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What I'm About
What I'm About
Greetings! I appreciate your stopping by & letting me share my story with you!
I grew up on the West Coast (USA) at a time when math wasn't encouraged for girls like me, and I spent years after high school bouncing around jobs & industries that never quite clicked. I remembered picking up my love for math from my 3rd grade teacher & in 2019, out of curiosity, decided to take a couple of night classes after work. I couldn't get enough.
My love for math drew me to data science for its real-world application. I moved to Houston to attend the first school in the state to offer the Bachelor's program in Data Science, a field that had just started differentiating itself from data analytics for its rich understanding of Applied Statistics- an implicit minor.
A natural outgrowth of the program, my school was the first again in the state to offer the Master's program in Artificial Intelligence, and in 2022, I embarked on this journey connecting everything I've found interesting throughout my life: math, philosophy, language & semantics, psychology, probability, learning.
I love seeing the interplay of these concepts applied as generative programming, reinforcement learning, agentic AI, scientific solutions- the pandora's box has been promising! We're looking at new horizons of job generation and innovations we're scarcely imagining; it's invigorating!
And it's all quite literally simply math in action ♥
I honestly feel like the more I keep learning, the more I see I have yet to learn- both a blessing and a curse, simultaneously exciting and overwhelming. As I learn more about AI, I find myself drawn to understand more explicitly the computational processes that it requires- to optimize not just its learning algorithms, but also its thinking processes. We're programming things to mimic us, surpass us, understand us, yet we're so complex ourselves- internally parallel processing neural networks in split seconds far beyond our awareness- it's as if we're chasing an entangled state of calculated engineering and subconscious creativity our forebears like Edison, Einstein, & Euler understood in practice albeit without words. Do words limit us?
One reason I love math is for its universality. The more I study it, the more intriguing it becomes- the difficulty of discretization, for example, shows up when you need precision. Anomalies can throw off everything or explain everything. Its application in the real world shows up in physics- thus my atom-abacus logo here- and sometimes, rather than explicitly defining binomial caricatures of everything, we collect more information by opening our horizons & learning again.
I'm aiming to keep deep-diving into my new AI career path, discovering new uses and methodologies to make what we know better and to learn all that we can with our new tools & skills. I'm also intent on learning more about computational mathematics and quantum science.
Some hobbies & skills I've picked up along my colorful career path have become endearing parts of my personal identity that I intend to indulge for the rest of my life: my love of photography from my studio days, my love of cooking from my restaurant days, my love of culture & people from my travels & relationships. Whatever I get into, I aim to cherish the learning opportunities and embrace the challenge.
If I ever stop doing that, it means you're reading my obituary.
Thanks so much for reading & sharing in my journey with me!
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In my free time, I love to travel with friends and family, get involved with my community, and explore my city.
I especially love photography & soccer. Feel free to click on the Camera 📷 icon on my home page!
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