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.
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…
My solution to the self-driving problem
I figured out a way to solve self-driving technology! The good news is, it’s all intuitive, and requires no special knowledge of mathematics or programming. Hear me out. Ultimately, the problem stems from us forcing an inherently rules-based agent (AI) to adapt to a very complex system like a highway containing tens to thousands of…
The Most Present Man on Youtube Tells Physics Professor to “Stay Off Youtube”
People very close to me know that I have an “anti-fan” status to Jordan Peterson – who recently came out with a new book of self help cum Bible study We Who Wrestle With God, which unsurprisingly does not seem to sit well with actual Bible scholars – in that I follow all sorts of…
My James-Stein BBVI paper is now online on the AROB journal
My paper on improving black box variational inference (BBVI) using the James-Stein estimator was recently accepted in the SpringerNature journal, Artificial Life and Robotics, and is now available online. This makes for my first published paper during my PhD studies, and I’m very happy to see the first fruits of what is now a three-year…
The Future Is A Mall: Notes on the Osaka Expo 2025
I had always been curious of going to a World Expo. Mentions of such large fairs – supposedly something of a cross between a theme park and a museum – peppered my early life and education. While I’m not exactly the type of person who pays admission fees to theme parks so I could ooh…
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Dominic Dayta 