Q I love this story. I want to, I want to spend most of the interview, because we only have 15 minutes, focused on the pure, the math, the math behind this engine that you've built, but it sounds like you got bit by the bug back at age 12 with MuggleNet. How'd you get into that, and how'd you grow up to fifty million page views per month?
A So when I was 12, I convinced my parents to let me drop out of school and start homeschooling myself. And so I'm a middle school dropout, and about a month later, I came across a WYSIWYG editor, and I thought it'd be fun to make a website. Made a bunch of crappy websites about things I wasn't very passionate about, and then I got really into Harry Potter, and it was the perfect mix of, I want to make a website, I was really into Harry Potter, so I was spending eight hours a day working on it. Um, there's really three separate things that I did to grow it. The first one was that I did a ton of link swaps early on, Linking to other Harry Potter sites in exchange for them linking to me. So that's how people first found the site.
AI assessment note: “So when I was 12... there's really three separate things that I did to grow it.”