had died a few days before on November 4, 2017. I missed J.D. a lot so I decided to make a web page to memorialize him. Until Jan 5, 2019 J.D's memorial was the only page at thebetafunction.com.

Since then I have learned some Python and how to use Flask. With our powers combined the website has been given a facelift. My current project is to create an open source exam and quiz generator using $\LaTeX$ and Python. It can be found here.