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.
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An Ode to the Subway
Anything involving trains is an instant like for me. There’s a story I tell all my friends from a time back in high school, when I discovered the LRT station near campus. I bought a ticket to the end of the line, and on the train just marveled at the expanse of residential areas, museums,…
EIGASAI 2023
The Japan Foundation’s Japanese Film Festival has been a highlight of my annual viewing experience for a few years now. This is, after all, the festival that introduced me to long running favorites like If Cats Disappeared From The World (2016, dir. Akira Nagai) and Anthem of the Heart (2015, dir. Tatsuyuki Nagai), along with…
Turning Into Snake Oil
There seems to be a cycle that’s taking shape around many modern technological milestones. First, a community (be it a company or a collection of disparate open source teams) create a genuine advancement in science, and then the marketing overhypes it as some kind of magic bullet that will bring salvation to us all. But…
What A Year
I’ve been meaning to write this end-of-year post for quite a while now, actually since just before the end of the year. However, given the mess of things (challenges, blessings, what have you) that have happened in 2022, my mind is naturally in a similar state of disarray. All attempt to try and pin down…
6/55 Magic
I was contacted by the research team for Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho for their upcoming segment this Sunday regarding the “unusual” results of the PCSO 6/55 Lotto last September 28. On the jackpot draw, a total of 433 bettors were selected to split the 236 million peso prize. Even more interesting was the winning combination,…
Documents, Pink Slips, and Guy Montag
Because the family is moving to our new house in Bulacan, the last couple of weeks have been one of decluttering. In an attempt to minimize the cost of transporting so many items and personal effects from Caloocan (while coming at the cost of having to buy more new stuff), we’ve been picking from our…
To Be Bourgeois and In Love
This week I discovered the “Screen Time” feature on my Apple devices, which not only tracks how long I use the devices themselves and the individual apps therein, but also allows me to set certain rules and limitations as to their usage. Let me tell you, what a confirmation it was to see the number…
In Praise of Writers’ Desks
This month concludes what has now become half a year that our family has been in the process of searching for, purchasing, and now moving into a house of our own after years spent throwing money at the garbage bin that is the housing rental market. We started in January of this year, when my…
Sometimes they come back
On September 21 of this year, it’ll be exactly fifty years since the public declaration of martial law in the Philippines by the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Before that, this Thursday, on June 30, his son and namesake, Ferdinand “Bong Bong” Marcos, Jr., will be at the National Museum (then the bicameral congress building in…
A Late Father’s Day Post
There are a number of things my dad and I don’t necessarily agree on. The older I get, the more I come to accept that’s only natural. But one thing has always been clear for me all through my life: everything I’ve become, everything I’ve achieved, I owe to him. Once he told me, after…
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