Crashing bradycardia kills people who are nowhere near a hospital. The heart rate drops, cardiac output falls with it, and the patient gets dizzy, faints, or arrests. The definitive treatment lives...

I keep a journal for every research internship I do. Most of it is dated logistics, the kind of thing only my past self cares about. But reading back through three summers of entries, I realized th...

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee. I started building a medical device before I had any right to, and this book is the reason I slowed down. It is a biography of cancer, which sou...

If you had told me a year ago that I’d spend my Friday nights mediating a dispute over a stolen shower caddy and organizing a house-wide hunt for a missing air fryer, I would’ve laughed and gone ba...

Introduction The perceptron asks a harsh question: which side of the line are you on? That is a useful question, but real decisions rarely come in pure yes-or-no form. A clinician does not want “s...

Recently I have been working through a massive PyTorch course (Daniel Bourke’s “Learn PyTorch for Deep Learning in a Day”), and somewhere around hour six it hit me. I had written a training loop, w...

A couple of years ago, in high school, I presented my own research to the Montgomery County Public Schools budget committee, the group that helps steer a multi-billion-dollar budget. The pitch: STE...