2026-08-15 at

need a single federal app for

Need a federal app for :
- open burning
- littering
- broken infra/windows
- price gourging
- unregistered businesses/residents

adjusting for overtraining

This month's physical conditioning parameters have dialled back significantly on maximising fatigue, and shifted to maximising rate of recovery. Rate of recovery is dependent on non-zero fatigue, and calibrated to allow incremental gains in hypertrophy, strength, or endurance. 

Discussion:

2026-08-16 :

1.
 Just note
- nerve sensitivity ( more is better ) 
- energy available ( ditto )
- pain ( less is better )

I think i try to train around that.

- pressure
- vibration
- heat
- cold
- pain
- pleasure

Most kinesthesia/proprioception seems to be these types of nerves

Pleasure is more serotonin in the CNS, not really in the periphery

2.
Perhaps one reason for recent overtraining : 

T1he same cognitive load now, gets me through 200-800% the mechanical load that it did 20 years ago. So while my attention span has expanded, my musculoskeletal system wasn't developed to the same degree, and now must catch up. So I must expend less attention to get the same amount of work done which I did in youth, while my body adapts to increased demand for work, and catches up.

As a result of various campaigns since youth, it seems analogous to an expansion of my cognitive architecture from say a RISC to a CISC layout, or any similar flattening of effort via modularisation of reusable function.



2026-08-14 at

social calibration

I have been thinking about optimisation techniques for my social portfolio. While social work is something I was familiarised with as a child, I generally don't find it particularly enriching macroscopically, outside the rudimentary neighbourly-citizen mode of life.

I used to think perhaps in business I would be able to find more people who were able to work on macroeconomic architectures with a microeconomic lens, but generally I have found that people treat the market-as-a-whole differently from their private networks, which seems oafish. And the same seems true of civil servants, politicians, and their consultants.

So in today's review and revision, I am reminding myself to avoid expecting people to be smart enough to treat everyone the same. Most are not capable of this. And it is impractical to reprogram them one by one. Further reflection is needed on what else can be done about it.

2026-08-13 at

demographic location

I wonder what percentile of the fringe I am in, aside from my active engagement of society. My segment is basically 

- minimal interest in family relations

- minimal interest in passive consumerism ( including vice )

- minimal interest in passive employment ( symmetrical with consumerism )

- ... as a result, our political interests are also minimally overlapping the top three quartiles of people interested in each of the above, so our government participation is minimal also

I always think there can't be too few of us, since there are so many billions of people lying around. However, given that on an hourly to annual basis, one only interacts with perhaps a hundred thousand to a million people tops - I don't actually meet many people like myself.

optimising poverty studies

I often wonder about past optimisation decisions. The study of poor people was an early-career move in the two decades immediately after college. I think many people avoid doing this, because

(a) that is not an interest at all

(b) it is interesting, but they need security first, so understanding poor people is deprioritised

I think the whole point of being poor, is to lack options. So I think, it is more of an accurate study to be poor, without an option to step into richness at arbitrary points in the process. 

2026-08-12 at

liberal di Malaysia

Kaitan yg tak sedap
- derhaka
- lupa bangsa
- luput budaya
- kurang ajar
- biadap
- sesat / lalai 

Etc. which is fair because the baseline is rather conservative for historical reasons. 

There's a lot to unpack

galakkan kepada rakan projek

The idiot co-worker problem : kadang-kala hidup dalam satu masyarakat merupakan situasi kerja projek dengan rakan yang kurang sempurna ( kenegaraan itu projeklah, dan kenegaraan memang kerja, dan kitorang tiada satu pun yang sempurna ). Jadi bila dengar dorang nak ulaskan seauatu, lepastu tanya, "tak sakit hati ke?", aku hanya fikir begitu :

Tuan/Puan, hatiku okay je. tapi otakku tersinggung. Tersinggung heboh. Sampai jem chaokan tak bleh restart langsung. Tapi hatiku masih berdenyut-denyut, dan akhirnya gua kena sebutkan sesuatu walau jiwa tidak merasa apa-papun. Tuhan yang-aku-tak-percayakan-pun tolonglah skejap ... kita kena beritahu sahabat ni bahawa dia dungu ke, kita kena menggalakkan sifatnya yang berkecubaan ikhlas dan bakal disempurnakan nanti, lepaslah kita sendiri sudah lama matipun kehausan galakkan ...

Ok, this is good practice. Part of the reason I am studying Malay is because I suspect most Malaysians wouldn't read my rants in English ... 

pasca-kaum

Gelak aku lihat dekolonisasi menyohor.

Tunggu sampai mati pun tak dapat masyarakat pasca-kaum di Malaysia.

Banyak korang kena undo2 pasal trauma dulu2. 

2026-08-10 at

hereditary inequality

Umur median warga kini 31 tahun. Amat cantiklah kebelakangan ini, ramainya mampu mengulas dasar perundangan persekutuan, dan bakal menjadi penggubal undang2 yang kurang remeh daripada puak YB dulu2.

Hakikat 1 : Malaysia dirikan dalam keadaan ketidaksamarataan ekonomi

Hakikat 2 : dasar ketidaksamarataan turun-temurun merupakan langkah perundangan yang kekok dan telah membawa kepada ketidakstabilan politik sampai hari ini

Entahlah ke mana nanti, kedukaan sebangsa Malaysia.

ngapo cina xsuka beli ngan melayu?

Pendek cerita, pridatang yang lahir lepas merdeka anggap dirinya diperhambakan seumur hidup. Jadi naiklah budaya x jaga x, y jaga y. Ini termaktub dalam perundangan. Jadi kena sampai zaman depan baru perubahan perundangan boleh hapuskan kedukaan sebangsa malaysia sekaligus.

 Itu pandangan saya mengenai orang ramai, bukan pendirian saya

deference to authority

Well, the problem here is the stagnant Malaysian mentality of "I vote in an authoritarian leader who will make the change I want" instead of "I will directly pressure any leader to make the change I want."

breadth of experience

I took a stroll to the post office, and thought about why I have been think about my friends from the 90s.

One salient point was that many of them developed traits of increased insecurity and gatekeeping over a period of about 8 years, between the late 90s and early 00s. Perhaps that is what the transition from adolescence to young adulthood centres on, for many people.

I have had different traumas of course, so my ambitions appear to be rather different. I lack the concern that there are tables I am not invited to - in fact often I am bemused that I even get invitations to sit with people whom I don't seem to be helping at all. I am mainly concerned with the quality of my own table, and the detraction of quality brought about by those I bring to it. Then again perhaps it is just a matter of taste, and we differ in that respect.

I think, one of my greatest challenges has been, context switching - i. e., memory management. When engaged in communication and service to society, I prefer to be wholly present in order to work within the complete frame-of-mind of the people I am helping. But outside of that context, I prefer to be wholley absent in order to work around them. 

This is not something that many people aspire to. They often consider it mean. I think, it is a joy to participate in the lived experiences of other people, and then also to be able to scorn them immediately as required by circumstances. The development of such breadth of capability is what I think of as mental conditioning. 

bahasa rojak

However, they tied language to race, and race to money, so too bad ... kedukaan sebangsa malaysia

2026-08-09 at

I summarised AI for my dad

/ I Summarised AI for my Dad /

( An improvement on my prior understanding)

Current mainstream AI modelling :

0 input text is converted to a "token" sequence from the model's vocabulary

1 so we begin with a sequence of tokens

2 the model understands tokens as being locations, in a N-dimensional space : so each token is simply stored as an N-space coordinate "vector" 

3 then the model finds relationships, between each token ( in the input sequence ), and every other token ( in the input sequence ) : it consults a database of relationships learnt during training, and also accounts for the order of tokens in the sequence 

3.1 the database of relationships can be subdivided into chapters, so that each chapter focuses on different types of relationships

3.2 this step is computationally parallelisable, therefore you can crunch a token sequence of length 5 and length 5000 in nearly the same time, if you have 1000x the hardware

3.3 this step outputs a sequence of "enriched vectors" i.e. each token is now represented by a more contextualised location in N-space

4 each "enriched vector" is then subject to a select subcomittee; the whole step produces a sequence of "committee enriched vectors" 

4.1 again, execution is parellisable 

3 & 4 : both the database of relationships between tokens, and subcommittee processes are learnt by trial&error during the model's training

5 the entire [ 3 & 4 ] operation is called a layer, and current models are 80 to 120 layers deep ; this sequential process is what enables logical branching to occur

6 after [ 3 & 4 ], are executed 80 to 120 times, a single "highly enriched vector" representing a unique location in N-space is produced ... and this is finally used to predict ONE NEW TOKEN to be appended to the input token sequence

7 the model then uses the [ input tokens + new token ] and runs back to step 1, and it keeps doing this until step 6 says "no more token are recommended" 

8 finally, [ all the new tokens ] are translated back into text