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The Geometry of Absence: On Solitude, Density, and the Mathematics of Belonging
Culture
The Unveiling
Personal Essay
Simpson's Paradox I See Around Me
Statistics
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
The Ground We Dream On
Personal Essay
The Thermodynamics of Fishy Things
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
The Person Is Not a Machine
Personal Essay
FHIR and the Clerk With the Clipboard
Healthcare-IT
Clinical AI Needs A Shadow Architecture First
Healthcare-IT
Sharper Teeth
Essay
The AI Sermon and the Wet Knot
Technology
The Man Who Knew Everybody
Short Fiction
The Robot Begins as a Loose Wire
Technology
Frog in the Robot Century
Essay
The Human Intake Pipe
Science
The Dopamine Economy
Mental Health
Rain Before Rain
Short Fiction
The Dry Drowning
Short Fiction
The Heap That Remembered
Short Fiction
The Banyans Under Ballygunge
Short Fiction
Benford's Law and the Ledger That Sweats
Mathematics
The Router Behind the Television
Cybersecurity
The Temperature of Attention
Short Fiction
The Breath That Came By Rain
Short Fiction
ASMR: The Softly Whispered Apocalypse
Satire
Moon Without Skin
Short Fiction
The Small Republic of No One
Personal
The Filth That Learned to Stand
Short Fiction
Kaak Bhairav
Short Fiction
Tau Scaling Law: The Chip Race Has Found a New Clock
Technology
The Useful Box and the Bengali Problem of Too Many Choices
Systems Thinking
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 Vitruvian Man: A Naked Man, Two Shapes, and Our Old Hunger for Order
Art History
The Toolbox Theory of Thinking: Why Simple Models Help Us Survive a Complicated World
Thinking
The AI Business Model Makes a Broke Bengali Nervous
Technology
Nicotine, Biri, and the Great Bengali Bargain
Public Health
The Plague of Pseudoscience in India
Science and Society
Obama, HITECH, and the Electronic Chart
Healthcare-IT
Samir Ranjan Das and the Visual Mind
Personal
What India Meant by Demonetization, and Where We Are
Economy
The Coming Unemployment
AI
The AI Cloud Will Also Need a Pump, a Plug, and a Tanker
Technology
How To Start Machine Learning Without Buying Magic Beans
AI Education
Storm in a Bhar
Short Fiction
The Morning of the Cutouts
Short Fiction
Maybe the Body Is Not Broken
Calcutta
Election Puja And The Common Eye
Politics
The Machine That Cannot Digest
Artificial Intelligence
If Asimov Never Put the Leash on the Robots
Artificial Intelligence
CRISPR: The Tiny Bacterial Trick That May Change Human Destiny
Science
Trying to Write About Healthcare IT in a Country of Missing Systems
Healthcare-IT
When Brains Are Bright but Systems Are Blind
Artificial Intelligence
The Nightmare of Indian Healthcare for the Common Man
Healthcare
The Chatbot Arrived Before the Seatbelt
AI Safety
Why I am Misunderstood as a Blogger
Personal
The AI Layoff Trap: How Companies Can Fire Their Own Customers
AI Economics
Bengal Changed Color, Not Yet Character
Politics and Society
Coding After the Keyboard: How AI Agents Learned to Roam the Codebase
Artificial Intelligence
Fog Machines in the Temple: Mandukya, AI, and the Dangerous Answer to Who Am I?
Philosophy and AI
The Tea Stall as an Anti-AI Safety System
AI and Society
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
LinkedIn, Unemployment, and the National X-Ray
Society
AI Agents Will Not Democratize Power Neatly
Artificial Intelligence
The English Medium Urine Stain
Memoir
Political Promises and the Hard Floor of Reality
Politics
The Prognosis Is Clarity
Philosophy
The Genie Is Out of the Bottle
Artificial Intelligence
Failing Well Without Looking Successful
Society
The Range Limit of Kinship
Society
Calcutta’s Sugar Problem Is Not Only Sugar
Health & Society
Politics Is a Machine for Spoiling Ordinary People
Politics
India's Semiconductor Problem Is Not a Missing Slogan
Technology
Why Scrolling Beats Reading, Until It Ruins the Reader
Technology
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 and the Healthcare Data Problem
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
Natural Selection Is Not Just About Animals
Systems Thinking
Maa Sitala, Maa Manasa, and the Bad Public Health Architecture of Fear
Public Health
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
AI Health Insurance and Cruelty
Healthcare AI
Is Claude Mythos, a Myth?
AI Security
LPG debacle
energy
The Invasive Human Weed Species
Society
Latent Space and the Hidden Map of Healthcare Data
Healthcare-IT
AI and Denial
Artificial Intelligence
Databases and Data Warehouses From First Principles
Healthcare-IT
Vector Databases and the Shape of Clinical Memory
healthcare-it
What the Ukraine and Iran Wars May Leave Behind in Civilian Technology
Technology
The Fish Bengalis Eat
food
India's White-Collar Issue
India
Intro
career
Pohela Baisakh
history
The Pufferfish Economy
Society
Cicada, BA.3.2
Public Health
HIE From First Principles, With The Patient Still In The Room
healthcare-it
Why EHR and HIE Struggle in India but AI Diagnostics Might Not
Healthcare-IT
America and Calcutta
personal
This Blog's History
Personal Reflections
An Architect's Education
Healthcare-IT
Schooling in Calcutta
Personal