"Reality has a well-known liberal bias."
—Stephen Colbert

Interests

Programming

Ever since my parents got their first computer I was fascinated by it. Watching my brother play video games and work on his degree in Computer Engineering helped to fuel my passion. My first experience programming was in TI-BASIC on my TI-83 Plus in 6th grade. Then in High School I learned Java in AP Computer Science and began learning some basic HTML and CSS in Web Design. As time went on I also learned some C++ and JavaScript, as well as some Bash (although I still think it's weird). By far my favorite language is python. Check out my github if you'd like. There's not too much on there, but I'm pretty proud of Sibyl (extensible python chat bot).

Free Software

Since being introduced to Linux, I've used Ubuntu as my primary operating system, and subscribed to most of the tenets of free and open source software. I've even gotten a few computer-illiterate friends to use Ubuntu as their primary OS. I haven't found a large FOSS project that I want to contribyte to yet, but I'm on the lookout.

Artifical Intelligence

I've been fascinated by AI since first encountering it in Sci-Fi novels. In college I did some work with Machine Learning, and was pretty amazed of the current state-of-the-art. This was taken even further with AlphaGo's continuing wins, which have gone a long way to convincing many skeptics that human-level or general-purpose AI is possible, and indeed inevitable, as we get closer and closer with more and more tweaking. Of course, this brings with it a whole bunch of issues that I don't think society is prepared for, but that's nothing new for technological advancement.

Fun

Things I like to do for fun:

Politics

Like many in my generation, I got really into politics during the 2016 presidential election. I am liberal (more accurately Left Libertarian or Social Democratic) and strongly supported Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein. Some issues I care about: