A reflection on racism, language, and how a diverse linguistic worldview can help frame the importance of precise word choice — Background The realization and inspiration for this article came from an uncanny angle. I happened to be studying some Japanese Kanji because I wanted to reboot my Japanese language skills. In both Korean, my native language, and Japanese, Chinese characters serve almost like Latin does to romance languages and forms the…

Using art to add new perspective to life and the status quo Challenging the paradigm I have always been passionate about thinking differently about the “norm” and societal expectations. It is one of the main things that attracted me to a career in technology — the ability to build something that could change…

Credit to Joss Taylor Olson for brilliant editing and creative writing expertise. When I was five or six, I remember sitting by my grandmother in the small shanty that we called home, looking up at the towering hundred-floor-plus apartment buildings of Gangnam, South Korea. She told me about her past…

Background AI is a prevalent part of our day-to-day lives. Whether we are checking our e-mails, going to the doctor, receiving a diagnosis, signing up for insurance, applying for loans to buy a house, or being identified as traffic violators for speeding, these are all areas that AI, and more…

Graph Thinking - Tom Grubb - 20220421.mp4 Original drive.google.com [Download the presentation as a PDF here] Key Knowledge Graph Applications: Accelerate machine learning by serving as a more consistent feature store with high quality data Enable semantic search, which improves both external customer experiences (finding the items they need / personalization) and internal customer experiences (finding the data they…

A reflection on friendship, poverty, and the ties that bind — Credit to Joss Taylor Olson for brilliant editing and creative writing subject matter expertise. My phone lit up — 8:30 PM. I went to clear the notification, the way one does practically without looking. But I did look, and the barest glance was all it took to hook me. There…