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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…

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…

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…

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.

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

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…

Joint Modeling of Longitudinal and Survival Data

Masters Thesis: Separation of Data

Noise in SGD

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…

Implementing an SIR Model on Various Network Topologies

Regularization Methods

This one got an honorable mention!

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?

Asian American Voting Project

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

Las Vegas Health Inspections and Yelp Reviews Dashboard

View the dashboard in a new tab

Severity of COVID-19 Symptoms and Anxiety and Depression

Family Conflict and Suicidal Ideation Amongst Asian Americans

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…

What Determines the Number of Children?

League of Legends: Multivariate Data Analysis of Professional Games

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…

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…

Review of Gaussian Copula Paper

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…

Introduction

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

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…