Data Mining Hong Kong Property Prices

With property prices in HK finally starting to ease looks like it’s finally time to think about buying. Fortunately, for a data junkie like me, a lot of websites, including ban...

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• HK

Addressing Existential Angst - This is Water

I find myself coming back again and again to this wonderful David Foster Wallace speech (~20 mins) on how to deal with existential angst, that I found a few months ago. I recomm...

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• life

Why you should read John Brunner if you care about the future

I came across John Brunner a few years ago when I read Stand on Zanzibar . I love Brunner because his writing style adheres to some of my core beliefs of what sci-fi writing sho...

Why everyone should download Overdrive and switch to Audiobooks

If you’ve spent any time at all talking to me about books over the past year I’ve likely hijacked a few minutes of that conversation to expound the virtues of Overdrive (of whic...

Cannibals & Kings - Marvin Harris

A wonderful book! Gave me deep insights especially into the cultural origins of androcentrism. Closing words are lines to live by: _ In Life, as in any game where the outcome ...

the anti-recommendation engine - 2

This post originally appeared on Facebook As a first step to exposing myself to books outside my comfort zone I’ve built this basic tool - https://goo.gl/6m4h4r This google sh...

the anti-recommendation engine

This post originally appeared on Facebook Having gone through the pain of lugging many heavy boxes and setting up shelves across multiple home relocations over 2015 I’ve pretty...

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Collapse - Jared Diamond

I would rate Collapse over Germs, Guns and Steel - perhaps this is because I am more interested in how functional systems can fail rather than how they came to be functional. S...