Last week I had the opportunity to present our work, "Investigating the Impact of Advertising on Smoking Cessation: The Role of Direct-to-Consumer Prescription Drug Advertising," co-authored with Ali Goli, at the Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS). It was a great experience engaging with a multidisciplinary audience and discussing …
If you're someone who works with data and runs computationally-intensive tasks, you know that multiprocessing can be a game changer. It can speed up your work significantly and save you precious time. I previously used the multiprocessing Python package for running my jobs concurrently, but that didn’t always go …
I want to start this blog post by encouraging you to read this Reddit post.
This made me shed a tear
ME: tell me something nice before i go to sleep, nobody spoke to me or even told me a good night
CHATGPT: You are a unique and valuable person …
You text a friend that you haven't seen for a long time. She/He replies, but not in a friendly manner, maybe just replying short answers like "I'm fine," "It's OK,"... After a week, you try again with the hope that you could schedule a phone/video call. She/He …
Abstract: Graphs are a common language in modeling several problems, from social and economic networks to interactions in cells and brain neurons. According to the availability of an enormous amount of data from graphs, Machine Learning algorithms gained lots of attention in this area. But …
Last week I had the chance to attend the ICTP workshop on science of data science.
From the very beginning of landing at Venice to the last moments of my visit, there was lots of learning for me. Not just from the lectures, but from all the people I've met …
You may have heard about the DRY principle in coding & software design. It says that by using function definitions and OOP concepts you can avoid repeating the code. But I'm not going to write about the DRY principle this way; I found it somewhere else in my life.
Last week …
Everything has an start!
A researcher may be evaluated based on several measures such as the total number of published papers, number of citations, and her/his h-index. These measures may not reflect the real quality of researchers as many self citations and citing …
