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The Genius
A guy is young and smart and completes a task that makes him rich.
Chapter 1: Chapter 1 I have always been a tech geek. I scored an IQ of 183 at age 12, therefore I am currently in my first year of getting my masters in computer science. Even with all this genius, I am still just about as boring as a 22 year old computer science student at MIT where I happen to be attending as of now. My hobbies: eating Cup Noodles and graphical programming. To sum it up, boring.
If I had a nickel for each business that asked me to work for them, well, I’d be rich (All though, if I had accepted all of them I WOULD be rich.) But I am picky. Here is my list of Rules for choosing a job:
It must be a graphically oriented. I.E. Games, visual representation.
It must be a small business. No big corporations
It must be low key. No fancy suits, or crazy formal things.
But eventually, I stumbled upon a nice game studio. They were a small 10 person company, developing games. “Game Tron.” The moment they emailed, I replied saying yes. The next day, I met them at their small office for an interview.
“What is your usual working environment?” questioned Dave, the founder of the company.
I told him about how I usually just sit at my computer and eat cup noodles. He asked many other questions, then told me to wait in another room while he talked with his employees. They came out of the room.
“We think you are the perfect person for this job,” he declared, vivaciously.
I was so happy that no words could come out of my mouth. But when I could finally talk, I asked, “When do I start?”
“Any time,” he replied.
A few months of working later, I was given an assignment. I was told to take a game we had made, and make it far faster than it already was. The game was already extremely fast and we planned to improve graphics quality in the future. I had no ideas.
Everyone comes up with the best ideas when walking. Newton, Robert Oppenheimer, etc. So I decided to walk. I thought. Path finding is slow, they have to continuously scan nodes and check if it is obstructed with colliders. They need to be more direct, most will not go diagonally, but only in straight lines. What if they could just be pseudo random? If they were randomly deciding a best node, it would be up to luck to decide where to go, and it would not follow the basic straight lines. It would make players have to be lucky when playing, but still making the chances of a good choice high. It was perfect. The best would be random, then basic best first.. I tested it. The game was fast most of the time, only occasionally becoming slow. And the AI’s were far better at choosing where to go. It worked great.
The next day, I went to work. Chest puffed up, I walked into the office. I sat at the meeting desk. The projector was already on, so I pluged the HDMI into my computer. I introduced myself to the group of marketers, developers, businessmen, and many others. I opened my computer, and opened both the game, and computer monitoring software.
“I will demonstrate to you both the heavily intelligent AI’s, and the high speeds.” I said. I played a few levels. It was successful. I tried even the best of our beta testers, who were all beaten by my artificial intelligent characters. The CPU usage level never peaked above 50%. It was a success.
Within days the entire programming community knew of my new algorithm. I was all the talk of the community. Programming News headlines read,
“12 Year Old Computer Scientist Develops the most Advanced Path Finding Algorithm Yet!”
One day I walked to my mail box. There was an envelope inside, and it read:
IMPORTANT!
Invoice Enclosed.
Requires Immediate Attention.
I tore it open and found that it contained my salary of $200,000. I was rich.

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