I was recently shared an article from a surgeon about his experience with how vacation time worked at his hospital. His hospital had recently instituted a policy that surgeons (who don’t have a fixed hour workweek) could take more than their allotted leaves if they forfeited their pay for the extra days they took off. […]
A couple of days ago, I was at my gym when I saw a man wearing a cloth mask walk around the weights floor. He had his whole face and neck covered, and he was carrying a heavy sack to one of the rooms on the gym floor. My eyes almost immediately started watching him […]
Going back to Hong Kong after 7 months for a work trip felt different. A lot had changed – I could sense how the city was trying to get back on its feet after the tumultuous events of last year. The national security law had all but stopped the protests. Spirits felt a bit dampened, […]
Let’s start by loading the data into memory first. The data is per minute stock prices for the SNP500 bucket for the 10 days prior to 17 Dec. This means we have 390 x 10 so about 3900 rows per stock. This, however, is not absolutely true since some data has holes in it – […]
An intuitive interpretation for PCA results
Introduction I recently was able to get my hands on raw stock prices data (open, high, low, close and volume) for the Standard And Poor’s 500 index (SNP500). The data was for each stock in the SNP500 bucket (actually 504 stocks since some of the stocks are listed twice for different types of shares issued) […]
I was looking to experiment with some of the machine learning techniques I had been learning the past few months. I was particularly interested if I could glean any insights about the education system in Pakistan. Despite the efforts of the government, a large proportion of the nation is illiterate and the state of education […]
Individuals and their moral obligations to defeat social injustices in society or immediate vicinity.
Are secular societies better at assimiliating immigrants compared to not so secular ones?
Viktor Frankl was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. In his book – Man’s Search For Meaning, he writes about the psychology of the prisoners in the Holocaust concentration camps. I very recently read a passage on suffering (and what meaning people can derive from it) in Frankl’s amazing book. […]