YOSHIOCHIN JOURNAL
WORK. THOUGHTS. AND A FEW GOOD DETOURS.
IBM i is the anchor. This is the place for the field lessons, questions, and observations gathered around it.
WHY THREE SHELVES?
IBM i remains the center of Yoshiochin.com. But systems that support people cannot be built by looking at technology alone.
Questions about society, observations from behind the wheel, an interest in water and health, and conversations with ChatGPT all began with the same instinct: Who is this for, and can it be made better?
So the earlier writing is not hidden as an unrelated old blog. It is organized as three parts of the same working life.
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In November 2019, we completed a proof of concept for classifying white blood cell morphology with IBM PowerAI Vision. The technology worked. The business decision did not follow.
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The 23 earlier posts about society, driving, water, and ChatGPT are preserved in Japanese for now. Their dates, humor, and original context matter, so translations will be added selectively rather than mechanically.
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