Pasta ngon và dễ nấu, nhưng lại dễ tạo được cảm giác ẩm thực màu mè phức tạp. Trong các loại pasta, phổ biến nhất có lẽ là spaghetti. Tuy nhiên, tôi thích fettuccine với sợi mì bản rộng và dày hơn, chứ không phải ống tròn như spaghetti. Với…

In Setup for remote synchronous instructions, I mentioned how my free Github Actions (GHA) minutes ran out the night before an assignment is due and I scrambled to setup self-hosted runners on our department’s Linux server. I also acknowledge GitHub’s gracious offer to refund all of my costs should I…

My primary goal in delivering remote synchronous instruction (RSI) is to provide students with a learning environment that is at least equivalent to a face-to-face (F2F) one. It should be noted that I do not want to strive to make RSI to be the same as F2F. Each of them…

Podman is a new (first released in 2018) alternative to Docker for executing containers. Developed by RedHat, Podman requires no running background process to support container operations, and since it adheres to the Open Container Initiative (OCI), it can manage all existing Docker-based images. In this article, I describe the…

This is yet another guide to setup Spark and Jupyter on Windows. After consulting a number of other sources such as phoenixNAP and Chang Hsin Lee, there are still a number of steps that I needed to stumble through on my own. In the remainder of this article, I will…

While preparing for the afternoon classes, I saw an email notification titled Plans for Spring 2021. Already knowing about California State University System’s decision to go online, I already had an idea about what this email would entail. Typically, I skimmed through this type of email. However, this time I…

I learned the concepts of new year resolutions after coming to the U.S. for my undergraduate study. I was fascinated with the concept, and up until the end of my Ph.D. years, I had always come up with some list of things to change for the next year. Also, year…

I have been thinking about writing something on Medium for quite a while now, but I have also been telling myself to strive for a perfect idea with a perfect narration. This week, the son of a close friend’s sister comes and stays with my family for the duration of…