Anand Philip

Applying ML to clinical/medical problems🐧

Personal Website: https://anandphilip.com

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2026-02-20 16:02:30 GMT

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2026-02-13 10:55:52 GMT

what the hell is a pointer.

2026-02-13 10:00:02 GMT

let's get real here. if the Lord intended for us to consume vegetables raw and unflavored then 1. he would have given us cellulose digesting bacteria or genes 2. he would not have given us pickles.

2026-02-01 16:53:23 GMT

the politically progressive internet is conservative about tech. "go back to old values" narrative.

2026-02-01 15:27:25 GMT

Muting Epstien. Not enough fucks to give. If i could add a filter to my global intake which asked "this is shit about something going on the USA?" and block if true, i would pay with my depreciating money for this.

2026-01-28 13:31:38 GMT

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I havent. currently reading Pheobe atwood taylor's cape cod mystery and it is SO agatha christie. cheekier. its nice.

2026-01-28 13:21:54 GMT

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that is very high praise. will check.

2026-01-22 07:58:30 GMT

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I use only Groww for all my shiz

2026-01-11 12:51:31 GMT

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although this man has excellent mustahce game and DS did not. it was a cute lil moustache, faithful to the books but boy the american has moochflair

2026-01-04 08:42:51 GMT

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Among the more sensible papers is
Loos, H. M. et al Past, Present, and Future of Human Chemical Communication Research. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 20(1), 20-44. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916231188147 (Original work published 2025)
It turns out we can identify our friends and family by their smell. huh.

2026-01-04 08:40:26 GMT

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Among the papers cited was one that lead me to discover that tears are studied as a source of chemosignals. Im not an expert but there's a lot of what read like really weird/cringe conclusions in these studies. my conclusion is that we havent been able to detect any real pheromones and chemical signaling in humans because we bathe and wear clothes. someday our species will probably smell of microplastics.

2026-01-04 08:30:29 GMT

Some people i know are into perfumes and some discussions i overheard lead me to read up on human pheromones and I stumbled into a lovely paper
Tristram D. Wyatt; The search for human pheromones: the lost decades and the necessity of returning to first principles. Proc Biol Sci 1 April 2015; 282 (1804): 20142994. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.2994
Just. Loved the writing.

2025-12-29 08:35:19 GMT

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idk why you and @npub1nck…g5lx didnt show up in my tree. you are both def there in spirit :)

2025-12-29 07:45:04 GMT

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our eng team is massively pushing back. AI adoption for writing code is doing well but lets push out a feature because ai can do it is a no go. Top boss is a DS critic. he told me to my face most DS models are more expensive than the problem they solve. this is kinda sad, because its not true but weirdly this is keeping the feature bloat problem at bay.

2025-12-17 11:30:40 GMT

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technically, this is a photo of an old flame of mine. perhaps the oldest.

2025-12-15 13:57:50 GMT

i found an old candle in my almari at home this time. it's been there from the load-shedding days, decades ago before solar and inverter and all the stuff we have done to deal with the power outages in kerala. It worked just fine.
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2025-12-15 11:13:09 GMT

"If you actually sat down with a spreadsheet and logged what safety costs women, it would be staggering. Not because any single line item is huge, but because the tax is levied on everything, all the time, in ways that compound."
https://www.harnidh.xyz/p/the-map-with-missing-streets

2025-12-13 13:08:39 GMT

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even kerala and mizoram have gaps with meghalya with the lowest. sad

2025-12-13 12:41:09 GMT

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ghastly numbers but also what the hell is going on with the info design. it goes from 0-worse but is this the fraction of school going age kids who are not in school and are girls? or is this something else.

2025-12-06 11:35:46 GMT

#mushroom
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2025-11-30 11:53:08 GMT

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the 'anyone' is not ness. the operative word here, it's that more people can hope to do more than was possible. yes, the capture will be power-lawed, but then that is true of everything. i dont know if this is good tech of bad tech, i find it useful, its made my life better, and that is about as far as I can see. copyright is for eg. way way way more a studied and well described force of evil. most scientific knowledge is locked away. we laud sci hub. but why not an embedding of scihub?

2025-11-30 11:48:52 GMT

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people used photoshop to make deepfakes way before, should we discard all tech that has potential for misuse? perhaps programming languages that produce viruses? If anything, the problem seems to be that now almost anyone can do what earlier only the elite could. Anyone can sound like they went to a b-school or did a PhD anyone can generate dreams and plans that go no where, where earlier you needed to be a certain amount of rich/privileged.

2025-11-24 13:09:50 GMT

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is that punjabi or german?

2025-11-24 13:06:06 GMT

so, IGNOU <> ChatGPT is happening.
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2025-11-23 16:10:25 GMT

one of my MDF boards grew this gorgeous splash of colors and textures. I had to kill it but only because the spores are probably terrible for my lungs.
#FungiFriday
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2025-11-15 18:08:21 GMT

what came after material design? where does one read about stuff like this? #design

2025-11-14 14:33:09 GMT

RE: https://mastinsaan.in/@mehluv/115548367846632310
any other #mastodon #Selfhosters here? help Luv
#note1tnu…r59a

2025-11-07 09:36:32 GMT

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i now want to unsend all the emails i have sent our system admins about weak passwords.

2025-11-06 10:27:25 GMT

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what do you think?
#poll

2025-11-06 10:24:04 GMT

This dork is named after what it eats. you get to see if you can figure out what it is called. Next post.
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2025-10-27 12:33:05 GMT

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is there a way to make the view multicolumn? notifications, and followed feeds etc.

2025-10-27 12:05:37 GMT

one feature i would love to see on fedi is a catch up feed. which is all the people i folllow that post at timezones and time frames with very low overlap. eg. people i follow that are on the US/UK timezones.

2025-10-24 11:00:08 GMT

One thing i love about snakes is that the same species can take so many different avatars. juveniles have different patterns, different areas have different morphs and even in the same area, they can all look so fabulously different. This for eg. are the morphs of the Malabar Pit Viper (Craspedocephalus malabaricus)
Photo by By Girish Gowda - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
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2025-10-21 07:54:26 GMT

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by which i mean the method of discovery & verification.

2025-10-21 07:54:02 GMT

the longer i work in science the less clear i am about how science actually works.

2025-10-18 08:59:03 GMT

I declare #ShitpostSaturday, disappoint me.

2025-10-18 08:52:42 GMT

In this essay, I juxtapose the eschatological hopes and ideological certainties of contemporary communists with those of the auth-right, arguing that while their soteriologies differ in content, one seeking liberation through collective struggle and the abolition of capitalist structures, the other seeking a return to ethnonationalist and religious traditionalism, they are united by a shared pattern of epistemic closure, mythologized history, and utopian thinking that resists falsification. 1/69

2025-10-11 14:44:18 GMT

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$No \space No$ [@Theorem_Poem](https://mstdn.social/@Theorem_Poem )

2025-10-11 10:13:52 GMT

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https://linuxmint.com/

2025-10-09 13:04:56 GMT

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gettting some for A. she loves sour candy

2025-10-09 10:07:20 GMT

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:D i didnt know it was availble here.

2025-10-09 10:04:53 GMT

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i googled this and OMG!! I saw the Air India art exhibit last month which had his work for Air India in it! Did not know about bar.

2025-09-28 19:05:52 GMT

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you seem to be forecasting the future of china.

2025-09-25 16:30:23 GMT

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apple, android, atari. idk what the hat thing is. These three are A, and also the names of tech things. While not an A, i know fedora is an OS, and is a hat. i dont know if its got a indented top or if its soft.

2025-09-25 16:25:12 GMT

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how does one participate?

2025-09-23 17:31:41 GMT

I signed off on three projects today. Done and dusted. and I realized after the day ended that I have no alcohol in my house. Not a drop. How do you explain that, theists?

2025-09-23 06:49:40 GMT

I'm really glad i found you weirdos and this place. This is nice.

2025-09-22 14:56:38 GMT

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दुनिया सिर्फ ड्रामा चाहती है

2025-09-11 12:03:37 GMT

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i had to look her up but HOLYSHIT

2025-09-11 06:40:46 GMT

Elsevier should be added to some list of companies that have done crimes against humanity. Like Nestle and Coca Cola and Big Pharma. Getting Sci-hub banned is the kinda scum behavior that should be heavily punished by academia via boycotts.

2025-09-09 13:50:13 GMT

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that just makes you a naxal.

2025-09-09 13:48:51 GMT

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this is very urban naxal content.

2025-09-07 17:35:36 GMT

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this is why i go to shillong every year.

2025-09-07 17:33:42 GMT

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thankfully nod is in line of sight. have you noticed when people dont notice what you just did with your face or head, like a nod or a smile because they were looking over it? or from the top.

2025-09-07 17:26:17 GMT

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why do we design a world like it's for people taller than most of us are? aspirations dont add inches to our spines people. to aspire to be taller is not a valid category of aspirations.

2025-09-07 17:24:47 GMT

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usually when i'm trying to reach something on the top shelf.

2025-09-06 13:24:28 GMT

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I've had this said to me so many times these last few years

2025-09-06 13:13:33 GMT

its unpleasant to hear that the reason you haven't succeeded is because you are aiming too high.

2025-09-06 11:21:02 GMT

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2025-09-04 11:13:56 GMT

today i sold a SVM based classifier as "Our custom AI model" and I am very proud of myself.

2025-09-04 06:20:53 GMT

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good luck. if you're awake for the whole standup you're doing better than 50% of the people ive met.

2025-08-31 13:39:55 GMT

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huh. that makes sense. i thought all they had there was copper and colonizers.

2025-08-31 13:18:47 GMT

imagine my surprise when i learned that guinea pigs aren't made of Guinness and aren't even featured in the Pygmalion

2025-08-21 17:27:41 GMT

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(hello to brown-lefties-who-know-statistics on the TL)

2025-08-21 17:25:10 GMT

i love linear regression because it minimizes the RSS

2025-08-20 18:21:39 GMT

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13 i had started on listing all the coach books when i was watching the show. cool that some other nerd actually did it. although these are not all the books he was seen reading i think.

2025-08-15 19:28:32 GMT

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does the soap rub the loofah or the loofah rub the soap?

2025-08-15 08:44:22 GMT

people who use a bar soap for bathing
do you
#Poll #Lifestyle

2025-08-14 08:29:15 GMT

so i learned today that i don't have a "grantable" record. which is to say grant writers cant consider all the work ive done because its in the private sector and so for the study i will design and devleop, imma need someone who has a "grantable" name on the study. and ive been asked to start making my portfolio grantable, which, strangely, requires me to get grants to write papers, which needs me to have a grantable portfolio. Im more amused than confused.

2025-08-09 17:36:08 GMT

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they used to. no longer. spencers used to stock, no more. some code violation soemthing.

2025-08-09 17:32:47 GMT

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100% in.

2025-08-09 17:29:06 GMT

im doing a bunch of difficult things this year guys. its not been rough, but it has been tough. I need my angoustra bitters is what Im saying.

2025-08-09 17:05:48 GMT

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this is actually me rn
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2025-08-09 15:42:59 GMT

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was that the "he's a keeper" moment? <3 <3

2025-08-09 15:39:48 GMT

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YOUFIREFLY!

2025-08-09 11:47:15 GMT

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as of now, i mostly eat junk.

2025-08-09 11:46:53 GMT

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mostly because my cooking iq is so low if it were any lower id be eating dirt.

2025-08-09 11:44:47 GMT

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i thought those were noodles and you were planning a paneer coconut milk noodle thing and i was very confused.

2025-08-09 10:29:25 GMT

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this is not as clear as you might think. what is cooking.

2025-08-09 09:00:40 GMT

with every additional 1000 steps you walk, your risk of dying reduces by 12%, which means if you walk an additional ~37000 steps a day, you could reduce your risk of death by so much, you'd be practically immortal for a day
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2025-08-09 06:50:17 GMT

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im really sorry. this sucks. and i can only hope that they come around.

2025-08-05 17:15:39 GMT

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this is very insightful. i never did figure out why i was being punished.

2025-07-31 17:25:15 GMT

does attaching a mustache to a mouse make it a musttach

2025-07-30 06:06:42 GMT

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i think its got to do with the softness ofthe material and the amount of cushion. now this is possible to get in other brands. [@Theorem_Poem](https://mstdn.social/@Theorem_Poem )

2025-07-30 05:38:14 GMT

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they are excellent for wearing for long durations and standing. i discovered this because crocs are insanely popular in operation theaters. and the difference between rubber chappals which is what we used in college, and crocs is so stark plenty places have replaced the OT chappals with crocs. a prof of mine went and bought twnety of these from his trip abroad and that is how it got started in my college. no one wears them outside the OT :)

2025-07-29 16:54:39 GMT

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4 according to me 9 according to my neighbor

2025-07-24 12:40:46 GMT

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so good

2025-07-13 09:39:09 GMT

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do you mean the story or the things it can be mistaken for?

2025-07-13 08:48:11 GMT

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i loved Juno. its kinda sad how it was used to justify a lot of crap.

2025-07-10 09:08:52 GMT

I know as Indian citizens we have the right to privacy. But who is this privacy from? Do I have a right to privacy from my ISP? From my employer? How do the details work? #legal #LegalDoubt

2025-07-09 15:19:58 GMT

Here's a moth I met recently. Bigger than my palm. Google Images and Wikipedia images suggest this is Brahmaea hearseyi but, that is just hear say. #mothstodon
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2025-06-19 15:52:37 GMT

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dork

2025-06-16 17:16:53 GMT

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read that as बूढ़ा

2025-06-16 06:25:14 GMT

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agree on this in general but my sample has been bad.

2025-06-16 06:03:51 GMT

browns, we need to do a this-year's mango tier list. very disappointed with the kesar and Banganapalle this year

2025-06-16 06:01:05 GMT

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oh good. porridge days (TIL teeth can be concussed)

2025-06-16 05:57:47 GMT

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yikes. good luck.

2025-06-11 17:29:42 GMT

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im unfamilar with thsi meme and the idea. vivaad away

2025-06-11 17:03:07 GMT

if i understand history correctly, if you take Iranians, pass them through hot and humid filters, you get (some) Indians, if you pass them through Ultra cold filters, you get nordics and if you pass them through moderately cold and moderately wet filters you get europeans.

2025-06-11 16:49:44 GMT

im trying to do too much.
I know this.
but I cannot stop.