Category: mini-blog

I think we broke their product recommendation algorithm..

There’s not a single quality open license photo of Korea’s daytime street life on the internet. Which is saying something. Either the photo is shots of nature of empty streets, with no life forms on sight. Or a shot specifically framed on a building, an event, a landmark, in a way that it’s clearly not…

it’s a bit strange because my high school years are a bit of a blur, then the last 2 years are pretty clear (it was the most busy years), then college is generally a bit blurry except for classes taken, then my early years at work are crystal clear – like i remember what happened…

Im going to a conferece that starts today to cofacilitate at two sessions, and turns out that until today morning: 1) i recalled the flight as belonging to the wrong airline (i entered my confirmation number to the wrong website first) and 2) i had the order of the two sessions mixed up. I prepared…

the multiverse doppelganger hypothesis is misleading. the universe is not a random number generator. just because a combination is possible, doesn’t mean it will naturally occur if you simply wait it out or run it a very large number of times.

oi.. just realized i didn’t have lunch today. i had a heavyweight project looming around 11:30am, said “oh well, might as well.. start..?” then the project rolled over until 3pm, then did a few more things, and i’m like wait a second, did i eat strangely not hungry

Our office in Los Angeles was a residential/commercial mixed zoned space with office on the first floor and residential rooms upstairs, and I used to live in one of the rooms back in 2007. One day, I woke up around 7am on a Saturday with a police’s gun fairly close to my head (I don’t…

When I read that Falcon Heavy reuses its main boosters to save costs, I thought they just dropped to an ocean location to get picked up and repaired. Then I saw the footage a week later – holy shit the rockets descend back to a pre-painted landing zone circle vertically? It’s hard enough to keep…

meeting mom again gives me insights into my management style. i’ve been nagged into doing things to oblivion at home. may explain why i’m very hesitant to nag others to meet their deadlines and check-in on project progress, etc.

Im going to write a letter to Kim Jong-eun asking him to nuke Las Vegas first. So much stupid shit. Im so gratefull for my current life, and all the daily experiences i get, where i dont have to deal with this garbage on a daily basis. Lets all make a $20 donation to poor…

So, some forms of machine learning are like a brute force attack on the laws the logic? (while rethinking this)

One unwelcome change in Win10 is how it implements languages and keyboard layouts. In Win7 and before, you could have Windows’s interface language in English but remove English Input Method Editor altogether, and just keep Spanish and Korean. Korean IME has a built-in English entry (using the right alt key), so English was not needed.…