Along This Trail
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Romanticized Oyaji Gyagu (Dad Jokes)
In Japanese, there is a term called oyaji gyagu (おやじギャグ), literally “dad jokes”—the kind of puns that are so corny they make everyone around you groan. They are often built on wordplay, loose associations, or accidental similarities in sound. Last night, while scrolling through YouTube Shorts before bed, I came across a clip of a…
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AI and I Built This Website in 5 Days (Part II): Debugging My Way Through the Full Stack
In a previous post, I wrote about how AI helped me launch Great Lakes Data Forest in just a few days. Looking back, getting the website online was only the beginning. What happened afterward turned out to be equally educational. Once the basic structure was in place, I began refining the site’s appearance and user…
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From Correlation to Causation: How a Simple Question Led Me into the World of Complex Systems
One of the most persistent ideas I encountered while studying statistics, machine learning, and data science was a phrase repeated almost everywhere: Correlation is not causation. At first, it seemed straightforward enough. We can measure correlations. We can build predictive models. We can identify patterns hidden within large datasets. But a question lingered in the…
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Current Reading Journey
Current Reading Journey I have always been the type of person who starts new books before finishing the previous ones. In some sense, I am probably a typical “bookworm” — constantly wandering between different subjects, ideas, and perspectives. There is something deeply enjoyable about meandering through different disciplines and ideas without forcing myself into a…