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.
READING: Ned Beauman’s Frenetic and Prescient Take on our Tech Dystopia
It has been ages since I was this excited over a book. Don’t get me wrong – I’m always excited about books. It’s why my collection has grown to over 400 scattered across our house in Bulacan and our present residence here in Nara. But to be this excited, nearly skipping meals, even foregoing my…
READING: Mieko Kawakami’s silent contemplation of shared terror
Mieko Kawakami’s 2009 novel, Heaven, sometimes reads like a shelved treatment for the Saw franchise: one in which Jigsaw is a bully at a Japanese middle school. Its taut, unassuming prose makes descriptions of adolescent violence hard to stomach when it really gets going, but stomach it you will, because interweaved with its brutality is…
How do you write?
Drafts 1 and 2 are always from pure blank page. It’s much harder to revise when everything is laid out in front of you, in Times New Roman size 12 and 1.5 spacing, looking so finished. I write the first draft by hand, trying to get it out as fast as I can, and putting…
The Very First Entry In The Dayta Monogatari
Some days the writing can be a pain. You sit facing the blank page but it feels like wringing water out of a towel that’s already been out days under the sun. I don’t wish to belabor the metaphor any further, but sometimes wringing that towel can be easier in the winter. Maybe things just…
The Boy, the Doctor, and the Long-Awaited Degree
Three years ago now I landed in Japan (for the second time) to start my PhD at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology. I didn’t know if it was going to be a purely short-term gig or if I was going to remain, at least for a while, in the land of the rising…
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…
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Dominic Dayta 