explainer Lies Lying can be ordered on the scale of morality - White lies, lies to protect privacy, redirecting conversation topics, learning in a biased way to reinforce beliefs, lying by omission, misrepresentation, falsehoods. That's how I see the spectrum.
explainer Cognitive biases Cognitive biases are heuristics build into our brains from the past which might have been useful in the ancestral environment. These are systematic ways in which humans are irrational. It is worth knowing and correcting for them.
deep Goodhart's law Goodhart's law says "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" This idea is pervasive across society where you apply pressure on measures for control purposes. I explain how.
philosophy Those who can't, teach What did Bernard mean when he said “He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches", I would like to believe it was said in a plaintive tone.
maths GATE Linear Algebra Solutions Elegant solutions to selected questions from Linear Algebra part of GATE exam.
explainer Wishes in Genshin Impact Using a Markov chain to model the Genshin Impact's gacha system. Find out the probabilities, expected number of wishes, and cost of each character in human currency!
tech How I made my website How I set up my website within an hour. A ghost blog with my own custom domain name. This is free for students taking advantage of the credits offered by Microsoft.
deep Featured Abstraction What is an abstraction? a concept? a process? a class? Why is it a powerful idea and how pervasive is it in our lives? I hope to try and provide some food for thought.