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1. Electric Bihar electricity consumption ~ 8 GW Delhi electricity consumption ~ 9 GW Bihar pop. ~ 4x Delhi via PK NYC population ~ 9M. Electricity consumption ~ 55GW 2. Limited Arrests Arrest per officer per year in Chicago ~ 4 Total Chicago PD officers ~ 11k (see here) Total arrests per year ~ 48k (see here) Jens

Less Known Facts About Muslims in India

There are two main concerns about Indian Muslims. First, many fear that Indian Muslims are greatly behind other groups. The second, deeper concern relates to Muslim women. Many fear that sex gaps are much larger among Muslims than other groups. Let’s look at the facts. 1. Education: The literacy

How Many People Does It Take …?

A 700,000 square meter Hindu temple—the world’s second-largest Hindu temple--was recently inaugurated in New Jersey. The sect that built the temple is known for building many other elaborate temples, see, for instance, the temple in Delhi (TripAdvisor rates it as the second biggest attraction in Delhi) or

Take 80 mg Atorvastatin for Myalgia

Here’s a drug pamphlet with a table about side effects The same table can be found here: https://www.rxlist.com/lipitor-drug.htm#side_effects As you can see, for a range of conditions, the rate at which patients experience side effects is greater in the Placebo arm than

From Living Instinctively to Living With History

Listening to my maternal grandparents narrate their experience of living with Muslims was confusing. According to them, Hindus and Muslims lived harmoniously. They also liked each other. Hindus and Muslims wouldn’t eat at each other’s houses or might use separate utensils, but that had less to do with

A Benchmark For Benchmarks

Benchmark datasets like MNIST, ImageNet, etc., abound in machine learning. Such datasets stimulate work on a problem by providing an agreed-upon mark to beat. Many of the benchmark datasets, however, are constructed in an ad hoc manner. As a result, it is hard to understand why the best-performing models vary

Compensation With Currency With No Agreed Upon Value

Equity is an integral part of start-up compensation. However, employees and employers may disagree about the value of equity. Employers, for instance, may value equity higher than potential employees because they have access to better data or simply because they are more optimistic. One consequence of the disagreement between potential

Optimally Suboptimal: Behavioral-Economic Product Features

Booking travel online feels like shopping in an Indian bazaar: a deluge of options, no credible information, aggressive hawkers (“recommendations” and “targeted ads”), and hours of frantic search that end with purchasing something more out of exhaustion than conviction. Online travel booking is not unique in offering this miserable experience.