by nsoonhui | Jun 30, 2018 | Announcements, Book Review
So, to continually improve myself, I picked up a now-classic book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad, by Robert T. Kiyosaki. If you are too lazy to go through the whole book, you can read the summary online here. The few big ideas of the book are: Poor people work for money. The...
by nsoonhui | Jun 15, 2018 | Announcements, Book Review
AI, or rather, the news of AI is taking over the headlines. We heard about how AI beat the best of the human players at GO in a very short span of time, we heard about tech and science celebrities like Elon Musk , Stephen Hawking , Mark Tegmark and Yuval Noah Harari...
by nsoonhui | Apr 15, 2018 | Announcements, Book Review
About six weeks ago, my friend and kindlemalaysia.com cofounder Tan Wee Khien took my two kindles away from me, because he needed them for the purpose of demo during Read Malaysia Book Fair 2018. In return, he left me with his Kindle Voyage, and a large collection of...
by cart2cart | Jul 6, 2013 | Book Review
“The Trouble with Physics” can be roughly divided into two parts: one part has to do with the review of the recent physics theory development, especially on the the rise of string theory. The other part discusses about the “sociology” in academic world, particularly...
by cart2cart | Jun 29, 2013 | Book Review
In this book, Michael Sandel, a Harvard professor takes a hard look at the issue of money, and analyzes how much it permeates our society and how it changes our society for good or for worse. For the longest time, our society encourages us to earn more, to consume...