A lesson from reading reviews of Bill Gates’ book — As a term, cancel culture is very hotly debated. Some people argue that cancel culture is made up and that it doesn’t actually exist while CNN (like many others) claims that cancel culture doesn’t do enough. At the same time, others believe that cancel culture is a way to persecute…

Focus on this strategy instead if you want to do well If you do any form of searching for “blogging success strategy”, you’d definitely spot one strategy that many bloggers like to tout — find a niche. Find your niche and focus all your efforts on that niche. Name your…

Turns out that putting profits above people is bad for all of us after all — Before I even talk about anything, I need to make something very clear — I support capitalism. By allowing the free market to run with appropriate regulations, private-public partnerships help to push for loads of progress. And at the same time, in an ideal capitalistic world, we would all be…

Basic machine learning with Python — As the heart of deep learning, artificial neural networks (ANNs) are algorithms that aim to ‘mimic’ the human brain to deal with complex pattern-oriented problems and are often used to categorize and analyze trends when given a set of data [1]. With the structure inspired by the biological neural network…

Can these technologies really play a part in our society? — In 2017, a user named “deepfakes” coined a new term on the online social media platform, Reddit. A portmanteau of ‘deep-learning’ and ‘fake’, the term deepfake was first coined to describe the explicit videos that users created by superimposing celebrity faces onto pornographic videos (Kietzmann et al. 2020). However, as…

Easy-to-read classics that are short, interesting, and 100% not daunting at all — For many of us, the classics are the books that we want to stay clear of. With the use of old-fashioned English and tough-to-unravel plots, some of the classics are complete snoozefests that put even the most ardent readers to sleep (no matter how hard I tried, The Scarlet Letter…

Hint: it lies and sounds really confident when it does Recently, with the release of ChatGPT, Microsoft’s integration of the chatbot into Bing, and Google’s beta testing of Bard, everyone is buzzing with excitement about a future where automated chatbots and text-generating AIs are commonplace tools that everyone uses. And…

A game-changing system to organize your ideas and boost productivity. — If you’re in the field of research or content creation and have tried to look for systems to boost your productivity, the concept of a “Second Brain” is probably something that you’ve heard of before. Popularised by Tiago Forte, the second brain function as a system that “remind[s] us of…

A step-by-step way to visualize convection using COMSOL Multiphysics — When it comes to heat-transfer processes, 3 different kinds of energy transfer can be involved: conduction, convection, and radiation. These processes work in tandem to transfer heat through any medium (or lack thereof when it comes to vacuum). While I have previously explored the transfer of heat through conduction in…