Over-featurising Apps: adding new features no one asked for

Endless tweaking, adding, removal, and A/B testing of features It seems that even when all the features asked for by most of the audiences are provided, the apps’ creators want to keep adding and tweaking features. This greed for eternal growth ends up biting back, in regards to user experience, as it costs VCs money…… Continue reading Over-featurising Apps: adding new features no one asked for

Manufacturing Notifications

I get notifications about the most useless, unhelpful, vapid things on LinkedIn and Facebook, read it’s a thing on TikTok too, and guess Instagram, already notifying selectively of its features like broadcast channels and Threads, has new avenues to further occupy your attention in, isn’t too far away. Social media platforms, desperate to stay relevant,…… Continue reading Manufacturing Notifications

Limits of Diversity

It’s interesting diversity in modern institutes seems to be limited to so in ethnocultural background, gender, and sexual orientation with consideration for socioeconomic background and religion and recent additions of disability status, neurodivergence, and age. The characteristics firms seek diversity in serve as a compensatory measure to empower typically underrepresented minority groups. However, these bases…… Continue reading Limits of Diversity

How Ethno- and Theo-Nationalism Pave Way for Fascism

Pandering, propagandising, and dividing along the lines of religious and ethnocultural characteristics, which are fundamental to most voters’ political identities, is a common and effective tactic to mobilise voter support. Ethno-nationalism and theo-nationalism both create fertile ground for the rise of fascist ideologies. Fascists know that gaining absolute power will be met with opposition so…… Continue reading How Ethno- and Theo-Nationalism Pave Way for Fascism

Changing Landscape of Content Culture

Content consumption and creation habits have undergone dramatic transformations in tandem with the shifting landscape of technology and media. Content’s become accessible, its quantities exponentiated, and channels of delivery diversified. However, the democratisation of content creation and convenience of access is a double-edged sword. Consumer demands are met with overwhelming supply but the creators derive…… Continue reading Changing Landscape of Content Culture

Why Eastern Europe had the highest Covid death rates

Eastern European countries had disproportionately high Covid-19 mortality rates. Countries are ranked by their Covid death rates below. Countries ranked by Covid death rates (Wikipedia) Among the top 10 countries, only Peru is not in Eastern Europe. The majority of the next 10 countries are Eastern European. A confluence of factors is hypothesised as the…… Continue reading Why Eastern Europe had the highest Covid death rates

Enhancing Explainability in LLMs

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT-3 by OpenAI and LLaMA by Meta have demonstrated unprecedented capabilities in understanding and generating human-like text. With the innate complexity of LLMs comes a lack of explainability in decision-making. The more advanced these models become, the harder it is to tell how they arrived at their outputs. Enhancing…… Continue reading Enhancing Explainability in LLMs

Surgical Robots

Surgical robots have revolutionised minimally invasive surgery, enabling surgeons to perform complex procedures with greater precision and safety, better outcomes, and lower costs. A wide range of operations can be performed with robotic assistance. This includes surgery for prostate cancer, spinal disease, radiosurgery, pancreatectomy, heart surgery, and bowel resection1. The da Vinci surgical system, for…… Continue reading Surgical Robots

The Office Script Analysis

The Office (US) is a sitcom depicting the lives of office-workers at a paper company. I found data consisting the teleplay of 186 of 201 The Office episodes. It looks like this: The Office script data I list below the average number of scenes by season. Season number and average number of scenes in an…… Continue reading The Office Script Analysis