Based on 44 meeting recordings from February to late April 2026, here’s how Straive’s small team (3-6 people at any time, mostly freshers and interns) produce a continuous stream of client-facing demos across topics as diverse as image filtering, geospatial analysis, insurance contract verification, NFL medical scoring, OCR benchmarking, and song similarity clustering — often with a 24–48 hour turnaround from assignment to demo. Here is how the team works: ...
Tools in Data Science Sep 2025 edition is live: https://tds.s-anand.net/. Major update: a new AI-Coding section and fresh projects. I teach TDS at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras as part of the BS in Data Science. Anyone can audit. The course is public. You can read the content and practice assessments. I fed the May 2025 term student feedback into The Sales Mind and asked: What are the top non-intuitive / surprising inferences? What are interesting observations? What are high impact actions? Full analysis: https://lnkd.in/gVWVqaxN: summary, outliers, and action ideas. ...
Snow White (2025) is an outlier on the IMDb. With a rating of 1.8 and ~362K votes, it’s one of the most popularly trashed movies. Prior to Snow White the frontier of popular bad movies was held by the likes of Radhe, Batman & Robin, Fifty Shades of Gray, etc. Snow White sets a new records. Snow White (IMDb): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6208148/ IMDb explorer: https://sanand0.github.io/imdb/ LinkedIn
A huge list of Lord of the Rings deviations between the movie and the book.
Good and bad physics in movies.