Blog
Writing about what I think, learned, and experienced. These are the dots yet to be connected.
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Data & Algorithms (35)
Design (14)
Engineering (33)
Events (11)
Life & Reflection (58)
Recommender Systems (20)
Society & Business (53)
Series I have written
Altruistic Byte: Real-World Insights for Tech-Driven Change (8)
How to Talk About AI (8)
Becoming a Canadian (14)
Productizing Data with People (13)
Building Recommender Systems in Julia (6)
Digital Malawi: Developing Hope in the Information Age (12)
Ethical Product Developer (18)
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June 1, 2026
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Act on Complicated Things
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May 1, 2026
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A Recipe for Sustainable Data Products
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April 1, 2026
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Toward Inclusive Education
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March 1, 2026
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Who is Digitally Prepared?
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February 1, 2026
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The AI Divide
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January 1, 2026
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Why Offline Learning Still Matters in 2026
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December 5, 2025
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Missing Link to Bridge the Digital Divide
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November 7, 2025
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"We," Not "I"
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June 24, 2024
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The End of the Beginning—What I Talk About When I Talk About Malawi
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May 27, 2024
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Materializing Digital Transformation
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April 30, 2024
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I'm Not "China"—Connecting HERE and THERE in Systems
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March 22, 2024
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Language: Behind the Power Dynamics in Information Society
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February 26, 2024
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One of the Poorest Life Is Not *That* Bad
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January 31, 2024
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Relativize Malawi, and Rethink Their Contexts
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December 25, 2023
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My 2023 Annual Review: Between Individual and Systems
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November 30, 2023
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Is Computer Education Always Good?
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October 30, 2023
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Starting with Humanity—Growth and Technology Otherwise Hurt You
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September 29, 2023
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Dilemma over "Best Practice": How We Could Develop Data Protection Practices in Malawi
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September 8, 2023
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Definition, Role, and Current Status of Digital Literacy in Malawi #LiteracyDay
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August 23, 2023
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Starting Field Study on How Information Flows in Malawi
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June 20, 2023
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Runner's Search for Identity
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May 21, 2023
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Information Sustainability, Mindful Consumption, and Healthy Engineering
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April 25, 2023
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When We Lose Autonomy—Whose Life Are You Living?
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April 7, 2023
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Three Perspectives on Large Language Models and Their Emerging Applications
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March 30, 2023
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How Information Flows: From Field Studies to Risk Mitigation
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February 21, 2023
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The Complexity of Simplicity: Tacos, Sushi, and ChatGPT
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December 18, 2022
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My 2022 Annual Review: Towards the Deepness
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December 8, 2022
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Mentoring on @ADPList. Here's What I Think. #ADPListWrapped
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December 4, 2022
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Data Are Created, Collected, and Processed by People
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November 27, 2022
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Fluid People and Blended Society: How Systems Model "Dividuals"
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November 19, 2022
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The Locality of Information and Technology
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November 11, 2022
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Google Cloud Dataflow and Its Positive Impact on Developer Productivity
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November 3, 2022
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Connecting the Dots in Complexity
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October 27, 2022
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Updating My View of Nuclear Power
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October 20, 2022
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Why We "Productize"
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October 14, 2022
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Ethics in Recommendation Pipeline—A First Look at RecSys 2022 Papers
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October 5, 2022
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My First Month as Self-Employed
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September 29, 2022
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Reviewing Things I Do Not Know About the Indian Act #NDTR
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September 22, 2022
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Why Your Job Title Matters (Cont.)─Technology for the People
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September 14, 2022
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Seeing Past and Present in Coursera "Machine Learning on Google Cloud" Specialization
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September 9, 2022
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How I Define "Artificial Intelligence"
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September 2, 2022
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Paddling in the Life, and Currently I'm a Freelance Software Developer
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August 12, 2022
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Dilemma of Creative Selection
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August 6, 2022
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Recommendation.jl Came Back to #JuliaCon 2022
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June 11, 2022
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Indigenous Canada: Storytelling, Community, and Sustainability
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June 5, 2022
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Becoming Permanent Resident of Canada
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June 4, 2022
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My First Post-Pandemic International Trip
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May 23, 2022
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Rethinking Why, When, and How I Learn
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May 15, 2022
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Am I Zombie? Autonomy vs. Recommendations on the Internet
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May 7, 2022
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What I Like About Microsoft Recommenders Repository
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May 5, 2022
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Starting with Empathy to #GetReal, Beat Loneliness, and Be Ethical. #MentalHealthWeek
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May 1, 2022
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Learning Canada's History
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April 21, 2022
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"Why Do We Build This?" Humane Technologist's View of Bad Product/Project
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April 9, 2022
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Loneliness Is Worse Than Smoking, Alcoholic, Obesity
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April 3, 2022
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Cross Validation for Recommender Systems in Julia
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March 28, 2022
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3 Pillars of Ethics' Scope: Society, Personal Relationship, and Individual
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March 20, 2022
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It "Was" Ethical: Key Takeaways from UMich's Data Science Ethics Course
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March 13, 2022
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Security, Privacy, and Ethics in the Web 3.0 Era
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March 6, 2022
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Serendipity: It's Relevant AND Unexpected
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February 27, 2022
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Recommender Diversity is NOT Inversion of Similarity
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February 20, 2022
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Validate, Validate, and Validate Data. But, in terms of what?
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February 13, 2022
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"Out of Scope"
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February 4, 2022
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"Definition of Done"
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January 30, 2022
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Data Ethics with Lineage
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January 23, 2022
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The Producer-Consumer Gap
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January 16, 2022
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"Diversity" Means More Than What We Typically Think
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January 8, 2022
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Recommendation.jl v0.4.0: Working with Missing Values, Data Typing, and Factorization Machines
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January 1, 2022
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Ethical Product Developer
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December 26, 2021
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My 2021 Annual Review: A Year of Divergence (And Slowly Started Converging)
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December 11, 2021
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Quality Habit-Formation: It's Like Casting a Vote on My Desired Identity
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November 24, 2021
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How Can Recommender Systems Contribute to Mitigate Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles?
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November 12, 2021
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What Container and JIT Mean for Today's Supply Chain Disruption
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November 6, 2021
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I Tried Audio Journaling for 30 Days
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October 30, 2021
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Cross-Framework Dependency Injection with spring-guice
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October 16, 2021
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My 30-Day Food Tracking Challenge from Sustainable Diet Perspective
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October 5, 2021
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User-Centricity Matters: My Reading List from RecSys 2021
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September 24, 2021
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Understanding Big Tech's Sustainable Commitment with Word Cloud
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September 18, 2021
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Sustainable Capitalism: The Importance of Long-Term Thinking and Adaptivity
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September 6, 2021
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Voting for 2021 #BCAleTrail Best Brewery Experience Award
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September 4, 2021
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Save HTML <svg> as an Image
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August 28, 2021
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Next "Dot" in Journey: Curiosity-Driven Job Change in Canada (Aug 2021)
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August 7, 2021
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Why Your Job Title Matters
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July 15, 2021
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Reviewing Ethical Challenges in Recommender Systems
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June 5, 2021
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Understanding Array Bisection Algorithm
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May 26, 2021
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Hi Product Managers, Are You Creating Products That *You* Love?
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May 21, 2021
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Unusual Drinking & Eating Habits: Non-Alcohol, Decaf, Flexitarian
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May 14, 2021
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A Journey of Sustainable Development #SDGMOOC
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May 7, 2021
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Actionable Insights from Supply Chain Analytics
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April 30, 2021
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Environmental Problems Through the Lens of Business
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April 25, 2021
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My First Impression After Reading Bill Gates's "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster"
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April 19, 2021
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Learning Cryptocurrency with Code
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April 11, 2021
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What Blockchain Brings to Real-World Applications
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April 4, 2021
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The Essence of Supply Chain Management
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March 21, 2021
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Moving to Canada: Adding Randomness to My Life
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March 13, 2021
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How Much CO2 Emissions Have Your Flights Made?
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March 6, 2021
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Moving Julia Project from Travis CI to GitHub Actions #JuliaLang
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February 3, 2021
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Practicing D3 Interactive Data Visualization with Fitbit Activity/Sleep Log
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January 23, 2021
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Datavis 2020: A Free Online Course About D3.js & React
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November 28, 2020
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Are You Still Writing a Resume in Word/LaTeX?
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August 29, 2020
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What I Think About When I Talk About ML Product
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August 16, 2020
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Language as a Design Tool
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May 31, 2020
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Don't "Guess" How People in Other Roles Work
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May 26, 2020
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Completed Functional Programming in Scala Specialization on Coursera, Finally
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May 1, 2020
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Issue-Driven Makes You Professional
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April 18, 2020
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How I'm Working From Home
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April 11, 2020
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What Makes a Good Dashboard: The Rise of Augmented Analytics
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April 4, 2020
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Life with (Partially) Broken iPhone
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March 29, 2020
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The Hardest Part of 2020's Strategic Ideation
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February 7, 2020
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Why a Data Science Engineer Becomes a Product Manager
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January 26, 2020
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Design Thinking = Capturing the World Like a Designer
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January 20, 2020
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The Rise of Customer-Centric Retailing @ NRF Retail's Big Show #NRF2020
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January 5, 2020
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How to Produce Ideas
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November 17, 2019
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What I've Seen at IoT Solutions World Congress 2019
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November 10, 2019
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Rethinking the Role of Data Leaders @ Data Leaders Summit Europe 2019
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October 26, 2019
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ApacheCon 2019 North America #ACNA19 & Europe #ACEU19
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September 8, 2019
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I Stopped Drinking Alone for 4 Months
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August 31, 2019
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Hello Netrify for Hosting a Static Site
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July 26, 2019
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Lightning Talk about Recommender Systems in Julia at #JuliaCon 2019
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July 13, 2019
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User Modeling, Adaptation, Personalization for Marketing #UMAP2019
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April 7, 2019
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TokuDB in MariaDB (on Ubuntu)
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March 31, 2019
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Publishing My Master's Thesis with Documenter.jl
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March 24, 2019
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Apache Hivemall in PySpark
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January 14, 2019
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Feeding User-Item Interactions to Python-Based Streaming Recommendation Engine via Faust
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November 22, 2018
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Attending MLconf SF 2018 #mlconf18
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November 2, 2018
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Sending Sensor Data from Mbed Simulator to Treasure Data
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October 26, 2018
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Apache Hivemall at #ODSCEurope, #RecSys2018, and #MbedConnect
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November 11, 2017
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Understanding Research Trends in Recommender Systems from Word Cloud
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June 26, 2017
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Deploying Static Site to GitHub Pages via Travis CI
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May 28, 2017
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Hugo meets kramdown + KaTeX #gohugo
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April 30, 2017
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Moving to GitHub Pages
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April 16, 2017
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Comparison of Running Time of Cached/Uncached Spark RDD
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February 25, 2017
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Parallel Programming vs. Concurrent Programming
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January 21, 2017
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FluRS: A Python Library for Online Item Recommendation
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January 14, 2017
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Recommendation.jl: Building Recommender Systems in Julia
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January 7, 2017
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My New Year's Resolution 2017: Write an Article Every Week
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October 19, 2015
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Migrate to Hugo from Jekyll: Another Solution for the MathJax+Markdown Issue
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October 13, 2015
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PyCon JP 2015 #pyconjp
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October 4, 2015
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Japan PHP Conference 2015 #phpcon2015
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October 3, 2015
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Machine Learning Summer School 2015 Kyoto #MLSSKYOTO
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April 21, 2015
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How to Derive the Normal Equation
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November 9, 2014
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Hello English Entries
