Do it right, with real numbers

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Statistics 12 min

Kati, Tahil, Cups and Grams

Ask for a catty of pork and you get 500 g in Guangzhou, 600 g in Taipei and 604.8 g in Singapore — all three legally cor...

Nadia Rahim

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Finance 9 min

Living in One Country, Earning in Another

Singapore counts 183 days, Malaysia 182, Indonesia more than 183 — and all three count them over different windows, whic...

Daniel Koh

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AI & ML 8 min

How to Choose an AI Tool Without Believing the Marketing

Five checks worth running before you adopt anything, and where each answer actually lives — because none of them are on...

Kenji Tanaka

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Cybersecurity 9 min

Account Security You Can Finish in an Afternoon

Four jobs, ordered by how much loss each one prevents, with the arguments settled by the standard rather than by folklor...

Cyber Team

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Finance 11 min

How to Read Your Payslip in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia

Every line on your payslip, what it actually is, who pays it, and which ones you can change. Including the Singapore ded...

Daniel Koh

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AI & ML 11 min

If You Put Engineers Inside Your Customers, Do You Still Have a Software Company?

The question every product leader has about forward deployment is financial, and almost nobody selling the model will an...

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AI & ML 12 min

What a Forward Deployed Engineer Is, and Which Numbers to Believe

Every claim about this job travels faster than its source. The famous "729% growth" is arithmetically correct and almost...

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AI & ML 13 min

Before You Hire Anyone to Deploy AI, Read the Report They Are Quoting

Every pitch for embedded AI engineering rests on one statistic: 95% of enterprise AI pilots fail. I downloaded the paper...

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AI & ML 12 min

Nobody Is Training the People This Job Actually Needs

I read the entry requirements of every Forward Deployed Engineer programme I could find, then read what Singapore's publ...

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AI & ML 12 min

The Best Forward Deployed Engineers May Not Be Engineers

An AI practitioner in Beijing argues that the best Forward Deployed Engineers he has worked with were not computer scien...

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AI & ML 9 min

Where Does My Data Actually Go?

"Do you use my data?" is two questions wearing one coat. Training asks whether your text enters a future model and is us...