PhD Year 1: Joy and Rejection
A reflection on my 1st year of the PhD, where joy and rejection came together to reshape how I think about research, solitude, and life.
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My Grad School Application Odyssey and Advice
A candid PhD application postmortem: interviews, visits, and decision-making
Queuing Theory: Understanding Waiting Lines
Queueing theory for latency: Little’s Law, utilization knee, Erlang-C, and variability
Are you Sure your Linux PID is the Process ID?
Linux PID vs TID vs TGID: how threads show up in /proc and tools like htop
A Glimpse of Survival Analysis
Survival analysis for systems: censoring, KM curves, log-rank tests, and Cox models
Connecting Bayesian to Regularization
Bayesian priors as regularizers: Laplace→L1 (Lasso) and Gaussian→L2 (Ridge)