A software engineer who, in his spare time, likes to read books and write essays and reflections. He is also the site owner and primary contributor, because who else would be?
Essays
The ability to think in abstractions is among humanity's most distinctive traits—and there is no abstraction, no collective fiction more universal than money. At the dawn of civilization, a numbered piece of paper had no practical use. You can neither eat it nor plant it, and it
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On May 12, 1797, the Doge of Venice, Ludovico Manin, abdicated. The Great Council, the primary legislative body, voted overwhelmingly to dissolve the Most Serene Republic. Two days later, Napoleon marched in with his troops and raised the French tricolor over the Piazza San Marco. After 1,100 years, Venice,
Life
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Singapore's literacy challenge is often overlooked, being neither a pressing economic concern nor a matter of fundamental rights. Given our national focus on pragmatism, these issues of literacy can seem peripheral. Singapore consistently ranks among the world’s best — with one of the highest GDPs per capita, exceptional
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In information visualization, each visualization technique has a different niche. Line charts show the relationship between two variables, and bar charts provide a way to compare values associated with different categories. However, none of these tools convey the relationship between different entities, and that is where graph visualization comes in.
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This post contains major spoilers for The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima. That being said, the plot is simple and secondary to the themes and symbols. Continue at your own discretion. What does it mean to strive for glory, for greatness? What passions lie
Life
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One of the most mind-bending books I've been reading is The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. I had decided to start reading it due to its iconic stature in 21st-century non-fiction; it seems as if every other book references some aspect
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Most people I know had a reading era in their childhood. Borrowing books from the library and engaging in discussions surrounding popular series is a fond memory I have of my childhood. It's hard for me to forget receiving Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on release day
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I've recently finished reading The Age of AI, by Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocker. While it was a mixed bag on the whole, there were some new insights I had gleaned from the book, and I can't help but appreciate a book that at
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Civilization is an iconic video game series created by Sid Meier where you take control of one of the great civilizations across history and manage its growth from a Bronze-Age agricultural settlement to a vast nuke-wielding, internet-surfing empire. As can be guessed from the description, a large part of the
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I'm wouldn't consider myself an artistic person, and my appreciation for art is differentiated from the common denominator in only my taste of music, which is dominated by Metal and other alternative genres. Regardless, I've been thinking a lot about the arts lately, especially