Rithwik K

Data Scientist

Hi! 👋🏼

I do stuff with data. Currently for ThoughtWorks.

I am interested, but far less of an expert than I would like to be, in Bayesian Methods, Causality, Complexity, Simulations, and Decision Analysis. Apart from the data stuff, I get my kicks from philosophy, art, literature, and other general nerd-ery.

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Recent Posts

Particle Swarm Optimization in Guile Scheme

Update: Ported the code to Clojure too. TL;DR: Inspired by a couple of posts implementing particle swarm optimization in Python and R, I implemented one in Guile Scheme. Here’s the Guile code, and here’s the Python translation of the same approach.

Oct 28, 2021 8 min read Data Science, Optimization, Lisp, Scheme, Clojure

The Trees are Withering

There is a war going on. On one side are trees. And on the other... semilattices. Trees vs Semilattices One of the earliest reports came from the urban design front, from a certain Christopher Alexander who has been surprisingly influential outside his fields of architecture and design.

Apr 9, 2021 7 min read Graph, Observe

The Times in Chess

Aspects of chess are often packaged into insights to apply in other areas. But you don't need chess to tell you to think before you act. And think a lot of moves ahead is neither particularly useful nor true (strong players aren’t strong because they see dozens of moves ahead).

Mar 24, 2021 6 min read Time, Chess

Lessons from Pandemic Models

Last year was so strange that it would be strange to call it just strange. As someone who works with data, one strain of strangeness stood out: that of data science concepts becoming unusually common in conversations.

Mar 10, 2021 5 min read Data Science

Reimagining Books

The constitution as a graph A while back in an edition of the excellent public policy newsletter Anticipating the Unanticipated an idea was mentioned: It would be great to convert the constitution of India into a graph of cross-referencing articles.

Mar 4, 2021 4 min read Books, Observe, Graph