Writing Sprint #1: Some Books Review "Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth", "Astrophysics for People in a Hurry", and "Gintama"

30 minutes writing sprint!

Hey fellas, assalamu'alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Hereby I would like to take a try to make someone's life (well, myself) better according to some people.


Some thoughts after reading "Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth", "Astrophysics for People in a Hurry", and "Gintama"

Wait, maybe the first book and second book may relate closely to each other as they took place in outer space and have the same 'astro' word contained in their title. What about Gintama?

Just before telling those things, for the disclaimer, I am a not hard anime/manga fans. I selectively choose a little bit popular mangas such as One Piece (I wonder if the author unexpectedly stops his drawing in the middle, like: "I'm bored"), Detective Conan (Does this series still have finish line?), Detective Kindaichi (a new series released, Kindaichi on his 37 year old case solving, poor Hajime), and some webtoons I recommend Lunarbaboon, Saphie, S.I.D. Another disclaimer: I took Goodreads yearly book reading challenge and setting up to 10 books this year. For now, I have read 3 books: Statistics for Dummies, Saat Tuhan Berkata Tunggu, and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. Seven more books, yeay!

Let's go back to Gintama. Gintama has an absurd yet comedic plot to be happily read on, however, some chapters are heavily dramatic and tear-jerking, and absurd-tear-jerking-crazy in a pack. Surprisingly, Gintama also has an outer space place setting as it begins its plot from the earth in the post-alien invasion. Thus, these three titles had similar connections, that may have or not have greatly reviewed in this full speed writing.

From "Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth", I learnt that a path to become someone capable of specific expertise (like being an astronaut, which I am not intrigued to become one) is not easy. Colonel Hadfield had it very long and strenuous. His failures and struggles were clearly expressed in the writing. Yet, the book made me realize that finding Earth in another point of view (literally) is beautiful. Beautiful not in terms of sight, but being grateful that being either at lowest point or achievement. Some terms "low" or "high" may dissolves as time goes by. Just enjoy them and pray that
everything is going to be okay. Enjoy means still trying our best to finish our task, I believe all side of emotions is mixed into that moment of that mission accomplishment.

The other book:  "Astrophysics for People in a Hurry" by Neil de Grasse Tyson, is also wonderful. I slipped into rate it to 5 instead of 4, yet until now I have not corrected it. For me, who is very awful in physics, astronomy, and every science related things, astrophysics is (another) rocket science for me. This book did not convince me well to change my major to galactical science or cosmology, but I may take interest in how astrophysics worked on people's perspective. The thing that is most enjoyable for me is the chemical elements forming and footprints from an astronomical object. I do not understand how combustion, explosion, or nuclear reaction worked on these elements creation issue but I still understand about how hydrogen and oxygen worked together to make water. I was also intrigued by the fact that maybe not all elements on Earth originally created on Earth, as well as ourselves are may not be created wholly from our memories and experiences, but also the people and components we are connected with.

The last story? Yes, Gintama. Gintama shows me that in its daily comedic conflicts, there are political issues, tragic past, and dramatic struggles (well, it is a shonen manga, what do you expect?). Nevertheless, my admiration came from how Sorachi-sensei delivered all the amazingness of Gintama. Breaking the fourth wall is just like usual thing in this manga. The universe is well built regarding the people's diverse races. Yes, even the aliens had some unexpectable stories (yes, Hedoro and Prince Baka). The main characters may be tiny little nodes, but they affected the way of the world of Gintama revolves.

Final remarks, those three books tell us about how vast is the universe: The real experience of viewing Earth and riding rockets back and forth (not very easily though); The extension of abstract thinking of brilliant minds towards unknown objects that are separated millions of unmeasurable distance; The fictitious universe of single mind that blows my mind occasionally about how can absurdity become a real issue and can destroy your entire life (yet it has to be rebuilt). A single mind can be a limitless expansion of universes, while a single universe is still expanding to every dimension. Challenges that we face are tiny little bits in this single universe and yet also could fill up our mind down to a bottomless pit. Yet even if that is still perspective matter, neither big-bigger-biggest nor small-smaller-smallest, our challenges need to be solved and they took all of our efforts. Not enough? Be sure to ask friends to help us while still building our capability to overcome the challenges, competently, physically, and mentally.




*23 minutes overtime.

Thank you for reading. Have a nice day.
Wassalamu'alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.

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Materi PSIBO - S1 SI STIKOM Surabaya - Periode 151

Rangkuman materi mata kuliah Perancangan Sistem Informasi Berorientasi Objek S1 Sistem Informasi STIKOM Surabaya Periode 151 (Gasal 2015/2016)

• Pertemuan 1: Pengantar, Kilas Balik Pemrograman Berorientasi Objek (pdf)
• Pertemuan 2: Pemodelan Visual (Materi 1, Materi 2) [yang ini comot dari internet]
• Pertemuan 4: Analisis dan Perancangan Berorientasi Objek, Rational Unified Process, Diagram UML (pdf)
• Pertemuan 5: Diagram Business Use Case (pdf)
• Pertemuan 6: Diagram Aktivitas (pdf)
• Pertemuan 7: Diagram Use Case (pdf)
• Pertemuan 9: Hubungan dan Aliran Kejadian (pdf)
• Pertemuan 10: Objek [1] (pdf)
• Pertemuan 11: Diagram Kolaborasi (pdf)
• Pertemuan 12: Class-Responsibility-Collaboration dan Diagram Kelas (pdf)
• Pertemuan 13: Diagram Statechart (pdf)

Buku referensi:

David Tegarden, Alan Dennis, Barbara Haley Wixom,”Systems Analysis and Design with UML”, 2013, John Wiley & Sons, Singapore.

Silakan kontak saya jika ada tautan di atas yang tidak bekerja dengan baik.

Terima kasih

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Materi Data Warehouse - S1 SI STIKOM Surabaya - Periode 151

Rangkuman materi mata kuliah Data Warehouse S1 Sistem Informasi STIKOM Surabaya Periode 151 (Gasal 2015/2016)

• Pertemuan 1: Pengantar, Urgensi adanya Data Warehouse, Data Operasional - Informasi Strategis, Perbedaan Pembangunan Data Warehouse dengan Perangkat Lunak (pdf)
• Pertemuan 2: Fitur Data Warehouse, Pendekatan Pembangunan Data Warehouse, Komponen Data Warehouse, Tren dalam Data Warehouse (pdf)
• Pertemuan 3: Perencanaan Pembangunan Data Warehouse (pdf)
• Pertemuan 4: Kebutuhan Data Warehouse (pdf)
• Pertemuan 5: Arsitektur dan Infrastruktur Data Warehouse (pdf)
• Pertemuan 6: Pemodelan Dimensi Data dalam Data Warehouse (pdf)
• Pertemuan 7: Perancangan Logis dan Fisik dari Data Warehouse (pdf)
• Pertemuan 8: Ekstraksi, Transformasi, dan Loading (pdf)
• Pertemuan 9: Kualitas Data (pdf)
• Pertemuan 12: OLAP - Online Analytical Processing (pdf)

Buku referensi:

Paulraj Ponniah, “Data Warehousing Fundamentals”, John Wiley & Sons, Inc – 2001

Silakan kontak saya jika ada tautan di atas yang tidak bekerja dengan baik.

Terima kasih

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How to Find A Settlement in Busan? (Student Version)

Assalamu alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
Hi all! This article is a direct translation from the previous one in French.

I will write another one in Bahasa Indonesia soon!

In this article, I will tell my experience to find a place (room/house) in Busan, South Korea. When I arrived in Busan, I secured a place in the student dormitory. As time goes by, I felt uncomfortable that I cannot cook habitually because there is no kitchen in the dormitory where I lived in (actually there is one, but it only opens on tight schedule, huft). As consequence, I had to buy simple foods at minimarket near the laboratory. However, I cannot stand it any longer, finding halal food is very hard in Korea. In addition, I cannot speak Korean (basic though, not that fancy).

So, to find a nice place to live (room/house), I have to do these things:

1. Prepare the budget and specification of the room/house that you want to rent well! There are no strict criteria but as long as it can be relaxed or tightened as we wish then it is better. For example:
• Near/walking distance to the campus or to the subway station
• It has indoor kitchen or indoor bathroom
• The deposit should not be higher than 1,500,000 won, the monthly rent should not pass 200,000 won mark
• Date of moving in
• and so on
2. It is more recommendable if you can speak Korean. If you can't, there may be some agents who can speak English as well but as far as I know, their population is very scarce. However, the best choice is to bring a Korean friend or a friend who can speak Korean very well.
3. Go to budongsan (부동산) near to you or you know. 부동산 is a real estate agent who connects you with the landlord. Normally, we can see an abundance of 부동산 all over the place (especially campus or crowded places).



My 부동산 agent, her fee is expensive (for student) but her recommendations are good!

4. In the 부동산, talk to the ahjumma/ahjosshi (the 부동산 person) who will discuss our room/house criteria. If he/she has a good idea about rooms/house that match our criteria, he/she will accompany us to see and check the recommended rooms/house. Usually, he/she will drive us to the place if it is too far. But, if it's near, we will see them on foot.
• Do not worry! We can see other 부동산 also if the rooms/houses that the current 부동산 we see does not match our criteria/feelings.
5. After checking some rooms, we might already have some preference about our choice. Try to think it thoroughly and fix our choice. Don't think about it too long or the room may already be taken by someone else. Quickly contact the 부동산 agent if the choice has been made up.
6. PAY ATTENTION! We have to pay the down payment before a meeting with the landlord and the 부동산 agent (부동산 agent will organize it for us and the landlord). Usually, the payment fee amount is equal to monthly rent. The meeting organized by the 부동산 has a purpose to discuss and sign the contract of the rent. Prepare your identity card (Student card or ARC card is a good choice). The contract will have some information about:
• Our common information: name, phone number
• Landlord's information: name, bank account, phone number
• Moving information: Moving in date, contract termination date
7. After signing the contract, pay the 부동산. Unfortunately, my 부동산's fee is expensive. They cost me around 80,000 won (before that, they told me it was 90,000 won (shocked)).
8. Probably, the landlord will accompany us to the room/house first to tell us something about the place or give us the key to move some things before the real date of moving in.
9. Finally, on the date of moving in, bring all our things to the new place! Don't forget to well prepare our monthly expenditure budget nicely!

When I write this article (yesterday actually), PAY ATTENTION to the date when we moving out from our place. Tell the landlord ONE MONTH OR TWO MONTHS before your moving out date! If not, we will have to pay THREE MONTHS MONTHLY RENT AFTER CONTRACT TERMINATION.

Then, I hope this blog can help you to find a new place to live in Busan (or South Korea). Thank you. Sorry, if I write some grammatical mistake or contents mistake. I am very happy to be contacted if there is any update. See ya!

Wassalamu alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh

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Comment trouvez vous un logement à Busan?

Assalamu alaykoum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
Bonjour tous le monde!
(Mais pourquoi j'ecris en français? Simplement pour se souvenir ma compétence, j'espére que ça ne pas perdra)

Je vais vous raconter mes expériences de trouver un logement à Busan, Corée du Sud. Quand je suis arrivé à Busan, je vivais à la residence universitaire. Mais, j'ai difficulté de faire cuisiner parce qu'il n'y a pas de salle de cuisine là-bas. Donc, je dois acheter les alimentations simple à mini-magasin proche du labo. Ce pratique n'est pas bien aussi à cause d'alimentation hallal est trop peu. En plus, je ne peux pas communique en coréen.

Pour trouvez de logement, je dois faire ces maniéres:

1. Preparer bien votre budget et les spécifications de logement, par exemple
• Proche du campus ou proche de la gare
• Il y a de salle du bain et salle de cuisine dans la logement
• Le déposit n'est pas depasser 1,500,000 won, le mensuel n'est pas depasser 200,000 won
• et cetera
2. C'est plus recommandé si vous peux communiquer en coréen, sinon vous pouvez demander un camarade qui est bien compétent pour vous accompagnier



Mon 부동산 agént, son frais est chér, mais elle me donne bonne lieux!

3. Aller à la budongsan (부동산) proche de vous ou que vous savez. 부동산 est un agént qui connecte vous est la propriétaire du logement. Normalement, vous pouvez regarder 부동산 partout de reglement dans la ville. Ne t'enquiète pas!
4. Dans le 부동산, parlez à la personne de 부동산 (ahjumma/ahjosshi) qui va discuter sur les logement preférée. S'il/elle a des bonnes idées pour votre logement, il/elle vas aller avec vous à quelques logements pour vérification. D'habitude, il/elle vas conduiter une voiture pour un meilleur voyage si loin. Si le lieu n'est pas très loin, au pied n'est pas problème.
• Vous pouvez aussi rencontrer d'autre 부동산 pour chércher mieux logement. Encore, ne t'enquiète pas!
5. Si vous avez logement preferée (bien repondre à votre préférence), contactez l'ahjumma/l'ahjosshi qui vous aide de trouver le logement.
6. FAIT ATTENTION Vous doit payer un acompte avant la reunion avec de propriétaire du logement (l'ahjumma/l'ahjosshi de 부동산 vas l'organiser). La réunion est pour signer du contrat du logement. Ce contrat a des information de vous, de numéro de téléphone est numéro de compte bancaire de la propriétaire, votre date d'emménagement, et d'autre chose. Normalement, vous devez préparer votre carte d'idéntite (carte d'étudiant est bon, carte d'ARC est bon).
7. Après signer du contrat, payer votre 부동산. Malheureusement, mon frais de 부동산 est pas cher, ça coutes 80,000 won (premierement, elle me dire 90,000 won 😔 )
8. Peut-étre, la proprietaire de logement vas vous dire quelques chose de logement ou vous donner la clé du logement, si vous avez besoin des choses avant votre emménagement réele.
9. Finalement, à la date d'emménagement, apportez votre choses à votre nouveau logement! N'oubliez pas de bien budgetiser votre dépense mensuel.

Quand j'écris ce blog, FAIT ATTENTION si vous allez déménager par votre logement actuélle. Ditez bien à la propriétaire de logement UN ou DEUX MOIS AVANT votre déménagement! Sinon, vous dever payer le frais mensuel pour TROIS MOIS APRES LA DATE DE TERMINATION DU CONTRAT.

Bon, j'espére cet écriture ira bien vous aider si vous allez trouver un nouveau lieu de vivre à Busan (ou Corée du Sud). Merci. Désolé s'il y a d'erreur d'écriture, je suis heureux si vous voulez me contacter! A biéntot!

Wassalamu alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.

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Tugas Besar Kelas: Churn Prediction

Assalamu alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh

Salam, Saudara-Saudari, pembaca blog yang angin-anginan saya perbarui di sini. Saya ingin menuliskan beberapa pengalaman yang (akhirnya) berkaitan dengan kuliah saya. Sekadar informasi singkat, saya berkuliah di jurusan Big Data di Pusan National University. Kebetulan karena saya mendapatkan beasiswa S3 sebagai buruh asisten riset laboratorium, saya harus sering ngendon di laboratorium yang bernama Data Science Lab di bawah arahan profesor saya.
Kali ini, saya ingin menerbitkan tugas besar saya di kelas Big Data Analytics musim gugur 2017. Sebenarnya tugasnya ada dua: rekomendasi musik dan churn prediction yang bisa dilihat keterangan lebih lanjutnya di http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2018/call-for-participants.html. Namun, di kelompok saya, saya memutuskan untuk mengerjakan tugas churn prediction karena tidak dibahas di kelas (memang kelakuan cari gara-gara sih ya). Memang hasilnya tidak terlalu bagus (peringkat 423 dari 575, meh). Hanya saja saya ingin berbagi pandangan mengenai kasus yang menarik ini. Presentasi dalam bentuk PDF bisa dicek di sini.




Wassalamu'alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Semoga bermanfaat

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Tips dan Trik - Tes Coding untuk Melamar Pekerjaan

*tulisan ini tidak hanya pengalaman saya sebagai pengulas tetapi juga pelamar di beberapa perusahaan teknologi informasi ternama nasional maupun internasional, tentu saja kritik dan saran tetap diperlukan untuk memberikan wawasan yang lebih baik bagi para pembaca Code Submission adalah salah satu tahap lain dari seleksi proses lamar pekerjaan yang biasa melibatkan pemecahan masalah dan pembuatan skrip code. Jika ada pelamar yang tidak bisa menyelesaikannya, tentu saja membuat tanda tanya besar dari seluruh proses belajar teknologi informasi si pelamar. Biasanya kondisinya adalah sebagai berikut: 1. Pelamar telah lulus seleksi administrasi dan CV (ini artinya para pelamar sudah menarik hati pengulas, selamat!) 2. Pelamar diberikan beberapa permasalahan untuk diselesaikan. 3. Pelamar diberikan batas waktu untuk mengumpulkan penyelesaian permasalahan tersebut. 4. Penerima lamaran akan melihat dan mencoba menjalankan code penyelesaian permasalahan tersebut. 5. Penerima lamaran akan mengevaluasi hasil code penyelesaian permasalahan tersebut dan menentukan apakah pelamar bisa lulus tahap selanjutnya. Untuk format code Format code submission yang pernah saya alami adalah: A. Pengumpulan source code via email dan menjalankannya di mesin lokal saya (poin ini saya terapkan di tempat saya bekerja sebelumnya, karena kekurangan tenaga dan waktu untuk menerapkan format seperti poin C). B. Pengumpulan yang mengharuskan pelamar membuat code submission di situs tantangan penyelesaian permasalahan daring. C. Pengumpulan code submission seperti poin 2 ditambah wawancara via telepon (sebenarnya saya lebih suka yang format ini). TIPS dan TRIK 1. Jika rekan-rekan sedang bekerja/kuliah ketika hendak menyelesaikan permasalahan tersebut, perhatikan batas waktu yang diberikan. Kerjakanlah penyelesaian permasalahan tersebut ketika pikiran sedang tenang, jangan terburu-buru. 2. Baca/dengarkan instruksi dari permasalahan yang ada dengan baik, cermat, dan teliti. Saya ulangi lagi, DENGAN BAIK, CERMAT DAN TELITI. Beberapa code yang saya terima tidak berhasil menyelesaikan permasalahan yang diberikan atau melewatkan poin-poin kecil sehingga ketika dieksekusi, hasilnya tidak sesuai harapan. 3. Setelah source code selesai, pastikan rekan-rekan memiliki waktu untuk mengulasnya kembali sebelum dikumpulkan. Silakan lakukan debug dengan baik sehingga tidak ada kesalahan penyelesaian masalah. 4. Gunakan komentar-komentar sederhana di dalam source code untuk menjelaskan alur logika yang digunakan di dalam penyelesaian permasalahan. Pada hakikatnya, sebagai pengulas, saya tidak terlalu peduli mengenai penulisan komentar ini asalkan alur logika dari kode yang dituliskan jelas namun tidak semua pelamar menuliskan alur logika dalam code dengan baik dan membuat saya bertanya-tanya mengapa begini dan begitu. 5. Melihat inspirasi dari internet tidak masalah tetapi PLAGIASI adalah masalah. Masalah. Besar. Kemampuan untuk mencari informasi di mesin pencari memang penting bagi generasi saat ini tetapi masalah yang diberikan jarang (atau hampir tidak pernah, kecuali beberapa kasus posisi tertentu) membutuhkan inspirasi yang dominan dari internet. Ketika mesin pencari bisa membantu rekan-rekan mencari kode sumber di internet, apakah para pengulas tidak bisa menggunakannya untuk memeriksa kode sumber rekan-rekan?  Jika ada yang ingin bertanya-tanya, memberi kritik dan saran, silakan dikomentari. Terima kasih. Semangat

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