The science behind COVID-19 asymptomatic spread — Pictured: Still necessary, unfortunately. Source: Pexels There are so many myths about COVID-19 that sometimes it is really quite challenging to keep up. Despite spending the end of 2020 writing about numerous myths, and why the were wrong, they still pop up with alarming regularity. Case in point: the new…

Predicting is difficult — especially about the future, But how about predicting like the next few words in a sentence? We will explore a statistical algorithm which has been a pre-cursor to many advanced algorithms in field of Natural Language Processing. — Photo by Natalia Y on Unsplash In the following sections, we will explore the possibility of assigning a probability score to the next word in the sentence. For example: what word is likely to follow: Please turn your notebook… most likely word is ‘over’ but probably not ‘food’.

Python Software Development Software Engineering Data Science Data EngineeringIs Python Really a Bottleneck? I’m tired of articles about Python dying Photo by Josh Hild from Pexels Full disclosure — I’m currently working as a Python Engineer, and therefore you can consider me biased. But I want to unravel some critics about Python and reflect on whether the…

The ancient Stoic philosophy of death — Forget all else, Lucilius, and concentrate your thoughts on this one thing: not to fear the name of death. Through long reflection make death one of your close acquaintances, so that, if the situation arises, you are able even to go out and meet it. — Seneca, On Earthquakes One…

Should we take these big talkers seriously? — Fort Sumter (Getty/Arc) Some stalwart loyalists to President Trump have threatened — or “merely predicted,” as they might say if they were ever charged with sedition — a civil war over the results of the November 2020 presidential election. More disturbingly, radical right-wing leaders in the Republican Party like Allen…

Photo by Jose Antonio Gallego Vázquez on Unsplash Stage 1 in progress Since March 2020 when the Covid-19 lockdowns and business closures began, when unemployment started to spike, when the financial system was already failing but went unacknowledged, we have been in “Stage 1”. Since March 2020 when the Covid-19 lockdowns and business closures…

An interview with medical anthropologist Paul Farmer on his new book In 2014, an Ebola virus began to spread throughout Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. …

An interview with medical anthropologist Paul Farmer on his new book In 2014, an Ebola virus began to spread throughout Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. …

We are in the process of repeating the errors we’ve made over and over Credit: Sergi Escribano / Getty Images The highway day of new cases in over a month. But the president is not talking about that. With 200,000 lives lost, it would be great to say the worst is behind us. All I can say is the worst is still in charge. …