Heads and tails and a liver — on

A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man — he must view the man in...

What doesn't kill you – is probably a commensal — on

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. - Theodosius Dobzhansky ...

Happy little local minimum — on

Everything is connected but some things are more connected than others. The world is a large matrix of interactions i...

Mutatis Mutandis — on

Part I : The room we were locked in Either mathematics is too big for the human mind, or the human mind is more tha...

Males fall for it — on

I recently got hooked on to the Behavioural Biology lecture series of Prof. Robert Sapolsky. It is absolutely addictive...

Lorenz, Takens, and Forecasting — on

The story of this blogpost goes back to July 2017, Santa Fe. I was a student at SFI Complex Systems Summer School, where I...

Survival of the flattest — on

Probably most of you are familiar with the problem of overfitting in machine learning. This problem occurs when the model le...

Herd Immunity — on

"If we imagine the action of a vaccine not just in terms of how...

How long should you wait? — on

"The really unusual day would be one where nothing unusual happens." -Persi Diaconis This quote above is from the very ...

Stosszahlansatz — on

"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable" -Mark Twain All theories of microscopic physics are g...

Turing Patterns — on

There are times that you discover that someone has actually named the phenomenon you have been thinking about for a significant amo...