catonmat’s peteris krumins (2008)My name is Peteris Krumins (pronounced as Peter-is Kroo-mins) which directly translates to English as Peter Bush.

I am 23 years old and I am from Riga, Latvia. I am currently studying physics at the University of Latvia. I am getting my physics degree pretty soon - June 2008. I have specialized in theoretical physics. I chose to study physics just for fun, I have no intentions to do physics in my life. Of course, I find physics interesting but I am much better with computer programming and hacking.

There is a good reason why I did not choose computer science as my major. By the time I finished high school I already had great work work experience as a programmer, linux sysadmin and a white hat (computer security). If I had chosen CS, I would have wasted so much time studying what I already knew. Instead I chose physics, so now, not only I know computer science but also physics and mathematics.

When signing up on various website I love to write “I love mathematics, physics and computer science!” in ‘about me’ field. (Frankly, I love Google even more! :))

In my previous version of this page I wrote that I am going for a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science. I dreamt of studying at MIT. I applied, but they rejected my application! I am angry and confused. They never told me the reason.

I am no longer dreaming about MIT, now I just want to hack and program my entire life! I feel that I have more than enough knowledge to be successful.

My hobby is watching video lectures. A few years ago I started a Free Science Online blog where I post all the video lectures I can find. I also started Free Science Video website where I post interesting science clips.

I have programmed in a bunch of programming languages such as Awk & Sed, Assembler, C, C++, Javascript, Perl, PHP, Python, Prolog, VBScript and probably a few others. I am fluent in C, C++, Awk, PHP and Perl.

I hope to put all my ideas out for everyone to read on this site. I have so many of them and it would be foolish not to blog about them.

I am passionate about what I do and I have this little dream that my site gets as popular as coding horror or the old new thing.

To let you know how passionate I am about computers, programming and hacking here is a fact about me - during summer 2006 (2.5 months) I left my house just two times. Spent all the time programming, reading about programming, learning programming, hacking and also reading about a new topic I found interest in - internet marketing!

Enjoy my posts and I hope to read your comments and feedback!

Sincerely,
Peteris Krumins