User:Faseidman
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| Residence | San Francisco Bay Area, California, U.S.A. | |
| Gender | Male | |
| Born | 1979 North Hollywood, California, U.S.A. |
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| Eye color | Hazel | |
| Hair color | Brown | |
| Natural languages | English (native), Spanish (novice) | |
| Formal languages | C (intermediate), C++ (fluent), Java (novice), SQL (novice) | |
| Interests | Interactive media, programming, languages (natural and formal), | |
| Favorite music | Electronica, hip-hop, singer-songwriter | |
| Saying | "Palm trees to cannabis leaves...that's the way of my life you see" -me |
Hi! I'm Drew Seidman (born 12/7/1979). I'm a videogame programmer and designer, an aspiring musician, and a hopeful adventurer through life's journeys, determined to experience as much of life's craziness as I can before I make that last, most fearful journey.
I'm currently working as a C/C++/BREW programmer and hopeful electronic game developer in the San Francisco Bay Area, in California in the U.S.A. I attended Harvard-Westlake High School, and went on to Stanford University for a time, before dropping out to pursue a little common sense and street smarts in the middle of my book-learnings. Though I do regret the loss of my degree, I am now an excellent BREW game programmer, and determined to succeed in the videogame industry at all costs. I hope to return to college and do research in computer science someday, either in the field of natural language processing or programming language design.
I admire Wikipedia tremendously.
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My first article was on JAMDAT Mobile, my former company, which I decided after leaving was big enough to deserve a Wikipedia entry like other major game publishers.
I then wrote a stub for Suga Free, the rap artist, which has since blossomed (with some help from me) into a full-fledged article, which will probably be the first one to be sourced as well (since someone seems to be criticizing it for lack of sources at present).
I've also added some substantial sections to a few quantum physics articles, such as Schrodinger's Cat - a lot of the current section on the Copenhagen interpretation was me - and quantum immortality. These need sources too, though I did come across an educated physics hobbyist once who said the Schrodinger's Cat section was pretty accurate and concise... (yay!)
I also have more minor articles under my belt as well.
The biggest issue I have had so far deals with sourcing - up until this point, I haven't really done it at all. I have too much respect for Wikipedia to put in anything I know to be misinformation, and I try to be as fair and honest as possible in distilling the other research I read and write articles from, but this still isn't an excuse to write unsourced articles. I intend to go back and source all of my contributions after I make sure I'm up on my sourcing and research policies, as well as removing some bias that I've noted to be present in my earlier contributions. So if you're stumbling upon this page in an intent to give me shit about writing unsourced articles, please wait a month or so (it's August 2006 as I'm writing this) before laying into me.
Alternately, any help in teaching me things about how to do this effectively would be great! My talk page is wide open, though, again, I prefer constructive criticism to the alternative.
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