GenevieveI can’t sleep but I can eat Pad ThaiThe 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…7 min read·Aug 8, 2022----
Genevieve(Insufficient) Cramming for coding interviewAfter performing less than excellent at a technical interview today (expected since I haven’t covered half the coding interview materials…2 min read·Feb 10, 2022----
GenevieveModels for pathogen transmissionThe 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…5 min read·Jan 12, 2022----
GenevieveGames, graphs and cancerThe 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…4 min read·Nov 20, 2021----
GenevieveEM AlgorithmEM (Expectation-Maximisation) Algorithm is the go to algorithm whenever we have to do parameter estimation with hidden variables, such as…5 min read·Sep 18, 2021----
GenevieveinCodeXMarkov chain Monte Carlo — Gibbs Sampling for DNA sequence alignmentThe Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is a sampling method that allows us to estimate parameters of an intractable or unknown, possibly high…12 min read·Mar 6, 2021----
GenevieveinArtificial Intelligence in Plain EnglishThe kernel trick — What is it and why does it matter? + short crash course on SVMIf you have dabbled in machine learning, you might have come across the word ‘kernel’ being thrown around casually. In the sklearn library…5 min read·Feb 20, 2021----
GenevieveinThe StartupVisualizing CovarianceA common assumption when we build any model tends to be that the variables are independent, but this assumption often doesn’t hold…5 min read·Feb 11, 2021--1--1
GenevieveDeriving the conditions for Turing PatternsRight before the unfortunate events that led to his untimely death, Alan Turing published a landmark paper “The Chemical Basis of…4 min read·Jan 21, 2021--1--1
GenevieveStill 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…6 min read·May 14, 2020----