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Man Against the Machine – AlphaGo vs Lee Sedol
It’s Man vs Machine again! Jensen Goh takes us through the recent battle between Go Champion Lee Sedol and AlphaGo, a Go AI, and the implications of what the result has for the future of AI.
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The Cross Island Line: Who Cares?
Guest writer Lee Juin Bin explains the controversy surrounding the proposed Cross Island Line, and what this means for the various stakeholders
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The Decline of Establishment Politics
The American primaries have been dominated by the attention lavished on anti-establishment candidates. Wong Wei Xiang attempts to lay out the reasons for their ascendancy and what it means for politics in this day and age.
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Space Oddity: Planet Nine, Falsification, and the Impossible Dream
The world of astronomy has been abuzz recently over the prospect of finding a new planet in our solar system. Today, follow Wei Xiang as he examines the science behind the search for our solar system’s ninth planet.
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The Game of Broken Telephone
Computer aided design has been the back bone of the engineering design process for the past few decades, providing quick and efficient means of communicating details about a product to be produced and being able to simulate a virtual prototype for testing purposes with today’s technology. Jensen Goh looks at the importance of CAD and how it has evolved over the years.
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Swimming in the Sea of Mindfulness — A Wave of Positive Psychology
As we approach the mid-semester mark, many of us are probably already feeling the crunch-time pressure. Mindfulness and positive psychology may help us better understand and handle this stress. Alison introduces a new field in psychology that takes a starkly different approach than the traditional problem-centric focus.