I just finished reading the book The Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee, and I wish a book like this had been part of the curriculum instead of the standard textbooks during my Pre-University days. I am not sure how Biology is taught now a days...
(Picture courtesy Penn Medicine) Building a healthcare product at times leads an Engineer to a fascinating convergence of Physics, Biology and Technology. How far you go down the rabbit hole of curiosity depends on your interest and the time you are ...
(Picture courtesy: Chess.com) A Chess Engine is a powerful computer program designed to play chess at an exceptionally high level. Chess engines provide strategic insights, suggest optimal moves, and serve as a valuable training partner for professio...
Picture Credit: The cover page for this blog post is from the ThoughtWorks blog here. Great insights into digitizing healthcare records in rural India! In my series "Technology and Predictive Analytics: Navigating Cardiovascular Risk (Part 1 & Part 2...
Background In Part 1, I covered the following: What is a Cardiovascular disease? How are these diseases diagnosed currently? Can a combination of high-quality datasets, traditional clinical algorithms & machine learning be a possible solution? A...
Context According to this article, it is projected that the number of deaths due to CVD (Cardiovascular disease) in India will be close to 4 million (2020 figure). That is roughly equivalent to the population of Norway! Is it possible to detect CVD e...
Background When I encountered C++ for the first time in a professional setting, I wondered why the language seemed convoluted. (Compared to my prior experience in C#). It felt like every programmer in the team was using a particular dialect of the la...
Background Very early in my career, I was working on a product that enabled hospital staff to ask "a relational database" questions such as "How many patients older than 60 were admitted in the past month? How long did they stay? Which surgeries were...
