A quick data analysis of the daily state counts for COVID-19 testing.
In the course of an academic seminar I chanced upon a few chapters from the book The Cambridge Handbook on Experts and Expertise. The object of our study, as you should be able to conclude was expertise. Now at first glance the pursuit of such a topic may seem odd or even trivial. After all we […]
Net neutrality for most of us is like a significant advance in particle physics. We know that it shall affect us in the time to come but our understanding of it is very limited. So is often the motivation to further this understanding. The title of this post is that of a book by Christopher Marsden published […]
The human population on the Earth as of 2012 was about 7 Billion. It’s probably considerably more now. Round numbers always excite us so it is no wonder that as we were hurtling towards the big 7 in 2011, National Geographic among others decided to cash in.
Any data too voluminous for you to process is big. I would classify all the names of the people I meet in a day as big data. But then my hardware is only cerebral. It is very difficult to choose one book to read on a topic which continues to captivate some of the brightest […]
With Nietzsche, one of the first fears is spelling his name wrong but that should be the least of one’s worries. (always a bad sign when I refer to myself as one). Well this text [Beyond Good and Evil] is proving difficult and not for the conventional reasons of confusion and density. No, its more to […]
If doctors were to treat patients like we treat global warming, the demand for ventilators would sky rocket. It is one of the most uncoolest of topics to discuss and even write upon. If you search for the words Global Warming one of the first result is Global Warming Essay hinting that this very relevant topic now […]
The best history is one which unfolds in front of you. The last 5 years have been filled with incidents of civil unrest, mass protests and the use of means of discontent expression which have not been so actively used perhaps since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Never before in the last 20-25 years […]
The word decent completes the above statement generally. Whatever religious, social, financial or political school of thought you may subscribe to, the inherent goodness of people is often stated and expressed faith in. One can immediately see the advantages of the verbal reaffirmation in this belief by multitudes, it sets the general expectation of society […]
Philosophy is a funny discipline, like the areas it covers and the questions it attempts to answer, its boundaries are very obscure. So its study of course is a difficult thing to undertake. The first book I decided to blog about in the VSI series turned out to be Philosophy : A Very Short Introduction by […]