Welcome to my website.

If you’re not sure what to read, I recommend the following:

• Four metrics for friendship
• Actually, you *are* an imposter

My email is “nusnivek [at] gmail [dot] com” — I’d love to hear from you.

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Blog

• What do I write about, and why?
  Some motivation and reasons for the existence of my blog.

• Realizations from my first internship
  What I learned from interning at IQVIA during summer 2019.

• Four metrics for friendship
  How can we evaluate the nature of our friendships?

• Actually, you *are* an imposter
  A quantitative explanation of imposter syndrome.

• The Merlin mechanism
  An important element of many social deduction games.

• Grammatical errors in The New York Times
  An overview of the solutions to the “Copy Edit This!” quizzes.

• What is “algorithms”?
  Exploring the multiple meanings of a single word.

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Reviews

• Ken Bain - What the Best College Teachers Do
  Pretty inspiring, but not very concrete.

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Lessons

• What are these “lessons”?

• Binary Classification (PDF)

• Scaling and Creating Units (PDF)

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Uncategorized

• Alumni Profiles Series: Jothy Rosenberg
  An interview I conducted a Duke alumnus and serial entrepreneur.

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