Went to a friend’s makan-makan (party) today and met a lot of undergrads, mostly in their early twenties. As we’re from Asian background, i.e. all are Malaysian, there is a bit of hierarchy between us and also reverence towards me and my friend, who are well in our 30s. Despite that though, the conversation does…
There is a colleague at work who is quite old but he picks things up very quickly. However he talks a lot and has a tendency to encroach on other people’s roles. “He knows a lot,” I said to myself, “but he throws some terms around that are not exactly correct. He likes to correct…
I went to my children’s Parent’s Evening session recently, where parents are invited to meet with their children’s teacher and discuss about their children. This has been the 6th time that I went to one of these I think, since coming to the UK. It is quite useful, and especially very important early on as…
Are you a Systems Engineer? Are you sick and tired of hearing about Verification and Validation (V&V) that you would puke the next time you hear it? Then stop reading this because I am just going to repeat what you’ve probably known. The axioms are Validation is doing the right thing while Verification is doing…
The legal term is normally cease and desist. Autocorrect even suggested that. But I am thinking of the people who have passed away during the genocide. How many people were deceased before the ceasefire was ‘agreed’. At least 60,000. If they’re connected to 8 people each, that’s almost half a million people grieving for their…
In a post about a week ago, I mentioned that I was selling empty boxes online (at the suggestion of ChatGPT, I must add). It turned out that no one bought it. I remember years ago someone did buy an empty Apply product, but I guess nowadays it is not that important anymore to have…
People compliments AI, but I think without the internet, and the humans who filled it up with all the info, the AI wouldn’t be able to be anywhere useful. If no one actually wrote a whole page of review of a product, AI wouldn’t be able to scrape the internet and give you the summary…
I had to clear my store, or to be exact, the boiler room where I store most of my junks, because the boiler engineer had to come and inspect the state of the boiler. It’s a good thing. But when I had to put the things back in, I had to face the fact that…
While in a meeting today, my colleague remarked that the weather was nice. I looked outside and I saw clear blue sky, and agreed silently that it was nice. It just occurred to me that a few years ago, I wouldn’t understand how a 14 degree Celsius temperature and the sun shining fully on you…
Apple has released a new version of iOS and it has Liquid Glass. It’s just a change of design in the UI. Just. The change seems to use skeuormophic (I don’t think I spelled that right), i.e. digital objects mimic real objects. A note app looks like a notebook, complete with binders, dog-eared pages and…
