The Repeating 3-Week Pattern: What I Learned by Finishing the Last Course Myself

POCU video lectures come with transcripts that someone already cleaned up once. The content is mostly accurate, but the line breaks and punctuation are all over the place. To use them in an automated pipeline, they need to be reorganized. One student had been helping me with that work for several years on a part-time basis. He worked on multiple courses, and strangely, the pattern was always the same.

Engineering in Plain Sight Review: A New Way of Seeing the World

One day, while browsing the shelves at the library, I stumbled upon a book that caught my eye. The title was Engineering in Plain Sight (by Grady Hillhouse). Honestly, at first I just thought the illustrations were pretty, and the first few pages looked fun, so I picked it up lightly, assuming it was just some kind of illustrated reference book.

Why Tipping Culture in Canada Needs to Go

Tipping culture is a contentious topic across the globe, and Canada is no exception. While tipping may be seen as a way to show appreciation for good service, it has become a problematic and unsustainable practice in Canada. In this blog post, I will explore the issue of tipping culture in Canada, as well as how it compares to other countries around the world.

Learning New Knowledge is Easy

learning new knowledge is easy, but changing old habits is hard.

Snow Effect in Google+ Photo

I didn't know Google+'s Auto Awesome mode does snow effects too. It was a pleasant surprise to find out what it did to a picture I took recently. It would make a good x-mas card :)

How Much Canadian Programmers Make

I didn't know that Canada government publishes the salary survey information for programmers until today. But here it is.. this shows how much we, Canadian programmers, make for each region.

[Curiosity Research] Pet Fox

During this weeked, I stumbled into the following video showing a pet fox.

Random thought on 1080+P

some random thought I had while sitting on a bench at a rainy park today….

Surviving Winter in Montreal - Snowfall - ALOT

So yesterday we had some snow.. I mean.. somewhat alot…. 45 to 50 Cm a day. fun eh?

Why Da Hell Am I Inventing the Wheel Again?

My goal of this week: finishing the Screen Space Decal presentation that I'll give out at Siggraph 2012. If it was purely just making a ppt file I think I would have been more inspired to finish it. The problem is that I'm not with Relic any more and I have no access to their codebase or running editor. So, I'm re-implementing all the features again just to have a demo program where I can take enough screen captures.