Hobbies

Here are some of the hobby projects I am working on now or have worked on in the past.

Personal Genetics

I got my genome fully sequenced to a coverage depth of 100x with Nebula Genomics. I am now looking for:

patterns that explain my family's predisposition to neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).
why I have hypoglycemic symptoms, but test negative for hypoglycemia in blood tests.

I am looking for funding to fully sequence my relatives to understand these mysteries and also study patterns of inheritance within my family.

Minecraft Mods and Content

Minecraft is what got me started coding. I taught myself how to code in Java in high school and I'm continually dreaming up new things to add to the game. Here are a few examples.

I was Brigham Young University's Minecraft club president 2022-2023. My contributions included creating a 1.5 scale replica of our campus and coding for several club night activities including a wizard's duel event, and a doomsday event.

Ore sheep eat ores and grow them as wool, which can be shorn off with a pickaxe. This mod has over 1 million downloads!

Complex crops adds rice that only grows on shallow water, cucumber vines, and two-block tall corn that predates the two-block tall Minecraft flowers.

Ornithology

I was an avid bird watcher in high school and still occasionally go on birding trips. I have collected photos and sound recordings of over 100 species of birds and had a website showcasing them that I created in high school. Unfortunately, that website was lost during an update to Google Sites, so I will slowly be building it back again here. Come back for fun stories about my birding escapades!

Eastern Screech Owl by Matthew Cloward

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