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.
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…
Two Weeks with the Nintendo Switch
The idea of purchasing a gaming console – not necessarily a Switch – first intruded into my brain about a year ago while shopping for souvenirs for a trip back to the Philippines. I got my brother a Switch Lite for a really steal price at a secondhand electronics store in Nippombashi. Testing it later…
A Requiem for Disassembly
A lot of hay has been made about the relentless push towards closed architectures in contemporary technology, and rightly so. Back then, technology was friendly to people who wanted to take it apart, either to hack it or to do repairs. Everything was put together with a Philips or a flathead screwdriver that your father…
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