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Writing about what I think, learned, and experienced. These are the dots yet to be connected.

Series I have written

Altruistic Byte: Real-World Insights for Tech-Driven Change (5) How to Talk About AI (7) Becoming a Canadian (14) Productizing Data with People (12) Building Recommender Systems in Julia (6) Digital Malawi: Developing Hope in the Information Age (12) Ethical Product Developer (18)

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

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