HELLO WORLD.

Who am I?

I'm a 16-year-old aspiring to break into CS/AI and quantitative finance, but what really matters is that- I'm simply someone who has grown to love graphs and data, and the idea of information and analysis.

Where I'm coming from:

I've been coding (ashamed to call it programming) since I was 11, though I often struggled to see projects through to completion. It wasn't for a lack of ideas- it was a lack of discipline. To illustrate the challenges I faced, here are some of my past projects:

Project: NoSea

This was an overly ambitious one for sure-

The Idea:

I wanted to make an operating system (OS) all by myself... Sounds pretty stupid, right? Well it wasn't just another "Ubuntu reskin", I wanted to write the kernel and all, by myself. From scratch.
My thoughts back then went something like:

If we could have a lightweight, open-source, multi-platform OS (For mobile and PCs), that was the exact same on both platforms (unlike Linux, and android which is based on linux but basically completely different), it would be "THE NEXT BIG THING"

Resources:

Although my project itself wasn't useful at all the resources I used, were.
So here are some of them for reference (I can't find all of them as I deleted the repo, and the files. I wasn't logging any of my activities so I can only rely on my memory for this-).

1. Write Your Own Operating System (Youtube): Teaches most of the fundamental and gives an idea about the true complexity of it all. But it's pretty old now, still mostly how systems work- but pretty old.
2. Write Your Own 64-bit Operating System (Youtube - CodePulse): This is where I made my first mistake. It is a really good example, but I followed it blindly at first, doing exactly what he was without understand the WHY? and the underlying theory.
3. Making an OS(x86): Again a really good resource... but I found it later- after I had nearly given up.
4. OSDEV wiki: Literally the Bible for OS dev. Back then, I didnt really understand all the computer stuff and didn't put in enough effort to learn... so I was really confused. Looking back now I can see why it's so highly regarded.

The Plan:

I didn't have a solid plan at first and ended up failing about 5 or 6 times. (An OS as my first big project was a REALLY BAD idea.) But after all those mess-ups and way too much pondering when I should've been studying, I came up with something. (I'm writing this now, so it's all from memory-I might've made it a bit better by accident, but I've tried to keep the original idea, flaws included.)

[ If you're seeing this- it means I couldn't meet the deadline (01/04/2025), and am too busy/lazy to finish the whole thing. I may update it in the future, but right now my current projects take priority. I hope whatever is written atleast gave you a rough idea about me. ]