“Math is the logic of certainty, and statistics is the logic of uncertainty.” Joseph Blitzstein, Harvard statistician It is supremely frustrating for scientists who work with a few of the world leaders who have extreme form of confirmation bias and refuse to update their beliefs based on new observa
“If we are not careful, AI will perpetuate the bias in this world. Computers learn how to be racist, sexist, and prejudiced in a similar way that a child does. The computers learn from their creator-us.” Aylin Caliskan, computer scientist The COVID-19 pandemic and the protests for racial equality ra
The world has been in an apocalyptic shock from COVID-19 these past few weeks and months, and unless you are on a remote island by yourself, no one is entirely safe from its incredulous reach. Terms like social distancing, flattening the curve, and mitigation have now entered into our daily consciou
“Algorithms are still made by human beings, and those algorithms are still pegged to basic human assumptions. They’re just automated assumptions. And if you don't fix the bias, then you are just automating the bias.” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) Algorithms have evolved from straigh
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Martin Luther King, Jr. in a letter from a Birmingham jail, April, 1963 This is one of the most tumultuous times in our lives. The COVID-19 pandemic, as appalling as it has been, has brought forth a few dividends: time with family, time for int
“Simple and complicated contexts assume an ordered universe, where cause-and-effect relationships are perceptible, and right answers can be determined based on the facts. Complex and chaotic contexts are unordered, and there is no immediately apparent relationship between cause and effect, and the w
“The only thing you can do that will change your future life are the decisions that you make. Otherwise you are not the wind, but the leaf in the wind.” Ronald Howard, retired Stanford professor of Electrical Engineering There is a supreme imbroglio now with the COVID-19 pandemic as it runs its apoc
“What’s natural is the microbe. All the rest-health, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never falter." The Plague by Albert Camus, French author SARS. MERS. Ebola. These are familiar names of recent pandemics that strike fear even amongst seasone
“What we have done is use natural language processing and machine learning techniques to train this engine to recognize whether this is an outbreak of anthrax in Mongolia versus a reunion of the heavy metal band Anthrax.” Kamran Kahn, CEO, BlueDot Coronavirus, or COVID-19 (2019-nCov), started in Wuh