A blog without borders

The Development of Singapore ~ 1965-2000

Reading notes on "From Third World to First - The Singapore Story" by Lee Kuan Yew

Posted on August 4, 2025

Notes on the development of Singapore [Read More]
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Salt Lake City

some stray notes that are neither here nor there

Posted on April 28, 2024

I had the pleasure of visiting Salt Lake City (SLC) two weekends ago, and took a few notes while roaming about the streets. I was only in the city for two days, but here are a few things that stood out to me. [Read More]
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- reflection
- writing
Twenty-Twenty-Three

sudo apt-get install 2024

Posted on February 29, 2024

intro I originally wrote this post in late December of 2023, but procrastinated in publishing it until well, now, which if all goes correctly should be late Febuary of 2024 (and a leap year excitingly)! [Read More]
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- reflection
- writing
Discovering Data Cmpresn

Or how we can store War and Peace on a device smaller than Tolstoy's pinky toe

Posted on February 9, 2024

What is data compression? Wikipedia (the free encyclopedia, not to be confused for the another Wikipedia) defines data compression as the “process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation.” Data compression tries to maintain as much information with as small of a representation as possible, and that’s... [Read More]
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- math
- computer science
Mersenne Twister

From seed to paper

Posted on December 16, 2023

seed 🌰 [Read More]
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- math
- computer science
Pollard's Kangaroo Algorithm

A random walk through Wikipedia

Posted on December 5, 2023

introduction [Read More]
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- math
- computer science
Lorentz Contraction

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm hmmmm

Posted on December 4, 2023

introduction At a recent dinner, the dicussion turned to magnetic and electric fields as can happen when more than one electrical engineer is present – a confusing, yet enlighting phenomenan. One said something along the lines of “at fast speeds, the electric field just drops out of the B field”.... [Read More]
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- physics
- math
November Report

Reflection on learning, new ideas, and questions to investigate

Posted on November 27, 2023

The November Report [Read More]
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- reflection
- writing
Charming Charts

An appreciation of some informative ways to visualize data

Posted on November 13, 2023

Intro Since nobody likes looking at data from a raw csv file, information is usually presented to the public (or researchers) in the form of charts. Depending on how they are structured, charts can give a new meaning to data. People are visual creatures, and how we see information is... [Read More]
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- math
- data
Do or do not, there is no Trie

A datastructure disturbance in the force

Posted on November 9, 2023

Intro My brother was telling me that they were learning about tries in his data structures class. When he first told me this, I was suprised that he was pronouncing “trees” in such an odd way, but learned in fact that tries are actually a subcategory of trees. [Read More]
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- computer science
- math
John Adams

Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction -- J.A.

Posted on October 27, 2023

Intro [Read More]
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- writing
- history
Democracy in America

Alexis de Tocqueville's take on the new kid in town

Posted on October 27, 2023

intro In 1831 a young man named Alexis de Toqueville set out to answer a fundamental question of the times: Was American democracy working? The nation, under 50 years old at this point, was a lab rat for Europe. In France, Toqueville’s home country, the desire for a stable democracy... [Read More]
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- writing
- history
Seasons in Colorado

A sketch

Posted on October 25, 2023

Autumn 🍂 [Read More]
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- writing
- nature
A Celebration of Gibbons

Happy International Gibbon Day!

Posted on October 24, 2023

Intro It is always “international” one thing or another day, but today, October 24th, holds a special place in my heart: International Gibbon Day. But what are gibbons, one might and indeed should ask. Gibbons are primates in the family Hylobatidae (derived from a word in Ancient Greek meaning “one... [Read More]
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- animals
- biology
Metcalfe's Law

A little learning

Posted on October 9, 2023

Metcalfe’s Law [Read More]
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- math
Notes on Empire

The East India Company - Mahatma Gandhi

Posted on October 6, 2023

Intro [Read More]
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- history
Tinkering around with the Apollonian Gasket

Fractals are the covergirl of mathematics

Posted on September 27, 2023

How it started [Read More]
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- math
Anything dirty or dingy or dusty

A glimpse into the intriguing world of garbage disposal

Posted on September 12, 2023

Inspiration My mind has been in the gutter…thoughts about the garbage and recycling system have been swirling around in there for a few months now, and so I thought it would be nice to clean up my mind by dumping these thoughts out. I started thinking about garbage disposal after... [Read More]
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- infrastructure
- urban development
Trying to build a better intuition for logarithmic and exponential functions

Rabbits and compounding interest and the natural log oh my!

Posted on August 27, 2023

Logarithms [Read More]
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- math
The Mobius strip of life

A beginning of an end and an end of a beginning

Posted on August 10, 2023

intro: [Read More]
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- math

The Development of Singapore ~ 1965-2000

Reading notes on "From Third World to First - The Singapore Story" by Lee Kuan Yew

Salt Lake City

some stray notes that are neither here nor there

Twenty-Twenty-Three

sudo apt-get install 2024

Discovering Data Cmpresn

Or how we can store War and Peace on a device smaller than Tolstoy's pinky toe

Mersenne Twister

From seed to paper

Pollard's Kangaroo Algorithm

A random walk through Wikipedia

Lorentz Contraction

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm hmmmm

November Report

Reflection on learning, new ideas, and questions to investigate

Charming Charts

An appreciation of some informative ways to visualize data

Do or do not, there is no Trie

A datastructure disturbance in the force

John Adams

Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction -- J.A.

Democracy in America

Alexis de Tocqueville's take on the new kid in town

Seasons in Colorado

A sketch

A Celebration of Gibbons

Happy International Gibbon Day!

Metcalfe's Law

A little learning

Notes on Empire

The East India Company - Mahatma Gandhi

Tinkering around with the Apollonian Gasket

Fractals are the covergirl of mathematics

Anything dirty or dingy or dusty

A glimpse into the intriguing world of garbage disposal

Trying to build a better intuition for logarithmic and exponential functions

Rabbits and compounding interest and the natural log oh my!

The Mobius strip of life

A beginning of an end and an end of a beginning