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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A Haven for Cats with Nowhere Else to Go
While wandering through YouTube one evening, I came across the live stream hosted by Furball Farm Cat Sanctuary. What began as a relaxing background video soon became something more meaningful. The sanctuary provides a home for feral and behaviorally challenged cats that have often been labeled “unadoptable” by shelters and rescues. Many arrive with nowhere…
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Triple-Entry Accounting: A Glimpse into the Future of Financial Recordkeeping
While exploring recent developments in the application of data science and emerging technologies in accounting, I repeatedly encountered the concept of Triple-Entry Accounting (TEA). Although the idea has existed for some time, advances in blockchain technology have renewed interest in its potential to reshape financial recordkeeping and auditing. One article that provides a concise introduction…
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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…
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AI-Generated Music — Soul in Spanish, Not “Latin Sound”
When it comes to AI-generated artwork, many of my friends tend to have somewhat negative views toward it. The concerns are understandable. Issues such as copyright, authenticity, and artistic originality are becoming increasingly complicated in the age of AI. One of my friends once pointed out that true art requires a kind of “spark” —…
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Is AI Really Taking Away People’s Jobs?
Every industrial revolution brings a period of social and economic transformation. Some professions gradually fade, while new ones emerge in their place. During the Industrial Revolution, many forms of manual labor were transformed by machinery. In the automotive and electronic age, occupations related to horse transportation — such as carriage drivers and stable workers —…
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AI and I built this entire website in 5 days.
Five days ago, this website did not exist.No infrastructure. No theme customization. No CSS understanding. No domain routing. No plugin ecosystem knowledge. Just an idea, a domain name, and curiosity. What happened over those five days changed the way I view both technology and learning itself. I have a computer science background, but web development…
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Aspect and Tense in Japanese
In my previous job as an AI content analyst, I once came across the sentence: 「過去には以下のようなイベントが開催されています。」 To me, it sounded somewhat unnatural, although many others seemed to find it acceptable. Wanting to understand the issue more clearly, I spent several hours discussing the linguistic nuances and complications of the sentence with ChatGPT in Japanese. By…