Tomas Aguirre`s Blog

One of my  greatest  interests lately has been  C omputer  S cience  (CS) ,  especially   the field of   Artificial Intelligence (AI).  I   appreciate  trying to  understand  from the most basic steps how a computer works and I'm really excited in following the news about recent  developments  of AI. However,  I  do not   know much about  the se topics  yet .   I 'm  trying to start to study this by myself  and  I 'm  even considering about  switch ing  my future  major  to   CS .  Last  week, I had been in the Silicon Valley, where a cousin  of my father lives. Both her and her husband  are   specialized  in voice recognition by personal assistants, like  in  the Amazon ' s Alexa and the Apple ' s Siri. By  hearing to  their  discussions and visiting places like Stanford Univers...

My dream job is being a Brazilian diplomat. I really like this idea of getting to know profoundly different countries around the world and dealing directly with world affairs. Diplomacy and international affairs in general is an interdisciplinary subject that requires you to have, at least, good notions in Politics, Economics, Sociology, Geography and History, what gives someone a broad vision about the humanity. It demands that you keep yourself up-to-date in the most important and controversial topics of the global agenda and act directly about it. And you would be responsible to be a defensor of your nation interests, but would be as well a bridge to someone else's culture.    There is many influent diplomats around the world that I admire or, at least, recognizes its importance. A few examples are Nicolló Machiavelli, in Italy, Alexis de Tocqueville, in France and Rui Barbosa, in Brazil and Eleanor Roosevelt, in United States. These people had powerful insights abou...

Hello! My name is Tomas Aguirre Lessa Vaz. I`m a 17-year-old Brazilian guy. In the middle of my high school education I decided with my family to do a 6-month-long course in Californian university, near where my aunt lives, to get fluent in the English language and think in different possibilities to my undergraduate course and to my personal future in general. One of my mains interests is to read different kinds of books, from sci-fi and fantasy to political theory. I`m really good at Math and I`m starting, little by little, to study Programming by myself. When I was a kid, I liked to draw a lot and now it`s returning to be one of my hobbies.