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Books 📚 read in 2020, Part 1

Three-sentence reviews of books that I've read in the first half of 2020, including AI Superpowers; Chop Suey Nation; Deep Work; Thinking Inside the Box; The Language of Food; All the Birds In The Sky.

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Books 📚 I Read in 2019

Brief reviews of books that I read in 2019, including The Attention Merchants, The Martian, River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, Room, Small, Sharp, Software Tools, and Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal.

Year in Review: 2018

CareerI continued looking into data science and machine learning this year. In March, I completed all five courses of the Deep Learning Specialization from deeplearning.ai, and also spent time

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AndroidTO 2018 Recap

This year marked the 9th anniversary of AndroidTO, the largest Android developer conference in Canada. The organizers of GDG Toronto and Symbility Intersect put on a full-day lineup of fifteen

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Ohio DevFest 2018 Recap

A recap of Ohio DevFest 2018, an annual community-run conference that takes place in Ohio. Talks are about cloud, Web, agile, mobile, Kotlin, Firebase, soft skills, and more.

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Android Summit 2018 Recap

A recap of Android Summit 2018, an annual Android conference that takes place in the Virginia/DC area. Speakers are organized into three tracks: development, design, and, testing.

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Year in Review: 2017

Software Development New Skills I'm pleased that I was able to expand my knowledge of the Android development ecosystem this year: Model-View-Presenter: the Logo Maker app gave me an opportunity

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Year in Review: 2016

Inspired by a post I read on Chiu-ki Chan's blog a while ago, here is a look back at what I accomplished during the year: Started a Meetup I was

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DevFest Florida 2016 Recap

Another conference I was accepted into this year, was DevFest Florida. This was my second speaking engagement for the year, after my debut at DevFest DC. Although I was editing

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AndroidTO 2016 Recap

Now in its 7th year, the AndroidTO conference was held at the beginning of November. Despite being an Android-focused event, there were a few, general mobile talks that were nevertheless

Droidcon NYC: Day 2

I attended Droidcon NYC again this year, and wrote previously about the sessions I attended on Day 1. Here is my take on Day 2: Meetup in the Making Chris

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Droidcon NYC: Day 1

It's been two weeks since Droidcon NYC 2016 happened. I attended last year's event, and continue to be impressed by the high-quality speakers and talks this conference attracts. All talks

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DevFest DC: Day 2

Day 2 fell on a Saturday, so there were a lot fewer people in attendance than on Day 1. My talk was on this day, so I was nervous and

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DevFest DC: Day 1

DevFests are community-run events by local Google Developer Groups. I saw a Call for Proposals this summer for DevFestDC this summer, applied, and was excited to be accepted. Here are