Facts:

Name: Platon Kralin
Age: 17
Location: San Ramon, CA, USA
Languages Spoken:
  • English,
  • Русский,
  • Français
Languages Programmed:
  • Python,
  • C,
  • C++,
  • BASH,
  • SNOBOL4
    • Some x86 ASM, Lisp, and Pascal
OS Experience:
  • Windows,
  • Linux
  • Some BSD, Haiku, and IBM i

Experience:

  1. >3 Years of High School
    • APCSP
    • APCALC AB
    • APUSH and AP Euro
    • AP Lang
    • HPhys
    • HChem
  2. 3 College Classes Completed (MUS 110, BLAW 101, BUS 101)
  3. Participated in Several Hackathons and Game Jams
  4. Contributed to Several Public GitHub Repos ( Such as this SNOBOL4 Tutorial)
  5. Worked on many personal projects.

Projects:

  • Defensetrate - A currently unpublished puzzle game I am making with some of my friends, based on the idea of a character moving between different windows. Made with Haxe.
  • A fully functional Brainf*** interpreter I made for APCSP (I am unsure if the Collegeboard would permit me to publish it.)
  • Garkbol - A programming language I have sketched out with some of my friends
  • KrOS-H or Kr(alin's) O(perating) S(ystem) - H(i). My attempt at making an operating system. Currently frozen due to school after having achieved character output ("Hello, World") without an OS.
  • The Universal Satire: An Epic Farce.The book I am currently working on alongside some other writings (such as those in Thoughts).
  • CharShow, An attempt to practice creating a "complete" project, a small terminal utility to find the ASCII code of a character, written in C.
  • A couple personal Conlangs I have previously made.
  • Unfortunately, the workload of school has not permitted me do accomplish too much

Random Ideas (Unlikely to be Implemented)

  • Running a study to measure how certain language features actually affect productivity.
  • Attempt to induce self-rewarding reasoning in a basic AI model by placing it into an intractable world.
  • Building an amateur Quantum Computer
  • Many others

Personal Philosophy

  • Better is Better: I proudly pronounce the idea that things should be made to be as good as possible for the end user and creator--that it should be logically and morally correct.
  • (Popular) AI is Lotus-Eating: While things like Large Language Models may be interesting in a scientific sense, their common use consists of lotus-eating--taking the easy route of intellectual laziness rather than doing something properly--and should not be used to create any official project.
  • Denounce All that is Wrong, Pronounce All that is Right: Having made the grave mistake of contemplating my condition, I have realized that I do not wish to be a cog in the machine, and I have realized that stating one's true thoughts on something is better philosophically than desperately pretending otherwise for social status.
  • Dare to Dare: Speak, act, struggle, or even be--no matter what, philosophically it's much better to be daring than to obey without question.
  • Down with Bloat: If something has no good reason to be big, it shouldn't. This is why this site is so simple--it's fast, runs on nearly everything, and IT JUST WORKS. Between simplicity and having to wait 10 seconds for the same text to load, I will always choose the former.