I am mazunki, a 26 year old student at the University of Oslo. My main degree was about Robotics & Intelligent Systems, although I'm mainly interested in the software side of things.
I am currently taking master courses under the branch of system architecture, while simultaneously studying Philosophy as my second bachelor.
By most people's standards, I'm aligned towards the left, fighting for my own and all sentient beings' freedom, and I will not tolerate any intolerance in my circles.
I love philosophy, ethics, role-playing games, computing, mathematics, physics, technology... I'm currently looking into the Ethics of Machine Learning and doing research on what intelligence actually is. I believe this is quite important, now that AI is becoming standard in society.
Many people ask me: I've been using Linux exclusively for around six years, but have been using it on-and-off since I was a kid.
I speak four languages, since I grew up in Altea (Alicante, Spain), coming from Norway with a Norwegian family. Because of this weird mixture I consider myself both Norwegian and Spanish‑Valencian.
I learned Norwegian from my dad, mostly, so I have kept his dialect, even while not living in Mandal (our family's hometown, the southernmost city of Norway).
I learned Castilian Spanish at school, by having friends from all over the country, and talking to people from town. While I mostly speak Castilian, I also learned Catalan in a similar fashion, although I wish my Catalan was more fluent than it is. My Catalan dialect is kind of a mix between Valencian and Central Catalan, since I've spoken a lot to both people from my town, and people from Barcelona and Mataró (in Catalunya).
I grew up playing Real Time Strategy games with my dad, such as Evony and Travian, reading a lot of stuff on wikis, forums, and watching a lot of movies in their original languages. Since I spent a great deal of my free time online, talking to strangers while playing multiplayer games, and engaging in both formal and relaxed talk with them I ended up learning English quite well at an early age.
Over time I have developed a taste for Linguistics, and constructed languages… and want to learn more languages. I wish I had more time, focus, and opportunity to do so.
I play a lot (...too many, perhaps) of incremental games, and spend way too much time researching strategies to improve playing these. You should totally check my spreadsheets, and the amount of tabs I have open. Maths does serve a purpose! Programming too!!
I started playing Cookie Clicker almost a decade ago, and I enjoyed it. While I lost that save, I am currently running a 7-year-old legacy.
I finished Kittens Game some time ago, with all achievements (stars included), which led me down to countless hours in Melvor Idle. I've heavily influenced the wikipage for the game, and most people in the community know me (and Username) as the creators of 12bHCCO, a gamemode where you only play the game by doing combat
I have also tallied a few (thousand) hours in NGU Idle, Idling to Rule the Gods, Wizards and Minions Idle, Antimatter Dimensions and Matter Dimensions. Feel free to suggest games for me to play through!
I used to work at Oslo-Fergene, as a deckhand, for almost a decade. It was a good experience, from which I learned a lot regarding managing crowds of people, handling cargo safely, and how to maintain vessels.
I could totally beat you at tying knots.
For a while I did some freelancing teaching local languages to foreigners, and foreign languages to local. At times, I do some volunteering work in the same regards, but most of my time has been consumed by my studies, work, and coding for the open source community.
Currently I'm working as a teacher at Learnist, teaching programming to kids and teens. It's very fun to meet so many unique and different people, and I love when my students teach me things I didn't know or hadn't thought about! As fun as it is to meet new students, I am not planning to stay employed as a teacher forever, and would happily transition into working as a developer in low-level software
Specifically, moving forward, I hope to find a role in something in the scope of: