everything is an experiment
Q. Is your name really “Davinci Logan Yonge-Mallo”?
A. That’s what it says on my legal documents.
Q. Okay, then. Let’s begin with the surname. “Yonge” is obviously an Anglicised version of your Chinese surname, but where does “Mallo” come from?
A. Actually, “Yonge” is the name of my favourite street in Toronto… » [Expand post] [Permalink]
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I suspect that my background is rather atypical for an academic. While I was growing up, my parents not only did not support my scientific interests, but did everything in their power to prevent me from becoming successful as a scientist.
I first became interested in the connection between physics and computer science in elementary school, when I read about Richard Feynman’s idea of a quantum mechanical simulator. In high school, I obtained a University of Toronto library card with the help of Dr. John R. Percy, and spent a lot of time at the Erindale College library. (The Mississauga campus of the University of Toronto was called Erindale College at the time.) Through my association with the library, I was introduced to the arXiv, and also learned about the black hole information loss problem. The problem fascinated me, and I therefore set about studying what I could of quantum computation and quantum information. The arXiv also inspired me to think about how electronic publishing would affect scientific communication in the future… » [Expand post] [Permalink]