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Reflecting on the Biggest Project I’ve Ever Worked on — Consulting for the United Nations

Team Project Deck Four months ago I worked on a consulting pitch to the PathCheck Foundation — a healthcare startup out of MIT Media Lab where the 🔑 objective was to gain 50%+ adoption of the app in Minnesota. My group and I placed in the Top 5 and had…

Innovation

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Reflecting on the Biggest Project I’ve Ever Worked on — Consulting for the United Nations
Reflecting on the Biggest Project I’ve Ever Worked on — Consulting for the United Nations
Innovation

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Feb 23

AI’s impact on education

A reflection on the question: What are your thoughts about AI’s impact on education? Written as if I were responding at a fireside chat. I’d ask ‘what are people already stitching together that a company hasn’t built’ and I think the answer is ChatGPT pairing with YouTube. Youtube is to…

AI

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AI

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Jan 25

Human metadata creates valuable companies

As the summer nears, I’ve been applying to internships and I realized: the metadata about an experience is more interesting than the experience itself. For example, my title is Head of Engineering at X company. Underneath this title I’ve written 3 bullet points detailing what I’ve done. Implemented a file…

Innovation

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Innovation

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Nov 24, 2022

Don’t let your friends be as annoying as poorly tied shoes.

One of the things that’s bizarre to us today that wasn’t bizarre twenty years ago is how we make friends. Twenty years ago, friends were either local or gatekeeped. Social networking sites weren’t as widespread and international as today, so grade school was the primary way to make friends. And…

Innovation

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Innovation

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Aug 28, 2022

what I read (week of august 21)

Readings on education and technology — My reading this week is split into two categories: Education (with some thoughts on Biden’s student loan bill) Technology Education Incentive based programs to incentivize reduce the attrition rate of effective school teachers (WSJ) Interesting company x school partnership I mentioned in my essay but too political for classrooms (NYT) Biden…

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May 23, 2022

Helping 100M students under ten learn how to read and write.

Augmented reality education for five y/o to master literacy. — Hey! I’m Zayn Patel, and I care about unlocking human potential, especially for kids in developing countries. I was a finalist in Schmidt Futures global learning tools competition. I’ve worked with the UN to build a digital literacy curriculum for women in rural Senegal. I also created a platform to…

Education

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Education

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Apr 24, 2022

Disco Balls & Pencils

Writing as a dinner party — Writing is a lively dinner party; tidy guests, developed invitations sent out weeks in advance, ironed dress shirts and matching ties, live music, a brown, reflective, waxed dance floor, and a ‘blown-up’ phone post-party with pictures and thank you messages. Writing, like the dinner party, has stages. The aggregate experience…

Personal Essay

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Personal Essay

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Jan 17, 2022

A Memo on Foundations — Nigeria

SMS & Systematic Phonics to Educate 27.9M Nigerian elementary school students on English literacy — Nidhsadkfldakljd. This is what language looks like to 80% of Nigerian primary school students. In Nigeria, 27.9 million primary aged children don’t know how to read or write despite being in school because of late learning, unqualified teachers, and poor instruction. Who does it affect? Ummal, a 4 year old illiterate schoolgirl living in…

Innovation

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A Memo on Foundations — Nigeria
A Memo on Foundations — Nigeria
Innovation

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·Oct 21, 2021

How to Use K-Means Algorithm to Create Customer Segmentation Tools

Project Breakdown and Code Walkthrough — This article gives an overview of unsupervised learning, the K-Means algorithm and the math behind clusters, and a code breakdown of an unsupervised learning project I built. If you’re interested here’s the breakdown: Background on Unsupervised Learning K-Means Algorithm — Clustering Process, Math, Applications Project and Code Breakdown Background on Unsupervised Learning

Python

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How to Use K-Means Algorithm to Create Customer Segmentation Tools
How to Use K-Means Algorithm to Create Customer Segmentation Tools
Python

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Oct 19, 2021

Making Similar Mistakes Twice

Learnings from 12 Hour Hackathon — We’re exactly like Artificial Intelligence. Deep learning, specifically. One of the core parts of deep learning is reinforcement learning. It’s similar to operant conditioning in psychology where we’re rewarded or punished based on a set of behaviors. In reinforcement learning, an agent is exploring a new environment and as they…

Innovation

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Making Similar Mistakes Twice
Making Similar Mistakes Twice
Innovation

7 min read

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