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Writings

Explorations

1. A new method of training: can resting for hours between exercises maximise your gains?
2. How many solar panels would be needed to 100% solar-power Singapore?
3. Group testing to save the world
4. Pair work: the One Weird Trick to finally ship your side projects
5. Virtual workspaces --- working in a Minecraft office?
6. A market-based mechanism to preserve Indonesia's forests (or any other resource)
7. Singapore's GRC system likely advantages the PAP: a game-theoretic analysis

Things I've built

1. Report on CS107E Lab and Assignment 3
2. Report on CS107E Lab and Assignment 2
3. Report on CS107E Assignment 1
4. Debugging my thesis
5. Clustering GPS trip data
6. Building a Python parallel processing pipeline package (R-3PO)
7. GSoC 2020 report: implementing a new feature for MGGG's Districtr app
8. Rebuilding this website
9. Building a code sharing MVP with React and the WebSockets API
10. Building a deep learning pipeline + model with Keras and PlaidML
11. Building an Bayesian SMS sender
12. Doing distributed data analysis on a Raspberry Pi cluster
13. Building an automated, blockchain-connected model train diorama
14. Building a Raspberry Pi console
15. Building my first Telegram bot

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Drafts

1. A letter to my past self
2. Three levels of competency
3. Teleoperation: enabling remote work for nonremote workers
4. Taking stock of all my projects
5. Projects to-do list
6. Planning to build a Discord spatial layer
7. MOOCs I've taken (WIP)
8. Worlds for hyperlocal communities
9. My new fitness routine
10. DIY-ing a Stanford CS degree in one year
11. Debugging my thesis
12. Convergence is (finally) coming
13. The cheater's chessboard
14. From Third World to Utopia: Singapore could end poverty for our children forever, today
15. Geolibertarianism with Harberger Taxes
16. Home gym ideas
17. Julia Path Tracer
18. Board Game Engine
19. Rebuilding this website
20. The beta-Bernoulli bandit, Thompson sampling, and Bayesian inference
21. A gentle introduction to the IS-PC-MR model
22. Explaining Acemoglu's model of directed technical change: a primer

Diary entries that should be of no interest to anyone other than close friends and family

1. What I've been doing since I last applied to Harvard
2. A letter to my past self
3. 2020 in review
4. 2021 Week 3 Review
5. 2020 Week 49 review (29 Nov-5 Dec)
6. 2020 Week 48 review (21-28 Nov)
7. 2020 Week 46 review (09-15 Nov)
8. 2020 Week 45 review (01-08 Nov)
9. My experience interviewing for OGP
10. 2020 Week 44 review (25-30 Oct)
11. 2020 Week 43 review (18-24 Oct)
12. 2020 Week 42 review (11-17 Oct)
13. Letter to Bassel in August 2020, after my Finals results
14. 2020 Semiannual Review
15. Thoughts on a trip to Kuhlenbronn
16. 2019 Annual Review
17. Email to Bassel telling him about my internship and thesis during July 2019
18. 2019 Semiannual Review
19. Breaking up
20. HT 2019 report and plans for the summer
21. MT 2018 report and plans for 2019
22. 2018 Semiannual Review
23. Michaelmas 2017 report
24. Sep 2017 report
25. Aug 2017 report
26. May 2017 report
27. 2017 Quarterly Report I
28. 2016 Annual Review
29. 2015 Annual Review
30. ORD lo
31. October in review; plans for November
32. An eventful Saturday
33. September 2016 report
34. Long-overdue update
35. An update on my life so far
36. Meeting with iDA staff (Oscar, Kiranjit and Eric)
37. Meeting with Mrs Hauw, swimming with Xiao Hui and future plans
38. daily report: I talk about what I've done for the past two weeks
39. daily report
40. daily report: my first post