Hi

this is Ahmed, as a kid I have played plenty of video games on a really old pc, if I am not mistaken it had a pentium 4 and 512mb of ddr2 ram with some ati graphics card with 32mb of vram, but that's beside the point. The point is it was a mericle that that thing could run anything made after 2010 which is around the time I had used it, and certainly not something as complex as a videogame tldr; I loved graphics, I loved them because they pushed the hardware, and I always wanted to know exactly how things are built from the grounds up (or atleast close enough to that) which is why I took two years to figure out whether I wanted to be an electrical engineer or a computer scientist. The electrical engineer starts from first principles , where as the computer scientist abstracts more but can therefore do more complex things, I chose the easier way anyway.. too bad. Anyway graphics be it as beautiful as they are, are not the only thing that interested me. I love all that sits at the intersection between hardware and software, above all I love performance. Modern hardware is very strong And my opinion is that engineering is about solving problems albeit in efficient ways. This is what I love to do, be it in graphics, Machine learning, or other areas. Here's a book that I love: Operating systems: Three easy pieces. Here's another completely unrelated book that I love: East of Eden. Here's an author I love: John Green. Here's a software I love: Blender, Here's something I love to do 3D art (checkout my artstation). Anyway that's enough of a ramble. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.