It’s really time to rethink our relationship with plastic — As a material, plastic is now so prevalent that it’s impossible to imagine a world without plastic. Every corner of the world has been infiltrated by the presence of plastic. And while we celebrate pieces of news like The Ocean Cleanup’s milestone of having over 2,000,000 kg of trash removed…

The trolley problem: leading in a world where nothing is ever right — When it comes to right and good, numerous vastly different theories allow one to judge a certain action and assign it a moral value. Kant leads followers down the path of moral absolutism with his idea of the categorical imperative. If one is guided to act according to maxims that…

Mastering an important tool for building autonomous systems — Introduced in 1960 by Rudolf E. Kalman in his paper “A new approach to linear filtering and prediction problems”, the Kalman Filter is an efficient optimal estimator for linear systems that can help filter out sensor noise and inaccuracies in measurements [1]. As technologies such as autonomous vehicles are being…

The platform changes we all want to see — Let’s all be truthful. When you write on Medium, at least a part of you thinks about it as a possible revenue stream (if it isn’t already a viable revenue stream for you). You click publish on an article, wait a day, and click on the ‘stats’ page hoping to…

And how you can do the same on a simulation software like COMSOL Multiphysics — When it comes to heat-transfer processes, 3 different kinds of energy transfer can be involved: conduction, convection, and radiation [1]. Even though these modes can work in tandem to transfer heat through any medium (or lack thereof when it comes to vacuum), heat transfer in solids is normally achieved through…

Practical tips on keeping a physical planner + commonplace book — Nobody is born organized. Plans are made on the go. Ideas pop up in your head at the weirdest times. People (even those closest to you) live on different schedules, making it difficult to keep track of when you are supposed to meet. And in a world where deadlines and…

Building a sentiment analysis predictor with a movie review dataset — In the world of big data, sentiment analysis is an extremely useful natural language processing (NLP) technique. By training a suitable model, you will be able to use your model to detect what a person feels simply by inputting the words used by the person into the model. In this…

And I urge you to attempt them in 2023 — Life is all about embarking on challenges, learning from them, and growing to become a better human. And no matter the size of the challenge, trying to live with and conquer them — no matter physical or mental, brings you closer to fulfillment, growth, and success. Looking back on 2022…

Why AI writing is light years away from actual writing — In a way, ChatGPT is perhaps the most unsurprising thing that could happen in the technological sphere — after all, artificial intelligence has become a common trope in the fictional worlds that we create. From Iron Man’s Jarvis to Terminator’s Skynet to Ex Machina’s Ava, AI is a familiar concept…