Publications by r on Everyday Is A School Day
Seeking Inspiration from Random Learning
Inspiration This was inspired by wanting to read a textbook Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett’s Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases. But, I didn’t want to read the textbook in sequence. Hence, I figured that if I read a paragraph a day in a random chapter, I might be able to benefit from random learning! This is also great for idea ...
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Mandell O Mandell, Please Grant Me Some Insight!
TL;DR Bring a textbook to life by Using a simple Natural Language Processing method (Ngram) to guide focused reading and build a robust differential diagnosis Introduction What would you do if you encountered a clinical case with quite a few nuance symptoms? How do you know which article to look at to build a differential diagnosis? It is helpf...
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The 100 Prisoners Problem
Brief Introduction: The 100 prisoners problem is a probability theory and combinatorics problem. In this challenge, 100 numbered prisoners must find their own numbers in one of 100 drawers in order to survive. Rules: We have 100 prisoners labeled: 1, 2 … 100 on their clothes we have a room filled with 100 boxes labeled 1, 2, … 100 on the ou...
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Math Puzzle #1
2 ? 1 ? 6 ? 6 ? 200 ? 50 = 416.56 Let ? be an operator of +,-,*,/,^ that are replaceable (can be used more than once) How would you solve this math puzzle? One could potentially work out the math manually, but how would you solve this math problem using R? 1. Set operators as a vector operators <- c("+","-","*","/","^") 2. Set for loop + mon...
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Purchase Flower For Just Because Occasion. How `R` you doing it?
Just Because == Randomness Randomness can be difficult to simulate because we are biased. Not that thinking of buying your spouse 😍 flowers is a bad thing. What if you can preserve that idea and actualization by coding that! But how? Thought Process: How often do you want to buy flowers for just because occasion? Set up randomness to that ...
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Invest everyday, biweekly, or monthly?
Biweekly did great overall, Better at TIPS, short-term bond, real estate, international; Monthly is second best with 3 out of 8. Good at small, mid, large caps If you want to automate your investment on index funds with a fixed amount every month, is there a better way to divide the investment? Such as once a month, everyday, or biweekly? I’m ...
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