From Notation and Thinking Robert Recorde is credited with introducing the equality symbol in 1557. He said "to avoid the tedious repetition of these words: “is equal to,” I will set (as I do often in work use) a pair of parallels of one length (thus {=}), because no two things can be more […]
Once in a while, it is nice to step away from day to day life and dream big. Exascale computing is one of those big dreams. There is a goal to get there in 10 years (now we are in peta scale computing). A couple of snippets from this CNN article: “We’re talking about machines […]
This is an expansion of my tweet. A dose of inspiration (from the entrepreneurial award winners, from the ideas and vision of business plan competitors) A sense of wonder A feeling of euphoria (about the emergence of an ecosystem driven by organizations like TiE and Nasscom in India) Close encounters of pleasant kind throughout the […]
At TiEcon, we have a Pitch2VC session. We have over a dozen VCs to whom entrepreneurs can pitch. So if you are an entrepreneur to pitch to vc, how would you go about looking at them? What if a VC had to pitch to you? I took the easy way out and did a small […]
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This post is all in French. But both the visualization and links looked useful. So copy pasted the text into Google translator and here is the result (with some minor editing). A small exploratory tour to see what is being done on the side of blogs on the “machine learning”. I ran the crawler developed […]
I stumbled upon this amazing link from the past. Can you guess, how old it is and where it came from? I am going to withhold that for a while (just to increase the suspense). But here is the snippet. Kind of timeless, IMO. The first duty of the cartoon is not to picture or […]
Stumbled on this great presentation from LinkedIn. Here are some really great insights: Isolated infrastructure team is really a bad solution Building a multi-TB lookup infrastructure is really, really hard work, Solution: Build this structure in Hadoop [slideshare id=4653292&doc=6dataapplicationlinkedinhadoopsummmit2010-100630140404-phpapp02]
Elevator pitches are hard. Believe me, I have tried. I always had more success describing the product through examples of usage when I had more time. It looks as if the big CEOs have similar problems, as well. I smiled, when I saw this – Embattled CEO still unable to define her company. “What is […]