Kyle A. Smith

Also known as Dog Jones.

Somehow, everything fascinates me. I think I'd be a student the rest of my life if I could. Once I find something I'm interested in, I will devour as much information about it as a human brain can intake in a short period of time.

I've always been a computer guy. Learned how to use Windows 3.1 when I was about 3. Wrote my first QBASIC program at around 9, learned HTML when I was 14, and wrote a full-fledged web CMS when I was 16, before "CMS" was even a term. It was always obvious that I was going to study computer science in college, but in high school I was obsessed with studying music theory, learning instruments, and taking high-level math and Spanish classes.

I suppose in the end, I chose to study all of the above. I discovered a true, deep passion for advanced mathematics at the higher levels because something about the beauty of a great proof is as artistic as a Bach sonata.

Ended up with a Bachelor's in Mathematics and a Master's in Computer Science. And throughout that time, I never stopped playing music, and I even randomly took a class in Korean language. After a semester in Colorado, a semester abroad, and a year or so of chatting with friends, I got pretty good at it.

It took a while for me to realize why these all both appealed to me so much and came to me so easily. They're all the same. Music is math. Math is computer science. Programming requires following the same rules as learning a foreign language. It's all precise, logical, and fits exactly with the way my brain thinks.

These days, I work full-time as a software developer for a small real estate software company during the day, and obsess with hobbies in the evenings. Sometimes I'll make music, sometimes I'll spend hours trying to figure out how to write a script that wouldn't even actually be that valuable in the end - I just like the puzzle.

I also like to educate, even though I'm not a teacher. Sometimes I make videos in the hopes of taking something an average person would consider absolutely mundane and uninteresting and make it as fascinating to them as it is to me.

I'm a chronically optimistic and trusting person. I almost always find a way to find the best in people, no matter what happens, and I feel that makes me a happier person too.

I guess you could say my ambition in life is to spread knowledge and happiness to others as much as humanly possible.