Chetkar Jha Profile
Chetkar Jha

@huygencauchy

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Past: Lecturer@ WashU, Postdoc @UPennDBEI , PhD in Statistics @Mizzou . Interests: Bayesian analysis, Network analysis, and High-dimensionality

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Chetkar Jha
5 years
@ManMundra A massive human trial could be dangerous because in the case drug doesn't work, we'd expose many people to both the proposed drug and the virus. Moreover, indiscreet human trial might help the virus mutate or make it drug resistant, as in the case of TB. 2/n
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5 years
@ManMundra What are you suggesting is nothing sort of dangerous. Vaccines are developed in step wise manner, initially with animal trial and then moved to human trial and then to commercial usage, in order to minimize it's negative effect on the human population. 1/n
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@huygencauchy
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4 years
@AninditaAdhik13 @aashishg_ @_YogendraYadav @Jayati1609 @EmergingRoy @arvindsubraman @nikhilmkss Averages can be misleading. The correct inference should depend on the distribution of money (or quantiles 5%, 25% etc) in JDY acc. It might be that most money is held by few people. In extreme case, this means that 2.4 crore people are not in distress but 35.6 crore might be.
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@huygencauchy
Chetkar Jha
2 years
@hapyresearchers Because we want to sustain for profit academic journals!
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Chetkar Jha
4 years
@karunanundy I'd highly recommend @AnuvabPal 's Loins of Punjab (2007). It's hilarious!
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Chetkar Jha
11 months
@btwn_dimensions Albert Camus’ essay on Sisyphyus is perhaps very important read for any young person. However, I wouldn’t sum up Kafka as you have. Kafka was simply trying to point at absurdities.
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@huygencauchy
Chetkar Jha
1 year
When will the paper get accepted? Shekhar Gupta has a perfect answer!
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Rofl Gandhi 2.0 🏹
1 year
When Mandal asks oye Gupta salary kab aayegi
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@huygencauchy
Chetkar Jha
2 years
We wrote a paper on deriving conditional reference priors. It is now out on Bayesian Analysis #referenceprior #objectivebayes . Link:
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Chetkar Jha
2 months
@TheRealPlanC Just a word of caution, low p-value should not be confused with R^2. Low p-value tells us that the int and slope estimates are different from zero whereas R^2 tells us how good the fit is.
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@huygencauchy
Chetkar Jha
11 months
@SnehaAnnavarapu @SnehaAnnavarapu I am really a fan of your Bollywood humor. Hope you successfully go through this phase of your life. Cheers
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Chetkar Jha
2 years
The transition from student to lecturer entails switching from Best Regards to Best Wishes.
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Chetkar Jha
4 years
For Wes Anderson movie buffs, R has a package for using color scheme from Wes Anderson's movies. Check out R library wesanderson. #Rvisual
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Chetkar Jha
8 months
An undergraduate student of mine has been accepted into the PhD program at U of Chicago. I am so happy and proud of they/them.
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Chetkar Jha
8 months
I called Sample Space as Sample Spice in the class. And everyone in my class suddenly got hungry. :)
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Chetkar Jha
1 year
This paper throws light on important aspects of microbiome data and its analysis.
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I think we need to talk about how devastating this cancer microbiome refutation paper from @StevenSalzberg1 and colleagues is. It really speaks to how devoid of critical thinking and intellectual depth our glam publishing ecosystem has become. 1/n
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Chetkar Jha
2 years
@SnehaAnnavarapu I can't let me students see this, otherwise they are going to use this line all the time. Thanks for sharing!
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Chetkar Jha
2 months
@rishpardikar This is so bad!
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Chetkar Jha
11 months
@SnehaAnnavarapu If it happens next time, then ask others out there “do you concur?” :)
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Chetkar Jha
11 months
@SnehaAnnavarapu Sorry, but this is terrible!
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Chetkar Jha
2 years
Academic conference in Europe days before the conference informs me that 'Btw, your paper has been selected as a poster.' Thanks, but no thanks!
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Chetkar Jha
5 years
Philadelpha wide Mutual Aid Network for anyone affected by COVID-19. Please consider adding your name if you could help.
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Chetkar Jha
5 months
I'd have still preferred @pranavmistry 's "Sixth Sense".
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Introducing GPT-4o, our new model which can reason across text, audio, and video in real time. It's extremely versatile, fun to play with, and is a step towards a much more natural form of human-computer interaction (and even human-computer-computer interaction):
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5 years
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Chetkar Jha
3 years
A neat resource for scientific writing:
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Chetkar Jha
5 years
The promise of one treatment for almost all cancers.
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Chetkar Jha
11 months
@SajinShrijith It is oversimplification to say that Napoleon was just a power hungry person.
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Chetkar Jha
3 years
@SimonChauchard I think UP, Bihar, and Jharkhand's low rates could be explained by vaccine hesitancy among people. This is further exacerbated by the fact that the health infrastructure in these states are abysmal, e.g. no of hospital beds per million are one of the lowest.
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Chetkar Jha
4 years
@raniofcoochnahi @knadimintea @ArchiMedit @_neelofer @SeanEPanjab That sounds delicious Avni, but I have to disagree on the “only” part. My mom makes wonderful gravy laden okra with potatoes.
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Chetkar Jha
3 years
Congratulations @UpennBPC for organizing a wonderful symposium. #UpennBPC #BPCsymposium2022
@PennPPA
Penn Postdoctoral Association
3 years
2022 BPC Symposium Best Poster Awardees: 1st Place Chetkar Jha @huygencauchy 2nd Place Oz Pomp 3rd Place Danielle Barber Congratulations! 🎉 #UpennBPC #BPCSymposium2022
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Chetkar Jha
5 years
@vandana_menon @Revkin @sree Couldn't agree more, the current pandemic is a fall out of the current "Global Order". Curious to hear what @Revkin and @Sree discussed, could you kindly share a link to their #SreeCovid19call ?
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Chetkar Jha
2 years
@ShenRaphael Stealing it for my class.
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Chetkar Jha
2 years
@Ranjana_rahul Did you use the entire bettle nut or small (cut) portion of it? Also, an unsolicited advice, drop the carrots and use larger potatoes like in Kashmiri Aalu dum.
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Chetkar Jha
2 years
@jyotishkadatta I wasn’t expecting Rajasthan/Punjab math numbers. Curious, if the language assessment are performed in local languages.
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Chetkar Jha
2 years
@SrijanSengupta7 That's me on iPad while teaching :/
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Chetkar Jha
3 years
Hope Santa is using polar co-ordinates for doing this.
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Chetkar Jha
2 months
@vagabonds_log It seems like a great opportunity wasted by the courts. It was an opportune time to make systematic changes in how the administration at medical college functions. Sad!
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Chetkar Jha
3 years
Does this qualify as ball tampering?
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3 years
Nothing better than this will happen all summer
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Chetkar Jha
2 years
@siddharthvod Haha. This is the best thing that I read today!
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Chetkar Jha
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@adhicutting Going a step back, this has to do with the education system. We should be training a large mass of students who dropped out of the system at ITI's.
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Chetkar Jha
2 months
@DipshikhaGhosh This is such a basic thing to ask for!
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Chetkar Jha
5 years
@scottleibrand @barclebs My intuition says it should strongly correlate. But, I couldn't find any empirical evidence either for/against this.
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Chetkar Jha
3 years
Google Cloud Link for 1000 Genomes Datasets
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Chetkar Jha
3 years
@gremlinwarfare This might be relevant too, (via @begentlemind )
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Chetkar Jha
2 months
@Soumitri_Debroy Are you familiar with the Infinite Monkey Theorem?
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Chetkar Jha
3 years
@Plebeian42 Haha, what things of joy were plastic and rubber balls.
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Chetkar Jha
2 years
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Chetkar Jha
1 year
Folks should also publish docker images for their R packages. This is more useful & reproducible.
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Chetkar Jha
4 years
@n_millman Also, Japanese Jazz.
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Chetkar Jha
2 years
@DootikaV What an amazing match we have on our hands. Both Harman and Jemi are superstars!
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Chetkar Jha
2 years
@Ranjana_rahul Happy birthday, Rahul!
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Chetkar Jha
2 months
@payaljs What are the main grass-root challenges? How do you think we can contribute as an individual?
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Chetkar Jha
1 year
@SumanaSiliguri Thank you for writing this! :)
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Chetkar Jha
1 year
@Plebeian42 I think Bukowski will disagree. He wanted all of us to write as Bing, Bing, Bing. Good luck!
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Chetkar Jha
2 years
@someshjha7 @latimes @AlfredFriendly @OCCRP Hoping you check out Ragtag Cinema and other cool stuff in Columbia.
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Chetkar Jha
4 years
@sarahfarooqui20 It's heartbreaking.
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Chetkar Jha
2 months
@Soumitri_Debroy You already know that the discretization or the lack of it does not tell us anything about entropy. What is of interest is how the order of variables can increase/decrease the level of disorder in the system which is crucial for identifying important variables.
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Chetkar Jha
5 years
Life without Mozart!
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Chetkar Jha
5 years
@vandana_menon Wow, I thought Henry Kissinger had put the world on fire long before covid !
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Chetkar Jha
2 months
@Mdgulzar60 @adhicutting @IndiaActionHQ @shireenazam Lovely, I would love to attend one of your sessions (in/around Ahd) and see/observe the community in action.
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Chetkar Jha
5 years
@Plebeian42 Jeez, @Plebeian42 you're a romantic, after all!
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Chetkar Jha
2 months
@Soumitri_Debroy @NiharikaIyer Any favorite starter song for the uninformed here?
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Chetkar Jha
5 years
My drunken state : I want to read more philosophy.
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Chetkar Jha
2 years
@SnehaAnnavarapu Haha, this is an amazing thread! I hope @iamsrk gets to see this!
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Chetkar Jha
2 months
@Soumitri_Debroy Speaking from a Bayesian's perspective. Ordering of variables/parameters is imp because it interferes with the calculation of entropy. You could follow the reference papers mentioned in my Conditional Reference Prior paper in Bayesian Analysis.
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Chetkar Jha
2 years
@Ranjana_rahul How long are you in Bihar Jharkhand area?
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Chetkar Jha
2 years
@SrijanSengupta7 Lol, are we bootstrapping conference presentations?
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Chetkar Jha
3 years
@gremlinwarfare This is not an exact match for what you want. But, this is a petition asking US govt to release AZ vaccine for India.
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Chetkar Jha
4 years
@sharanidli Sorry, I beg to differ. :)
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Chetkar Jha
4 years
The easy way to keep people at Bay(es).
@agholdier
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will this keep people six feet away from me?
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Chetkar Jha
2 years
@Plebeian42 Narrative non-fiction sounds close to an academic paper :)
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@huygencauchy
Chetkar Jha
4 years
@scottleibrand @mlipsitch @OzlemEquilsMD Yes, also that study had comparatively little control cases to make a reasonable inference.
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Chetkar Jha
2 months
@btwn_dimensions I understand Marcel Proust without even reading him. Love him!
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Chetkar Jha
4 years
@tanejamehak08 @ALStrays @StrayDogCapital @Straydog_helper @Manekagandhibjp @dhanbadpolice @Dhanbadlive @JharkhandPMC @AAP4Jharkhand Hello, I practically grew up with stray dogs of Dhanbad. I'd love to help you out in taking care of them. Also, thank you for doing a great job. Send me your details. Cheers.
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Chetkar Jha
4 years
@yet_so_far pi, for obvious reasons. What's your favorite mathematical function?
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Chetkar Jha
5 years
@scottleibrand @barclebs I couldn't find ICU beds by state/territory, but I found hospital beds by state/territory and plotted them. Data Source : and Census
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Chetkar Jha
4 months
@Ranjana_rahul You should check out Vivek Geelani's work in Mumbai slums. Their technique requires widespread adoption especially for low income households.
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Chetkar Jha
2 months
@Soumitri_Debroy Take a disordered Rubik's cube. Perform a seq. of operations \{ A_i \}_{i=1}^n to restore it. Notice the order of operations is pretty important for restoring it to the original state.
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Chetkar Jha
2 years
@utsa_mukherjee I loved Fury!
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Chetkar Jha
5 years
@jyotishkadatta @mguindani That was quite an excellent talk! Thank you!
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Chetkar Jha
3 years
@Plebeian42 Also, try reaching out to @srinivasiyc . All the best, hope your uncle recovers soon.
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Chetkar Jha
2 months
@Soumitri_Debroy Yes. What about it interests you?
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Chetkar Jha
11 months
@bookishruti Haha! You brought up feelings that were forgotten :P
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Chetkar Jha
5 years
Goddard and Lynch !
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Chetkar Jha
5 years
@PhDemetri Well, it's more to do with how GLM is typically taught. The book by McCullagh and Nelder is an excellent place to start.
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Chetkar Jha
2 years
Being in academia entails revisiting assumptions which were considered settled!
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Chetkar Jha
3 years
@Plebeian42 Birsa Munda was lit af.
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Chetkar Jha
3 years
@SrijanSengupta7 @Grammarly I assure you that your student would be beaming with confidence after your comment. You did a great job as a mentor.
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Chetkar Jha
5 years
@nbcsnl @KhariBiskut Did you see this?
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Chetkar Jha
5 years
@Plebeian42 Two lives : A memoir by Vikram Seth. Also worth looking up is “The lust of life” by Irving Stone, and the biography of Napoleon.
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Chetkar Jha
2 years
@SrijanSengupta7 @ubsphhp This looks interesting. All the best for your talk!
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Chetkar Jha
11 months
@Plebeian42 I was thrilled with Ashish Nehra’s 6 for against England in 2003. What an amazing night that was!
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Chetkar Jha
1 year
@Plebeian42 Love this!
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Chetkar Jha
4 years
@Plebeian42 Tanul, you're no less. <3
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Chetkar Jha
3 months
@pratichi Have you tried reMarkable though?
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Chetkar Jha
4 years
@sarahfarooqui20 This album by Radiohead is one of the best, perhaps as good as OK Computer
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Chetkar Jha
2 years
@DootikaV You can watch replay on Willow!
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