A breakdown of the status quo of Nigeria’s primary healthcare system. — In Canada, when a teenager needs to get an immunization or a bandaid we usually just go to a school nurse or a family clinic. They’re very easy to reach and use, especially if you live in an urban area. You can almost always trust your doctor or nurse to…

Before last Monday, I’d always thought of philosophers as wise scholars packed with knowledge. Reading into some of the teachings of Socrates, Plato and Nietzsche was enough evidence for this conclusion. However, ever since looking into Rene Descartes my perspective has changed. In case you don’t know, he was also…

I’m a total newbie to philosophy. Friedrich Nietzsche is the first philosopher I’ve deeply researched. One word: wise. Two words: super wise. Three words: really super wise. I’m still so impressed by how smart people like him are. I found a lot of Nietzsche’s philosophies groundbreaking and fascinating. Here are…

Rainforests are some of the most interesting landscapes on the planet. They’re our oldest living ecosystems, with some having survived in their present form for over 70 million years. Interestingly, while they only take up 6% of Earth’s landmass, rainforests are home to half of the world’s flora and fauna…

Implications for some of society’s most important industries — A/N: This article was co-written between Ryan Lam, Allen Uy and I. If you’re anybody anywhere right now, you know about the coronavirus. Because of fear-mongering and culture-shocking-cuisine, the social panic has been around for a while — but after being labeled a pandemic, tensions have shot through the roof…

You read the title correctly. We’ve heard of classical and quantum computing, but promising research and work suggest that future supercomputers will consist of biological components. Biocomputing, or organic computing, is an emerging field of computation that’s completely different from anything we’ve seen before the 21st century — and the…

In 1928, the first-ever true antibiotic was discovered by Alexander Fleming. Returning from a vacation, he’d accidentally discovered that his petri dishes had been contaminated by green mold. Now referred to as penicillin notatum, the substance had been killing growing bacteria — and, after further testing, it was found capable…

Code from this article was based off a tutorial found here. A/N: This article assumes a basic intuitive understanding of neural networks. For background, check this out. Using this dataset, I created a neural network capable of classifying breast tumors. The features are measured characteristics of cell nuclei within the…

This article assumes a decent understanding of neural networks and backpropagation— for background, check this out. In all neural networks, the core architecture consists of neurons within several layers; input, hidden, and output. As data is propagated throughout the network, weights adjust their values and help the net make a…