Disclaimer: I am neither a cybersecurity expert nor an Aikido practitioner so apologies in advance for any faux pas or false facts. I was watching this video recently where it interviews an Aikido masters and he talked about Iai (Iaido), where one is always prepared to draw their sword due to sudden attack, which relates…
My daughter came home recently and asked whether she could join a music lesson, which costs £49 a month. I’ve seen it before and I was ready to say no, but she added that the lesson was done during class and her friend(s?) who joined it had to skip class. I was horrified! She calmed…
Recently the study group I joined was talking about minor accidents and it was a good exercise to go through these cases reported by Rail Accident and Investigation Branch (RAIB), because these accidents most of the time are caused by similar underlying causes, and in left unchecked, will cause more serious accidents. If we look…
Yesterday I complained to my wife that I don’t really like signalling railway, not the way some of my colleagues or the people I meet in the industry. I then went on that I don’t really adore engineering, either mechanical engineering such as automotive, where some people know the horsepower of the new concept car…
I read a newsletter where it was rumoured/assumed that people were faking AI. How weird, and it turned out that wasn’t true. Now if people were using AI to fake things up, that is quite common nowadays. Videos or audios of people, especially famous ones, can be easily created. But there’s almost always a slight…
When I was in school, I believed that there can be intelligence without the ability to explain, but nowadays I think that although that can still be true, the ability to explain is a greater sign of intelligence. Because sometimes you think you’ve understood it in your mind but when you try to explain it…
I am rearranging some furniture around the house to accommodate some work arrangements and all these are starting to annoy me. I just want a place to do some extra work, and the challenge of finding an arrangement that – works for me, works for the family, is suitable for both summer and winter, and…
My wife and I visited a group of friends recently and we inadvertently talked about future and retirement. One point of interest was that in Malaysia, people are normally forced out of work and into retirement, while in the UK, quite a lot of people, especially knowledge workers, continue to work past their 60s. This…
I remember attending a talk about 10 years ago where this founder said that he tracked everything, from the calories to the duration of his exercise, because he read from a book, that what you tracked, will get better results. I don’t remember the book but I will get AI to find it for me….
I went to Aldi yesterday, on a Sunday, and it was so full that I had to circle round the parking lot twice just to find a parking spot. That is very unusual in this part of UK, if not everywhere in the UK. I went inside, picked up my items and went to the…
