catonmat’s peteris krumins (2008)My name is Peteris Krumins (pronounced as Peter-is Kroo-mins), I’m 23 years old and I’m from Riga, Latvia. My name directly translates to English as Peter Bush.

On June 26th, 2008 I graduated with a B.Sc. degree in Physics from the University of Latvia.

I chose to study physics just for fun. I never had intentions to do physics in my life. I find physics very 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 experience working as a programmer, linux sysadmin and a white hat (computer security). If I had chosen computer science, I would have wasted much time studying what I already knew. Instead I chose physics, and now, not only do I know computer science but also physics and the language of physics - mathematics.

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, Perl, and I am becoming fluent in Python.

In my previous version of this page I wrote that I was going for a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science. I dreamt of studying at MIT. I applied but they rejected my application! I was angry and confused. They never told me the reasons, just that “The Committee doesn’t make it’s reasons known”.

I am no longer dreaming about MIT, now I just want to become a great hacker and programmer! I am confident that I have enough knowledge to be successful.

When signing up on various website I usually write “I love mathematics, physics and computer science!” in the “about me” field.

My hobby is watching video lectures and getting smarter. 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 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. It may take ten years, but I am ready to pursue my little dream. I am so passionate about what I do that I can literally spend months without leaving my house.

My passion was recently noticed by Google and I had an on-site interview. Unfortunately I did not get hired, but I will try after a few years again.

My other interests include social media, internet marketing and chess.

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

Sincerely,
Peteris Krumins