Praveen BenedictIdeology 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…6 min read·Nov 4, 2023----
Praveen BenedictTwitter’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.4 min read·Nov 13, 2022----
Praveen BenedictinTech 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.7 min read·May 11, 2022----
Praveen BenedictThe 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…4 min read·Mar 1, 2022----
Praveen BenedictCovid-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…13 min read·Apr 1, 2021----
Praveen BenedictCovid-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…5 min read·Mar 23, 2021----
Praveen BenedictCovid-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…9 min read·Mar 15, 2021----
Praveen BenedictinDataDrivenInvestorLearning 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…18 min read·Nov 28, 2020----
Praveen BenedictUS 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…13 min read·Oct 19, 2020----
Praveen BenedictUS Elections 2020: Part 1- The Road to the White HouseThe 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…16 min read·Oct 19, 2020----