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Continue reading →: My Twitter Account Was Hacked, But I Got It Back
When I was in Kenya this past month for summer holiday, I went for a 10km run with an old friend who works in cybersecurity, and I was telling him that 99*% of cybersecurity incidents are due to a legit username and password falling into the wrong hands. Basically, social…
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Continue reading →: Due For a Midlife Crisis
Hello, is anyone still reading this? I woke up one morning, and I was staring at 40 in the face. Okay, 40-2. I’m 38, and while my friends lie and tell me it doesn’t show on my face (yet), the grey in my hair is undeniable. I dye it aggressively…
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Continue reading →: Media Appearances in 2025
1. R&D Website In June of 2024, our team of three people won a company-wide new business challenge award. Thereafter, I spent the latter half of 2024 in Kenya spearheading the project, before returning to Tokyo in January 2025. Our efforts to implement a new business idea in Kenya were…
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Continue reading →: The AI Bubble Might Go Out in a Hiss, Not a PopI’m not the only one who has been talking about the impending pop of the AI bubble. GenAI (or LLMs) are way too expensive to train and run, but so far, there is no killer application that can cover the cost, let alone generate a profit for the investors. We…
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Continue reading →: Book Launch and Review: The Devil’s Horsewhip by Damion SpencerThe devil’s horsewhip is a plant found in many places throughout the tropical world. Its flowers will stick to your clothes and follow you wherever you go. The plant’s sticky property is a metaphor for death that seems to stick and follow the characters in the titular collection of short…
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Continue reading →: Summer Holiday in Ishikawa: What to do With KidsI originally wanted to travel to Hokkaido this past summer. It’s one of the places in Japan I have always wanted to visit, with others being Shikoku, Kyushu (Fukuoka), and also Hiroshima. In the end, considering logistics and costs of traveling with a 12 year old (J) and a 4…
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Continue reading →: Raging Against the (Gen) AI MachineIt’s funny that I work as an applied AI researcher, and yet here I am raging against AI. Generative AI to be specific, although I will just use the term “AI” in general throughout the blog post. I am an applied researcher, in that I take the AI algorithms developed…
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Continue reading →: Strep Throat SummerI had a very busy Saturday, the day before I went down with symptoms of what would later be diagnosed as strep throat. It was my first time to get it and what a nasty infection. That Saturday (June 21st) , I woke up early to make breakfast, do laundry,…
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Continue reading →: Books I Have Read in 2025
It’s hard to believe that we are almost halfway through 2025. A long while ago, I made a list of things that bring me joy, and every day I try to do the things on that list. Reading is one of those things, and I make a conscious effort to…
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Continue reading →: What I’m Cooking: Quick and Easy Japanese Meals for Busy Families
For as long as we have existed and continue to exist, the conversation around food will never go stale. As a Kenyan in Japan, I often get asked by friends and colleagues alike, “What do you cook?”. You may expect that I cook Kenyan food, but because of the difficulty…
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