Biography
Computers are an integral part of who I am. I couldn't however have access to one outside of school until I was 9 years old, which was a "kid computer" called a VTech PowerZone 2000. I fell in love with this machine, teaching myself to type, as well as basic algebra, and Spanish. But it wasn't until I was 11 that my household finally got a real computer, however I had very limited access to this computer.
Then in the 8th grade, in a program called "Dell Tecknow", I acquired my first computer. After rebuilding a machine, and installing the OS and office, we got to take the computer home, as well as a free year of internet. I remember feeling on top of the world at this point! It was then, I realized building computers was very easy, and much cheaper than buying one off of the shelf, and my business sense kicked in!
I started a business when I was 14 years old to provide low cost high end custom computer systems. However, that was a tough market to be competitive in without a large amount of initial capital. During this time, I maintained all of the websites, learning to code and gained quite a bit of web-programming experience. Eventually I started to learn Java, and a few scripting languages, it was then I became hooked! I loved the fact that I could make a computer do whatever I wanted, I learned 15 programming languages my first year of real programming. However, I was 15, and at this age, my focus traditionally should have been school, but I couldn't stay away from my computer, I could program all of the tasks which I was supposed to memorize. Unfortunately I then couldn't really see much point in studying, and excessive memorization.
I then decided to start a web design company, essentially acting as a web design consultant, but had very limited focus for business initially as I was trying to focus more on school. I got a few gigs, and learned that web design is the smallest part of running a web design company, and that it's all about the customer, and leading them to decisions when they are uncertain. However, I kept business going for quite some time, as it was some nice income every once in a while. The focus of the company was to provide high quality, and high functioning websites to businesses & individuals at an affordable price, then I shifted the focus to web applications.
While being a web design consultant, I worked menial jobs in customer service, data entry, etc. for consistent income. It wasn't until I was working at Apple as a Senior Adviser, that someone told me I could make 2-3 times the money doing web development professionally, if I'm any good at it. It was so obvious, yet overlooked for so long. The cause may have potentially been my first interview as a programmer when I was 18, and was told "We're extremely impressed with your programming skill, especially given the amount of education you've had. However, we don't think you've had enough professional work experience." Regardless, I left Apple and found my first job as a programmer. This was AMAZING! I had loose time schedules, worked Monday-Friday, mostly managed my own time, and was allowed to think outside of the box! Also, I literally had co-workers that were interested in physics! As with programming, and computers, I also had been spending a large amount of my time independently studying physics, and had a Theory of Everything, with very few loose ends.
I eventually landed a job at a finance company programming an "Automated Decision Engine", which was essentially a rules engine. It made sense how it worked, but I felt we could have programmed it better. Very often I came to the conclusion that we were doing things the best way, but then I stumbled across the problem "P vs. NP". At the time, I was only slightly familiar with Big O notation and algorithm timing, so I quickly became acquainted, and believed I had a solution to the problem, and that P=NP. I pondered how this could be used for A.I. and came up with a full A.I. design centered around the algorithm. At this point I finally believed in myself and my intelligence, I quickly closed the gaps in my Theory of Everything, and came up with a quantitative mathematics system for A.I., I almost felt like the character in "Limitless". I also came up with a photon computer, and completely understood magnetism, even down to the atomic level. It was then that the relations wouldn't stop, for I understood a great deal, yet couldn't stop relating information, almost going in circles. At this point, I started to ponder faith, and every thought said "NO!", but my heart said "YES!".
I then decided to take a leap of faith, and walk by faith, although my mind couldn't grasp it. It was then, the son of God, pulled me from my mind, almost seeming like a confirmation for making the right decision to walk on faith. He then showed me several things, the most memorable being that God in fact DOES EXIST, and is beyond comprehension! We have to have a firm grasp on dimensions, before we can physically understand an infinitesimally small part of his being. Even though he showed me these things, and it was as clear as anything has ever been to me, I hadn't the slightest clue of most of what I saw. During the experience, I thought I was dead, but I was so amazed by the things which I saw, I didn't care.
After the dust settled from all of this, I began to study and realized what I was shown. I was truly amazed that the information had always been available to me, yet I never thoroughly investigated the right resources. Also, I realized I could trick my P=NP algorithm, therefore it couldn't solve ALL problems. I then came up with an algorithm I couldn't trick, however I do realize although unlikely, it may not find some solutions. For this, we do have another algorithm which is quicker than 2ⁿ-1, however it's still exponential in it's timing, so the practicality thereof is limited.
My vision for technology is a self maintained industry, where we can use it as we desire, but it enhances, builds, and fixes itself. However, I do think fully intelligent systems should be kept from military applications, as programming an enemy opens the potential for a costly misunderstanding. I also see a way to pass an infinite amount of information within a second, as well as that photon computer coming to life. I see myself as a practical dreamer, but a dreamer nonetheless, and see us going to a new age; one without technology-birthed frustration, and one where people can get to focusing back on each other versus technology. I truly look forward to see the coming of that day with you!