Let them be as they wish, and they will create you something beautiful. Beauty that you in your dark-glass dreams had never cared to imagine. They shall show you rage, to break down the formidable walls of smoke that you build to keep yourselves in from being better. They shall show you who we are, …
What’s Travelling Like?
What’s travelling like, really? Travelling is three camera batteries and a soggy burger wrapped in a t-shirt in your backpack. Travelling is maps from cities you forgot to take out of your pocket. Travelling is hazy streetlights outside the bus window, a world of happy strangers in a city you never thought you’d see. Travelling …
Python Script to Generate Frequency Counts of Words in a Text
The following python script takes a text file as input and produces an unsorted list of frequency counts of words in the text as an output text file. It's pretty simple and short, and uses only the regular expressions module re of python, which is a standard library, so this script will run in any …
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A/B and Rh Antigens in Blood Types: A Statistical Test of Independence among IISER Kolkata Students
A couple of days ago one of my juniors in college (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata) found unguarded in the guest account of our computing system a spreadsheet. This spreadsheet contained the blood types of the Masters students across five batches (‘07-‘13). With this information he made a nice little bar diagram …
A Statistical Problem on Laptop Uptimes
Suppose you are in a large university campus. Most students here use laptops, and if you look around, you’d see most of them either working, listening to music or doing something else on their laptops. Suppose now you think of a quick project, of listing the uptimes of the laptops (how long they’ve been running). …
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