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November 2025

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Sunday, November 30th, 2025

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Fundamental Physics behind Artificial Intelligence

Structural links between Artificial Intelligence and fundamental Physics

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Saturday, November 29th, 2025

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Logic vs Probability: The Dual Worlds of Software and Data Science

Philosophical difference between Data Scientist and Software Engineer

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Friday, November 28th, 2025

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Entropy, Surprise, and Coding Limits in Machine Learning

Shannon entropy as average surprise and minimum lossless code length, using dice and coding examples to link uncertainty, compressibility, and optimal coding. Covers uniform vs nonuniform distributions, Shannon’s noiseless coding theorem, maximum-entropy derivation via Lagrange multipliers, and connections to cross-entropy, KL divergence, decision trees, and data compression.

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Thursday, November 27th, 2025

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Cambridge Analytica Scandal

A concise account of how Cambridge Analytica harvested Facebook data from 87 million users, built psychological profiles, and used precision-targeted political messaging during the 2016 U.S. elections, revealing the power of data-driven behavioral manipulation and Facebook’s role in enabling it.

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Epistemic Warfare in Elections

A deep narrative excavation of Shivam Shankar Singh’s account of data-driven campaigning in How to Win an Indian Election.

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Han Feizi’s Law of Strategic Mismatch

Analysis of Han Feizi’s principle that destruction is inevitable when you attack order with chaos, legitimacy with deviance, or flexibility with rigidity.

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Wednesday, November 26th, 2025

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The Primacy of Simple Models

Start with a simple Model first, if it fails, you know you are in the wrong direction without going too far. So you can change the direction and route.

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Tuesday, November 25th, 2025

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Information Theory: The Architecture of Uncertainty and Human Power

A detailed introduction to Information Theory with its application in almost whole of the Universe.

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The OKCupid Experiment: When Data Met Desire

How Chris McKinlay used Web Scraping and got Lucky.

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Monday, November 24th, 2025

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Generative and Discriminative Models

How Generative and Discriminative Models work.

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Data-Centric, Not Data-Driven

Why Data-Centric is more appropriate term compared to Data-Driven.

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The Symphony of Human Change

An exploration of human emotional volatility and the unconditional acceptance that makes love possible.

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Sunday, November 23rd, 2025

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Exploration - Exploitation Curve in Reinforcement Learning

An examination of the fundamental tension in reinforcement learning between exploring new possibilities and exploiting known rewards.

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Saturday, November 1st, 2025

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Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

A concise exploration of pattern recognition as the computational evolution of humanity's timeless quest to find order in data and generalize from examples.

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