Hello everyone! As we approach the end of 2053, this is a great time to stop and reflect on everything we’ve experienced this year. This was a bittersweet year for many of you — depending on where you live, you may have faced natural disasters, disease, political upheaval, economic collapse…

Arjun tapped away at his keyboard, changing a few model parameters, and started the simulation. He was testing out a new powertrain configuration, the result of months of research. The electric vehicle startup he had joined a year ago had ambitious goals, but he liked his work and the general…

Statistics is used for different purposes in different contexts. For example, descriptive statistics is the branch that deals with summarizing an existing sample of data. Descriptive statistics deals with the sample itself — there’s no need for any extrapolation. However, a more challenging problem that we have to address regularly…

After spending 1.5 years in an MS programme at CMU, I’ve decided to move into an applied ML role in industry instead of continuing on to a PhD. I’ve had a lot of discussions with people about the case for and against a PhD, and I thought it’d be useful…

Last week, from June 24th — 26th, Google held its Google Cloud Next ’18 conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. It was Google’s biggest event ever, with 25000 people attending. These kinds of specific product-related conferences often end up becoming a sales pitch for the product (justifiable considering…