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Again, the Singapore press trots out, from the usual sources, the hackneyed complaint that people who break their bonds are morally deficient ingrates.There is nothing new in these arguments.What’s more interesting, though, lies beneath that veneer of smear. On the same day comes more comments on complacency:‘Our people must realise that being No.1 is very ...
It gives me great pleasure to interrupt my hiatus from blogging to bring you this short excerpt from my IM log.Acidflask: i am starting the AcidFlask Fan Club. Only $50 for ordinary member, $100 will get you Honorable Mention on my blog and $1000 will buy you my undying love. on or not?Cowboy Caleb: depends ...
A Computational Introduction to Number Theory and AlgebraOptimal Stopping and applications
澄怀屏尘虑 － 仙昌A tranquil mind rids itself of mundane worriesIronically, translating these five characters into English took a good half-hour of fretting over the nuances of expression.If anyon …
I read on tomorrow.sg that Google is thinking of setting up the world’s largest data center in Malaysia, Vietnam or India. While such a facility would doubtless represent a great boon to the local economy and a prestige boost for the host country, I am personally quite concerned with the privacy aspects of such a ...
The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt, the mobs should be forced to work and not depend on government for subsistence.This quote surfaced on reddit recently, but ...
It gives me great pleasure to interrupt my hiatus from blogging to bring you this short excerpt from my IM log.Acidflask: i am starting an AcidFlask Fan Club. Only $50 for ordinary member, $100 will get you Honorable Mention on my blog and $1000 will buy you my undying love. on or not?Cowboy Caleb: depends ...
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UK PM Gordon Brown has recently announced that McDonald’s, along with several large corporations, have been given approval to certify some internal employee training courses as equivalent to ‘A’-level standard. Suddenly, a McJob isn’t really a McJob anymore. Technically speaking, they aren’t A-levels per se, but are vocational certificates which …
Fox told me yesterday that the engineers in his building were routinely and wantonly disposing of liters of hydrofluoric acid down the sink after using them for etching.Although a quirk of …
This news comes via Kungfuzi, whose alma mater, Dartmouth College joins the short list of US universities and colleges that offer need-blind admission to international students. In summary, need-blind admission means that your ability to pay tuition will not affect your chances of getting accepted. Full details are available on Dartmouth’s website.Now, more than ever, ...
Cherian George, beloved author of The Air-Conditioned Nation (and the eponymous blog) has just launched a new website journalism.sg, which is dedicated to issues surrounding journalism and journalists in Singapore.The inaugural articles discuss topics as varied as the journalist’s privilege to anonymous sources, SPH editor-in-chief Patrick Daniel on the need for more …
So the other day at the local supermarket, I got a coupon for a gallon of free milk. “Was it any brand?” I asked. “Of course”, the cashier said. “It just says …
Dear all,Some of you have been asking why this blog hasn’t been updated recently.The reason is because I am writing my dissertation. Unlike some people *cough Kevin cough* who still find time to update, I don’t that ability to write two divergent tomes at once.Next semester will be my last as a graduate student.If you’re ...
I’m back in lab, after a month-long hiatus in Singapore which was partly enforced by the calamitous hard drive crash of my lab notebook whilst in Singapore.My advisor managed to stun me with the following koan-like exchange:He: So you didn’t do anything this break?Me: No. Did you read the two drafts I gave you before ...
Elia Diodati posted a photo:4th of July fireworks in Dodds Park in Champaign, IL
Fifty years ago today1, William Higinbotham, a staff scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, unveiled the world’s first2 video game. Called Tennis for Two, Higinboth …
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