Why Blag
Ah, the old existentialist topic that plagues all too many blogs, sometimes as a “frist post!” article, other times as a retrospective question from a blogger that wonders if it has been sucking up too...
View ArticleCreating Animated GIFs with ImageMagick & ffmpeg
I’ll start off this blog with something lightweight and relatively useless except for creating amusing internet gimmicks and perhaps the occasional animated diagram. Surprisingly, there are few good...
View ArticlePebble, a watch made for iPhone/Android
I ran across this interesting gadget while stumbling upon a favorable review of it on another blog.It’s a watch with an e-Ink display that is meant to be tethered via Bluetooth to an iPhone. Besides...
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All Science is Anthropological at the Margins
It is no secret that hard science folks (think Physics, Engineering, and Math majors) sometimes look down on the “softer” sciences for being less rigorous. There is a joke that a professor from my...
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Hacker News Sidebar: An Extension for Google Chrome
tldr: I’ve fixed up the Hacker News Sidebar Chrome extension. It shows comment threads from HN in a handy tab next to any other pages that you visit. Browse the source code on GitHub, and install the...
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What New York Does Right: Street Layout
I’ll admit it. Coming back to New York after a week on the coast of South Florida in March can be a little bit of a downer. According to my roommate’s trusty Game of Thrones weather app, on a three...
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What Makes an Extraordinary Physician
I wrote this essay for my Art and Science of Medicine I course, and decided to share it here since the topic is general and reflects a broad sampling of what I’ve learned in the last couple years....
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Predicting Influenza Virulence with Machine Learning
ProposalMachine learning (ML) excels at creating models of the interactions between many weak correlations that may elude lower-dimensional statistical analysis. An example of a network of such...
View ArticleThe First Year At Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
I was happy to be featured in a video produced by my medical school about life as a first year student here.Since it was filmed throughout the entirety of first year starting from the white coat...
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Anki-Slideshow: Publish Anki flashcards to the web
I’ve started putting all my medical school flashcards on this website using some Python and Ruby. Read how I did it below, or get the source code.I’ve been using Anki to generate flashcards for just...
View ArticleWhy Blag
Ah, the old existentialist topic that plagues all too many blogs, sometimes as a “frist post!” article, other times as a retrospective question from a blogger that wonders if it has been sucking up too...
View ArticleCreating Animated GIFs with ImageMagick & ffmpeg
I’ll start off this blog with something lightweight and relatively useless except for creating amusing internet gimmicks and perhaps the occasional animated diagram. Surprisingly, there are few good...
View ArticlePebble, a watch made for iPhone/Android
I ran across this interesting gadget while stumbling upon a favorable review of it on another blog.It’s a watch with an e-Ink display that is meant to be tethered via Bluetooth to an iPhone. Besides...
View ArticleClik here to view.
All Science is Anthropological at the Margins
It is no secret that hard science folks (think Physics, Engineering, and Math majors) sometimes look down on the “softer” sciences for being less rigorous. There is a joke that a professor from my...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hacker News Sidebar: An Extension for Google Chrome
tldr: I’ve fixed up the Hacker News Sidebar Chrome extension. It shows comment threads from HN in a handy tab next to any other pages that you visit. Browse the source code on GitHub, and install the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What New York Does Right: Street Layout
I’ll admit it. Coming back to New York after a week on the coast of South Florida in March can be a little bit of a downer. According to my roommate’s trusty Game of Thrones weather app, on a three...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What Makes an Extraordinary Physician
I wrote this essay for my Art and Science of Medicine I course, and decided to share it here since the topic is general and reflects a broad sampling of what I’ve learned in the last couple years....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Predicting Influenza Virulence with Machine Learning
ProposalMachine learning (ML) excels at creating models of the interactions between many weak correlations that may elude lower-dimensional statistical analysis. An example of a network of such...
View ArticleThe First Year At Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
I was happy to be featured in a video produced by my medical school about life as a first year student here.Since it was filmed throughout the entirety of first year starting from the white coat...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Anki-Slideshow: Publish Anki flashcards to the web
I’ve started putting all my medical school flashcards on this website using some Python and Ruby. Read how I did it below, or get the source code.I’ve been using Anki to generate flashcards for just...
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