When is Singapore going to upgrade and use AI to save hawking business and food recipe?

 The quality of the hawker centres and food courts has been given a leg up with graduates joining the business, like graduates driving grabs for a living. This is upgrading from the quality of the labour being injected into the trade. So far, other than a few optics on such a trend changing event, the focus is on the quality of food preparation and maybe presentation. But how much can be changed other than having food prepared by graduates or served by graduates? The tertiary education may help in food hygiene perhaps.

What can graduates bring into this traditional trade that illiterate grandpa and grandma can do and even do better? Cashless payments using apps in mobile phones like restaurants may look cool and chic. Expanding into home delivery using apps and delivery services could add another dimension to the business. What really may be game changing is AI and robotics. How about that? Getting robots to do the cooking and serving? China is already having these, with robotic coffee maker. To go further and deeper, let the AI to start evaluating the food preparation, food quality. Health value may be another way to go. Oops, AI and robotics may replace the human labour in the trade, top most and most convenient will be table cleaners and dishwashers.

The professionals in the business would have many better ideas on how to adapt AI and robotics to upgrade the hawking business and take it to the next level. All hawker centres and food courts will be run and served by AI machines, food vending machines and robotics, and the graduates can stay behind the curtain to manage the change, the apps and machine learning.

Traditional business and trade are cute and emotional to be preserved for posterity. But to remain viable in the future when the returns have to be good enough to retain graduates, when more than 50% of the population will be graduates, and to compete with foreign talents, hawking and food business need to do more than what it is doing now to survive. Instead of Michelin Stars, have stalls hanging up graduate degrees and diplomas. Otherwise, other than a few graduates to keep some freshness in the trade, it will eventually be taken over by cheaper and more hardworking foreigners.

Just some fanciful musing.

Operation Kill Iranians - Iran is winning by doing nothing, just bleed the American regime dry by keeping the Americans in the quicksand

 The Operation to kill Iranians, to cripple the economies of the Arab and Muslim states will go on and on. These are the objectives of Netanyahu and Trump. Both need the war to go on forever. The crippling of the Arab and Muslim states would take some time to take effect. Anyone believing that the Jews and the American terrorists want to end the war must have his head checked. Prolonging the war is good and necessary for the survival and to stay in power for Trump and Netanyahu The Jews are all for it. The empty head hillbillies and rednecks are also for it. But the ignorant and uninvolved American masses may not be for it but could not do anything about it. They cannot remove Trump and his clowns nor the traitors in Washington that have been bought over by the Israelis and working for the interests of the Israelis.

Keeping the war going seems the goal of Netanyahu and Trump. The thing is how long can they do so without the American people rebelling and marching in the streets like the dying days of the Vietnam War? Trump is still controlling all the news to prevent the American public from knowing the true damage from this war. He keeps saying we are winning, but not telling the Americans how many American boys and girls have been killed and had returned home in body bags. He is not telling the Americans how much it is costing America for each day the war is on. The American Treasury is bleeding. The numbers and euphoria in Wall Street are fake and can pop any time. The real American economy is collapsing everyday.

Iran should just hold on, while getting the full support from its allies, China, Russia, North Korea and the Arab and Muslim states, quietly and covertly of course. All the Arab and Muslim states, with a few exceptions, are behind Iran. The cost for prolonging this war, sitting on home ground, is relatively low compares to the cost to the Americans and Israelis. For sitting under the desert sun or under the tropical heat in the oceans, the American boys and girls are literally being cooked and barbequed alive. And the logistics and supply chains to keep them happy are enormous. US$1b or US$2b a day is going to bleed the American dry in no time. How long can the Americans keep printing money before they run out of ink and paper?

The Iranians have friends with deep pockets to keep them going, with food and weapons. Who is supporting the American and Israeli terrorists? The Europeans have abandoned them. They are on their own. The tiny Israeli economy is cooked. How many more days or months can the Americans and Israelis hold on to this war? China and Russia alone have enough to keep feeding the Iranians for as long as it needs, for what it takes. Iran has the world's factory and the world's biggest agriculture power house behind it.

Turn this into another Vietnam without American forces on the ground, but still bleeding the American and Israeli resources. They cannot tolerate hardship and deprivation for long. Time is on Iran's side. The 80 year old limpy dick may fall off anytime.

Huawei under sanctioned now deploying 6G. America still struggling with 4G faking as 5G

Remember that the USA Government itself is investing big in those big tech giants, which means its influence over them is more evident than hearsay. Yet the USA Government had the audacity to talk about Chinese companies having ties to the CCP, when big USA companies are even partly owned by the USA Government. The ties to the USA Government make sure that these big tech giants can have all the monetary support from the USA Government, just like today where the Government changed the rules for their IPOs by fast tracking their entry into Nasdaq.

We do remember that Huawei was sanctioned for the exact same reason of having ties to the Chinese Government. In reality, Huawei is largely owned by its employees holding its shares. Huawei was banned not for having ties to the Chinese Government. Huawei was banned for taking businesses away from other big Western telecommunication giants like Nokia and Erickson. Moreover, with Huawei's 5G setup, the USA Government was unable to utilize Huawei for its spying activities. This would be detrimental for the USA and Europeans.


Anonymous

Downing of Apache helicopter. Iranian missile marked Shahed, Made in Iran, landed on the lap of the chopper pilot without exploding

The downing of the Apache helicopter in the Strait of Hormuz is starting to be questioned. Iran is saying it was not responsible, while Trump is using this as an excuse to attack Iran once again. Was it a false flag? The USA was reported to have reverse-engineered and cloned the Shahed Drone that took down the helicopter.

There is a very interesting spin about the whole affair, with Trump speaking to someone and claiming that the Iranian Shahed Drone landed right in the cockpit area between the two pilots of the Apache helicopter, did not explode, and the two pilots were said to have escaped without any injury. A very interesting story now ought to be classified as another 'miracle on 34th Street'.

What is even more audacious is that the helicopter itself did not explode or disintegrate after being hit, even if the Shahed Drone failed to detonate. Is this even possible, I do not know, or just another miracle.

The lies generated by the USA are just impossible to believe. When they bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, they claimed they used an outdated map. An outdated map used by the world's most advanced military? Believe it or not is up to you.

Hedging on that incident, some people are saying that the USA also used an outdated map to bomb a girl's school, converted from an army camp earlier. That says a lot about the fact checking mantra we are hearing every day. How could a world-class military not do some fact checking about that girl's school is mind boggling. But the USA will get away with the mass murder, with the UN, ICC and human rights group closing their eyes to the whole affair. Any country doing that and the doggies will bark and howl day and night about war crimes and the ICC will be shouting the loudest.


Anonymous

Grow your own trees from the seeds up

 This concept seems very ancient in Singapore today. What is the point of wasting time and resources when talents are available from the rest of the world, fully trained and paid for and ready to work? This makes a lot of sense in its own ways, very cost effective, and the talents are there just in time when needed.

In the 60s and 70s, in the days of LKY and GKS, planting your own seeds and grow them, turn them into trees to bear fruits were an important policies for the nation builders. There is nothing like your own citizens to depend on, trained and grew over the years, tested and proven, to run the country. Many of the Pioneer and Merdeka generations benefited from this policy. Many were fresh graduates, many were non graduates, without real skills and experience to fill many jobs that needed to be filled. Many grew in the job, some failed, but the net result is a bunch of dedicated leaders in different fields, in the govt and ministries, to turn Singapore into a well managed, organised, discipline and rich city states.

In those days, many local corporations and ministries have executive training programmes, management trainees, taking in fresh graduates to train them from scratch to become the next generations of leaders. The system worked well then, Many of the top executives, ministers, civil servants were the beneficiaries of this system. But they have forgotten how they arrived where they are today. The scheme was quietly abandoned. Now every donkey will bray, foreign talents best, bring in more foreign talents. Without those schemes in the past, these donkeys would not have a chance to be where they are today. The foreign talents will filled their positions.

Today, the fast pace of change and the availability of easy foreign talents, all cooked and baked, to be consumed, makes such policies irrelevant and unnecessary. Today, when nation building is no longer important other than lip service, anyone will do as long as he can do the jobs and looks good for the job, locals or foreigners do not matter.  Foreigners can be given the pink IC and turned into citizen with the stroke of a pen and be completely trusted with everything, with the most sensitive positions and information.

The priorities today are very different from the past. Today, citizenship, loyalty, trust, reliability do not have the same value and importance. A hotel does not need real and loyal citizens. Instant noodle is convenient and equally good. Why bother with the tedious and expensive process of training and grooming our own young citizens to be useful and productive over a longer period,... and also very costly? Just a call to the recruitment agency, there will be thousands of foreign talents available, so many to pick and choose. Chiat beh leow!

There is no need to plant your own seeds, water them, nourish them and wait for them to grow and to bear fruits in the long term. Too tedious, not cost effective. Instant tree, instant talents, instant citizens is the way to go.

What do you think?