My Journey — Part 7: Singapore, Family, and Finding My Ground
Part 7 of my personal journey series. Read Part 6 here.
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My Journey — Part 6: University, a Japanese Company, and the Man Who Changed Everything
Part 6 of my personal journey series.
My Journey — Part 5: Ho Chi Minh City and the Beginning of Everything
Part 5 of my personal journey series. Read Part 4 here.
My Journey — Part 4: Coming Home, and Leaving Again
Part 4 of my personal journey series. Read Part 3 here.
My Journey — Part 3: School, Coffee, and Learning to Want More
Part 3 of my personal journey series. Read Part 2 here.
My Journey — Part 2: Following My Uncle to the Highlands
Part 2 of my personal journey series. Read Part 1 here.
My Journey — Part 1: The Village
My Journey — Full Series The Village — Ha Tinh ← you are here Following My Uncle to the Highlands School, Coffee, and Learning to Want More...
Personal Life — Where the Story Behind the Engineer Lives
I grew up in a remote village in Ha Tinh, central Vietnam. I left as a child to follow my uncle to the coffee highlands of Tây Nguyên. I put myself through u...
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AI and Blockchain — The Promises, The Fear, and What People Who Build Them Actually Know
TL;DR: Everyone fears blockchain will kill banks and AI will kill jobs. But people who actually build these things know the truth: replacing centuries-old fi...
How Andrew Ng’s Courses Changed the Way I Think About AI
If there’s one person whose teaching shaped my understanding of AI more than anyone else, it’s Andrew Ng. This post is about that journey — from watching his...
Welcome to the AI Series
Artificial Intelligence has been at the centre of my career for the better part of a decade. I’ve built NLP models for financial news, deployed deep learning...
blockchain
AI and Blockchain — The Promises, The Fear, and What People Who Build Them Actually Know
TL;DR: Everyone fears blockchain will kill banks and AI will kill jobs. But people who actually build these things know the truth: replacing centuries-old fi...
Blockchain From First Principles: Cryptography, Consensus, and the Trustless Ledger
Most introductions to blockchain start with Bitcoin or Ethereum and work backwards. This one goes the other direction — starting from the fundamental compute...
Welcome to the Blockchain Series
Blockchain caught my attention not as a buzzword, but as a genuinely interesting engineering problem: how do you build a system that multiple untrusted parti...
computer-science
Welcome to the Computer Science Series
Computer Science is the foundation of everything I do. From the first line of code I wrote at university to designing distributed systems at scale today, it’...
finance
Welcome to the Finance Series
Finance and technology have been intertwined throughout my career. Working on a financial market terminal at Standard Chartered Bank — computing PnL, Greeks,...