A poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox — Consider eating ice-cream. You love the taste; you love how it melts in your mouth and the soothing coolness it delivers to your tonsil. Then it disappears and you feel like going for one more bite, till its over. You feel sad that its over and want to get a…

Operations Research — Linear Programming: Simplex Method — This is just like a note to self, but it will be useful for the enthusiastic individual trying to decipher the Simplex Method. Tl;dr The Slack in a constraint is the amount of unused values (according to that constraint) that can be supplied to the decision variables (obeying the constraint). Explanation The…

The distinction is important! — I will keep it brief. There are two kinds of formulae: One that you use as a tool. Another that you use as a concept. But there is also one, that derives from both One that can be viewed as both! The above idea can be used even more in…

Just do it — First things first, I am sacrificing myself as a hypocrite by writing this article — as me writing this, beats the point of my proposal. Because, the fact that this should be kept quiet about is most important. I will keep it brief. Go through the key thoughts Bad day…

What are weights, and when to use them? — I will keep this short now. Say, you have a distribution which tells you that a random Variable X — has probability 0.2 of being 0, 0.5 of being Y and 0.3 of being Z. …

Let’s clear the confusion once and for all — Have you ever heard your instructor go on and on about this necessary and sufficient terminology in mathematics? Well, if you didn’t pay much attention cause you thought it was boring, you are doomed if you want to understand any higher proofs. In order for you to understand some of…

Not only the Visuals, everything is faster too — Hey there guys, you know what? I just wanted to send a document to my Kindle today. And I did, I turned off airplane mode, and got the document and left it idle on the desk. A few minutes later, I flipped open the cover again and whammy! …

It’s not just for generating moments you know… — The first time someone learns about Moment Generating Functions. This is what typically comes to mind: “Aaaa, why is it so hard to remember? Wait a min! Why do I need to remember it?” “Okay, so this helps me calculate the mean and variance by finding moments. So what?” “Alright…

No story, just a list that gets updated frequently — Okay, just a little heads up. This is going to be a list that I will update whenever I get a product, use it till the point that I come back to it again and again and it kind of turns into a part of my life. And also a…