Preston Lim – Medium

Jan 13, 2020

Are Singaporeans negative Nancies? A sentiment analysis of social media comments using BERT

Complaining is an undisputed national past time for many Singaporeans. But exactly how negative are we? And do we loathe all topic matters equally? Wow, I get that this was maybe written from the perspective of the World Toilet Organization but what a load of — oh crap, am I…

Machine Learning

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Are Singaporeans negative Nancies? A sentiment analysis of social media comments using BERT

Machine Learning

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Data.gov.sg Blog

·Feb 3, 2019

Bringing black and white photos to life using Colourise.sg — a deep learning colouriser trained with old Singaporean photos

This project is brought to you by the Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Division, GovTech Singapore. Andrew Tan, Quantitative Analyst Preston Lim, Software Engineer Tan Kai Wei, Data Scientist Have you ever looked at an old black and white photo and wondered: what did the person taking this photo actually…

Deep Learning

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Bringing black and white photos to life using Colourise.sg

Deep Learning

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Towards Data Science

·Jan 20, 2019

I wrote a program that speaks like the collective hive-mind of The Straits Times Forum

The forum section of The Straits Times — one of the major news papers in Singapore — is a national treasure. The forum section specifically serves as a platform for wizened and impassioned Singaporeans to share their views on Singaporean culture and society. Among the many seminal works is “Unsafe…

Singapore

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I wrote a program that speaks like the collective hive-mind of The Straits Times Forum

Singapore

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Sep 25, 2018

I made a machine learning chicken rice classifier in ~4 hours to tell me what type of chicken rice I bought for lunch

This entire frivolous episode started when my colleague got chicken rice for lunch. The lunchtime conversation then evolved into how there was this hilarious Instagram account called kuey.png whose owner photographed one plate of chicken rice every single day for 279 days as of yesterday. An aside here. For non-Singaporeans…

Machine Learning

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Machine Learning

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Mar 26, 2018

Hack Your Life: How to make your own Digital Business Card

[Update 29 Sep 2018: Liwei and I released https://firstnamebasis.app/ — a free service to generate your personal digital business card] Business cards are quite a pain to carry around. You never quite know how many to bring along to a meeting or a work-related event. …

Github

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Hack Your Life: How to make your own Digital Business Card

Github

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