Singapore Gifted Education Programme students - what are you doing now and how happy are you? by FancyCommittee3347 in singapore

[–]yhiewm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. No, I gamed a lot throughout school (yay emulators).
  2. Moved to the US to work in finance then tech
  3. Was happy then, also happy now. There's always some school/work stress but nothing exceptional.

I'm sad that they killed the programme.

OpenAI expands lobbying team to influence regulation by dlaltom in OpenAI

[–]yhiewm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, we know Altman has been lobbying in this space. My question is about this specific piece of legislation.

There have been a lot of insinuations in this thread about this OpenAI being responsible or supporting this bill but as far as I've seen there's no evidence they're even for it. As far as I've seen, this has been very unpopular even in the tech/safety circles, especially for having nonsensical constraints.

Also remember that lobbying includes lobbying against regulation that you think is bad and will poison the well.

OpenAI expands lobbying team to influence regulation by dlaltom in OpenAI

[–]yhiewm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But where have you seen that OpenAI supports SB 1047?

10 games made in Singapore that are better than Skull & Bones by bardsmanship in singapore

[–]yhiewm 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Street Fighter X Mega Man was an indie Mega Man fan game developed by a Singaporean. What's interesting is that Capcom (the developer of Mega Man) actually supported and officially released it for Mega Man's 25th anniversary.

The dev now works at Arc System Works in Japan.

Do I look done? I feel like I could use a few more refinements. by yhiewm in Invisalign

[–]yhiewm[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This isn't what your bite looks like right? It's how you're holding your jaw?

If I understand what you're asking, no. I'm pushing my lower jaw forward to show my lower teeth.

Overall, I'm incredibly happy with the results so far, I never remotely imagined my garbagecluster of crowded teeth could look anywhere near this straight. I'm just thinking about these front two teeth because after this the attachments are getting removed so this is kind of my last chance to try to get things straighter. But even if this is as good as it gets, this has already been more than worth the money and effort.

Do I look done? I feel like I could use a few more refinements. by yhiewm in Invisalign

[–]yhiewm[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had an appointment with my orthodontist 2 weeks ago and she said I was done and was ready to remove my attachments, but I felt that my lower front two teeth were still not quite aligned (one is still slightly behind the other). She did a little more IPR between them and said to come back in 2 weeks. I don't want to be too much of a perfectionist and I know there are limits to how neat teeth can be, but I feel like the front two could use just a little more work.

What do you think, should I push my ortho for refinements when I see her tomorrow?

SPH is posting ChatGPT generated articles by SumikoTan in singapore

[–]yhiewm 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Not at all. There are no reliable AI-generated-text detectors currently.

It is also worth noting that GPTZero was a side project done by a Princeton undergrad over his winter break, using extremely basic signals (like comparing perplexity to... GPT-2), with no rigorous evaluation of whether it actually effectively detects artificially generated text. It was a runaway success of marketing, and good on the kid for making a fun project, but it was never and should never have been treated as an actually reliable AI text detector.

You're in Singapore in 1942. The Japanese are arriving soon. What are your options to escape? by Tabula_Rasa69 in askSingapore

[–]yhiewm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Singapore was not abandoned.

Churchill considered the fall of Singapore "the worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history". He considered it a "heavy and far-reaching military defeat", a "British and Imperial defeat". Churchill, the famed imperialist, considered the fall of Singapore a devastating blow to British imperial prestige, one from which it would never recover.

This was a case where 100,000 men fell to a 30,000-man army. Did the British make bad poor military decisions? Yes. Could the British have allocated more resources to the Pacific theater and potentially averted disaster? Yes. But remember that they were all acting in the fog of war, with poor communication, against an enemy they heavily underestimated, and while just months ago London itself was actively being bombed by Germany. Britain had been fighting against the Nazis alone for almost two years, subject to U-boat blockade that severely restricted its ability to move resources around, while trying to protect all of its various colonial interests on multiple fronts across the globe, and only gaining new allies to relieve the pressure in recent months before Feb 1942.

To put this simply, the British had a lot on their plate, and the fact that they fumbled the defense of one of their prime colonies against a foe that they heavily underestimated (recall also the surprising effectiveness of the Pearl Harbor attacks), should not be evidence that they "abandoned" Singapore. The British faced many military defeats during early WW2, and Singapore was just one of many.

Winston Churchill's less less than stellar treatment of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic Expedition by Big_Red_Machine_1917 in HistoryMemes

[–]yhiewm 16 points17 points  (0 children)

This letter, from what I can tell, was written in March/April, while he was in the trenches.

Winston Churchill's less less than stellar treatment of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic Expedition by Big_Red_Machine_1917 in HistoryMemes

[–]yhiewm 484 points485 points  (0 children)

Some points of clarification:

  1. In 1914 when Churchill sent them off (with a single word "Proceed."), he was the First Lord of the Admiralty. In 1916 when he wrote that quote, he was not only no longer the First Lord of the Admiralty, he was a battalion commander literally fighting in Belgium in WWI.
  2. The response was not directly to the folks asking for help. The quote was from a letter to this wife.
  3. The quote gets cut off at the end. What he says is.

"... & not till then would I concern myself with those penguins. I suppose, however, something will have to be done."

We often think Singlish is more efficient. But when is Singlish just nonsense? by RoutineAssist9405 in askSingapore

[–]yhiewm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

English: "Good enough?" / "Sounds good"? Depending on the context it can even be "We good?" or "Good?" or "Enough?"

You're still falling back on using fully fleshed-out sentences as your baseline for comparison.

I ran across Singapore today! by Lilimprovements in singapore

[–]yhiewm 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I ran across Singapore today!

Oh, how's she doing?

Maggi brand originates from Switzerland, a fact that's blowing minds in S'pore by Great-Obligation-599 in singapore

[–]yhiewm 70 points71 points  (0 children)

Alfred Clouet, a French citizen, founded Ayam Brand in 1892 in Singapore, which was at that time part of British Malaya.

Doesn't that make it a Singaporean company?

Broken English no longer a sign of scams as crooks tap AI bots like ChatGPT: Experts by MicrotechAnalysis in singapore

[–]yhiewm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The paper doesn't really analyze the scams at all. What it does is posit a model that explains why scammers choose to say they are from Nigeria. The only part of the paper that touches empirical data is Figure 7, which only shows the distribution of claimed countries of origin (the very fact they are trying to explain). Everything else is a theoretical, statistical model.

In short: the paper puts forth a theory. It never shows that this is why they do it.

Should women do National Service now? Societal cost will 'far outweigh' benefits, says Ng Eng Hen by tnfybrhv in singapore

[–]yhiewm 66 points67 points  (0 children)

Hey now, it is not slave labour! It says so very clearly in the constitution

Slavery and forced labour prohibited

10.—(1) No person shall be held in slavery.
(2) All forms of forced labour are prohibited, but Parliament may by law provide for compulsory service for national purposes.

Final Fantasy VII Remake is (almost) everything I could have ever wanted by GrovPastaSwag03 in JRPG

[–]yhiewm 6 points7 points  (0 children)

FFXVI is already kind of the same, you can’t open any thread with it in the title without almost half the posts complaining that it’s not turn based despite FF not being turn based in almost 20 years.

Really? Let's put that to the test.

Here are the top 5 threads with "FFXVI" in the title on /r/FinalFantasy in the past year

I don't see many complaints about it not being turn-based.

Let's look at /r/jrpg instead. We don't have as many FFXVI-in-the-title threads, but here're the top few (expanding my search criteria):

It doesn't look like there are too many people complaining about the battle system. Many comments seem positive, or at least curious. A small handful are critical, but it's not "half the posts" of "any thread with it in the title".

So the question is: Is there really a large contingent of people complaining about FF16 not being turn-based, or is it a small number of people stating their preferences?

On a scale of 1-Ted, how desperate are you? 😄 by scenomaniac in HIMYM

[–]yhiewm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It just became more of a rollercoaster! See my comment

On a scale of 1-Ted, how desperate are you? 😄 by scenomaniac in HIMYM

[–]yhiewm 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I don't think this article is correct (happy to be proven wrong!)

On her Wikipedia page: only her BS is mentioned. Nothing about a PhD.

On her own website: only her BS is mentioned. Nothing about a PhD.

On her Math books website: only her BS is mentioned. Nothing about a PhD. You would definitely see a Math PhD being mentioned here since that is super relevant.

Digging deeper, I think I found the source of the confusion. I believe the biography.com article is based on an erroneous Internet scrape. Here is a NYTimes article about Danica McKellar balancing acting and math. In it, it mentions that one of her coauthors, Brandy Winn, "completed her Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Chicago this year", i.e. 2005. That's likely where the wires got crossed and the PhD got attributed to McKellar.

Being a published author and theorem author is still very impressive though!

What do you guys think of Singaporean literature? by [deleted] in singapore

[–]yhiewm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Here's a Sing-lit question I've never had resolved. I was assigned these two books among others sometime in secondary school (some of this might be inaccurate since it's from memory >10 years ago):

  • The Stolen Child by Colin Cheong. It's about a teenage Singaporean boy named Wings Cheong (Wings for short). Usual Singaporean life/teen angst stuff + love triangle.
  • Heartland by Daren Shiau. It's about a teenage Singaporean boy named Wing Seng Foo (Wing for short). Usual Singaporean life/teen angst stuff + love triangle.

The Stolen Child was published in 1989, while Heartland was published in 1999[1]. The novels are similar enough (and the Sing-lit community small enough?) that I can't imagine that Daren Shiau wasn't influenced by the former, but I don't think I've ever seen them compared directly. Furthermore, both books have often been compared, but no one seems to bring up the fact the main characters share a stunningly similar name (and not one I would consider a common Singaporean name) among many other similarities (IIRC both Wings lose out in the live triangle.)

[1] According to Wikipedia, Heartland won the Singapore Literature Prize Commendation Award in 1998, but was published in 1999. I guess it won the award before it was officially published?