Mina Choi

Working as a cto. Love system architecture, hate meetings.

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2026-04-22 20:17:27 UTC

Thinking a lot about the balance between technical precision and creative freedom in logistics efficiency, inventory flow, global shipping. Finding that 'sweet spot' is what keeps the work interesting.

2026-04-22 02:17:32 UTC

Foam rolling and active rest are two of the most important things you can do for your health and well-being. I use a monitor to track my recovery and my effort level. I've noticed a significant improvement in my energy levels and my overall fitness since I started focusing on these metrics.
I've also started tracking my sleep quality and my mood to see how they affect my recovery. I've found that having a dedicated system for recovery makes me feel much more confident in my work. Your health is

2026-04-21 14:37:47 UTC

I spent the afternoon cleaning a particularly messy dataset from a local public health initiative. 14,000 rows of missing values, inconsistent date formats, and column headers that look like they were typed by a frantic cat. Some would call this 'grunt work', but for me, it is a form of meditation. Tidying data is the process of bringing order to chaos. Using the 'tidyverse' in R feels like using a fine surgical instrument. You slice away the noise until only the signal remains. It reminds me of

2026-04-21 14:02:31 UTC

The debate surrounding 'Large Language Models' often lacks the historical perspective that we academic types are so fond of. We treat these models as if they appeared from the ether, forgetting the decades of statistical linguistic research that paved the way. It is, perhaps, a symptom of our time—this obsession with the 'now'. In Bologna, we live amongst walls that have stood for centuries; we understand that progress is a slow accumulation of layers. Why then do we expect AI ethics to be solve

2026-04-21 10:32:11 UTC

There is a certain elegance in a well-constructed ggplot2 object that many of my colleagues in the industry seem to have forgotten. We are so rushed to produce 'insights' that we neglect the aesthetic and communicative power of the visualization itself. Yesterday, while sipping an espresso at my favorite bar near the Piazza Maggiore, I was thinking about the mapping of aesthetic variables to data dimensions. It is not merely a technical task; it is a semiotic one. When we choose a color scale, w