Digital childhood or social experiment? The unintended consequences of growing up onlineSocial media has become a validation machine, feeding our need for likes, comments, and followers. But what’s the cost?Aug 27Aug 27
Ideology and Social Networks: Why Smart People Believe Stupid IdeasWe all like to consider ourselves smart. We all like to believe that we are right. Myself included. But when I look back at certain ideas…Nov 4, 20231Nov 4, 20231
Twitter’s problem is short form content. And Elon doesn’t get it.Twitter and all social media platforms have always had one problem. We can theorize and place the blame on a lot of factors.Nov 13, 2022Nov 13, 2022
Published inTech MusingsPerson Re-identification with Deep LearningIn a general sense, Person Re-identification (aka Person ReID) belongs to a larger class of “tracking-by-detection” problems.May 11, 2022May 11, 2022
The US shouldn’t have ignored Mitt Romney’s comments on RussiaConsidering the huge implications and loss of human life that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused, it is hard for me to not look…Mar 1, 2022Mar 1, 2022
Covid-19 Vaccines Mythbusting — Part 3: Why it is not fair to compare vaccines based on efficacy?Recently, I have watched so many people on news channels and on social media using efficacy alone as a metric to make a claim that a…Apr 1, 2021Apr 1, 2021
Covid-19 Vaccines Mythbusting — Part 2 : Debunking a fake news prevalent in MaduraiThe recent news about a 26 year old female doctor’s ( Dr. Hari Harini ) death after taking a shot of Covishield a month earlier has become…Mar 23, 2021Mar 23, 2021
Covid-19 Vaccine Mythbusting — Part 1: Vaccine Side Effects are NormalVaccine rollouts for COVID-19 vaccines are moving at an extraordinary pace; but a staple of the 21st century, fake news, is also rolling…Mar 15, 2021Mar 15, 2021
Published inDataDrivenInvestorLearning to learn better: lessons from a Gen-Z kid’s decade long experience with online learningIt seems like yesterday; I was sitting in front of my computer and I googled “How to”, and one of the autocomplete options was, “How to…Nov 28, 2020Nov 28, 2020
US Elections 2020: Part 2- The Senate electionsThis post is the second part of my series of articles related to the 2020 US Elections. This one is about the elections for the US Senate…Oct 19, 2020Oct 19, 2020
