I recently watched The Matrix and I’m kind of obsessed with the last scene where Keanu Reeves steps out and puts on his oval, rimless black sunglasses and the camera zooms out onto the cityscape of the Matrix. I definitely understood Keanu's confusion in the Matrix (I mean it kind of destroyed his entire reality) and think he could have benefited with one of these above, which is what I'll be discussing today. A Confusion Matrix! It’s been a while since I’ve written about my

Over the past year, concerns surrounding AI use have grown exponentially. This is seen through misinformation circulating the internet, adaptive social media algorithms getting better at capturing your attention, how easy it is to turn to ChatGPT instead of using your brain, and more. Regardless of intent, all demographics have been exposed to AI in some way or another, and fear is understandable. All of these reasons are why I was initially hesitant to use something similar

An exhibit at the Museum of Natural History—the diversity I hope my dataset represents. What do you do when you have an idea for a research project but not enough resources to carry it out? I had been imagining the perfect execution of my Machine Learning project that would use patient history and travel data to predict likely diseases and outbreaks in high-transmission cities and aid doctors with efficiently treating global pathogens. Then, as explored in my last blog post,

It’s one thing for a scientist to come up with a research question. It’s another thing to actually begin attempting to address it. For those of you who have not read my post “A Year Ago,”—you should!—I’ve copied my research question down below. How can we expedite the accurate identification of bacterial infections acquired internationally and match patients to the right antibiotic? In the fall of 2025, I started to brainstorm ideas. I knew that I did not have easy access to

Salmonella bacteria https://www.fda.gov/food/foodborne-pathogens/salmonella-salmonellosis A year ago, my mother took me to the hospital. I had no idea that I would not leave that building until two weeks later. In advance, I’d like to warn readers that this post may stray a bit from my usual posts that give tidbits of my days at the museum and silly childhood memories. But, after all, it is the one year anniversary, so I feel like my two truths and a lie “no way” piece of i