For the past few months, I’ve been doing computational biology research. When explaining my research to others, one of the most common questions I get is “what is computational biology?” This always strikes me slightly by surprise, especially when the question is from STEM students, but the general lack of knowledge about computational biology isContinue reading “What Even Is Computational Biology?”
Author Archives: Shuvom Sadhuka
On Voting Paradoxes
My post last week sent me down a Wikipedia/Google rabbit hole on voting systems and paradoxes. I’d heard in passing about voting paradoxes but never took some time to explore them. In this post, I’ll discuss how we can use graphs to model elections and then explore the ideas behind voting paradoxes. I. A GraphContinue reading “On Voting Paradoxes”
Democracy and the Central Limit Theorem
In the spirit of trying to reframe legal and philosophical questions through statistics and computer science frameworks, I thought I’d write about some parallels I see between democracy (or lack thereof) and probability. The law of large numbers and central limit theorem are ubiquitous, so it should be no surprise that we leverage it inContinue reading “Democracy and the Central Limit Theorem”
A Statistical Analogy for Ethics
I’ve grown a little frustrated in how morality and moral law are often misused in public debate. To start, let’s consider what a moral framework entails. In some sense, moral philosophy is merely a model to determine whether an action is right or wrong. Different frameworks specify exact models for understanding right and wrong; someContinue reading “A Statistical Analogy for Ethics”
Random Walks to the Quad 