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I can’t sleep but I can eat Pad Thai

The title of this post is inspired by the book I read while on the plane: I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki. I picked up this book…

Aug 8, 2022

I can’t sleep but I can eat Pad Thai

Aug 8, 2022

(Insufficient) Cramming for coding interview

After performing less than excellent at a technical interview today (expected since I haven’t covered half the coding interview materials…

Feb 10, 2022

(Insufficient) Cramming for coding interview

Feb 10, 2022

Models for pathogen transmission

The following is an abridged version of an essay based on a lecture on herd immunity and pathogen transmission that I wrote for a class. It…

Jan 12, 2022

Jan 12, 2022

Games, graphs and cancer

The Prisoner’s dilemma is a ‘game’ where we imagine 2 people are in cahoots for a crime, the police drag each of them off to interrogate…

Nov 20, 2021

Games, graphs and cancer

Nov 20, 2021

EM Algorithm

EM (Expectation-Maximisation) Algorithm is the go to algorithm whenever we have to do parameter estimation with hidden variables, such as…

Sep 18, 2021

EM Algorithm

Sep 18, 2021

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CodeX

Markov chain Monte Carlo — Gibbs Sampling for DNA sequence alignment

The Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is a sampling method that allows us to estimate parameters of an intractable or unknown, possibly high…

Mar 6, 2021

Markov chain Monte Carlo — Gibbs Sampling for DNA sequence alignment

Mar 6, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence in Plain English

The kernel trick — What is it and why does it matter? + short crash course on SVM

If you have dabbled in machine learning, you might have come across the word ‘kernel’ being thrown around casually. In the sklearn library…

Feb 20, 2021

The kernel trick — What is it and why does it matter? + short crash course on SVM

Feb 20, 2021

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The Startup

Visualizing Covariance

A common assumption when we build any model tends to be that the variables are independent, but this assumption often doesn’t hold…

Feb 11, 2021

Visualizing Covariance

Feb 11, 2021

Deriving the conditions for Turing Patterns

Right before the unfortunate events that led to his untimely death, Alan Turing published a landmark paper “The Chemical Basis of…

Jan 21, 2021

Deriving the conditions for Turing Patterns

Jan 21, 2021

Still using excel? Supercharge your productivity in 15mins with Python.

I have successfully brainwashed my Excel fanatic colleague on the virtues of Python. She became an eager student after seeing how fast and…

May 14, 2020

Still using excel? Supercharge your productivity in 15mins with Python.

May 14, 2020

Genevieve

Genevieve

I was an engineering student, a software developer at a wealth fund and now a graduate student studying computational biology.

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