Comic Fiesta

If you guys followed me via Instagram or Facebook, you'll know that recently I have been to a nearby anime festival comic fiesta at Dataran Pahlawan Melaka. Truthfully speaking, I have never been to any comic fiesta ever despite knowing it all over the internet, more specifically on the newsfeed on how exciting it is.

So on that particular day, I was like why not I try to go to this festival for once kan. Wouldnt it be interesting? And soooo long story short, I did! It was definitely beyond my expectation when I reached there. There were soo many cosplayers all over the place and each of them were really on point on the costumes with the characters that they represents. I took over 100 photos and my friend pulak took like 300++ photos. We literally spend hours from 1pm to 6 pm there. We took a few photos and here they are.

Kakashi from Naruto wearing a Tux instead

Im not sure what character is this but she was sooo eye-catching

Cute kan?

The sword she's carrying is freakin real O_O

Kaneki and Touka from Tokyo Ghoul

Im not sure where is this from. Power Rangers kot?

Cleaner pon cosplay kot hahahahhaha JKJK. Its a maid uniform

Not sure nie dari mana, but people submit this photo to me to feature in the blog huhu

Enma Ai from Jigoku Shoujo, Naruto and BoBoBoy

Rem bridal costume from Re : Zero

This one by far won the most cute and best cosplay from all the cosplays that were shown. She was freakin adorable and some guys after me literally queue up for a photo session with the girl. Soo cute la dik hahaha

The cosplayers are all very generous and bubbly during the event. Like not even single of them refused to take selfies with the fans around them. I got to know some of them along the way since we literally shared the same interests. Most of them are chinese and from Sabahan and Sarawak. Ahh, how I'm soo jealous as to how they can maintain their skin colour. They were soo bright and looks pretty much flawless kot. Wish I had that kind of skin haha.. but then kalau ada kena cosplay la pulak hahahahha.

Aside from the cosplays, I got to meet a bestfriend of mine, Byatul and Liyana from highschool dulu. The day seems to get better and better. She was around Melaka for a few days for a runaway vacation after finishing her practical. Both of them was around the fiesta perimeter when we met. We took a few selfies and have some KFC lunch together along the way before officially departs from each other. 

Its funny that I felt that during that day, time seems to fly soo fast. I wished I could take more and more photos with the cosplayers because there lots and lots of them there and I didnt manage to talk to all of them due to lack of time. Anyhow, if someone would ask me if I wanted to go to a comic fiesta/ anime festival again, I would be like...

Procrastination

Procrastination. A terrible habit we all do, well most of us at least. I dont know its just something I cant discipline myself out of. Why do people procrastinate?

Its almost a challenge like, what is the least possible time it would take for me to eventually complete this task, you know?

Its like when you play video game and theres that level where you have to kill all the enemies in a dungeon, disarm a bomb and save your friends before it explodes annihilating all of you into oblivion kind of stuffs. You wouldnt feel pressured or challenged if you had all the time in the world right or there was no bomb threat.

I think I even remember the first time I discover procrastination. It was like discovering how to live for the first time. I was extremely diligent with my work as a kid having strict parents that put a lot of discipline towards education and stuffs similar to it. I had homework that was due like the next day but a Naruto and Dragonball Z movie was airing that particular night and my mom said

" Adik! Dah siap semua kerja sekolah? "

and I kinda lied (sorry ibu kalau ibu baca nie.. tipu tu time darjah 4 haha) and said yes.

The movie finishes and I was surprisingly exhausted afterwards and I endup passing out. I wake up and its THE NEXT DAY. I started panicking over my incomplete homework but after a minute I stopped.

Eventually, I paused and think..

" Okay Sam, okay! Fokus, kerja sekolah tu untuk mata pelajaran Matematik, hari nie masa matematik tu start selepas rehat pukul 11, kalau aku buat kerja sekolah tu time waktu rehat and sambil makan-makan, mungkin cukup masa kot untuk habiskan benda tu, oh and masa untuk sebelum rehat tu waktu Bahasa Melayu, and cikgu BM tu agak sempoi maybe boleh kot slow2 buat benda tu belakang dia.. "

Right? Like you start going covert ops on your homework and milking any possible time you have until the deadline. Hahaha. You guys remember how offended teachers get when you work on homework that's not from their class and it's like dude, you ain't the only one on my plate and this homework is like between life and death for meeee!

Maths class comes around and the teacher asks everyone to take out assignments and I pulled it out so quickly and proudly like I wanted to boast about how much time I worked on it like..

" Korang tengok tak movie cerita Naruto dgn Dragonball semalam? 

Fuh aku buat keje math nie sambil layan dua movieeee nie dooooohhh!!! HAHAHAHA "

Well, time flew by and it gets progressively worse from then on procrastination became my life. Like going to bed for example. I would probably be like

" Kalau aku tido an exact 34 mins from now, 

Ill get 6 hours of sleep~ Mehh~~ Leh lagi dota satu game~ Letsuuu GOOO! "

I mean when you think about it, life itself is a very long chain of procrastination right? As morbid as it sounds, we just occupy ourselves with distractions and time consumers until we reached the end of our lives. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that being alive or the things that we do on to day-to-day basis are pointless, but it is rather the exact opposite of that. To procrastinate doesn't necessarily mean to underachieve. 

It means to delay or postpone action. Often something you HAVE TO DO for something you WANT TO DO. Some of you maybe at a crossroads of your life where you're deciding over what you want to do for a living. You may want to procrastinate if you have the luxury to do so of course. To take time and explore your choices before settling on something you might not entirely enjoy. 

For example like procrastinate on searching for a partner you may not even need just because your aunt and uncle that every family gathering asked if you're married yet. You probably procrastinating right now reading this post and you might even do something else afterwards like watching youtube videos or playing games along the way kan.

While I do not claim responsibility for missed deadlines or whatever, just know that it is sometimes okay to just treat yourself, you know. 

AI and My Two-Cents About It

The concept of AI is something that I think we are all familiar with, thanks to numerous amount of TV shows, movies, and novels. For me personally I found this some sort of tired concept. You just seen it too many times in Sci-Fi and especially the idea that AI is going to take over.

We have seen it movies like Terminator, Space Odyssey and as well as some of my favourite novels like I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. Don't get me wrong, I find it a very interesting concept eventhough its overused, but when Stephen Hawkins in 2014 came out and said..

" But I think the development of full artificial intelligence would spell the end of the human race "

My mind sorta went..

" Pff... Stephennn, dude.. Whattdooya know about anything okay? Do you watch Rick and Morty? Cuz I do and I think I have a little better grasp of the universe concept ideas like AI. Just stick to your science stuff all right? Thank you very mucccchhh!  "

The concept of AI taking over feels so far off because it seems so obscured, the way its portrayed in Hollywood movies or in the work of fiction. However in reality its actually, I think or from what I've learned an ACTUAL THREAT!

The idea that Arnold Schwarzenegger could come back and kill us all, its not as far away as we think.

How do we come to this conclusion?

I'm gonna try and explain okay, but to be honest, I truly dont know shit about what Im talking about soo please cut me some slack along the way if you think I had the wrong opinion. If we take back a couple of steps, there's this game of tic-tac-toe that I found, no matter what move you make, the computer would never let you win.

Its kinda annoying. Its programmed with algorithms so that no matter what move I make in those exactly what move to counter it to make sure that I can't win no matter what. Well, I suppose that's not a big deal huh? But lets take a more complex game than tic-tac-toe like chess for example. There's a lot more possible outcomes in that game. Some foresaw that within ten years a digital computer will beat a world chess champion.

It didnt take 10 years at all. Not until 1997

You may of heard of this, it was quite the big deal at the time, DeepBlue was the first computer that was able to beat the reigning chess champion at the time Garry Kasparov.

Now it still doesn't seem like that big of a deal and basically the way deep-blue worked was that it would scan every single possible outcome it could make about 200,000 per second. It would then make the best decision based on what he could find through this method of scanning. At this point,

I'm still like

" Pff.. Stephen Hawking, I have seen the videos of machines falling over alright. I think we have nothing to worry about " 

Afterwards here's is where I think its gets interesting. In March 15, 2016, the champion of the Chinese board game go was beaten by an AI against Alpha-Go.

Now the sole reason why this is such a big deal is because in Chess you only had so many options, but in GO there are so many different moves that you could make and there are more possible moves that you can make than there are atoms in the universe and there's no way that you're going to be able to compute that amount of options to figure out, whats the best move to make? So the question is..

How do they make this?

It might not seem that not big of a deal either but its really cool. It basically uses deep reinforcement learning which is similar to how we learn as humans, through trial and error, reward and punishment and of course raw inputs.

The computer figure learns itself how to become good at the game. Not too long ago, there was a viral video from sethbling that uses method to teach a computer to play Mario and it became really freaking good at it.

Basically it uses neural network to learn how to play the game which is similar to how we think as human beings and with enough computing power, you could simulate a human brain in this way. I know its kinda exaggerating but yeah we are not there yet!

Of course it wasnt good from the beginning and it had to learn how to get good. The AI first dont even know where it has to go and what option available and what Mario is and eventually it figures out it needs to move right but through different generations and learning from trial and error and adapting from these mistakes. It eventually becomes better and better and yeah you got it, the similar method was used for the AlphaGo program where it would train against itself slowly becoming better and better and eventually a master at the game.

Theres also a super cool video about a robot that doesnt know that it has limps but it teaches itself how to walk despite of this. It sorts of figures out it has four limbs but it doesnt know where those limbs on its body is attached and by trial and error it eventually figures out wheres its limbs are positioned and eventually it can very graciously move across.

Its really really cool. Self learning AI is really cool. There's a lot of advantages you can do with this like using it for design for example. Like there is this 1 video about an AI made a cabin partition that's in those most airplane which is far more reliable than the originals.

So then with Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking saying AI could become a problem in the future, that idea starts to sort of make more sense to me knowing that this is how it works.

So I quote again from one of the most famous Elon Musk's interviews saying that

" I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence if I would guess at what our biggest existential threat is its probably that "

Even Bill Gates, a guy who has been involving with computer softwares for years says that our method of evolving is very inefficient. Comparing it to how AI would be evolving and exponentially growing and knowing. Keeping that in mind, human are basically inferior lets be honest here.

With that being said, not everyone is on board in this idea that AI is going to take over or if its even a problem for the future. However, as vague as that sounds, there are still dangers involved with the development on this and we definitely need to be careful. How can we protect ourselves from ourselves? Do that question ever linger in your heads?

Anyhow, computers smarter than human beings is inevitable. That is, if you keep in mind how short we have even had technology and our presence in the universe. Now whether AI will be something good or destroy us all in the future, that's just for us to find out. I hope this post is educational to you guys and I surely hope I don't say anything wrong because I sure am no expert. Its just my two cents.

Kay guys gonna continue on the Rick on Morty show pasni.. Will post more blogpost similar to this soon~ Stay tuned