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  • AI and the impending end of the world

    Reading Time: 2 minutes[rant adapted from a string of Instagram posts on my personal and private account, after seeing too many catastrophizing and sensationalist posts] Hello, friends! Most of you who know me well would have put up with me talking about AI and tech at some length, including why it’s almost imperative to understand…

  • Pandemic Hedonism

    Reading Time: 5 minutesEverything seems to be the same, and at the same time, nothing is. Coming back to the relative normalcy of Singapore – well, at least, relative to the rest of the world – has been odd. Duxton Hill and Whampoa Market are still alive with chatter, tinkle of teaspoons or wine glasses,…

  • Access to justice: a brief geographical study in Singapore

    Reading Time: 7 minutesIntroduction (scroll down for interactive maps; you can click on the map markers!) Since I’ve been learning programming on the side and on the job for a while now, and I’m taking a short break after my LL.M. to rest, reflect and learn some new (non-law things), I thought now would be…

  • Rudimentary Contract Comparison using Natural Language Processing

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI hope you and your loved ones are keeping safe, well, and healthy in this time. I have a lot to say about the crisis, as do many I know (we all have so much time now), but I’ll save it for another day. As promised in my previous post, here…

  • Is Microsoft Word LegalTech?

    Reading Time: 7 minutesOne of the advantages of word processing is the ability to conveniently think as you type, to format, correct, and crucially, handle large amounts of information. Questions of whether that has detracted from quality of thought aside, could you imagine being a corporate lawyer using a typewriter? Maybe the generation of lawyers…

  • The Good Life

    Reading Time: 4 minutesI have a problem. Elitism is arid. I do not mean this in a self-deprecatory way. I have done reasonably well academically, and I hope to say professionally, but I ask myself often if I have made as much of a positive impact on society as I possibly could. It is what…

  • Hello world!

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteHello from New York. Will put something up soon.