Yashvardhan Jain

Sep 7, 2024 | subtledigressions.substack.com | Yashvardhan Jain

There is a popular story, as Alan Light recounts in his wonderful book “The Holy or The Broken,” about a meeting between Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. In the mid-1980s, Dylan and Cohen were having coffee at a cafe in Paris. Admiring each other’s work, Dylan asked Cohen about a song of his, then largely unknown, and how long it took him to write it. Cohen responded, “A couple of years,” which he later said was probably a lie. It had taken him more than a couple of years.

Jun 13, 2024 | yashvrdnjain.medium.com | Yashvardhan Jain

Mar 14, 2024 | yashvrdnjain.medium.com | Yashvardhan Jain

Anyone who has ever felt a pull toward any kind of art, there is always a moment, ultimately, when the person must ask: But how will I make a living from it? And if you don’t ask, the other will ask you. While the question seems innocent and simple, it is also the death of many artists in figurative infancy. A traditional stable-seeming job or your heart’s true passion? That is the question. To those, Fyodor Dostoevsky offers his advice, both timeless and timely. The short version: why choose one?

Jul 19, 2023 | nature.com | Yashvardhan Jain |Leah L. Godwin |Yingnan Ju |Ellen Quardokus |Andreas Bueckle |Yiing Lin | +4 more

Data preparationFor the “HuBMAP – Hacking the Kidney” Kaggle competition, a dataset was compiled comprising 30 Periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) stain whole slide images (WSIs) with 7102 segmented renal glomeruli (see Supplementary Table 3 and “Methods”). To determine if algorithms generalize to other FTU types, a second dataset was compiled comprising seven colon hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stain WSIs with 395 segmented colonic crypts (see Supplementary Table 4 and “Methods”).