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Need for a robust safety culture in artificial intelligence

2/15/2021

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Dr. Rahul Remanan,
CEO, Moad Computer
This year marks the 35th anniversary of Chernobyl disaster. On 26th April, 1986, at 1:23:45 AM local time (21:23:45 UTC), the 1000 ton concrete lid located above the reactor 4 fuel elements of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the city of Pripyat, erstwhile Ukraine Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR), was blown open to the side by a massive steam explosion.

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Install Bazel from source; the build tool for Tensorflow

1/30/2021

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Dr. Rahul Remanan,
CEO, Moad Computer
 Bazel is the build and test automation tool from Google. It is touted as a fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system. Bazel is needed to create Tensorflow installers from the source-code. Here are the steps to install Bazel in Linux, from the source-code. The technique described here uses the bootstrap installation that does not require a pre-existing Bazel installation in the target system.

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Using Pickle to manage memory in Python

12/30/2020

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Dr. Rahul Remanan,
CEO, Moad Computer
Working with large datasets in Python can often result in memory utilization issues. To reduce the memory utilization, the variables that are no longer immediately needed can be written to the disk. These variables can then be removed from the memory, thereby reducing the memory utilization. When these variables are needed at a later stage in the program, it can be easily restored from the disk. This strategy works for majority of the use cases, where the disk space is cheaper and more readily available than the main memory. In Python, restoring  a variable from the disk can be efficiently handled using Pickle.  Here is a concise Python3 code example for using Pickle to manage memory utilization, by using the strategy of restoring a variable from the disk.

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Comparative genomics of SARS-CoV2 and Rubella virus

11/24/2020

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Dr. Rahul Remanan,
CEO, Moad Computer
“If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.”
  -- Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species​
The SARS-CoV2 virus is the pathogen responsible for the COVID19 pandemic. Even though the SARS-CoV2 virus is a new pathogen, its origin follows the principles of evolution. Therefore, it is very likely that the SARS-CoV2 virus will have genomic similarities with other viruses. I became fascinated by the possible genomic similarities of the SARS-CoV2 virus with other viruses, especially with the Measles, Mumps Rubella (MMR) group of viruses.  My focus on this particular group of viruses was due to the recent news that the MMR vaccine could be also effective against the SARS-CoV2.¹ My reasoning for the MMR vaccine to work against SARS-CoV2 being the shared genomic similarities between these viruses. These genomic similarities could have contributed to the shared immuno-physiological profiles, thus causing the MMR vaccine to be effective against SARS-CoV2.

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The importance of forecasting in public health

10/2/2020

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Author: Dr. Rahul Remanan
Dr. Rahul Remanan,
CEO, Moad Computer

"The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present." 
    -- Paul Saffo, Futurist

  • Minimizing cognitive load: Disease forecasting models can help minimize the cognitive load of trying to assess the trajectory of an outbreak. The healthcare decision makers can instead focus on getting the basics of their outbreak prevention strategies right. For example, during the ongoing COVID19 pandemic, the COVID19 case load forecasting tools can help reduce the cognitive load for healthcare decision makers  in trying to understanding the future impact of the pandemic. Therefore these data driven tools allow them to focus on their efforts to improve the compliance for basic preventative measures such as:
  1. Routine hand washing
  2. Wearing of face masks in public places
  3. Social distancing
  4. Quarantine the exposed and isolate the infected

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Bokeh deployment cheat sheet

5/23/2020

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Dr. Rahul Remanan,
CEO, Moad Computer
What is Bokeh?
Bokeh is a Python library for interactive visualization. It uses the web browser to render the visualizations.

Why use Bokeh?
Bokeh's approach helps develop scalable, interactive data science tools with minimal graphic user interface (GUI) dependencies. It also fits with the 'browser is the computer' application development philosophy at Moad Computer. Since our goal at Moad Computer is to develop scalable data science applications within the comfort, safety and familiarity of a web browser, Bokeh fits very nicely into our development workflow.

What is this Bokeh cheat sheet for?
This cheat sheet is aimed at developers looking to deploy Bokeh either locally or in a cloud server.


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COVID19 outbreak in India visualized

4/9/2020

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Dr. Rahul Remanan,
CEO, Moad Computer

"Remember this rule: intuition cannot be trusted in the absence of stable regularities in the environment."
    --Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize winning economist

In this very first Actionable Insights blog piece,  we are bringing you a very topical content.  This article is about the ongoing COVID19 pandemic and how we built a simple, yet effective visualization tool. In this example, we are using the COVID19 outbreak public data from India. The data is aggregated from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India website, that publishes daily statistics about the COVID19 outbreak in the country.

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