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Cybersecurity 10 min

Cybersecurity for a Small ASEAN Business

Until this week our own password checker rated Summer2026 as Fair. It is not fair — it is one of the first few hundred g...

Jeffrey Tan

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Chinese Culture 10 min

Dates, Calendars and Holidays Across ASEAN

Ask our working-days calculator how many working days Singapore has in 2026 and it used to say 252. The answer is 251 —...

Eva Chin

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Sustainability 11 min

Solar Payback on a Tropical Roof

Malaysia gets more sun than Singapore, and our own calculator duly reported that a Malaysian roof paid for itself faster...

Daniel Koh

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Home & Living 15 min

House Calculations for a Tropical Climate

Ask this site how much air-conditioning a Petaling Jaya bedroom needs and, until this week, you got two different answer...

Amelia Wong

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AI & ML 9 min

Why It Confidently Makes Things Up

We asked two AI models for five peer-reviewed studies on an obscure topic, with DOIs. One produced five — authors, journ...

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Business 12 min

Naming a Company in Malaysia and Singapore: What SSM and ACRA Actually Accept

Your first three names get rejected and nobody explains why. Both registries run a mechanical test: they strip your name...

Eva Chin

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AI & ML 13 min

MCP, RAG, Agents, Skills: The New AI Vocabulary in Plain English

Somebody says the agent will use MCP to hit the connector, then RAG over the docs, and the skill handles the rest. Every...

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AI & ML 22 min

Tokens and Context Windows, Explained From Zero

You are billed in a unit nobody explained. A token is a countable stand-in for a chunk of text — the word is borrowed fr...

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AI & ML 10 min

What an LLM Actually Costs You

The rate per million tokens is the one number you cannot change, and the smallest part of the bill. Measured on 102 para...

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AI & ML 19 min

The Chapter Everyone Skips: 孫子兵法 and the AI Capital War

Business writing quotes 知彼知己 and misquotes it — the received text reads 百戰不殆, not the 百戰百勝 that Sun Tzu expl...

Jeffrey Tan

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Statistics 15 min

Mean, Median, Mode: The Average Is a Choice, Not a Fact

Three different numbers are all correctly called "the average", and which one gets published changes what a reader concl...

Nadia Rahim