My degree is in AI and Data Science, but the first two years were mathematics and physics. That turned out to be the useful part. The linear algebra is what makes a Kalman filter make sense, and the mechanics is what makes a drone in simulation behave like a body rather than a sprite.
Before any of that I was building model aircraft. I have the aeromodelling certificate to show for it. Flying something you built yourself teaches you quickly that a thing can look correct on the bench and still be wrong in the air.
That is the thread through everything here. I like simulations because they let me build a whole system and then attack it. My best work is usually the moment I found out my own result was not what I thought it was: the clearance check that passed nine times on a broken assembly, the early-warning signal that fired on zero of eight seeds, the deliberately unintelligent baseline that beat everything I had built.
Next is an M.Sc. abroad for 2027, in Computational Science, Scientific Computing, CS or Robotics. I am looking at Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and the USA, and I am learning German for the first of those.