Here I write about books, cinema, data science and analytics, Korean Pop, and various other oddities. I also write updates here about the status of my research and the courses I teach. Every now and again I also write technical articles about data science / software development at Medium.com.
My Starry Knight Invoker Decklist
Following up on last week’s post about my unexpected descent back into the Yu-Gi-Oh! rabbit hole, I figured it was only right to talk a bit more about the actual deck that’s been carrying me through Master Duel ranked. The primary motivation for building this specific deck was pure, unadulterated nostalgia for Seiyaryu. It’s a…
Duel: Standby!
With my recent sequence of posts about gaming, my wife has recently joked that my website is slowly transforming into a gaming blog. Well, here goes another: over the last two months, our time has been absolutely consumed playing card games. Really this post is about Yu-Gi-Oh!, but bear with me a moment here. It…
London Blogs: The Great British Book Haul
This sentiment may not be entirely understood by those who haven’t lived for an extended period in a country whose language is (still mostly) inaccessible to them, but arriving in the United Kingdom felt like a breath of fresh air. Don’t get me wrong: I love Japan. There’s a reason why it was at the…
London Blogs: Shakespeare’s Undying Legacy
The country that gave birth to Shakespeare can be expected to be quite proud of their literary heritage. This didn’t escape our notice during our barely week-long escape to the United Kingdom (really just London) to attend the CFE-CMStatistics conference in December. We arrived on the evening of Friday, December 12, and already on the…
Eating through South Korea
Back in September, for my birthday, my wife and I flew to Korea a propos of a really good deal on plane tickets. Also, now that we’re on our third and final year of my doctoral studies, we realized this may be our last opportunity to cross the sea into Japan’s former colony with our…
In Praise of Narrative in Video Games
I’ve probably done more gaming over the last two years than in the rest of my life combined, and more so in the previous month since purchasing my Switch. I couldn’t have chosen a better time either, as I’ve right now more or less completed my requirements for the PhD and have only to apply…
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Dominic Dayta 