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What I learnt building a controlled AI-access platform for a CTF, and why handover does not mean letting go.
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Replicating ConfessIT: Fine-Tuning Qwen 2.5 7B on 72K Anonymous Confessions
Another stupid fine-tuning project. This time on the average ConfessIT user.
fine tuningunslothnus
What 72,000 Confessions Reveal About NUS Students
Scraping over 72,000 confessions from 18,000 users: A deep dive into the embedding landscape, viral dynamics, and thematic structure of NUSConfessIT.
machine learningdata analysisnus
shitpost.anselmlong.com
i made a thing that generates absurd linkedin posts so you don't have to.
side projectnext.jsai
Open-Sourcing My Cheatsheets: Why I Still Write Them by Hand
Even though AI is great for learning, sometimes it's best to get into the nitty gritty and write out a cheatsheet yourself. I decided to open source mine to help others!
learningopen-sourceeducation
Canvas Scraper: A 3-Hour Prototype That Turned Into A Daily Tool
I was lazy to click buttons, so I built a Canvas file sync tool. Now I actually use it.
nusautomationscraping
Hack & Roll 2026: Building Optifiner, a Multi-Agent, Evolutionary Framework
We built a self-evolving agentic code optimizer. Also: the welfare was insane.
hackathonagentsevolutionary
NUS Aircon Checker: Reverse Engineering A Flutter Portal (With Opencode)
I reverse engineered an API from a website with oh-my-opencode.
nusautomationreverse-engineering
Gemini 3 Hackathon: Building Sequence, an AI powered Video Editor
Building Sequence, an AI-powered video editor at the Gemini 3 Hackathon.
hackathonvideo processinggemini
Evaluating ChatSelm: Comparing Human and LLM Responses
Evaluating my fine-tuned LLM (almost-anselm) against prompts, comparing its responses to mine and seeing if my friends can spot the difference.
llmaxolotlqlora
Almost Anselm: Cloning my Telegram Personality by Fine Tuning an LLM
I fine-tuned Mistral-7b with Axolotl on Telegram messages.
llmaxolotlqlora
Gesture Detection with YOLOv8: Brainrot Edition
Recognising gestures with YOLOv8 and pulling up brainrot images based on that...
YOLOv8computer visionroboflow
Predicting Employee Turnover with Random Forest
End-to-end pipeline: preprocessing, modeling, and interpretation for predicting employee turnover (best F1 ≈ 0.74 with Random Forest).
machine-learningrandom forestpytorch
freak-cha
36 hours. 8 hours of sleep. no showers. Funniest Hack at HackHarvard 2025.
hackathonnext.jstailwind css
Making anselmlong.com: The Agentic Upgrade
Enhancing my portfolio website to do more stuff. Agentic.
langgraph
Making anselmlong.com
Finally got off my ass and tried to build something.
next.jstypescriptRAG
What did I do during my Y1 summer intern? Googling... lots of it
My first internship at IMDA wasn't very technical but I still learnt a lot!
pythonresearchbs4
First blog post, kinda nervous
Join me on my process to uncook myself! First blog post - I'll backdate other earlier posts.
personalportfoliointro
Creating a gift chooser for my girlfriend
Practicing my frontend with a small webpage dedicated to my girlfriend's birthday
personalnext.jstailwind css
Managing the distance with Python and Telegram Bots
Long distance sucks! I created a telegram bot with Python to help the distance feel less far :)
personalpythontelegram bot
Machine Learning for Cybersecurity Use Cases
My final report for my machine learning intern! I think I was quite comprehensive here. Recreated it in markdown for easier reading but I'll attach the PDF version inside too!
machine-learningcybersecurityinternship
Data and a Dream
Probably my most tech-focused experience to date. I had 3 months and 1 priority - to detect which web certificates were malicious and which weren't. All I had was data and a dream...
pythonmachine learningscikit-learn
Miccdrop: a shitty karaoke app
Hack and Roll 2025
hackathonsupabasereact native
My First Software Engineering Project - VBook (VimBook)
My first software engineering project for CS2103T
javajavafxcs2103t