The Future of Thermodynamics of Computation

It is a truth universally acknowledged that computing requires energy from the scale of the nanometer transistor in your phone CPU to data centers that rack up power bills exceeding some countrie’s GDP.

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An Algorithm can make T20 great again

Both semifinals in the T20 world cup have gone with the toss, reinforcing the point that T20 cricket outcome is decided by the toss. I have a proposal to make T20 great again.

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Threat of Climate Change

The need to reduce dependence on fossil fuels threatens energy security. Frequent extreme weather events will challenge food production for a growing world population.Technology got us into this hole, but it is also one of the tools we have to get out.

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Importance of Biotech

You can’t engineer a horse. You can domesticate it, harness it to a chariot. You can breed it and obtain traits more to your liking. You can build technology around it like shodding and saddle and bridle to allow you to get more out of it, possibly helping you to conquer the world.

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A Compressed Sensing Approach to Pooled RT-PCR Testing for COVID-19 Detection

We propose `Tapestry', a novel approach to pooled testing with application to COVID-19 testing with quantitative Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) that can result in shorter testing time and conservation of reagents and testing kits.

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Tapestry: A Single-Round Smart Pooling Technique for COVID-19 Testing

The COVID-19 pandemic has strained testing capabilities worldwide. There is an urgent need to find economical and scalable ways to test more people. We present Tapestry, a novel quantitative nonadaptive pooling scheme to test many samples using only a few tests.

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Large-scale Testing for SARS-CoV-2 using Tapestry Pooling

We have previously described Tapestry Pooling, a scheme to enhance the capacity of RT-qPCR testing, and provided experimental evidence with spiked synthetic RNA to show that it can help to scale testing and restart the economy.

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Pooling Samples to Increase SARS-CoV-2 Testing

As SARS-CoV-2 continues to propagate around the world, it is becoming increasingly important to scale up testing. This is necessary both at the individual level, to inform diagnosis, treatment and contract tracing, as well as at the population level to inform policies to control spread of the infection.

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