Biography
From an early age I was heavily influenced by Plato’s “Republic” and Toynbee’s “History of the World.” Needless to say, by 6th grade I had already embarked on the mission of planning a computer simulation of not just people, but society as a whole. I had to put a hold on my planning when I started drawing graphs and schemas with over 100 labeled boxes. Such a large simulation, however, has never left my life long to-do list. 8 Years later The Sims by Maxis was launched, and for me it was a very disappointing final product.
I believe that randomness is the optimisic way of saying that one does not know something. To that end I believe that logic is always present and that one should be very cautious of anything that takes advantage of chance. This is more of a constraint than a religious belief. I have never believed that total freedom was a good thing for it is under restraints that most notable ideas and projects come to be. Logic is my artistical constraint.
It is probably a surprise to discover that although I believe in logic, machine learning is still my main study. Despite most researchers having left logic in favor for statistical learning methods, I believe that the cleanest and ultimately best solutions are still found in logical approaches. It’s a matter of time for computers to catch up with the pure Aristotelian logic.
I was born in São Paulo, Brazil on a very hot summer day. More importantly blocks away from the equivalent of New York’s Time Square meets Wall Street. When 1st grade came along, I moved to Germany. Although with learning German, I also learned to read and write in German before Portuguese or English. It was only in 3rd grade that I finally moved to the US. Despite having lived so many years in New Jersey I still hold very stuburnly to being only a permanent resident, not citizen.