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I should have loved electrical engineering
Author’s note: Drafted in 2022, lightly edited and finished on Sep 1, 2025 for clarity. Substance unchanged.
The internet and all the fancy applications are nothing but some byproduct of the advancement in computer chips and fiber optic cables”, 18-year-old me thought wishfully, concluding that the next natural sequence in the major global transformation must be done with another dramatic hardware innovation. Another popular project among the hardies is called micromouse, where one designs and programs a small moving robot to solve random maze as fast as possible. Soon, Docker became my favorite tool and I just couldn’t stop showing it off to the clueless physics students who are often struggling installing weird software that some professor wrote a decade ago.
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