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Masters Thesis: Separation of Data

I have no enemies

Today, I woke up at 6:09 am. I had ambitiously set my alarm for 6:00 am but snoozed it because I had an amazing dream. But I was not able to continue the dream after trying…

King Cake

A king wants to hold a festival, for which he is inviting 1000 guests. As a tradition, each guest will bring the king one mini cake. However, news reaches the king that one…

Dot Placement

You place three dots along the edges of an octagon at random. What is the probability that all three dots lie on distinct edges of the octagon?

ASN Kidney Week

Presented at my first conference! Had a poster presentation and two talks.

Noise in SGD

Undergraduate Thesis: Nonparametric high-dimensional measure of dependence using checkerboard copulas

Implementing an SIR Model on Various Network Topologies

Introduction

The first time I heard about Difference in Differences was in the PhD level longitudinal analysis class at Harvard with Dr. Tom Chen.

Simulation of emergency room wait times: a comparison of Weibull shape and scale estimators

25 year old man yells about X, Writing, AI

When these LLMs started popping out around 2021-2022, just right when I was a senior at Amherst, I was not a fan of them. I wanted to learn and struggle on my own and not…

Problem: Even Before Odd

Suppose you roll a fair 6-sided die until you’ve seen all 6 faces. What is the probability you won’t see an odd numbered face until you have seen all even numbered faces?

Family Conflict and Suicidal Ideation Amongst Asian Americans

Joint Modeling of Longitudinal and Survival Data

Sweaty Hands

I can’t pinpoint the start of my hyperhidrosis but I do distinctly remember this one memory that lingers in the back of my brain. I was 6 or 7 years old and I had just…

Learning C++

Back in undergrad, I dabbled in Java and Python for my intro CS and data structures classes. Then, I switched to statistics where I mostly programmed in R and SQL. A lot of…

League of Legends: Multivariate Data Analysis of Professional Games

Review of Gaussian Copula Paper

What Determines the Number of Children?

My Experience with Unitarianism

I had never heard of a “Unitarian Universalist” until my friend told me all about it on the first day of this class as we were sharing our religious backgrounds. And through…

Cards Reordering

The standard procedure for shuffling a deck of cards is to take the pack face downwards in the left hand and then transfer each card one by one to the right hand, putting…

Writings from Fast Fiction, Flare Politics, Flash Philosophy

COVID-19, an infectious disease that has infected over half a million people worldwide and have killed more than 30,000 as of March 28, 2020, has stopped the world in its…

Severity of COVID-19 Symptoms and Anxiety and Depression

Las Vegas Health Inspections and Yelp Reviews Dashboard

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Writings from HIST348: History of Asian American Women: Migration and Labor

My closest friends’ parents are Vietnamese refugees. Sometimes when I went to their house, I would hear about their lived experiences and what it was like to migrate to a…

Asian American Voting Project

Regularization Methods

This one got an honorable mention!

Doorcode

We broke up a few months ago.
My door code was your birthday.
I kept it as yours, I don’t know why
But I recently changed it
But my fingers still reach for you
So it always…

Youth

When I was younger, I thought youth was for the youth
But now, I’m 26 and I’m in Greece with my relatives
And I’m on a yacht cruisin’ around Santorini
And my 50 year old…

Decaf

The McDonalds decaf cup is yellow
I don’t trust it
What if they forgot
What if they mixed it
It’s okay, the decaf tab on the lid is pressed down
Surely there’s no way

Any and All

I was writing an email today.
I had written the phrase
“any and all”
Gmail suggested to replace it with just
“all” for conciseness.

Birthdays

In second grade, I had to report on my family tree.
So I asked my dad when his birthday was and he
replied, “everyday I get to eat is my birthday.”
Back then I was…

Restroom

At my work, there are four stalls.
I usually go to the second from the left.
Been that way for two years and some change.
Sometimes someone’s in the stall or the stall next…

Predicting NCAA Men’s Volleyball In-game Win Probability

I was watching the VNL recently and I would see this in-game graph pop up every once in a while from 1XBET about current probabilities of winning.

Stories on Social Media

Today I received a Partiful invite to a party this weekend and I was looking through the RSVP list and clicking on people I knew. One person I clicked on shared their…