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Shashvat Shukla
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Oct 23, 2022

MRT Station Names — What do they mean? (EW Line)

By Shashvat Shukla and Arturo Martin Espinosa There are wondrous stories behind the names of places in Singapore. These stories strengthen our connection to our history and to each other. In this post, we provide the meanings of the names of MRT stations on the East-West line. We hope that…

Singapore

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MRT Station Names — What do they mean? (EW Line)
MRT Station Names — What do they mean? (EW Line)
Singapore

13 min read


Nov 7, 2019

Good Advice or Bad Advice? A simple test

There are paradoxes surrounding advice. One of the most widely accepted pieces of advice is to “not take advice”. A related confusion arises when someone, typically an authority figure, tells us what they think we should do and then says “follow your heart”. Next, there is all the conflicting advice…

Advice

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Advice

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Jul 17, 2019

Underlining words in books

Back in primary school I was often told by teachers or my parents that the way to improve one’s vocabulary was to read books. Their suggestion was to underline the words I did not know and look them up in a dictionary. I did not follow this advice. But can…

Vocabulary

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Vocabulary

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Mar 13, 2019

Philosophy students should be taught statistics

Logic is an essential part of a philosophy curriculum. These are two main things that I learnt from logic: Using logical systems like propositional logic and predicate logic to analyse the validity of arguments. …

Philosophy

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Philosophy

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Oct 1, 2018

Hume on Custom and a look at moral and aesthetic reasoning

Hume made a really clever realisation about how we think. He realised that when we reason about cause and effect, there isn’t a series of logical jumps that we make to get from a cause to its effect. Instead our minds simply begins to anticipate the cause upon seeing the…

Philosophy

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Philosophy

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Sep 30, 2018

The First Person Free Will problem

In my first year of undergraduate philosophy, I was taught about the philosophical problem of Free Will. The problem is roughly about whether we can have Free Will in a deterministic universe. The solution to this problem that was presented to us is called Compatibilism. Compatibilism is the position that…

Free Will

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Free Will

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Aug 1, 2018

Where the accent comes from

My first language was Hindi, but I started learning English very soon after. One of the accents in which I speak English is quite influenced by Hindi phonetics. The first two consonants in Hindi are: क and ख We are generally taught to think of them as क - ka …

Language

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Language

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Mar 25, 2018

Absence of Awareness and Awareness of Absence

I asked myself, “Do I want to write something about this now?”. I chose to, and hence I am here typing. Can we choose independently of the mechanical workings of the universe? It might feel as though we can, but this feeling is based on a logical fallacy. …

Life

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Life

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Aug 31, 2017

How to stop binging on YouTube effortlessly

or any other website Last year, there was a Google talk at my highschool. During a section on YouTube, the speaker asked: “Who uses YouTube on a daily basis?”. Something like 90% of the auditorium raised their hands. Then she asked: “Who was up until 2 a.m. last night watching…

Productivity

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How to stop binging on YouTube effortlessly
How to stop binging on YouTube effortlessly
Productivity

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Aug 30, 2017

Learning to think Functionally

I’m learning Haskell. Although I know other programming languages, I don’t understand the functional paradigm yet. Learning Haskell is not just about learning the syntax. It’s about learning a new way of thinking about programming. To quote learnyouahaskell.com: “Learning Haskell is much like learning to program for the first time”. …

Functional Programming

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Functional Programming

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