Twitter and all social media platforms have always had one problem. We can theorize and place the blame on a lot of factors. But the one thing I am sure about is that, unlike what Elon thinks, the problems aren’t really engineering problems. It is political. Political polarization existed long…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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. …