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Hey, everyone! My name is Joshua David... and I am very excited about steem and its rewards system.

I am an avid Skier and Snowboarder and I am interested in photography. I spend a lot of time hiking here in my home state of Colorado and travel throughout North America regularly.

I am CompSci student with a 4.0 :p who spends most of his free time working on side projects and enrichment. I am interested in web development, data science, AI, and blockchain. I think about the applications of machine learning in conducting scientific experiments, specifically in space. For example, an aquaponics system ran by an AI that uses a decision tree to control the nitrogen cycle, add extra nutrients, and feed the fish, machine vision to make observations about the health of the plants, machine learning to diagnose the plants and/or develop a seed-to-harvest plan that includes 3d models of the most optimal low-stress training solution for any given plant, and IoT robotics to carry out detailed instructions based on data. This AI could conduct experiments to maximize efficiency by using various techniques to produce the highest yield possible with the lowest amount of input possible in a zero or low gravity aquaponics system. This system could be used for other experiments however and could even be deployed on Earth. I have a hunch, however, that low stress training could be extremely effective in space for certain types of crops and fish may do better in space than other, land-based, animals.

Furthermore, entrepreneurship and aerospace are two topics I spend a lot of time thinking and reading about.

Over the course of 2018 I plan on visiting Oregon and Washington with a long stop in Bend. I am also interested in visiting the northeast and Florida.

I believe that crypto will play an important role in the deep space economy and am invested in many cryptos including:

• Cardano
• NEM
• NEO
• Ethereum
• Bitcoin
• Lisk
• Qtum
• Ark
• Tenx
• Power Ledger
• Civic
• Steem