Hi, I’m Tuan 🤙

😎 I am a Data Science Enthusiast and currently working as a Risk Modeler at Validus Vietnam.

🎓 Growing up in a small village next to a rice field, I opted to chase equations instead of grasshoppers by diving into math at the age of 10 (though my current math skills might say otherwise 👀). I later graduated with a degree in Accounting & Auditing from the Foreign Trade University, HCMC Campus.

📚 When I’m not doing data, I might be:

  • learning math/statistics/data stuff,

  • drinking coffee,

  • listening to Vietnamese rap/pop rock,

  • reading sci-fi novels, history books,

  • playing pool (mostly ten-ball),

  • training Brazilian jiu-jitsu,

  • and occasionally traveling or hiking.

Why do I write?

“It has often been said that a person doesn’t really understand something until he teaches it to someone else. Actually a person doesn’t really understand something until he can teach it to a computer, i.e. express it as an algorithm.” 1

Yes indeed, docendo discimus, people are increasingly recognizing the effectiveness of teaching as a learning tool. Research shows that students who tutor others, in any format, gain a deeper understanding of concepts by having to explain them accurately. Blogging allows me to document my learning journey, share it with readers, and get their feedback – all of which contribute to my own learning.

This blog is devoted my learning & sharing journey, and will be written in Vietnamese/Tiếng Việt (80%), English (10%), and Mandarin Chinese/汉语 (10%).

If you share the same interest, do not hesitate to contact me. I am best reached via Facebook.


Footnotes

  1. Knuth, Donald E. “Computer Science and Mathematics: How a New Discipline Presently Interacts with an Old One, and What We May Expect in the Future.” American Scientist, vol. 61, no. 6, 1973, pp. 707–13. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27844074. Accessed 7 June 2024.↩︎