Recently, I embarked upon a two-week fast to kickstart some weight loss. In this article, I will recap my methods, experience, and results so that it might help others who are interested in following. Previously, I was used to fasting frequently 1–2 days/week, even 5 days/quarter, and 2 weeks once…

Here is a free product or startup idea for anyone interested: one of the biggest unsolved problems in software is the total absence AFAIK of a secure, usable, cloud-native, batteries-included, and scalable long-lived secrets manager. The simplest metaphor is something like a Hashicorp Vault that comes with plugins out-of-the-box for…

I woke up today to the bad news from a mutual high school friend, C.K.A., that our dear friend Madhan Kumar had passed away last week. The feeling of shock was indescribable. What happened? Why? And I didn’t even get to speak to him recently: the last time we had…

This blog post is self-explanatory from both the title and Figure 1: the Chase Online Action Codes (i.e., MFA) use 8 digits, but the entropy may be effectively less by at least an order of magnitude because the first digit appears to be constant. It was derived from 63 codes…

There is a very straightforward idea borrowed from the Wolfram Physics project that applies to human intelligence and creativity as follows: the rurial multiway graph of nondeterministic Turing machines can simulate any number of things, including the evolution of the Multiverse — but also human minds. One could model humanity…

TLDR: our technology will forever be dumb, limited, and dead, unless we figure out how to build the first artificial, living machines, but then Pandora’s box would look like a degree in social science. WARNING: THIS IS STILL AN UNPOLISHED, ROUGH DRAFT FROM JAN 3RD 2021. Suppose someone came to…

Bottomline: The greatest equalizer between people is universality (hardware), but the greatest differentiator between people is creativity (software). A lot has changed, to say the least, since I last published my controversial essay, “Why universality trumps IQ,” last year…

April 26, 2020: Following a 90-day responsible disclosure policy, I am disclosing my finding that TrueCoach, a service used by online coaching businesses, apparently fails to actually delete videos when users press the “delete” button. …

Satu bulan yang lalu saya telah mencoba mengingatkan orang-orang Malaysia namun tidak ada surat kabar yang mau menerbitkannya. Salah satu surat kabar menyebutnya “menyebar ketakutan”. Pada awal minggu ini, Pemerintah Malaysia akhirnya mencanangkan Movement Restrictiom Order (MRO) atau Perintah Pembatasan Gerak (PPG) selama dua minggu. …