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A restitching of the panorama using Hugin for Mac OS X. Fixed some issues regarding aligning, contrast and lens flare. Click through for the huge (85 megapixel+) full-size image file. As always, comments and criticism welcome.
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Apr. 25th, 2009 @ 11:33 pm
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| » Yosemite |
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Apr. 25th, 2009 @ 10:35 am
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Mar. 22nd, 2009 @ 07:57 pm
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| » To the College Class of 2013... |
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To the College Class of 2013:
It has been a long time since you submitted your applications to your dream universities — the next week or so will be decision days for most U.S. colleges.
Please know that it doesn't matter what the final outcome of your decision is — admit, waitlist, deny — you, yes you, are the same amazing person you are yesterday, today, and forever — whether it is before or after you received that email or checked that decision website. If a person is known by the company he or she keeps, then you have been in the company of an amazing group of students from Hwa Chong, Singapore and around the world — for colleges and universities around the world where there are simply too few seats to spare.
For most of you, you might think that the decisions by colleges will be life changing, but in reality as your parents might tell you, the only thing that is life changing is you. The day when you were born; your first day in primary school, secondary school, JC and national service; the day when you completed your A-levels. You — your triumphs, dreams, tragedies, your passions, inventions, obsessions — are not going to change because of these letters of admission or denial.
Your seniors and juniors have every confidence that you will all end up some place amazing, be it Harvard, one of Singapore's local universities, or somewhere in between. If you don't believe me, ask any one of your seniors who were rejected by Harvard or MIT whether they are enjoying their time in university — overwhelmingly, the response will be a resounding "YES". This is just further proof that no matter where you are accepted to, your gift, talent and energy will make room for you.
So thank you for allowing me to share some of this wild and crazy 6 months with you. I wish each and everyone of you all the best in your endeavors, wherever you are. Some of you will have an amazing experience at my college in sunny California, and some of you will have an equal or even better experience somewhere else — because truly, college is what you make of it.
I leave you with the words of Alexander Bell, "When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." Good luck for the next few days!
Frank
Mar. 17th, 2009 @ 10:50 pm
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I hope the above didn't screw up your friends' page that much.
Mar. 8th, 2009 @ 07:46 pm
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| » The World in Her Hands (Pictures) |
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Pictures taken at Marina Barrage. I don't know what the statue is actually called.
( Pictures behind the cut )
Comments, anyone?
Feb. 22nd, 2009 @ 07:54 pm
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| » Draft Letter to support our juniors in US uni apps |
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HC instituted new policy that restricts the no. of US unis our juniors can apply for. here is a letter pleading their case on behalf of them. comments?
new version: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfq58qvj_54g7j9kc3b&invite=gq8n4sz
Aug. 3rd, 2008 @ 12:55 am
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| » Meh. Benchoi tagged me :P |
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1. (The person who tagged you is...) Benchoi
2. (Your relationship with him/her is...) Good friend
3. (5 impressions you have of him/her.)
- Rich
- Intelligent
- Rich
- Skinny
- Did I mention rich?
5. (The most memorable words he/she has said to you.) Hahahaha.... (evilly)
6. (If he/she becomes your lover, you will...) WTF?! Never.
7. (If he/she becomes your lover, things he/she has to improve on will be...) Unthinkable.
8. (If he/she becomes your enemy, you will...) Get the heck of Singapore
9. (If he/she becomes your enemy, the reason will be...) I hacked into the ERP system and made off with a ton of cash =p
10. (The most desirable thing you want to do for him/her now is...) No idea
11. (Your overall impression of him/her is...) Intelligent, rich kid
12. (How you think people around you will feel about you.) Nerd
13. (The characteristic you love about yourself is...) Straight-to-the-point
14. (On the contrary, the characteristic you hate about yourself is...) Can be quite a motor mouth smometimes
15. (The most ideal person you want to be is...) richer than Benchoi's father (or Calvin Wong's father) =p
16. (For people that care and like you, say something to them...) Thanks :)
17. (Pass this quiz to 10 people that you wish to know how they feel about you. TRY NOT TO PEEP AT THE QUESTION BELOW BEFORE WRITING DOWN THE NAMES.) (in alphabetical order)
1. Mai Yifan
2. Christina Ng
3. Koh Zi Chun
4. Wu Defeng
5. Yang Zeqi
6. Liew Meihui
7. Anne Marie Ang
8. Chu Yan Long
9. Leong Wai Peng
10. Foo Chuan Yu
(Who is no. 6 having a relationship with?) Calvin Wong Yun Sheng apparently =p
(Is no. 9 a male or female?) Male, and a slutty one at that
(If no. 7 and 10 are together, will it be a good thing?) 7 will try to hug 10. I am not sure whether 10 thinks thats a good thing or not. Maybe he is deprived too =p.
(How about no. 8 and 5 ?) I don't think they know each other.
(What is no. 2 studying about?) Chem/Computing/Math/Econs
(When was the last time you had a chat with no. 3 ?) Yesterday?
(What kind of music band does no. 8 like?) S.H.E etc, lots of chinese songs.
(Does no. 1 have any siblings?) Mai Yishan
(Will you woo no. 3 ?) No.
(How about no. 7 ?) Better than wooing No. 3 but still no.
(Is no. 4 single?) Single, desperate and ugly(?) =p
(What's the surname of no. 5 ?) Yang
(What's the name of no. 10 ?) Foo
What's the hobby of no. 4 ?) Playing piano, choral music.
(Do no. 5 and 9 get along well?) Yeah. 9 corrupted 5's (and a whole lot of other people's minds) in GEP in Sec School =p
(Where is no. 2 studying at?) HCI-College
(Say something casual about no. 1) myffie
(Have you tried developing feelings for no. 8 ?) No
(Where does no. 9 live?) Somewhere in the East.
(What color does no. 4 like?) Blues and greys?
(Are no. 5 and 1 best friends?) Good friends definitely. Science Quiz FTW!
(Does no. 7 like no. 2 ?) They don't know each other.
(How did you get to know no. 2 ?) Ne2twork
(Does no. 1 have any pets?) Doubt it.
(Is no. 7 the sexiest person in the world?) Nope.
Nov. 3rd, 2007 @ 08:24 pm
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God commands all mankind in the TEN COMMANDMENTS to: "Honor your father and your mother," "You shall not murder," "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not steal," "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor," and etc, (Exodus 20:1-17). Is any atheist, agnostic or unbeliever foolish enough to publicly deny the decorousness of those laws?
OK, there's no disagreement with the fact that those Laws are righteous and honorable.
But since atheists deny God's existence, they don't have the ability to realize that God is the Author of the TEN COMMANDMENTS. This forces them to attribute their authorship to a human. But since atheism is opposed to the decorous TEN COMMANDMENTS, even while being force [sic] to deceptively think they were authored by a human, this clearly shows evidence that atheism was and is incapable of authoring, realizing and honoring such decorous and noble laws. If in the view of the atheist the TEN COMMANDMENTS were authored by a human, and since it is rightly established that those laws are decorous and honorable, but are hated by atheists, and atheists are said to comprise the most "educated" segment of the human race, then it would have taken a more decorous and honorable human to author them than even the most highly educated atheist.
--from http://www.tencommandments.org/heathens.shtml
From: http://www.ebonmusings.org/atheism/new10c.html
1. Do not do to others what you would not want them to do to you.
2. In all things, strive to cause no harm.
3. Treat your fellow human beings, your fellow living things, and the world in general with love, honesty, faithfulness and respect.
4. Do not overlook evil or shrink from administering justice, but always be ready to forgive wrongdoing freely admitted and honestly regretted.
5. Live life with a sense of joy and wonder.
6. Always seek to be learning something new.
7. Test all things; always check your ideas against the facts, and be ready to discard even a cherished belief if it does not conform to them.
8. Never seek to censor or cut yourself off from dissent; always respect the right of others to disagree with you.
9. Form independent opinions on the basis of your own reason and experience; do not allow yourself to be led blindly by others.
10. Question everything.
Perhaps these are more relevant in today's world?
Jul. 11th, 2007 @ 10:22 pm
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Adam Smith would be Moses, because he brought the Word (aka The Wealth of Nations) to the masses. Stuart Mills, Karl Marx and Ricardo would be the old testament prophets. John Maynard Keynes would be the saviour, who saved millions from sin (aka The Great Depression) and died at a young age.
The Nobel Prize Laureates would be the equivalent of Saints and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences would be the College of Cardinals. The promised land would be the United States (where an awful lot of economists live and practise the faith), and the Pope (aka Chairman of the Federal Reserve) presides and wields its powerful staff (Read: Interest Rates) over all nations of the world.
The priests (aka Teachers and Professors) would go out to preach the Word (now corrupted into sects) to the unsaved (Read: Students).
Jan. 24th, 2007 @ 11:40 pm
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Rap Music Translated into Plain English Courtesy of Bill Maher
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pm2wTGgYAw
Dec. 14th, 2006 @ 11:07 am
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| » Random Stuff |
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1. I'll respond with something random about you
2. I'll challenge you to try something
3. I'll pick a colour that I associate with you
4. I'll tell you something I like about you
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of
7. I'll ask you something I've always wanted to ask you
8. If I do this for you, you must post this on your blog
Jul. 29th, 2006 @ 09:47 pm
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| » Cell Microprocessor |
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I can't stand the hype that the Sony Cell microprocessor is getting seeing that they had lied their asses out for their last 2 consoles (Hm, emotion engine? I don't see any true emotion in any PlayStation 2 anywhere).
Maybe it’s time for a brief introduction to Cell. The Cell processor consists of 1 “Power Processor Element” and 7 “Synergistic Processing Elements”. The PPE consists of a 64-bit integer unit and a VMX (think MMX for POWER architectures) for the Cell PPE. The SPEs are RISC processors with a single-precision SIMD organization.
Forbes Magazine is saying that “Cell is going to enable PS3 developers to create movie-quality games with blazing-speed graphics. Applications in other areas are also considered”. Well, if the CPU of PlayStation 3 can provide high-quality graphics, why do they need an nVidia G70 GPU for? Because they realized that no matter how good Cell is, it cannot be compared to the floating point ability of nVidia and ATi GPUs.
Not that it matters because the games that run on the PlayStation 3 aren’t going to have very good AI either. Current game AIs are usually single-threaded and rely on a lot of integer code and branches, at best a neural network or 2 for the most advanced of games. Without a branch predictor, the performance of the Cell CPU would not be very good in this respect either.
Most games, including the ones on XBOX 360 and the PC, run on one single thread, and would be hard pressed to split the game code into multiple threads. Recent multi-thread patches of Quake 4 and other games yield no or negative performance gains at the resolution which the PS3/X360 (i.e. at 1920x1080 @ 30-60fps).
I personally think that the design for the Cell CPU in PlayStation 3 is to create problems for developers and prevent them from porting games into other consoles (XBOX 360 and Revolution). Developers were frequently told, "We see middleware becoming a huge industry on the PS3" and "This new platform should give rise to many new and powerful programming models" - to them this means, "It's really, really powerful, but we've absolutely no idea how to get data either in or out!".
Not that the Cell microprocessor itself is unredeemable. I believe that it has great potential in massively multithreaded floating-point threads, like decoding of MPEG streams (in fact, Toshiba demonstrated a system that can decode 48 MPEG-2 streams simultaneously).
Jan. 14th, 2006 @ 10:47 pm
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Windows Codename "Longhorn" is now Windows Vista™
Clear, Confident, Connected. Bringing clarity to your world.
Jul. 23rd, 2005 @ 01:58 pm
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| » The Crazy Ones |
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Here's to the crazy ones.
The misfits
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them
disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They invent. They imagine. They heal.
They explore. They create. They inspire.
They push the human race forward.
Maybe they have to be crazy.
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?
Or sit in silence and hear a song that's never been written?
Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think
they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Jun. 10th, 2005 @ 12:56 pm
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