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In Battlestar Galactica episode "33," the human fleet is being relentlessly pursued by the Cylons. Every 33 minutes without fail, the Cylons appear from nowhere and attack, forcing the exhausted fleet to make faster-than-light (FTL) jumps to escape. This cycle repeats for over five days, leaving the crew

Imagine that you are in your final year of studies and you are interning at a big corporation. Everyone in the company has well defined roles and performs their jobs well. It is a well oiled machine. You are given some small tasks to help out and at the end

In summary, this was a good two week trip. We went for the so called Japan preschool exchange (misleading as there is no exchange, it is one way only ie Singapore kids go to Japan and not vice versa). You pay them a fee which includes both the accommodation and

Key Points * Research suggests the Intel Core i5-13500 with ASRock H610M-ITX/ac is a strong option within SGD 600, offering good AI performance. * It seems likely the AMD Ryzen 5 7600X with a budget AM5 mini-ITX motherboard is also viable, though slightly less powerful for multi-threaded AI tasks. * The evidence

Had a pretty exhausting long weekend. Saturday - Finally, it was Z's baptism! He was dancing/running around the auditorium alternating with some crying (had to bring him out here and there), but at least, when the time came, he was relatively OK and was more or less

I read this article: https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/adventures-of-a-56-year-old-intern I had to find my way around the maze of buildings and rooms. Way-finding has never been my strength, and I feared getting lost. It was also disorienting not having a desk or room to work from. I had to

Recently I started reading up on how to host my own Large Language Models (LLMs), and it's not entirely because I like messing with tech (which I do), but because of a practical problem: ChatGPT seems to have started to reduce its free tier usage limits a lot

Hi all, I decided to try and write again. Instead of using WordPress, I am trying out Ghost, a nice and lighter platform. I've also decided to self host since ostensibly it requires less maintenance compared to WordPress. The last time that I seriously wrote was probably just