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·5 days ago

Person Re-identification with Deep Learning

In a general sense, Person Re-identification (aka Person ReID) belongs to a larger class of “tracking-by-detection” problems. To understand it, let’s take a small example. We are recording a football match in a stadium, and let’s assume that the broadcaster is using 8 cameras. We are tasked with developing a…

Deep Learning

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Person Re-identification with Deep Learning
Person Re-identification with Deep Learning

Mar 1

The US shouldn’t have ignored Mitt Romney’s comments on Russia

Considering the huge implications and loss of human life that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused, it is hard for me to not look back at the 2012 US presidential election. Before I move forward, I want to make two things very clear. Firstly, just because I say that…

Ukraine

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The US shouldn’t have ignored Mitt Romney’s comments on Russia
The US shouldn’t have ignored Mitt Romney’s comments on Russia

Apr 1, 2021

Covid-19 Vaccines Mythbusting — Part 3: Why it is not fair to compare vaccines based on efficacy and why you should get the one that is available to you immediately?

Recently, I have watched so many people on news channels and on social media using vaccine efficacy alone as a metric to make a claim that a specific vaccine is better than the other. There is also an emerging hesitancy over vaccines because of recent news and research that point…

Covid 19

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Covid-19 Vaccines Mythbusting — Part 3: Why it is not fair to compare vaccines based on efficacy?
Covid-19 Vaccines Mythbusting — Part 3: Why it is not fair to compare vaccines based on efficacy?

Mar 23, 2021

Covid-19 Vaccines Mythbusting — Part 2 : Debunking a fake news prevalent in Madurai

The recent news about a 26-year old female doctor’s ( Dr. Hari Harini ) death has become a source of fake news and fearmongering against Covid-19 vaccines in and around Madurai. The doctor had taken her first shot of Covishield on 5th of February. A month later, she had developed…

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Covid-19 Vaccines Mythbusting — Part 2 : Debunking a fake news prevalent in Madurai
Covid-19 Vaccines Mythbusting — Part 2 : Debunking a fake news prevalent in Madurai

Mar 15, 2021

Covid-19 Vaccines Mythbusting — Part 1: Vaccine Side Effects are Normal

Vaccine rollouts for COVID-19 vaccines are moving at an extraordinary pace; but a staple of the 21st century, fake news, is also rolling out at an extraordinary pace as well. The Covid-19 pandemic is the first pandemic in history in which technology and media have been used at a massive…

Pandemic

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Covid-19 Vaccine Mythbusting — Part 1: Vaccine Side Effects are Normal
Covid-19 Vaccine Mythbusting — Part 1: Vaccine Side Effects are Normal

Published in DataDrivenInvestor

·Nov 28, 2020

Learning to learn better: Lessons from a Gen-Z kid’s decade long experience with online learning

It 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 create a website” and out of curiosity, I clicked on it and there started my online learning journey. It is hard to accept that…

Online Education

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Learning to learn better: lessons from a Gen-Z kid’s decade long experience with online learning
Learning to learn better: lessons from a Gen-Z kid’s decade long experience with online learning

Oct 19, 2020

US Elections 2020: Part 2- The Senate elections

This 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, while the first one is about the US Presidential election. You can read my first part by clicking here. Alright. 35 Senate seats…

US Elections

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US Elections 2020: Part 2- The Senate elections
US Elections 2020: Part 2- The Senate elections

Oct 19, 2020

US Elections 2020: Part 1- The Road to the White House

The US is just 14 days away from the election date, where they will not only vote for their next president but also the House of Representatives, 33 senate seats that are up for reelection and 2 more senate special election seats in Georgia and Arizona. …

US Elections

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US Elections 2020: Part 1- The Road to the White House
US Elections 2020: Part 1- The Road to the White House

Sep 1, 2020

Covid-19 Vaccines Are Not The Reset Buttons To Pre-Pandemic Normalcy

Note: This article is only meant to explain why a vaccine alone won’t help us tackle this pandemic. I don’t imply that we shouldn’t invest in vaccines or that vaccines are ineffective. Covid-19 vaccines will help save a lot of lives, but we shouldn’t consider it as the sole ‘saviour’…

Pandemic

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Covid-19 Vaccines Are Not The Reset Buttons To Pre-Pandemic Normalcy
Covid-19 Vaccines Are Not The Reset Buttons To Pre-Pandemic Normalcy

Aug 4, 2020

The Science Is Clear. Homoeopathy Does Not Work.

Homoeopathy is one of the most popular and most controversial alternative medicines present today. Homoeopathy medicines provide a global revenue of almost 15.98 billion dollars annually for pharmaceutical companies and are expected to grow by 16.8% between 2018 and 2024, which is huge. Around 60% of people in Europe have…

Medicine

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The Science Is Clear. Homoeopathy Does Not Work.
The Science Is Clear. Homoeopathy Does Not Work.
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