[Cross-posted from Richmond Hill High School Alumni Association blog found here.]
What follows is a story I have told only to a few of my closest friends (and probably not in its entirety), because of its complexity, personal nature, and my own confusion. It’s taken me a long time to formulate this into a coherent message [...]
For the past summer, I’ve been working at the University of Toronto, with Professor Parham Aarabi and his startup ModiFace, which does facial recognition and related technologies. It’s been an enjoyable summer, and I’ve learned far more in this short period than I have in the past two academic years at the university. Although I’m [...]
I’m sure you all heard the big news about the iPhone being released, and having millions of people line up everywhere for the launch last Friday. Then Apple had their entire system go kaput on them and everyone who lined up on Thursday couldn’t get their phone working until Saturday.
Anyway, I figured I’d check in [...]
I went to the 2008 RHHS Commencement a couple nights ago, with Alex. They had it at the Sheraton ballroom over at Highway 7 and Leslie. Evidently, RHHS has gone big since the last time I was there, and the school has too many people to do a proper commencement in the gymnasium/cafetorium now. The [...]
Alex and I have launched a new blog, to be named Paper Street.
Visit the blog for details!
(Ed note: This post receives a lot of Google hits. For those stumbling upon this post, I also recommend this one, which is more in-depth and updated.)
Yesterday, amidst a rather empty convocation hall, I attended the Engineering Science overture lecture for the 2007 Winter Term, themed “Systems and States”. Giving the lecture was one Professor [...]