To me and to many people around the world, World Cup is mostly a media event. Despite how the media has changed, most people watched the games one way or another still on TV. 1 Nonetheless, the media nature has changed. Inevitably, there are secon...
Academic presentation is like a recurring theme of this blog. I shared also my love and hate (mostly hate) relationship with academic conferences. So here is like an update to this theme in 2025/2026.
Previously on this blog: my objectives / adjustment; actual OKR #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13.
Previously on this blog: my objectives / adjustment; actual OKR #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12.
I have read three books on academic writing back to back. Learn to write badly by Michael Billig, Writing for Social Scientists by Howard S. Becker, and Stylist Academic Writing by Helen Sword. You might ask: Isn’t writing dead? We have “AI”, right?
I write research articles for my living. I did my research projects and then I need to publish the outcomes of them somewhere. Recently, I even feel that I enjoy the writing of the paper more than the research project itself. But this is beyond th...
I quoted Rich Hickey (the author of Clojure) in my research paper. 1 Perhaps his most quoted quote: Chan, C. H., Schatto-Eckrodt, T., & Gruber, J. (2024). What makes computational communication science (ir) reproducible?. Compu...
After Microsoft and Google, this is my love letter to Amazon.
Last time, I sent my love letter to Microsoft. Now, this is my love letter to Google.
In my home town, being a salesman is the easy way to get rich and gain respect. 1 But this was exactly the job that I wanted to run away from when I was young. Not because I don’t like money, but because I don’t like convincing people. You might h...
On 1 May 2005, Open Document Format (ODF) was recognized as the open standard for office applications. The Document Foundation, the organization behind LibreOffice, recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of ODF. Before ODF, there was de facto on...
I love to watch documentaries, on Netflix, on ARD Mediathek etc.
In a previous post, I mentioned a bug-ish thing of Emacs Speaks statistics (ESS) of flymake integration.
You see a stream of ChatGPT-generated Ghibli-style images. I see a bunch of Little Eichmanns.
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