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BREAKING NEWS!
The engineer who built Claude Code from scratch just released a 28-minute video that's pure gold: how to write prompts that deliver ridiculously good results.
I've seen $300 courses that don't even come close to what he explains in the first 10 minutes.
CLAUDE.md files, memory shortcuts, parallel sessions, and prompting patterns that almost no one uses...
All in one single video. Completely free. No fluff.
Whether you're a developer, just starting, or have already been using Claude for months, this changes the game for you starting today.
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The devil is in the details...
Tindak's Position Paper on the implementation of OCR-VA for Melaka 2026 elections (22/10/2026)
Persatuan Bertindak Pilihan Raya Bebas dan Saksama ("Tindak") argues that the Election Commission’s expansion of the Optical Character Recognition for Voter Attendance (OCR-VA) system across all 28 constituencies in Melaka should be preceded by meaningful stakeholder consultation, a thorough assessment of its effectiveness, and adequate training and support for election workers. It emphasises that technology alone cannot resolve electoral administration problems caused by inadequate training or unclear procedures, urging the Election Commission to strengthen its election worker programme and ensure that new technologies demonstrably improve electoral integrity and efficiency.
Full report on our position: tindakmalaysia.org/wp-conten…
Ong Kian Ming 🇲🇾 retweeted
Kronologi penglibatan Prosignal Consortium Sdn Bhd dalam pembangunan aplikasi TuJu untuk Lembaga Lebuhraya Malaysia (LLM).
26 Mei 2022: MOU di antara LLM dengan Prosignal Consortium untuk membangunkan sistem pengurusan lebuhraya berasaskan konsep Smart Highway
2023-2024: Aplikasi TuJu disenaraikan di dalam Pelan Strategik Pendigitalan LLM (2021-2025) dengan sasaran KPI untuk aplikasi TuJu Prosignal diintegrasikan pada 2023-2024
Mei 2024: TuJu telah siap dibangunkan dan dibentangkan kepada Jawatankuasa ICT LLM
Disember 2024: Mesyuarat pembentangan "Business Proposal" dibentangkan oleh Prosignal kepada Lembaga Pengarah LLM yang dipengerusikan MP Simpang Renggam YB Ir Hasni
Disember 2025: Aplikasi Navigasi TuJu dilancarkan oleh Menteri KKR Alex Nanta Linggi
ni mana ada open tender, ni confirmed RFP. 😂
Thanks for sharing!
our bank negara just launched SSDS+, and it’s a much bigger deal than the dry acronym suggests. malaysia’s bonds and sukuk are going onchain, central bank edition. in simple terms:
1 | SSDS is the official registry where malaysian bonds live. SSDS+ rebuilds it on distributed ledger tech, built in-house by @BNM_official
2 | it’s wired into RENTAS+, the payment system banks use to settle with the central bank, now running 24/7. so the bond AND the cash move together, any hour, in central bank money
3 | why that matters: bond trades today settle in days, during office hours, with layers of middlemen reconciling records. tokenized bond + 24/7 settlement = minutes, anytime, and both sides’ records agree by construction
4 | no private stablecoins. crypto spent years arguing tokenized assets need stablecoins as the cash intermediary. BNM’s answer: the cash can be sovereign money directly. everything crypto showed was possible, but the ringgit stays with bank negara ('97 Asian financial crisis PTSD)
5 | our flex: malaysia dominates global sukuk issuance, and sukuk leads our $575.6B bond market. tokenized sukuk puts malaysia in position to set the standard for digital islamic finance
6 | what’s next: wholesale first, but BNM says the system is ready for tokenized government and retail bonds too. one day you might buy a govvie from your phone like a TnG topup
this is basically 24/7 markets with the central bank running the engine.
pretty big moment for malaysia 🇲🇾
Nice!
One in five SPM candidates failed Mathematics last year, prompting Malaysian #edtech company Tupai to make its AI-powered #math tutoring apps free for students and families this exam season, alongside a new app to help parents track their children’s #learning progress. As co-founder and CEO Edmond Yap puts it, the goal is to reach beyond the students who are already doing well and help those who risk falling behind. digitalnewsasia.com/startups…
Congrats to Prof Kuik Cheng-Chwee from UKM, Bangi!
Tahniah dan syabas kepada Profesor Dr. Kuik Cheng-Chwee, Felo Utama Institut Kajian Malaysia dan Antarabangsa (IKMAS), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), atas kejayaan tersenarai dalam kelompok 2 peratus saintis teratas dunia bagi tahun 2026.
Pengiktirafan ini bukan sahaja mencerminkan kecemerlangan dan sumbangan beliau dalam bidang ilmu, malah turut mengharumkan nama Malaysia di peringkat antarabangsa.
Semoga kejayaan ini terus menyemarakkan budaya ilmu, memperkukuh tradisi penyelidikan dan menjadi inspirasi kepada generasi ilmuwan untuk menyumbang kepada kemajuan negara.
#MalaysiaMADANI
#YakinMADANI
Ong Kian Ming 🇲🇾 retweeted
The government wants Malaysians to switch from Waze to Tuju. But is this local navigation app actually any good?
We gave it a try, and the experience was frustrating. Poor navigation, confusing directions and questionable usability. It doesn’t even support Android Auto and Apple CarPlay.
Have you tried it?
#tuju #waze #llm #navigation
Kawan2, hari ini nak tuju ke mana? Halatuju tepat atau tidak? Tujuan untuk menuju ke destinasi anda adalah untuk matlamat apa?
Tanya untuk kawan, je...
Terima kasih kepada @tzafrul_aziz kerana sudi menjemput saya ke episod pertama "Ngopi Dengan Zafrul" bersama penasihat ekonomi kepada Perdana Menteri @anwaribrahim, Encik Nurhisham Hussein, untuk memberi penjelasan yang lebih lanjut tentang #Bajet2027
bit.ly/4832kP8
Wonder if these kinds of happenings took place under past @TalentCorpMsia CEOs?
I briefly went through @partibersamamy's alternative budget 2027. It's a comprehensive and well thought out document. Kudos on @sumdekjoe and his young team. Reminds me of my early days in the DAP working with others like @WongChen_MY to produce alternative budgets.
@imokman wondered if u attended the launch & if u have any analysis/thoughts on Bersama’s Shadow Budget as a former MITI minister & Taylor’s professor in policy
Would love to see a debate/stress test as they are open to discuss the numbers
Wow!
On March 24, 2005, Bobby Fischer arrived in Reykjavík, the city where he would spend the rest of his life. He was wearing his favorite custom-made Birkenstock sandals.
He had spent nearly nine months in a Japanese immigration detention center after his arrest on July 13, 2004, for attempting to travel on a revoked U.S. passport.
To help him avoid deportation to the United States, where he was wanted for violating U.S. economic sanctions by playing a 1992 chess match in Yugoslavia, the Icelandic Parliament granted him full citizenship on March 21, 2005. Three days later, he arrived in Reykjavík.
He remained there until his death on January 17, 2008, at the age of 64, matching the number of squares on a chessboard. ♟️
The photos at the bottom are from when I visited his grave. I was much more emotional than I expected.
The photo with the chessboard shows one of the starting positions from Fischer Random, using the current rules that we created together, rules that are now used worldwide.
I wrote about Bobby Fischer and, in detail, how I helped him finalize the rules for Fischer Random through our countless games together in Budapest, in my memoir, Rebel Queen.(amazon.com/Rebel-Queen-Misog…).
I also included two Fischer Random positions in my book: one using the initial rules and another using the finalized rules we worked on.
#BobbyFischer
@FIDE_chess @ECUonline @USChess
My recommendation to the DAP leaders in response to Najib's House Arrest...
facebook.com/share/p/1DorcLU…
ALT https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DorcLUMjD/
Definitely worth a read, especially for educators...
MIT published a brutally honest report on what AI is doing to students.
A committee of professors and students spent five months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet.
Study groups are disappearing. Office hours are emptying out. Problem sets and take-home exams no longer prove anything, because AI can produce credible solutions to almost any written assignment in the undergraduate curriculum. Students who lean on chatbots lose mastery and confidence, and some slip into what the report calls cognitive surrender, reaching for AI at the first hint of struggle.
The numbers are rough. 46 percent of surveyed MIT undergrads use LLMs daily. 90 percent worry about their own overreliance. Undergrads who feel AI makes them replaceable now outnumber those who feel it makes them capable.
The committee's answer surprised me. They refused to fight AI with surveillance. The report calls AI detectors unreliable, says lockdown browsers feel like spying, and warns that policing students builds a classroom atmosphere of mutual distrust.
Instead, MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely, since without a GPA to optimize, much of the incentive to cheat with AI evaporates.
The committee warns professors against replacing undergrad research assistants with AI agents just because they're cheaper, because a university exists to grow people, not output.
The most famous tech school on earth admitted the machines broke its way of teaching. Its answer is more humans, not more software.
Well done!
Very happy to share that Lukis.ElectionData.MY has been updated with SPR's proposed map (1141 DMs, 99 DUNs, 31 Parlimens).
It has never been easier for Malaysians to come up with alternative maps and make representations to SPR.
The boundary data, electorate counts, and demographics are preloaded into Lukis, so you literally need ZERO data skills to draw your own alternate map.
All you need is the proper local knowledge to examine what SPR has proposed, and move the DMs around to form alternative constituencies.
My goal with Lukis is very simple - lower the barrier to entry (for scrutinising and countering SPR's proposal) as close to zero has possible.
If anyone has any feedback/feature requests, just lmk!
teapaw.org/Thevesh/status/2095451…
ALT Screenshot of the Lukis BETA website: an interactive tool to draw custom electoral maps for Malaysia. Left column has the title “Lukis” with a pink BETA badge, the tagline “Draw your own electoral map for Malaysia,” and instructions to start from current boundaries, group DMs into DUN seats then DUNs into Parliament seats while watching malapportionment and demographic indicators update live. Footer note: “Electorate as at end-2025. Powered by open data from ElectionData.MY.” Right side is a grid of white cards, each with a state/territory flag. Cards shown: Sarawak (1st Display) Proposed — 31 Parlimens · 99 DUNs Sarawak — 31 Parlimens · 82 DUNs Perlis — 3 Parlimens · 15 DUNs Kedah — 15 · 36 Kelantan — 14 · 45 Terengganu — 8 · 32 Pulau Pinang — 13 · 40 Perak — 24 · 59 Pahang — 14 · 42 Selangor — 22 · 56 Kuala Lumpur — 11 Parlimens Putrajaya — 1 Parlimen Negeri Sembilan — 8 · 36 Melaka — 6 · 28 Johor — 26 · 56 Labuan — 1 Parlimen Sabah — 25 Parlimens · 73 DUNs
ALT Screenshot of Lukis BETA map editor for “Sarawak (1st Display)”. Left sidebar: Reset/Export buttons; note that work stays in the browser. Controls for shading granularity (DUN selected), tooltip granularity (DUN), shading mode (Malapportionment selected), labels (seat code/name/voter count), and “show all labels” off. Summary stats: average electorate 20,582; largest-to-smallest ratio 3.33× (red); range 0.50× to 1.68× of average. Centre: choropleth map of Sarawak shaded by DUN malapportionment. Top legend: red triangle >1.25× avg, blue square within tolerance, yellow diamond <0.75× avg. Map uses pale blue, peach and a few pink districts; nearby labels include Brunei, Borneo and national parks. Right panel: DUN tab active. Instructions to pick a listed DUN then click the map to add/remove it. Buttons: Unassign all DMs, Renumber (Geo Algo). Demographic stats off. Scrollable DUN list with size vs average, DM count and voters — e.g. N.01 Serayan 0.82× (20 DMs, 16,878 voters).
Ong Kian Ming 🇲🇾 retweeted
Two days ago, the Election Commission (SPR) began public display of their proposal for Sarawak's new electoral boundaries—99 DUN seats (increased from 82) and 31 Parliament seats (no change**).
For the first time ever, SPR published the Pelan Warta together with their proposal, which basically contains the most granular operational maps used in elections (at Daerah Mengundi level). They released these in PDF format, 1 for each Parliament.
While it is true that the publication of this information, even as a PDF, is a huge step up, it is really difficult to rigorously study SPR's proposal without machine-readable maps in a proper format (GeoJSON, GeoParquet, KML, whatever).
Of course, some of our foremost local experts on redelineation (referring to people like Prof Wong Chin Huat, Prof Rosmadi Fauzi, Danesh Chacko, Dr Bridget Welsh, Dr OKM, etc) can glance at a PDF and instantly see the pertinent issues not obvious to others, in general, any systematic effort to dig into SPR's proposal needs a digital map, period.
After spending the last 2 nights digitising the boundaries by hand (I have carpal tunnel now 😂), I'm very happy to share that machine-readable versions of SPR's proposal are now open-sourced on ElectionData.MY 🥳
Links:
• DM level (1,141): electiondata.my/data-catalog…
• DUN (99): electiondata.my/data-catalog…
• Parliament (31): electiondata.my/data-catalog…
These maps are something I consider to be fundamental democratic data infrastructure. Accordingly, they are licensed CC0, and are free for everyone to use, without restriction.
I hope this helps everyone involved in the process—civil society, academics, media, and even civil servants who can't get access to the map internally—to produce better analysis, and ultimately a better map for Sarawak.
To @sprgovmy, I have just one request. You've already gone 95% of the way by publishing the Pelan Warta, and you genuinely deserve huge credit for that.
Now can we please just go all the way so that citizens aren't the ones having to digitise the map for everyone else? Let our efforts be focused on scrutiny and democratic representation instead!
**Note: Sarawak DUN does not have any power to alter the number of Parliament seats for their own state. This requires an amendment to Article 46 of the Constitution, via a 2/3 majority in Parliament.
ALT Screenshot of the ElectionData.MY website showing the page “2026 Subdivision of Sarawak (Voting Districts): 1st Proposal” (last updated 03 Sept 2026). A large interactive map of Sarawak on Borneo displays proposed voting-district boundaries as thin red lines over a pale pink fill, with 1,141 features. Neighbouring places labelled include Brunei, Bandar Seri Begawan, Tawau, Lahad Datu and parts of Indonesian Kalimantan. The page notes these are draft boundaries from the first public display of the 2026 delimitation exercise and are not yet gazetted. Interface elements include Map / Attributes / Variables / Methodology tabs, 36 views and 6 downloads, a Mapbox credit and a CC0 public-domain dedication.
The Election Commission's (EC) 1st proposal for the redelineation of Sarawak's electoral boundaries (99 Sarawak DUN seats and 31 Parliament seats) is now live!
myst.spr.gov.my/pameran-syor…
For the first time ever (I think, correct me if I'm wrong), EC has made the Pelan Warta containing Daerah Mengundi (DM) boundaries available together with its proposal! This is a massive step up in transparency, for which I give them props.
However, I don't understand why they insisted on giving everything in PDF format rather than anything machine-readable 😂 Seems a bit silly since they're clearly not keeping the information secret per se, but oh well.
Time to draw by hand! (I'll open-source it on ElectionData.MY when I'm done)
On the malapportionment front, there are 3 conclusions (refer to the chart):
• At Parliament level, nothing much has changed (the ratio of largest to smallest seat is slightly worse, actually).
• At DUN level, it is clear that the EC has made a genuine effort to improve the situation—this is immediately obvious just from looking at the distribution of seat sizes. The exponential part of the graph is basically gone.
• At DM level, huge improvements as well. All the ridiculously-sized DMs have been split, with the largest DM going from nearly 60k to just over 10k. This is very important to help citizens make representations, because it means that they can try to 'rearrange' EC's DMs into a better configuration (as opposed to previously when the largest DM was bigger than the average DUN).
There's a lot more that needs scrutinising, such as ethnic/political gerrymandering (if at all detected), breaking of local ties, etc. But these will require a digital map to systematically study.
For now, although a cursory examination does show that there are some weird choices which hopefully get fixed post-bantahan, I am broadly encouraged by the direction in which the EC is moving.
ALT Three stacked line charts comparing Sarawak's electorate under the current 2015 delimitation (black) and the proposed 2026 one (red). Total electorate 2,037,648. Each panel plots electors per unit, ranked smallest to largest, with a red dashed line at the proposed average. Top panel: By Parliament (31 seats under both), average 65,731: the two lines sit almost on top of each other, rising from about 29,000 to 158,000. Middle panel: By DUN (82 now, 99 proposed), average 20,582: the black line climbs steeply past rank 60 to a maximum near 74,000, while the red line stays far flatter and tops out around 34,500. Bottom panel: By polling district (887 now, 1,141 proposed), average 1,786: both are flat then spike at the top end, the current maximum about 58,000 against 14,500 proposed.
We lost a good man. My condolences to Dr McCoy's family...
Deeply saddened by the passing of Datuk Dr Ronald McCoy, former President of MMA. @malaysianmedic1
He dedicated his life not only to medicine, but also to peace and a world free from nuclear weapons. Malaysia has lost a remarkable doctor and global advocate.
His legacy will live on. May he rest in peace.
freemalaysiatoday.com/catego…
Many things for Malaysians to be thankful for on this Merdeka day and later, on Malaysia Day.
Thanks for sharing!
On Malaysia’s 69th Merdeka (Independence) Day, I’d like to highlight some quieter progress this tumultuous year.
1. Malaysia’s poorest state, Sabah, removed all 10,825 households from its hardcore poverty list
[“hardcore poverty” is when a household doesn’t even earn enough money to meet basic daily calorie & nutritional needs]
2. Malaysia ranked #1 globally for Muslim-friendly & Islamic tourism, eking out Turkiye, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, UAE & others.
And last year, Malaysia ranked #1 globally in the open data inventory (from #67 / 193 just three years back)
3. Rules governing Malaysia’s national trust fund (KWAN that saves natural resource wealth for future generations) were updated, and now limit future withdrawals only to education, health, and climate adaptation.
For sure, many challenges remain but today is a good day to appreciate some of this quieter progress.
Selamat Hari Merdeka kepada semua rakyat Malaysia! 🇲🇾