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Bar English for Bengalis Who Have Escaped the Tea Stall
Culture
Why You Still Want to Read a Healthcare IT Blog in the Age of AI
Healthcare-IT
The Chair and the Drain
Artificial Intelligence
Complexity in Calcutta
Personal Essay
Confounding Factors and the Dashboard That Lied Politely
healthcare-it
VistA, MUMPS, and the Warehouse After Midnight
Healthcare-IT
Kenneth Arrow in the Waiting Room
Economics
FHIR and the Clerk With the Clipboard
Healthcare-IT
Clinical AI Needs A Shadow Architecture First
Healthcare-IT
The Trillionaire Gap: A Bipolar Ramble from South Calcutta
Personal Essay
The Linear Algebra Blind Spot: Why Healthcare AI Is Only as Safe as Its Underlying Math
Healthcare IT
The Robot Begins as a Loose Wire
Technology
Frog in the Robot Century
Essay
RO Water, Abu Dhabi Rent, and a Calcutta Room
Personal Essay
The Human Intake Pipe
Science
Label: Road
Short Fiction
Claude Fable 5, Mythos in a Muzzle, and the Poor Man’s Future
AI
When Variety Starts Wearing the Same Shirt
Culture
The Cow That Spoke Like NPR
Short Fiction
The Rain in Anirban’s Head
Short Fiction
Knife Bite
Short Fiction
The Average Weight of Sunday
Short Fiction
The Pressure in Sinthee
Short Fiction
The Useful Box and the Bengali Problem of Too Many Choices
Systems Thinking
The Hidden Bill for Asking AI Instead of Hiring an Expert
Technology
The Antibiotic That Came Back With a Stick
Healthcare
The Trolley Problem Is In The Healthcare Queue
Healthcare-IT
The Trolley Problem Is Already Hiding in Healthcare
Healthcare IT
The Morlocks in White Kurta
Society
Hi-Fi Sound Without the Perfume: Mono, Stereo, 5.1, Dolby, DTS, Atmos, and the Great Audio Bazaar
Audio Technology
MYCIN: The 1970s Medical AI That Knew How to Explain Itself
Healthcare IT
The AI Moat Is the Missing Salary
AI and Society
Why Physics Keeps Sneaking Into Deep Learning
Artificial Intelligence
The First Door That Opens
Science
Poisson Distribution: Counting Rare Trouble Before It Becomes a Queue, a Claim, or a Crisis
Healthcare IT
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 2
Healthcare IT
The Man Held by the Neck
Politics
The Coming White-Collar Mendicancy
Society
The Desperation Premium
Technology and Society
Obama, HITECH, and the Day the American Medical Chart Was Dragged Into Electricity
Healthcare IT
Samir Ranjan Das and the Visual Mind
Personal
The AI Cloud Will Also Need a Pump, a Plug, and a Tanker
Technology
Clay Stoves, Hormuz, and the Price of Breath in Calcutta
Calcutta Life
The Vegetable Girl Before Dawn
Personal Essay
Trying to Write About Healthcare IT While the Ceiling Paint Falls Into the Dal
Healthcare IT
When Brains Are Bright but Systems Are Blind
Artificial Intelligence
The Nightmare of Indian Healthcare for the Common Man
Healthcare
Why I am Misunderstood as a Blogger
Personal
SludgeGPT and the Mirage of Machine Understanding
Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic Is Coming for Wall Street
Artificial Intelligence
A Calcutta Bengali’s Guide to the Various Schools of AI
Artificial Intelligence
Depression as Mathematics: States, Switches, Attractors, and the Treacherous Algebra of Mood
Mental Health Systems
Calcutta Smog and the Coming Winter
Satire
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 1
Healthcare IT
The Bright Smile of Overconfidence
Society
Chronic Traumatic Nihilism From Calcutta
Personal Essay
Nightmare Wrapped in Skin
Personal Essay
Science Is Not a Solitary Organ
Science
Self-Gaslit Minds in the Age of AI
Technology
AI Agents Will Not Democratize Power Neatly
Artificial Intelligence
Political Promises and the Hard Floor of Reality
Politics
When Nothing Beats Something
Technology
Politics Is a Machine for Spoiling Ordinary People
Politics
When Structure Loses Its Map
Society
The Negative Infinity Before the Singularity
Healthcare AI
The Mental Health System Will Meet the AI Wave at Its Weakest Joint
Artificial Intelligence
Kenneth Arrow, Medical Uncertainty, and the False Dream of Healthcare as a Normal Market
Healthcare IT
First Principles Thinking in Calcutta, Healthcare, and the Machinery of Reality
Useful Mental Models
Healthcare AI and the Wrong Objective
Healthcare AI
Jogar, Jugaad, and the Greedy Improvisation of India
India
Mental Health Polypharmacy Needs Real Decision Support, Not Another Checkbox
Healthcare IT
Natural Selection Is Not Just About Animals
Systems Thinking
Why Myths Multiply When Randomness Is Left Unexplained
Mental Models
Maa Sitala, Maa Manasa, and the Bad Public Health Architecture of Fear
Public Health
The Shadow Architecture: Lessons from a Decade Bootstrapping Healthcare Data Systems
Healthcare IT
The Four Fundamental Subspaces of Linear Algebra
mathematics
HL7 vs FHIR, Explained Simply
Healthcare IT
Universal Basic Income in India After Work Stops Being a Promise
political economy
How VA Healthcare Data Systems Work: From MUMPS to SQL
Healthcare IT
AI Health Insurance and Cruelty
healthcare ai
Latent Space and the Hidden Map of Healthcare Data
Healthcare-IT
Latent Space in Healthcare Data, From the Beginning
Healthcare IT
Tea
food-and-culture
AI and Denial
Artificial Intelligence
Databases and Data Warehouses
healthcare-it
FHIR
healthcare it
India’s AI Moat
healthcare-it
The History of the Shape of Atoms
science
Building VA Data Warehouses
healthcare-it
Vector Databases
healthcare it
The Fish Bengalis Eat
food
Confounding Factors
healthcare-it
Dogs Detect Violations.
science
India’s White-Collar Issue
india
The Pufferfish Economy
society
AI in Healthcare: Beware
healthcare ai
HIE from First Principles
healthcare it
HIE From First Principles, With The Patient Still In The Room
healthcare-it
Homeopathy
healthcare-systems
Hormuz, Day 52
geopolitics
Why EHR and HIE Struggle in India but AI Diagnostics might not
healthcare it
The Questions You Ask
healthcare it