Using Machine Learning to reduce testing time of energy storage systems by 96%.

Our story starts as we were reading Bill Gates Annual Letter where he mentions: “If you wanted to store enough electricity to run everything in your house for a week, you would need a huge battery and it would triple your electric bill.”

When we think energy storage, we think batteries but based on what Bill Gates is saying batteries will not be not adequate to meet energy demands and we need new, cheap ways to expand energy storage across our globe.

We’ve all heard of needing to move towards renewables. …

Transfer Learning for Robotics with Generative Adversarial Networks

As a kid, I remember watching Star Wars and thinking “damn, those robots are crazy-sophisticated”. They were smart and able to walk in various different environments. Contrary to most people, this didn’t scare me but instead got me really excited … but I was shocked to know that machines aren’t actually that intelligent in real life (yet).

Throughout our human evolution, we’ve seen humans gain and apply general knowledge to problem solving in a wide range of situations. Having general intelligence enables us to combine broad cognitive abilities and to be able to flip in different situations to solve problems. …

We see robotic mechanisms in our daily lives, it’s a huge industry and one that won’t stop appearing in our future. The robotics industry is expected to reach 210 billion U.S. dollars by 2025.

I got interested in understanding how robots work on a fundamental level and how we can advance some of the complex operations today. One of the questions I got curious about was: how do robots know exactly where to go and where to pick up things?

Inverse Kinematics is essentially how robots calculate exactly how they can move their joints to reach a desired target. …

Here’s how I solved it

One of the biggest problems in healthcare is the rising cost of patient readmission. This is when a hospital who recently discharged a patient gets penalized for having that patient return to a hospital within 30 days. This often costs hospitals a total of $528 million.

American hospitals alone have spent over $41 billion on diabetic patients who got readmitted within 30 days of discharge 🛏️. …

The key to powerful thinking is powerful questioning. When we ask the right questions, we succeed as a thinker and progress as a society.

If we think of all of the big innovations in our world like the internet or the lightbulb, they all started with one question “How can we make things better?”. We didn’t settle for the status quo. We wanted to break the norms or at least understand them.

There’s so much upside to asking questions yet most of us aren’t using this superpower in the right way.

Recently, I started learning about the French philosopher and scientist René Descartes(1596–1650) who doubts in his work “Meditations” about everything because he wants to know the underlying truth. …

Start by asking yourself these few questions:

• Have you ever done something or reacted in a way that didn’t make sense?
• Have you ever ever felt like there's a dark side to you?
• Have you ever felt disconnected from your mind, body and soul?

If you’ve answered yes to any of the above questions then don’t worry— this is pretty normal. In fact, it’s something that psychology can explain.

This can be explained by Jung’s psychology.

This is the only psychology that seeks the meaning of an individual’s life in his or her relationship to the problem of the opposites — good and evil, light and dark, love and hate. …

One of the philosophers who has influenced my thinking the most is Marcus Aurelius. He was known as one of the last “good emperors” of Rome — who genuinely cared for the well-being of his citizens at a time of chaos everywhere.

He wrote a manual (for himself) which we now know as the “Meditations.” I don’t think he ever intended to publish it to the public. He wrote it for himself — to deal with his own internal demons but it’s packed with so much wisdom.

How can we apply his stoic philosophy to our everyday life? Below are some insights & action items on applying these to your life. …

Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a program for emerging science and technology-based companies to grow like crazy by 1. getting mentorship, 2. getting capital. The program has an objectives-based mentoring process with the goal of maximizing equity value creation.

I had the awesome opportunity as part of the High School Girls Program to sit in on the first session of the 2019–20 cohort in Toronto. This meant a chance to sit in on important meetings, meeting industry leaders, startups and gaining insight into the fast-paced entrepreneurship world.

It’s crazzyyy how quickly our world is changing and the immense amount of impact new technologies like AI, Blockchain, & Quantum Computing will really have on our future! …