I 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…Aug 8, 2022Aug 8, 2022
(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…Feb 10, 2022Feb 10, 2022
Models 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…Jan 12, 2022Jan 12, 2022
Games, 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…Nov 20, 2021Nov 20, 2021
EM AlgorithmEM (Expectation-Maximisation) Algorithm is the go to algorithm whenever we have to do parameter estimation with hidden variables, such as…Sep 18, 2021Sep 18, 2021
Published inCodeXMarkov 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…Mar 6, 2021Mar 6, 2021
Published inArtificial 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…Feb 20, 2021Feb 20, 2021
Published inThe StartupVisualizing CovarianceA common assumption when we build any model tends to be that the variables are independent, but this assumption often doesn’t hold…Feb 11, 20211Feb 11, 20211
Deriving 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…Jan 21, 20211Jan 21, 20211
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, 2020May 14, 2020