Kaizen Joy

A collection of thoughts and experiments at different development stages

CityCamp AI

Building an AI interface for Tulsa City Government.

civic tech open data seeding

Jul 23

Migrant Sex Workers Detained by ICE

Article published in TruthOut, featured by DemocracyNow.

sex work is work migrant labor growing

Jul 22

OuLiPo Variations

Playful variations on the N+7 machine.

computational poetry spaCy for NLP seeding

Dec 21

Navigation across relational landscapes

Footprints

Trail of crumbs

logs digital footprint seeding

MexiCable

Cablecar for the people.

Urban Design Latin America

Some Favorite Books

Kaitlin's bookshelf: all-time-favorites

Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy

by Barbara Ehrenreich

tagged: all-time-favorites

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

by Isabel Wilkerson

tagged: history, favorite-books-2020, all-time-favorites, melanin-and-dispo...

A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics

by Hadas Thier

tagged: all-time-favorites, economics

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

by Paulo Freire

tagged: education, all-time-favorites

The Dispossessed

by Ursula K. Le Guin

tagged: fiction, sci-fi, all-time-favorites

Creative tinkering I do in my free time

Nativist Birdfeeder

Our Berlin public art project: a birdfeeder that only opens its gates to European birds

machine learning public art interactive sculpture diy circuits Berlin migrant justice immersive art urban space

Blooming 🌸

Denver's Chinatown: An Erasure

Our augmented reality street theater piece for the Denver Fringe Festival

forensic architecture augmented reality immersive art street theater Fringe Festival public art Denver Chinatowns migrant justice sex work is work

Growing 🌿

City Handprints

Migrant Worker Justice: honoring the life of 宋扬 Song Yang

public art migrant justice sex work is work NYC Chinatowns

Blooming 🌸

Imaginary Chinatowns

Gallery exhibit for AAPI Culture Festival

urban space augmented reality generative AI Denver Chinatowns

Growing 🌿

Animal Runs

Training for the NYC marathon

data visualization urban space Strava Art Club running RBG NYC

Growing 🌿

Electric Circus

My former life as a Chinese acrobat

circus art diy circuits wearable tech fabric art Toronto Montreal Fringe Festival Beijing

Blooming 🌸

Field notes for my learning path

Lessons from Community Organizing

Passion Project – a presentation

Migrant labor Community organizing growing

Jul 23

100 Days of A.I. Engineering

New reading list and code snippets for building LLMs in production

A.I. Software Engineering seeding

Jan 22

Day 1 - Transformer Architecture

Attention is all you need - transformer architecture deep dive and BERT model training for content categorization

A.I. Transformer Architecture seeding

Jul 23