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Fernando Gunawan

@nando196

articles: 14
total claps: 2,217
top claps: 340
avg read: 6.1 min
active: 2026-05-25 → 2026-06-30

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AI · AI · General · 9 ML · Machine Learning · 8 🔬 · Science · General · 8 PSY · Psychology · 8 🚀 · Self Improvement · 8 EDU · Education & Learning · 6 💻 · Programming · 5 LLM · Large Language Models · 5

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#data-science ·8 #self-improvement ·8 #artificial-intelligence ·6 #technology ·5 #programming ·5 #llm ·5 #ai ·4 #machine-learning ·3 #learning ·3 #recommendation-system ·2

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FE Fernando Gunawan · AI Advances

Your AI Analysis Looks Smart. But Does It Change the Decision?

The question is not whether your AI analysis looks intelligent. The question is whether anyone would make a better decision after reading…

Jun 19, 2026 · 7 min read · 340 claps #technology #programming #data-science

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FE Fernando Gunawan · AI Advances

You Will Learn More From One Failed Kaggle Submission Than From Ten Completed Online Courses

Certificates feel like progress. Failure actually is.

May 27, 2026 · 7 min read · 253 claps #kaggle-competition #online-courses #self-improvement

You Will Learn More From One Failed Kaggle Submission Than From Ten Completed Online Courses

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FE Fernando Gunawan · Write A Catalyst

You Don’t Have a Productivity Problem. You Have a Commitment Problem.

Every app, system, and framework you downloaded was just another way to avoid deciding what actually matters.

Jun 07, 2026 · 4 min read · 251 claps #self-improvement #productivity #personal-development

You Don’t Have a Productivity Problem. You Have a Commitment Problem.

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FE Fernando Gunawan · AI Advances

AI Is Turning Everyone Into an Editor. Not Everyone Is Ready for That.

The hard part was never generating the output. It was always knowing whether the output was any good.

Jun 11, 2026 · 7 min read · 243 claps #ai #artificial-intelligence #self-improvement

AI Is Turning Everyone Into an Editor. Not Everyone Is Ready for That.

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FE Fernando Gunawan · AI Advances

What Happens When You Ask an AI the Same Question 100 Times?

I did it. The answers were more inconsistent — and more revealing — than I expected.

Jun 10, 2026 · 6 min read · 236 claps #ai #llm #generative-ai-tools

What Happens When You Ask an AI the Same Question 100 Times?

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FE Fernando Gunawan · AI Advances

The Entry-Level Job That Requires 3 Years of Experience Is Lying to You — And So Is Your Course…

The hiring system is broken. Your learning strategy might be too. Here’s what’s actually going on.

Jun 05, 2026 · 8 min read · 225 claps #data-entry #learning #self-improvement

The Entry-Level Job That Requires 3 Years of Experience Is Lying to You — And So Is Your Course…

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FE Fernando Gunawan · Activated Thinker

I Asked AI to Review Its Own Output

The review came back confident, structured, and specific. That’s exactly what made it dangerous.

Jun 18, 2026 · 6 min read · 168 claps #artificial-intelligence #technology #programming

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FE Fernando Gunawan · Generative AI

LLMs Aren’t Replacing Programmers. They’re Replacing Programmers Who Refuse to Use Them.

The threat was never AI. It was the refusal to adapt.

Jun 05, 2026 · 7 min read · 166 claps #llm #programming #self-improvement

LLMs Aren’t Replacing Programmers. They’re Replacing Programmers Who Refuse to Use Them.

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FE Fernando Gunawan · Activated Thinker

Rest Is Not the Reward. It’s Part of the Work.

You do not need to exhaust yourself before you are allowed to recover.

Jun 15, 2026 · 6 min read · 154 claps #self-improvement #productivity #burnout

Rest Is Not the Reward. It’s Part of the Work.

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FE Fernando Gunawan · Write A Catalyst

AI Is Making Us More Efficient. But Are We Losing the Ability to Think for Ourselves?

Nobody announced it. Nobody sent a memo. But somewhere between last year and now, something shifted — and most of us didn’t notice until it…

Jun 13, 2026 · 5 min read · 114 claps #self-improvement #llm #artificial-intelligence

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FE Fernando Gunawan · Data Science Collective

Why AI Sounds Confident Even When It Is Guessing

The most dangerous AI answer is not the one that looks obviously wrong. It is the one that sounds right enough to stop you from checking.

Jun 23, 2026 · 7 min read · 38 claps #technology #programming #data-science

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FE Fernando Gunawan · Learning Data

The Model Is Only Two Lines. Data Science Is Everything Before That.

Anyone can call .fit() and .predict(). The hard part is making the data worth modeling in the first place.

Jun 30, 2026 · 6 min read · 29 claps #artificial-intelligence #technology #programming

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I Built a Product Recommendation System for an FMCG Company. Here’s Where It Started (Part 1)

From a basic collaborative filtering prototype to realizing “technically working” and “actually useful” are two very different things.

May 25, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #recommendation-system #machine-learning #data-science

I Built a Product Recommendation System for an FMCG Company. Here’s Where It Started (Part 1)

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The Recommendation System Needed More Than Good Metrics, it Needed to Actually Know Its Customers.

How layering category based personalization on BPR finally made the system feel like it understood who it was talking to.

May 25, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #recommendation-system #machine-learning #lessons