Going on strike

Resident doctors on strike.

‘Non sibi sed omnibus’. Not for one but for all. This is the overriding principle in the mind of all doctors while practising their vocation. The care and welfare of patients are the primary considerations of the medical profession. Seldom do you see a doctor who prioritizes his interests before those of his patients. If patient care is the issue, he will disregard any amount of inconvenience c...

Starfish on Strike

This paper improves the price-performance ratio of ECM, the elliptic-curve method of integer factorization. In particular, this paper constructs “a = −1” twisted Edwards curves having Q-torsion group Z/2× Z/4, Z/8, or Z/6 and having a known non-torsion point; demonstrates that, compared to the curves used in previous ECM implementations, some of the new curves are more effective at finding smal...

Does physicians’ right to strike outweigh students’ right to an education? The on-going ethical dilemma in Peru

outweigh students’ right to an education? The on-going ethical dilemma in Peru Rodrigo M. Carrillo-Larco*, Álvaro Taype-Rondán and Reneé Pereyra-Elı́as Sociedad Cientı́fica de Estudiantes de Medicina Cayetano Heredia (SOCEMCH), Lima, Perú; Sociedad Cientı́fica de Estudiantes de Medicina de la Universidad de San Martı́n de Porres (SOCIEM-USMP), Lima, Perú; Escuela de Medicina, Universidad Peruana de...

To strike or not to strike.

Going Watson on MNIST

Description of task: The MNIST, a database of Handwritten Digit Classification, (possibly) the most famous dataset in the field of Machine Learning is studied using different classification techniques on it and did a comparative analysis to reproduce the best possible accuracy on it. The standard algorithms were improved by applying various techniques such as extracting features via feature ext...