🧠 Daily Study Log [2025-07-21]
Today’s session covered a mix of test prep, ideation, team coordination, and project progress.
Bit by bit, things are coming together — especially on the competition and GIS fronts.

📝 TOEIC Practice

Spent some focused time on TOEIC preparation.
Mainly reviewed listening and grammar sections — just keeping the rhythm going.

💡 Idea Log — Anti-Algorithm Concepts

Brainstormed around the idea of anti-algorithmic design:
Can we create systems that deliberately resist over-optimization or algorithmic exploitation?

• Inspired by platforms where recommendation engines or filters shape user reality
• Considered how design could restore organic exploration or human-centric randomness
• Might evolve into a blog or academic proposal later

📊 New Competition: Electricity Usage Prediction (DACON Link)

Started a new competition on DACON — forecasting hourly electricity usage.
It looks like a clean and well-scoped problem with rich time-series and weather data.

Next Steps:

• Understand column roles
• Clean missing values
• Explore basic seasonal patterns
• Establish baseline with LGBM or Prophet

📄 Paper Review — Unsupervised 3D Pose Estimation for Hierarchical Dance Video Recognition

PDF: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.09166

Continued deep-diving into the paper.
Today’s focus was understanding the pose estimation pipeline and reviewing previous sections.
The occlusion handling and hierarchical structure still impress me in their simplicity and practicality.

🗺 Project Update — Seoul Smoking Zone Mapping (GIS)

Finished the Yongsan-gu + Yeongdeungpo-gu GIS project!
All coordinate conversion, mapping, and proximity analysis are done.
Even added marker styling, tooltips, and outlier filtering for cleaner visuals.

Next Step: Wrap it as a standalone repo with clean README and demo GIFs.

👥 Study Group — Team Lead Check-in

As the team lead for our current paper study, I shared the next focus areas and responsibilities for the upcoming sessions.
Tried to keep the communication light but organized.

✅ TL;DR

📍 TOEIC: Kept up with grammar/listening practice
📍 Idea: Brainstormed “anti-algorithmic” systems for more human-centered design
📍 Competition: Started DACON electricity usage forecasting
📍 Paper: Continued analysis of hierarchical pose estimation pipeline
📍 GIS: Finished two-district smoking zone mapping project
📍 Study Group: Shared direction and structure as team lead

💡 Note: I may start reworking this blog layout to focus more on each project portfolio as a showcase, not just daily tracking. Stay tuned.