About Me

Who am I?

In a nutshell I am a young, left and queer girl called Murphy. I am about 22.560545 ± 0.047309 years old. I go by she pronouns. I live in a great city somewhere on planet Earth (hint: CET). I love to learn and some of my greatest strengths are my ability to be very disciplined when I need and want to be, my empathy, my autism and my incredible motivation to save this world. In May 2020 I built my first computer (named TARS). Since then my knowledge has basically grown exponentially and I learned a ton about science and specifically computer science and just never stopped. My true passion is physics. I had an amazing physics teacher in school and learned so much from him. Sadly there is too much pain and suffering in the world for me to just follow my passion and spend all my time uncovering the secrets of the universe. That's why I am dedicating a lot of my attention towards computer science instead. I can do a lot more relevant for the world with software then I could with studying quantum mechanics. And I think AI has an incredible potential to boost all kinds of scientific research. Note: I am not talking about generative AI. That sentence was written before LLMs got here... I mean just look at what DeepMind is achieving with AlphaFold for example. Now back to the important things though: I LOVE How I Met Your Mother ☺️ For me it's the single greatest piece of art ever created! You should watch it if you haven't already! My favorite sans-serif font is probably Avenir Next LT Pro and my favorite serif font is Charter BT Roman. Oh and I like cats :)

What am I doing with my life?

I want to save the world and make it a better place. I want to end the wrong and unfair pain and suffering innocent people have to endure. I can't survive just watching innocent humans suffer all over the world and not doing anything about it. I am way too empathetic for that. Their pain is my pain. I am good at and love science. Specifically computer science, mathematics and physics which is also exactly what I am currently studying at university. As I already mentioned in the "Who am I?" section my future work will mostly have to do with cs though. Currently I am in the "filling my brain with skills and knowledge" section of my life but I am also already producing some small results. In the future I want to work on all kinds of problems. Always not for profit of course. With my education I could do all kinds of things like working on the transition to sustainable energy production, nuclear fusion, climate models or very applied projects to educate, feed or protect humans to name a very few. The possibilities for me to help and save the world are endless. I am basically a workaholic and code a lot... My intense desire and motivation to help humans was once rather morbid but should be better now.

University

I am currently studying Computer Science, Mathematics & Physics at University. It's a challenging combination of all three disciplines. I am having the same courses as the regular math/physics/cs students. Just not all of them and my bachelor is longer. Before I started this bachelor I studied Computer Science & Computational Science somewhere else for a year. It allowed me to take courses on physics and cognitive neurosciences but it was just too applied and tbh too easy for me. Plus I wanted more and serious math. Not just math for computer science. I don't worry too much about my university grades. I don't want nor need the fanciest education and high paying jobs in the world. Neither do I want to work in the academic field. I want to solve real world problems not end up in fundamental research. I want to help people and save the world. That's why I decided I'd rather work on useful and impressive projects during my studies that directly benefit humanity than spend my time endlessly studying for exams and memorizing things I can always just look up later. A GitHub profile with useful code is more important to me than some number on a piece of paper. Nonetheless I do have quite good grades (especially in computer science) and also have a scholarship. And don't get me wrong! I am very ambitions when it comes to learning and actually understanding the concepts in my bachelor and working towards being able to use that knowledge whenever I need it.

Skills

Over the years I used and explored a bunch of languages/operating systems/tools/libraries/etc. I roughly categorized them by how confident I am in using them and tried to sort them a bit by type in each category. This is just a small overview so you can get a sense of what I am working with. Not that this is a only a portion of them though. They are limited by the icons I found on Devicon 🙃

Contact me

If you want to contact me, you can do so via email. If you wanna learn more about one of my projects, have some feedback or whatever it may be. I actually enjoy email and I am happy to hear from you :) You can also try some other ways like the discussions tab on my GitHub README Repo here. You'll find a way. When you do so please introduce yourself a bit that I roughly know who I am talking to and what the context is.

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