When I like something nowadays, I keep saying “Super”. Super takes the spot along with “Awesome”, “Great” and “Cool”. I don’t know where or how I picked up this habit, but it seems to be here to stay. There is another (slightly different) “Super” around the corner. It is TiE Chennai Super Saturday – an […]
The author of Learn Python The Hard Way has some great advice in “Advice from an Old Programmer. Programming as an intellectual activity is the only art form that allows you to create interactive art. You can create projects that other people can play with, and you can talk to them indirectly. No other art form is […]
From 16 Rules of Social Media Optimization a free white paper (requires registration). 4.Help Your Content Travel 6. Be a User Resource, Even if it Doesn’t Help You 10. Create Content 11. Be Real The white paper covers SEO and SMO (social media optimization) and provides good advice. The only funny thing is that this site […]
From India Budget Services Sector: India’s IT and ITeS services with exponential growth are a unique export-led success story which has put India on the global map. While India has achieved a brand identity in this sector, other developing countries are trying to emulate India’s example. Besides its impact on growth (both direct and indirect), it is also a provider […]
This event is something you cannot afford to miss. There are several reasons: A few companies from Chennai – OrangeScape, FreshDesk etc. benefitted from Sramana’s 1M/1M program. The advice and the PR they received from her were very valuable. We thought that we should make it available for a few entrepreneurs in Chennai. So we went ahead and […]
From Fixing The Schools a Sketchbook from Kauffman Foundation. Teachers need to play multiple roles since they have a mix of students coming from very different backgrounds. Students have: Different levels of knowledge Different learning styles Different levels and different types of intelligence (see multiple intelligences by Howard Gardner) Come from different family backgrounds, resulting in different […]
Once in a while, I slip into a fantasy world. Normally it is triggered by some article or book I read or some movie I watch. It may be because I love SciFi – though, I am not finding time to doing much of that nowadays. It may be because I was crazy about the […]
It is nice to see challenge winners turning into product builders. It is nicer to see innovations that push the limits of what we can do. A news story about LaserMotive: It’s the first commercial product to be offered for sale by LaserMotive, which was founded in 2007 by a group of physicists and engineers, winning […]
The Biopython Project is a collection of freely available Python tools for computational molecular biology. The web site provides an online resource for modules, scripts, and web links for developers of Python-based software for life science research. From the Tutorial and Cookbook on Biopython: The ability to parse bioinformatics files into Python utilizable […]
It is heartening to see emerging technologies like Big Data Analytics, Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence combined into powerful tools to solve real problems. IBM Watson is an example. From Wikipedia Watson is an artificial intelligence computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language, developed in IBM‘s DeepQA project by a research team led by principal investigator David Ferrucci. From Watson […]