I’ve finally finished my work term at IBM and am now back at school to finish my last year at U of T! Here’s what I’ve been up to so far: I’m taking several courses to complement the things I’ve learned (informally) at IBM, in particular CSC469: Advanced Operating Systems and CSC458: Advanced Computer Networking [...]
My 16-month internship at IBM has finally reached its conclusion. This is my last week as an IBMer and I can’t help but feel just a little bit sad. Through this internship, I have learned a lot of new things that have helped me grow to be a better developer, a better friend, and a [...]
And now, for something a little different! It’s a pretty dreary and cloudy day here in Toronto but the morning’s off to a great start seeing as I actually found (by coincidence, nonetheless!) a poem that I’ve been looking for quite a while. It’s a beautiful short piece by Jeffrey McDaniel about what life would [...]
Problem I wrote a Ruby app on my laptop. The staging server is in a closed network with no access to the outside or Internet at all. I do have VPN access to the staging server so I can scp over my code, but installing gem dependencies would be far too painful. Solution Our old [...]
Having taken an introductory stats course at University of Toronto and finding it really dry and boring, my view of statistics have been unfavorable, but Hans Rosling’s Joy of Stats video (full) has definitely persuaded me to review my point of view there: Ah I wish I could have Prof. Rosling as my stats teacher!