How I got a S$7K security test waived
I did not ask SUTD to lower the bar. I changed LearnLoop until the risky parts of the original design no longer existed.
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Notes from the parts that did not fit in the demo.
The bugs, trade-offs and failed assumptions behind the projects.
I cut Clicky's wait in half without changing the model
The speedup came from measuring the critical path, overlapping independent work and playing speech before the full answer was ready.
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I was waitlisted. I sent one email. We won S$9,500.
Getting into Build for Impact was the first problem. The next was shipping my first 3D game in 24 hours.
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ChatGPT picked our mattress site. Google barely ranked it.
A 97-point SEO score looked excellent. One citation from ChatGPT exposed why eligibility, authority, demand and AI retrieval should never have been one number.
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The 16 checks that found a S$256,000 mistake
Our optimiser found a feasible fleet. A separate verifier showed that the model, report and submission did not agree.
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We built an AI that refuses to raise the alarm
SafeEdge lets a cheap detector find possible fires, then makes a second vision pass earn the right to escalate.
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Our demo died on the venue WiFi. It probably cost us the win.
The obvious culprit was the network. The postmortem found our own two-second polling loop starving the wake-word detector too.
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