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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.

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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.

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shitpost.anselmlong.com

i made a thing that generates absurd linkedin posts so you don't have to.

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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!

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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.

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Hack & Roll 2026: Building Optifiner, a Multi-Agent, Evolutionary Framework

We built a self-evolving agentic code optimizer. Also: the welfare was insane.

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NUS Aircon Checker: Reverse Engineering A Flutter Portal (With Opencode)

I reverse engineered an API from a website with oh-my-opencode.

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Gemini 3 Hackathon: Building Sequence, an AI powered Video Editor

Building Sequence, an AI-powered video editor at the Gemini 3 Hackathon.

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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.

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Almost Anselm: Cloning my Telegram Personality by Fine Tuning an LLM

I fine-tuned Mistral-7b with Axolotl on Telegram messages.

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Gesture Detection with YOLOv8: Brainrot Edition

Recognising gestures with YOLOv8 and pulling up brainrot images based on that...

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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).

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freak-cha

36 hours. 8 hours of sleep. no showers. Funniest Hack at HackHarvard 2025.

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Making anselmlong.com: The Agentic Upgrade

Enhancing my portfolio website to do more stuff. Agentic.

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Making anselmlong.com

Finally got off my ass and tried to build something.

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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!

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First blog post, kinda nervous

Join me on my process to uncook myself! First blog post - I'll backdate other earlier posts.

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Creating a gift chooser for my girlfriend

Practicing my frontend with a small webpage dedicated to my girlfriend's birthday

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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 :)

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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!

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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...

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Miccdrop: a shitty karaoke app

Hack and Roll 2025

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My First Software Engineering Project - VBook (VimBook)

My first software engineering project for CS2103T

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