Penang’s Semiconductor Crossroads
Penang Monthly

Navigating global trends and industrial upgrading

Philip Khor
Jan 1, 2025

US-China Tensions and the Transformation of Penang’s Tech Industry
Penang Monthly
First published in Penang Monthly (October 2024).
Philip Khor
Oct 1, 2024

Pay for progress: do head of state governments’ pay respond to performance?
R
Malaysiakini’s data journalism team just published this fascinating analysis about the salaries of states’ heads of government:
Philip Khor
Aug 9, 2024

Penang’s Evolving Schooling Preferences
Penang Monthly

Penang’s education scene is changing rapidly. While Malaysia’s private school enrollment remains modest compared to the region, it is seeing a concerning shift.

Philip Khor
Aug 1, 2024

EPF Account 3: Flexibility or Erosion of Retirement Savings?
Penang Monthly
First published in Penang Monthly (June 2024).
Philip Khor
Jun 1, 2024

Brain drain: not as big a problem as you think
First published on LinkedIn.
Philip Khor
May 29, 2024

Temperatures 🌡️

Panasnya

Philip Khor
May 13, 2024

Hello Julia
Not sure how I landed up browsing through Julia for Data Science and Julia Data Science this Saturday evening. Julia is a fascinating language, but I think the learning…
Philip Khor
Apr 28, 2024

The Limited Local Benefits of Swiftonomics
Penang Monthly
This article was first published in the April 2024 issue of Penang Monthly.
Philip Khor
Apr 26, 2024
 
My approach to Covid-19 in 2024
Four years into the pandemic, my refusal to align myself with the rest of society sleepwalking into a replay of 2019 norms of work and life has set me back for years…
Philip Khor
Apr 1, 2024

When Less Is More Expensive: The Trend of Shrinkflation
Penang Monthly
First published in Penang Monthly (September 2023).
Philip Khor
Sep 1, 2023

Seasonality in decarbonisation

or, perhaps, the carbon costs of returning to the office?

Philip Khor
Aug 31, 2023
 
(Individual) tax rebates suck

One of my pet peeves is to see people advocate for tax rebates when they should know better.

Philip Khor
Jul 9, 2023

Gradient boosting?
There’s no shortage of machine learning hot takes on how the XGBoost gradient boosting framework continues to defy the no-free-lunch theorem by being perhaps the most…
Philip Khor
Apr 20, 2022

Nested cross-validation
In Why do cross-validation, I described cross-validation as a way of evaluating your modeling workflow from start to end to help you pick the appropriate model and avoid…
Philip Khor
Oct 24, 2020

Why do cross-validation?
In short, we do cross-validation to pick the right model. But what does that mean for our ‘final model’?
Philip Khor
Oct 11, 2020

WSL2 and R
R
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a great way to run Linux software on your computer without dual-booting or starting over. For certain reasons, you may want to run R in…
Philip Khor
Aug 27, 2020

Charts can lie
Data visualization is something we use to understand our data. Sure, it has some aesthetic function, but its primary purpose is to communicate what’s in the data.
Philip Khor
Oct 14, 2019
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