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• December 23, 2020

  SQL Queries for analysing dataset

  This is the first homework assignment from CMU Database Systems. The motivation for this is to understand what is SQL and how it is being used. A bike sharing data from five cities in the Bay Area is used for this homework.

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• December 17, 2020

  Academic talk on Product Development

  Why do we need to do market research when [quoting Steve Jobs] a lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them?

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• October 15, 2020

  4 Months into deep learning - NLP

  A sharing of my internship experience at Sentient.io as a science intern. I'm grateful for this opportunity to get started with deep learning, particularly in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Here is a reflection on my work, what I have learned, challenges I have faced and areas to work on.

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• August 3, 2020

  Machine Learning - NLP Journal

  PEGASUS [Pre-training with Extracted Gap-sentences for Abstractive Summarization] Research Paper by Jingqing Zhang, Yao Zhao, Mohammad Saleh, Peter J. Liu

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• May 25, 2020

  Graphing with Chart.js

  After following the tutorial Graphing with Chart.js - Working With Data & APIs in JavaScript by the Coding Train, I have come up with a visualization of the total number of covid-19 cases by country. Daniel is one of the most charismatic lecturer producing wonderful high quality content in his channel Coding Train. This is where I learned about fetch(), async function and javascript library chart.js.

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• May 16, 2020

  Data Structure & Algo - Leetcode 289 Game of Life.

  This problem is about 2D array. Our goal is to create the next generation of cells in the 2D gird based on the rules implemented. Seemingly an easy problem but there are so many things to be learnt in order to solve it with efficiency. That's exactly why practice makes perfect, isn't it?

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• May 15, 2020

  Data Structure & Algo - Binary Search

  Binary search algorithm is an efficient way to find an item from a sorted array. It has O(log n) time complexity and O(1) space complexity. This algorithm works on the principle of divide and conquer, using half-interval search to compare the location of the target value and the middle element of the array.

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• April 29, 2020

  Poetry

  I haven't been a person who reads poems other than during my times in secondary school when I have to do it for the sake of my literature exams. This is a poem I came across, and listening to it in words have brought me into a state of tranquillity especially during this difficult period.

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• April 15, 2020

  Let's get data rocking

  Noting down the "data" nuggets I learned from everywhere so that I can better understand and use the data in the world!

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• April 8, 2020

  Words of the day

  Came across this on the internet and these soon become some of my favourite words. Noting it down in my little physical notebook as well.

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• March 12, 2020

  Generating different background color with JavaScript

  Revising code snippets for fun! It has been awhile since the last time I played with frontend, so here is a quick and easy-to-follow recap of basic html,css and javascript from Youtube. Credits to KodeBase for the tutorial. Anyone who wants to start with your first frontend project can definitely check this out!

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• February 22, 2020

  Words of the day

  At the end of the day, it pretty much all depends on how we choose to look at the world. Changing our perspectives and attitude towards the things we face ultimately change the things we are looking at.

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• January 28, 2020

  What I learn from my part time jobs

  Taking my first part time job at the age of fifteen and continuing with the part time hustle from then on have brought me exposure to the workforce. It was a decision I will never regret despite the challenge of juggling with work and studies simultaneously. The skills I have gained from being a floor member in the F&B industry, a retailer in Fred Perry, a barista and a tutor are things hardly taught in school. If you are wondering if you should give a part time job a shot during your next summer vacation, go ahead! You might discover something more rewarding besides having a side income.

  Estimated time: 5 min read

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• January 14, 2020

  Learning Methods - The Feynman Technique

  First method of the learning technique series. " I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something." - Richard P. Feynman

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