The following is an essay I wrote a few years ago in an application for a scholarship, with the prompt being: ‘The Singapore You Wish to See in 15 Years’. Or something of that persuasion. I’d already put in the effort and it’s not like I’d be getting any further …
Stoic. The word conjures images of gruff, bearded men trudging through the deep snow, or men so tough emotions bounce off their leathered frowns like bullets off Superman. That too was my understanding of that word until I first encountered someone actually talking about the philosophy of stoicism, which came …
I have a strange fascination with the concept of the ‘Business Help’ book. You know the type, it’s always under the ‘Self Improvement’ or ‘Management’ section at your local bookstore, it usually has a plain cover or one with the author gazing sagely upon you trying to convince you through …
So this little programming project started with inspiration from a YouTube video by Tom Scott. It’s a simple concept, write a program that plays the game FizzBuzz, where the output goes ‘Fizz’ on a number that is a multiple of 3, and ‘Buzz’ on a number that is a multiple …