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

Series I have written

How to Talk About AI (6) Becoming a Canadian (14) Productizing Data with People (12) Building Recommender Systems in Julia (6) Digital Malawi: Developing Hope in the Information Age (11) Ethical Product Developer (17)

2024-06-24: The End of the Beginning—What I Talk About When I Talk About Malawi
2024-05-27: Materializing Digital Transformation
2024-04-30: I'm Not "China"—Connecting HERE and THERE in Systems
2024-03-22: Language: Behind the Power Dynamics in Information Society
2024-02-26: One of the Poorest Life Is Not *That* Bad
2024-01-31: Relativize Malawi, and Rethink Their Contexts
2023-12-25: My 2023 Annual Review: Between Individual and Systems
2023-11-30: Is Computer Education Always Good?
2023-10-30: Starting with Humanity—Growth and Technology Otherwise Hurt You
2023-09-29: Dilemma over "Best Practice": How We Could Develop Data Protection Practices in Malawi
2023-09-08: Definition, Role, and Current Status of Digital Literacy in Malawi #LiteracyDay
2023-08-23: Starting Field Study on How Information Flows in Malawi
2023-06-20: Runner's Search for Identity
2023-05-21: Information Sustainability, Mindful Consumption, and Healthy Engineering
2023-04-25: When We Lose Autonomy—Whose Life Are You Living?
2023-04-07: Three Perspectives on Large Language Models and Their Emerging Applications
2023-03-30: How Information Flows: From Field Studies to Risk Mitigation
2023-02-21: The Complexity of Simplicity: Tacos, Sushi, and ChatGPT
2022-12-18: My 2022 Annual Review: Towards the Deepness
2022-12-08: Mentoring on @ADPList. Here's What I Think. #ADPListWrapped
2022-12-04: Data Are Created, Collected, and Processed by People
2022-11-27: Fluid People and Blended Society: How Systems Model "Dividuals"
2022-11-19: The Locality of Information and Technology
2022-11-11: Google Cloud Dataflow and Its Positive Impact on Developer Productivity
2022-11-03: Connecting the Dots in Complexity
2022-10-27: Updating My View of Nuclear Power
2022-10-20: Why We "Productize"
2022-10-14: Ethics in Recommendation Pipeline—A First Look at RecSys 2022 Papers
2022-10-05: My First Month as Self-Employed
2022-09-29: Reviewing Things I Do Not Know About the Indian Act #NDTR
2022-09-22: Why Your Job Title Matters (Cont.)─Technology for the People
2022-09-14: Seeing Past and Present in Coursera "Machine Learning on Google Cloud" Specialization
2022-09-09: How I Define "Artificial Intelligence"
2022-09-02: Paddling in the Life, and Currently I'm a Freelance Software Developer
2022-08-12: Dilemma of Creative Selection
2022-08-06: Recommendation.jl Came Back to #JuliaCon 2022
2022-06-11: Indigenous Canada: Storytelling, Community, and Sustainability
2022-06-05: Becoming Permanent Resident of Canada
2022-06-04: My First Post-Pandemic International Trip
2022-05-23: Rethinking Why, When, and How I Learn
2022-05-15: Am I Zombie? Autonomy vs. Recommendations on the Internet
2022-05-07: What I Like About Microsoft Recommenders Repository
2022-05-05: Starting with Empathy to #GetReal, Beat Loneliness, and Be Ethical. #MentalHealthWeek
2022-05-01: Learning Canada's History
2022-04-21: "Why Do We Build This?" Humane Technologist's View of Bad Product/Project
2022-04-09: Loneliness Is Worse Than Smoking, Alcoholic, Obesity
2022-04-03: Cross Validation for Recommender Systems in Julia
2022-03-28: 3 Pillars of Ethics' Scope: Society, Personal Relationship, and Individual
2022-03-20: It "Was" Ethical: Key Takeaways from UMich's Data Science Ethics Course
2022-03-13: Security, Privacy, and Ethics in the Web 3.0 Era
2022-03-06: Serendipity: It's Relevant AND Unexpected
2022-02-27: Recommender Diversity is NOT Inversion of Similarity
2022-02-20: Validate, Validate, and Validate Data. But, in terms of what?
2022-02-13: "Out of Scope"
2022-02-04: "Definition of Done"
2022-01-30: Data Ethics with Lineage
2022-01-23: The Producer-Consumer Gap
2022-01-16: "Diversity" Means More Than What We Typically Think
2022-01-08: Recommendation.jl v0.4.0: Working with Missing Values, Data Typing, and Factorization Machines
2022-01-01: Ethical Product Developer
2021-12-26: My 2021 Annual Review: A Year of Divergence (And Slowly Started Converging)
2021-12-11: Quality Habit-Formation: It's Like Casting a Vote on My Desired Identity
2021-11-24: How Can Recommender Systems Contribute to Mitigate Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles?
2021-11-12: What Container and JIT Mean for Today's Supply Chain Disruption
2021-11-06: I Tried Audio Journaling for 30 Days
2021-10-30: Cross-Framework Dependency Injection with spring-guice
2021-10-16: My 30-Day Food Tracking Challenge from Sustainable Diet Perspective
2021-10-05: User-Centricity Matters: My Reading List from RecSys 2021
2021-09-24: Understanding Big Tech's Sustainable Commitment with Word Cloud
2021-09-18: Sustainable Capitalism: The Importance of Long-Term Thinking and Adaptivity
2021-09-06: Voting for 2021 #BCAleTrail Best Brewery Experience Award
2021-09-04: Save HTML <svg> as an Image
2021-08-28: Next "Dot" in Journey: Curiosity-Driven Job Change in Canada (Aug 2021)
2021-08-07: Why Your Job Title Matters
2021-07-15: Reviewing Ethical Challenges in Recommender Systems
2021-06-05: Understanding Array Bisection Algorithm
2021-05-26: Hi Product Managers, Are You Creating Products That *You* Love?
2021-05-21: Unusual Drinking & Eating Habits: Non-Alcohol, Decaf, Flexitarian
2021-05-14: A Journey of Sustainable Development #SDGMOOC
2021-05-07: Actionable Insights from Supply Chain Analytics
2021-04-30: Environmental Problems Through the Lens of Business
2021-04-25: My First Impression After Reading Bill Gates's "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster"
2021-04-19: Learning Cryptocurrency with Code
2021-04-11: What Blockchain Brings to Real-World Applications
2021-04-04: The Essence of Supply Chain Management
2021-03-21: Moving to Canada: Adding Randomness to My Life
2021-03-13: How Much CO2 Emissions Have Your Flights Made?
2021-03-06: Moving Julia Project from Travis CI to GitHub Actions #JuliaLang
2021-02-03: Practicing D3 Interactive Data Visualization with Fitbit Activity/Sleep Log
2021-01-23: Datavis 2020: A Free Online Course About D3.js & React
2020-11-28: Are You Still Writing a Resume in Word/LaTeX?
2020-08-29: What I Think About When I Talk About ML Product
2020-08-16: Language as a Design Tool
2020-05-31: Don't "Guess" How People in Other Roles Work
2020-05-26: Completed Functional Programming in Scala Specialization on Coursera, Finally
2020-05-01: Issue-Driven Makes You Professional
2020-04-18: How I'm Working From Home
2020-04-11: What Makes a Good Dashboard: The Rise of Augmented Analytics
2020-04-04: Life with (Partially) Broken iPhone
2020-03-29: The Hardest Part of 2020's Strategic Ideation
2020-02-07: Why a Data Science Engineer Becomes a Product Manager
2020-01-26: Design Thinking = Capturing the World Like a Designer
2020-01-20: The Rise of Customer-Centric Retailing @ NRF Retail's Big Show #NRF2020
2020-01-05: How to Produce Ideas
2019-11-17: What I've Seen at IoT Solutions World Congress 2019
2019-11-10: Rethinking the Role of Data Leaders @ Data Leaders Summit Europe 2019
2019-10-26: ApacheCon 2019 North America #ACNA19 & Europe #ACEU19
2019-09-08: I Stopped Drinking Alone for 4 Months
2019-08-31: Hello Netrify for Hosting a Static Site
2019-07-26: Lightning Talk about Recommender Systems in Julia at #JuliaCon 2019
2019-07-13: User Modeling, Adaptation, Personalization for Marketing #UMAP2019
2019-04-07: TokuDB in MariaDB (on Ubuntu)
2019-03-31: Publishing My Master's Thesis with Documenter.jl
2019-03-24: Apache Hivemall in PySpark
2019-01-14: Feeding User-Item Interactions to Python-Based Streaming Recommendation Engine via Faust
2018-11-22: Attending MLconf SF 2018 #mlconf18
2018-11-02: Sending Sensor Data from Mbed Simulator to Treasure Data
2018-10-26: Apache Hivemall at #ODSCEurope, #RecSys2018, and #MbedConnect
2017-11-11: Understanding Research Trends in Recommender Systems from Word Cloud
2017-06-26: Deploying Static Site to GitHub Pages via Travis CI
2017-05-28: Hugo meets kramdown + KaTeX #gohugo
2017-04-30: Moving to GitHub Pages
2017-04-16: Comparison of Running Time of Cached/Uncached Spark RDD
2017-02-25: Parallel Programming vs. Concurrent Programming
2017-01-21: FluRS: A Python Library for Online Item Recommendation
2017-01-14: Recommendation.jl: Building Recommender Systems in Julia
2017-01-07: My New Year's Resolution 2017: Write an Article Every Week
2015-10-19: Migrate to Hugo from Jekyll: Another Solution for the MathJax+Markdown Issue
2015-10-13: PyCon JP 2015 #pyconjp
2015-10-04: Japan PHP Conference 2015 #phpcon2015
2015-10-03: Machine Learning Summer School 2015 Kyoto #MLSSKYOTO
2015-04-21: How to Derive the Normal Equation
2014-11-09: Hello English Entries

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