I grew up in a computer lab, cracking software and pirating books [1] onto my Kindle. Lately, I've been reflecting on where all the millions of words I've read [2] have gone. Right now, that's through research, and catching up on all the reading I've missed out on since I started pulling APIs [3] to arbitrage fire staves in 2021.
TLDR: my steel supplier left our burgeoning fire staff monopoly for web3. I write more about this as a preface to some adventures in crypto here, but this all coalesced into my internship at Helius. My sophomore year was thus spent catching stand-ups at midnight, pushing commits right before exams, and teaching developers twice my age how to use our RPCs.
Junior year, alongside my IB diploma, I joined RevisionDojo. I worked alongside two-ish other engineers as we scaled from 3,000 to nearly 200,000 students. We also got into YC's F24 batch! This all coincided with the advent of GPT-4, and I'm pretty confident that we worked on some of the first AI-generated lessons ever. Merging the PR while I was sick and seeing twenty thousand lessons created just hours after release (during summer no less) is still a core memory of mine.
I make it a habit to never really know what's next, but currently, my life goals include opening a park with turtles and a cafe that sells iced chocolate. I'm also currently training an offline RL model to reach #1 on gen7ou, and looking into digitizing Buddhist texts. If any of this strikes a cord, say Hi! Unlike the turtles, I don't bite :)
[1] Apologies to Adobe, and shoutout to Calibre
[2] For reference one of my favorite web novels, ISSTH, has a word count of 3.3 million
[3] Albion doesn't natively have an API, but there's a player run data project