PinnedX Y·Nov 12, 2020What Both Sides Get Wrong in Singapore’s Meritocracy DebateIn a recently published Straits Times op-ed titled Meritocracy and how to manage its downsides, veteran journalist Chua Mui Hoong reopened…A response icon2A response icon2
X Y·Oct 28, 2023Using Random Forest and XGBoost To Predict IncomeIn this article, I build two predictive machine learning models — Random Forest and XGBoost — to find out what demographic factors…
X Y·Oct 23, 2023A Practical Guide To Doing K-Means ClusteringYou are Chief Marketing Officer of Walmart. Millions of customers with different purchasing behaviours buy your products daily.
InBanklessDAObyX Y·Mar 11, 2022Breaking Out of the Walled Gardens of Web2 For Web3’s Greener Pastures
X Y·Mar 31, 2021The Threat of Cancel Culture in Nanny State SingaporeMost conflicts and disagreements about politics and the world boil down to boring, technical differences in tedious methodological details…A response icon2A response icon2
X Y·Mar 16, 2021How To Think About Social WorkToday is apparently “Social Worker’s Day”, which explains why I’ve been seeing a lot of related memes, posts and articles, some snarky…
X Y·Feb 3, 2021Why Jamus Lim Is Wrong On Carbon TaxesMany carbon tax advocates — such as the Workers Party economist Jamus Lim — tend to hedge their support for the tax hike on a conditional…
InThe ShadowbyX Y·Jan 28, 2021What Lessons Can We Draw From The Dover Forest Saga?The most recent spat in Singapore’s media sphere involves local environmentalists and NGOs pushing back against the government’s decision…A response icon1A response icon1
X Y·Jan 3, 2021The Best Book I Read In 2020The best book I’ve read in 2020 is without a doubt Huang Yasheng’s 2008 “Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics”. I credit Adam Martin…A response icon1A response icon1
X Y·Dec 12, 2020We Need To Rethink Singapore’s Draconian Conscription PoliciesI find much of Singapore’s public policy is praiseworthy. I’ve written a book about it. But one big exception are its conscription…A response icon2A response icon2
