"I'm not an academic. Just someone skilled with computers."

A premier hacker, if you will. To him, being an academic implies a lot of formal study. Unlike others, Noiz was just someone who had a lot of time on his hands and nothing better to do than develop those skills. It interested him a lot more than the other topics in his textbooks and forced on him by the tutor he only spoke to through a door.

Once Hakkai appears to be done reading, he closes the window. "The mental connections are reserved for things like virtual gaming, or making your Coil or Allmate more efficient."