How to Spend Fewer Tokens — and Why That Is the Fourth Thing to Try
Every guide to controlling an AI bill opens by telling you to trim your prompt. We ran the arithmetic over all 27 models...
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What Am I Actually Choosing Between? We Sorted 1,347 AI Tools by Shape
The usual answer is five neat categories — chat assistants, copilots, command-line agents, autonomous runtimes, model pr...
Do You Need Fine-Tuning? Two of the Big Three Are Taking It Away
The usual case against fine-tuning is that it is expensive. That case is wrong — a small training run costs about four d...
Why "Random" Is Almost Never Random — and What a Fairness Test Cannot See
We fed the same rejection-sampling helper a cryptographic source and a 1960s textbook generator, 600,000 draws each. The...
Using AI in Your Own Language — What the Machine Can Actually See
The same sentence costs seven tokens in English and fifteen in Malay. That gap is usually explained as a money problem;...
How Chinese Given Names Actually Work — and Why Everyone Picks the Same Ones
A person could once carry four names: a milk name, a generation character shared with every cousin, a given name, and a...
Tracing Chinese Ancestry in Southeast Asia: Start With How Your Name Is Spelled
Tan, Chan and Chin are the same character. Which one is on your IC records which dialect group your family belonged to,...
Same Body, Two Verdicts: What the Drink-Drive Limit Actually Depends On
At 0.058% blood alcohol you are under the limit in Singapore and over it in Johor Bahru. Malaysia cut its limit from 0.0...
Grades, GPAs and What They Convert To
NUS publishes separate grade profiles for A-level and polytechnic applicants, and none at all for IB — because, it says,...
Which Image Format, and Why Your Photos Are Too Big
One of our own hero photos was 198,372 bytes. It is 59,766 now — same photograph, same dimensions; we finally compressed...
Keeping Crypto Records You Can Actually File
IRAS publishes a list of eight things your crypto records should contain. An exchange CSV gives you four of them, and ge...
SEO When the Answer Is Written for You
Here is our own referrer log. In eight weeks and 214,712 page hits, every AI assistant combined sent 59 visits — against...
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