favourites

• ★ MMODiscord: Run your own virtual world on any Discord server
• ★ What is the CAP theorem really about?
• ★ Group testing to save the world
• ★ GSoC 2020: implementing real-time metrics for MGGG's Districtr app
• ★ How many solar panels would be needed to 100% solar-power Singapore?
• ★ Building an Bayesian SMS sender
• ★ Doing distributed data analysis on a Raspberry Pi cluster
• ★ Building an automated, blockchain-connected model train diorama
• ★ Building a Raspberry Pi console
• ★ Building my first Telegram bot

economics and game theory

• A market-based mechanism to preserve Indonesia's forests
• Singapore's GRC system likely advantages the PAP: a game-theoretic analysis
• Can NFTs be used to fund art? (draft)
• From Third World to Utopia: Singapore could end poverty for our children forever, today (draft)
• A market-based mechanism to preserve Indonesia's forests
• The beta-Bernoulli bandit, Thompson sampling, and Bayesian inference (draft)
• Explaining Acemoglu's model of directed technical change: a primer (draft)

learning better

• Classics study guide (private)
• Braindump on language learning (draft)
• on education (draft)
• Using technology to aid language learning (draft)
• DIY-ing a Stanford CS degree in one year

health and fitness

• Protocols for optimal health (draft)
• Can you gain muscle doing only isometric exercises? (draft)
• Is nonsurgical penile enhancement possible? (draft)
• Is sauna good for you? (draft)
• A new method of training: can resting for hours between exercises maximise your gains?
• My 2020 fitness routine

programming

• Improving the site (2023)
• How to draw isometric cubes with Javascript and HTML canvas
• Recontextualising my site (2022)
• How to import and display Markdown files in React
• How to implement role-based access control for AWS (Cognito, DynamoDB)
• ★ MMODiscord: Run your own virtual world on any Discord server
• Notes on AWS's serverless framework (draft)
• Notes on Dynamo (2007)
• MIT's 6.824 Distributed Systems, Lab 2: Raft (draft)
• Memcached at Facebook (2013) (draft)
• Notes on Amazon Aurora (2017, 2018)
• FLP Impossibility Theorem (draft)
• Saltzer and Kaashoek (2009). Principles of Computer System Design: An Introduction (draft)
• Notes on CRDTs (draft)
• What is a Golang interface? (draft)
• ★ What is the CAP theorem really about?
• Rao, Shekita and Tata (2011). Using Paxos to Build a Scalable, Consistent, and Highly Available Datastore [Spinnaker] (draft)
• Ongaro and Ousterhout (2014). In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm [Raft] (draft)
• MIT's 6.824 Distributed Systems, Lab 1: MapReduce
• Dean and Ghemawat (2004). MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters (draft)
• Self-studying MIT's 6.824 Distributed Systems
• The cheater's chessboard (draft)
• Debugging my thesis
• Report on CS107E Lab and Assignment 3
• Report on CS107E Lab and Assignment 2
• Report on CS107E Assignment 1
• How to set up bidirectional communication between a Docker container and its host machine using TCP sockets
• How to install librealsense and pyrealsense2 on the Jetson NX
• Clustering GPS trip data
• Building a Python parallel processing pipeline package (R-3PO)
• ★ GSoC 2020: implementing real-time metrics for MGGG's Districtr app
• Rebuilding this website (draft)
• Building a code sharing MVP with React and the WebSockets API
• Building a deep learning pipeline + model with Keras and PlaidML
• ★ Building an Bayesian SMS sender
• ★ Doing distributed data analysis on a Raspberry Pi cluster
• ★ Building an automated, blockchain-connected model train diorama
• ★ Building a Raspberry Pi console
• ★ Building my first Telegram bot

all other posts

• Deutsch Lernen (draft)
• Can NFTs be used to fund art? (draft)
• Braindump on language learning (draft)
• anonymous voting, mix nets (draft)
• on education (draft)
• How to increase brain plasticity for language learning (draft)
• Guerilla Gardening (draft)
• On Tiktok and Instagram Reels
• Using technology to aid language learning (draft)
• Optimising my onebag (draft)
• My "indefinite" onebag setup
• Der Schatz von Hiddensee (draft)
• Farming snails in Singapore (draft)
• Alternative agriculture (draft)
• Should we bring back the triclinium? (draft)
• Ants
• Solving two brainteasers 舅母 gave me
• tl;dr of my Politics undergraduate thesis
• Notes on technical mentorship (draft)
• DIY-ing a Stanford CS degree in one year
• Making your habits zero-friction is a massive productivity hack
• From Third World to Utopia: Singapore could end poverty for our children forever, today (draft)
• Radically new ways of living and working are for the first time available (again) to us (draft)
• Planning to build a Discord spatial layer (draft)
• Worlds for hyperlocal communities (draft)
• Teleoperation: enabling remote work for nonremote workers (draft)
• Geolibertarianism with Harberger Taxes (draft)
• Three levels of competency (draft)
• Convergence is (finally) coming (draft)
• Pair work: the One Weird Trick to finally ship your side projects
• Home gym ideas (draft)
• Virtual workspaces --- working in a Minecraft office?
• A market-based mechanism to preserve Indonesia's forests
• Singapore's GRC system likely advantages the PAP: a game-theoretic analysis
• Politics Thesis
• The beta-Bernoulli bandit, Thompson sampling, and Bayesian inference (draft)
• Explaining Acemoglu's model of directed technical change: a primer (draft)

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