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In 2 days, it will be 61 years to the day, when Singapore was proclaimed that as [from] the ninth day of August in the year one thousand nine hundred and sixty-five Singapore shall be forever a sovereign democratic and independent nation, founded upon the principles of liberty and justice and ever seeking the [ ]
Did not quite realize that I ve not been updating the blog. It was all because I had to create a new website and have that eventually be transferred to another admin. Now that process is all completed, I am back to focus here. Lots has happened in the technology and business space. My last post [ ]
ChatGPT was released on 30 November 2022. Over the last three years and five months, there has been significant enthusiasm and innovation around what it means to be able to use and deploy generative AI technologies based on the transformer model and a whole lot of hype, outlandish claims and billions in investment dollars. [ ]
2025 was touted as the year of agentic ai/ai agents . And nothing meaningful happened. Organizations like Gartner, IDC, Forbes (all do pay-to-play types of report/analysis churning) etc continued putting out proclamations and prognosis that AI agents will be the norm, everywhere in 2025. And, yet again, just as they ve always been about predictions, completely wrong. [ ]
What s in a PhD? Back when I was in grad school in the late 80s at Oregon State University, the idea of working on a PhD(s) was really about pushing the boundaries of current knowledge into a very, very narrow areas. This means that the person is effectively the sole expert (for a few years) [ ]
At an IES event yesterday, 5 February 2026 on the topic “Seminar on Cloud Knowledge , the speakers covered a lot of good and useful areas and I think it was worth the 3 hours. One of my takeaways came on my way home (via the North East Line from Punggol Coast station), was what if [ ]
Here are three logos for the to be established National Singapore Space Agency the www.nssa.gov.sg is not set up yet, but www.space.gov.sg is. Images were generated via reve.com and are on a CC0 license do as you please. Why does this excite me? A nine-year-old living along Commonwealth Crescent in Queenstown in 1969, [ ]
Chill out, all. It was just a matter of time. The human reactions that on moltbook, openclaw agents are planning on going private and also going on and creating a religion called crustafarianism (love that meme), are understandably alarmist. But why should one be surprised and alarmed? These were all derived from the models these [ ]
And this is how fast things are moving in the tech space specifically in the genAI realm. You can read all about this tool which is entirely open source and on a MIT license although I would prefer it to be on GPLv3. It is a framework that you can engage with using any [ ]
In July 2025, the Australian Government s Digital Transformation Agency, released the Australian Government AI technical standard version 1. This is meant for the Australian public sector/agencies. The 102-page document sets a comprehensive framework for public agencies when adopting AI to ensure that it is done safely and ethically. This Standard outlines a structured AI system [ ]