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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…

7 min readAug 8, 2022

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I can’t sleep but I can eat Pad Thai

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Genevieve

(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…

2 min readFeb 10, 2022

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(Insufficient) Cramming for coding interview

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Genevieve

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…

5 min readJan 12, 2022

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Genevieve

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…

4 min readNov 20, 2021

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Games, graphs and cancer

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Genevieve

EM Algorithm

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

5 min readSep 18, 2021

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EM Algorithm

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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…

12 min readMar 6, 2021

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Markov chain Monte Carlo — Gibbs Sampling for DNA sequence alignment

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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…

5 min readFeb 20, 2021

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

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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…

5 min readFeb 11, 2021

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Visualizing Covariance

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Genevieve

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…

4 min readJan 21, 2021

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Deriving the conditions for Turing Patterns

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Genevieve

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…

6 min readMay 14, 2020

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

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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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