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So apparently I am passionate about ice cream.. :)

By Diliara Nasirova on October 10, 2011 6:06 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

I've just submitted my TEDxVancouver application! Yay!

TEDxVancouver application done

There were four questions to "Tell Us About Yourself" - accomplishments, passions, links for more info and what do we hope to get out of TEDx. I don't like bragging in general, so I've genuinely asked a couple of my friends to answer the "accomplishments" question for me. For the passions one... here what we have wrote:

"I am passionate about ice cream. I enjoy trying ice cream from different parts of the world. I have tasted local ice cream from just about every single country with names that rhymes with 'stan, also from China, Turkey, Canada, USA, Amsterdam, Belgium, France, and Italy. I would love to try new ice cream at TEDxVancouver... well, and everywhere else around the world."

Do you believe me? :)
Well, I really wanna attend the event and share all my other passions! :)
Here is me eating my ice cream in Brugges, Belgium

TEDxVancouver application done

I like Twitter style...

By Diliara Nasirova on September 24, 2011 12:02 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

  • This is my twitter page:
    My twitter page
  • Everything started with my website design:
    My website design
  • Then I've changed my blog design (I still need to work on it though, the banner is just an image, should be HTML and CSS instead):
    My blog design
  • Next, I've redesigned my business cards:
    My business cards design
  • And just now I switched to the new Facebook "timeline" design and had some fun playing with the "cover" picture:
    My new Facebook profile design
  • What should be next? How do you come up with your design ideas? :)

Summer 2011 Wrap up Series 1/7

By Diliara Nasirova on September 10, 2011 12:41 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Every summer since 2005 (when I started my "study abroad" life) I used to visit my family and my home country. This year, I unfortunatelly could not go home and I can endlessly complain about that. But from the other side I had LOTS of exciting events that kept me busy and actually influenced on my decision to "break my tradition" :)

I'm starting my Summer 2011 Wrap up blog series with a general overview of the events:

  1. My first REAL academic paper presentation at CAADFutures 2011 conference in Liege, Belgium
    (Blog post: Summer Wrap up 2/7: CAADFutures 2011)
    2. CAADFutures 2011 stuff
  2. My first trip to Googleplex! Attending Google Scholars' Retreat 2011 in Mountain View, USA
    (Blog post: Summer Wrap up 3/7: Google Scholars' Retreat 2011)
    3. Europe Itenary
  3. My first conference volunteering at SIGGRAPH 2011 in Vancouver, CA
    (Blog post: Summer Wrap up 4/7: SIGGRAPH 2011)
    4. Europe Itenary
  4. My first unConference - Design Thinking unConference in Vancouver, CA
    (Blog post: Summer Wrap up 5/7: Design Thinking unConference)
    5. Europe Itenary
  5. The first Creative Mornings in Vancouver, CA
    (Blog post: Summer Wrap up 6/7: Creative Mornings)
    6. Europe Itenary
  6. And the last, but not least important, is my first Europe Trip! Amsterdam, Brugges, Liege, Paris, Venice, Rome
    (Blog post: Summer Wrap up 7/7: Europe Trip)
    7. Europe Itenary

Dreams come true, eh? :) Stay tuned for the details and updates of the links! I really enjoyed this summer and hope thats my notes gonna be helpful for anyone interested. AND I am curious - how was YOUR summer? The twitter hash-tag for the conversation is #MySummer2011

Why Girls Don't Do Math

By Diliara Nasirova on August 31, 2011 10:54 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
Okay, guys (I mean, boys), do not get offended, its just for fun! I've recently went through some TED talks from 2002 and randomly found this cute joke about "why girls don't do math" from Emily Levine's talk (at 2m 47sec):
My visualization of Emily Levine's joke on why girls don't do math.
"...there are cultural reasons that women and minorities don't enter the fields of science and technology - because for instance, the reason I don't do math is, I was taught to do math and read at the same time.

So you're six years old, you're reading Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It becomes rapidly obvious that there are only two kinds of men in the world, dwarfs and Prince Charmings. And the odds are seven to one against you finding the prince. That's why little girls don't do math. It's too depressing."

Emily Levine's theory of everything

Visual Perception: Skull or...?

By Diliara Nasirova on January 11, 2011 11:32 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
skull or...?

Keep pushing.

By Diliara Nasirova on January 11, 2011 4:08 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Imagine a circle that contains all of human knowledge:


By the time you finish elementary school, you know a little:


By the time you finish high school, you know a bit more:


With a bachelor's degree, you gain a specialty:


A master's degree deepens that specialty:


Reading research papers takes you to the edge of human knowledge:


Once you're at the boundary, you focus:


You push at the boundary for a few years:


Until one day, the boundary gives way:


And, that dent you've made is called a Ph.D.:


So, don't forget the bigger picture:



Keep pushing.
From The Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D., by Matt Might

Being healthy...

By Diliara Nasirova on November 15, 2010 12:06 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Being physically healthy is very important to be productive. I've had a terrible headache for the past week and couldn't do much work, but today I've been feeling great and nothing prevented me from completing lots of tasks in my "to do list". :)

Look well after yourself, take care!

PS: I'm going to visit my doctor tomorrow to figure out that headache thing!


"The greatest wealth is health" Virgil

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