
# UCAS Personal Statement

In the world of computer science and artificial intelligence, I see great tools and technologies for tackling problems in our daily lives, yet what I love most is the complexity in problem-solving to achieve that goal. Participating in the Hong Kong Olympiad in Informatics back in 2018 drove me to have great passion in computer science, and reinforced my desire to study in it - making life easier by using algorithms to solve real-life problems.

Two years ago during my summer break, I began self-learning web development and multiple programming languages. What I learnt gave me the ability to deploy my own websites on the Internet. For instance, in light of the pandemic six months ago, I released a web application which allows viewing simple statistics and finding cases near the user to raise awareness of the situation. Recently, for the sake of familiarising myself with AI, I have built a chatbot using Dialogflow - Google's natural language understanding platform. This chatbot was able to perform simple conversations, remind users of tasks at the scheduled time, and even control lights in my room. Despite encountering various difficulties in the process of building projects with innovative features, I have eventually overcome them. These processes greatly strengthened my problem-solving skills and programming skills. At the same time, I improved my understanding of user experience design by receiving constructive user feedback.

Recently, I came across an 8-episode long documentary - "The Age of AI", where it showcases developers working alongside others with different professions to find solutions to problems with AI. I was fascinated by how much a well-trained AI could help people in areas of all kinds. My thirst for AI has further led me to read a research paper "PIFuHD" published on Facebook Research. This AI was able to transform 2D images of a person into a 3D sculpture model. Being stunned by the complex mathematics involved, I was still especially impressed by how this AI model could revolutionise the 3D design field as it automatically generates 3D models instead of painstakingly creating and modelling one by one. After attempting an image of myself using PIFuHD, I was so astonished to see the result that showed how AI could miraculously turn a plain 2D image into a complex 3D figure.

Outside academia, I have volunteered in the Po Leung Kuk Charity Walk and the Annual Flag Day for several years. In addition to that, I have also participated in numerous community services in which I visited the elderly and chatted with mentally handicapped people. These activities not only helped me develop my sense of compassion and empathy towards the disadvantaged groups but also brought me satisfaction through serving the community.

Aside from my academic life, I found that playing badminton and table tennis helps me relief stress, which let me maintain a healthy work-life balance. In addition, I was an information technology prefect of the school and now an IT helper of my class, both roles allowed me to help out my teachers and classmates in need of technical advice in IT matters.

All in all, I found that computer science and artificial intelligence highly demands problem-solving skills and is profoundly challenging. With my enthusiastic heart in it and my love of technology, I wish to further pursue my studies in these subjects.

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## The Age of A.I. on YouTube

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## PIFuHD on Facebook Research

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    url="https://ai.facebook.com/research/publications/pifuhd-multi-level-pixel-aligned-implicit-function-for-high-resolution-3d-human-digitization/"
    placeholder="PIFuHD"
/>

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# Quotes Collection

<Quote
    quote="If a design is taking too long, the design is wrong. Therefore, the design must be modified to accelerate progress."
    cite="Elon Musk"
/>

<Quote
    quote="Without love, one is just surviving, not living."
    cite="Felix Yeung"
/>

<Quote
    quote="My neck's a little stiff. What a remarkably fragile structure to support such a valuable payload."
    cite="Sheldon Cooper, The Big Bang Theory"
/>

<Quote
    quote="My neck's a little stiff. What a remarkably fragile structure to support such a valuable payload."
    cite="Sheldon Cooper, The Big Bang Theory"
/>

<Quote
    quote="Secrets have weight, the more you keep, the harder it is to keep moving."
    cite="Arrow"
/>

<Quote quote="Intellect cannot be measured solely by grades" />

<Quote quote="Life is more than just a piece of paper." />

<Quote
    quote="If you lose your dream, you lose a part of yourself."
    cite="Victor Garcia"
/>

<Quote quote="SAT: A way for colleges to take all your outstanding qualities and reduce them to a single number." />

<Quote quote="We are what we've done, and what's been done to us." />

<Quote
    quote="Until you know all of me, you just don't know me"
    cite="Blaine, iZombie"
/>

<Quote
    quote="Remarkable - diamonds - crystalised carbon. Everyday people go to the grocery store
and come home with sacks full of carbon in the form of charcoal briquettes so they
toss in their barbecues and set on fire. But just because you've got some carbon
with the atoms stacked neatly, you expect me to plunk down thousands of dollars."
    cite="Sheldon Cooper, The Big Bang Theory"
/>

<Quote
    quote="Absolute honesty isn't always the most diplomatic, nor the safest form of communication
with emotional beings."
    cite="TARS"
/>

<Quote
    quote="It turned out I was really good at listening. The trick is to sit
there, and when you want to leave, don't."
    cite="Sheldon Cooper, Young Sheldon"
/>

<Quote
    quote="The 'Hot Beverage of Comfort' would become my go-to method of dealing
with someone in emotional distress. And it always worked."
    cite="Sheldon Cooper, Young
Sheldon"
/>

<Quote
    quote="Not all science is created equal. There's physics, the undisputed
king of science. There's chemistry. It's no physics, but it's not a bad way to pass
a rainy afternoon. And then there's biology, the squishiest of the sciences."
    cite="Sheldon
Cooper, Young Sheldon"
/>

<Quote
    quote="If I could I would, but I can't, so I shan't"
    cite="Sheldon Cooper"
/>

<Quote
    quote="Why do grownups do this: they love to stick random kids together and expect them
to just be friends"
    cite="Missy Cooper, Young Sheldon"
/>

<Quote
    quote="Well, as I always say, a stranger's just a friend who hasn't complimented me yet"
    cite="Sheldon Cooper"
/>
<Quote
    quote="Sheldon Cooper: Fiddle-faddle! Meemaw: The F word. He's real mad. Sheldon Cooper: Poodle poop! Meemaw: Okay. Somebody's got to teach this kid to swear, it's embarrassing."
    cite="Young Sheldon"
/>

<Quote
    quote="What's on a person's face, just not always what's in their heart.
How do you know who to trust? You don't, that's what makes life interesting."
    cite="Young Sheldon"
/>

<Quote
    quote="In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."
    cite="Khalil Gibran"
/>

<Quote
    quote="We've all got these little stories that we tell us. Things about ourselves, I'm this sort of person, I'm that sort of person, but if you keep telling yourself it, you might not realise you don't have to be that."
    cite="Xisuma"
/>

<Quote quote="Variety is the spice of life." cite="Xisuma" />

<Quote quote="All you have to lose is our respect." cite="Kung Fu Panda 3" />

<Quote
    quote="If you only do what you can do, you will never be more than you are now."
    cite="Kung Fu Panda 3"
/>

<Quote
    quote="Sometimes we do the wrong thing for the right reason"
    cite="Kung Fu Panda 3"
/>

<Quote
    quote="I ain't gonna get upset about it. When these things happen, I say to myself, 'one day you'll be dead,' and then I wonder is it really worth being upset about, and the answer is usually no."
    cite="Xisuma"
/>

<Quote
    quote="In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."
    cite="Robert Frost"
/>

<Quote
    quote="Rank #1 isn't an achievement, it's a prison which forces you to dedicate your life to defending a temporary title."
    cite="Technoblade"
/>

<Quote
    quote="I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity."
    cite="Albert Einstein"
/>

<Quote
    quote="Don't argue with me, Leo. I used to tie your shoelaces."
    cite="Mia - Humans"
/>

<Quote
    quote="Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow."
    cite="Alan Turing"
/>

<Quote
    quote="When your past is so present, how can there be a future? There can't, you're just stuck in the present, with the past."
    cite="Anna, The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window"
/>

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UCAS Personal Statemenet

Quotes Collection