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Happy 2021, everyone! A kind of happiness where we get back the life we enjoyed. The ability to move about without fear. And the freedom to meet our friends and spend hours. Hopefully, it will happen sometime 2021.

I like this approach from https://play.kotlinlang.org/koans/overview “Kotlin Koans is a series of exercises to get you familiar with the Kotlin syntax and some idioms. Each exercise is created as a failing unit test, and your job is to make it pass. Here you can play with Koans online, but the same version of exercises is […]

I thought that the main aim of education is to make better citizens. It turns out that citizenship aim is just one of the many aims of education. Another aim of education may be to improve literacy and the power of critical thinking so that citizens make better decisions – about their life, community, and […]

“Can you draw a circuit diagram of your project on the black board?” asked one of the interview panel members. He had my project report in his hand. “No Sir”, I replied politely. There was shocked silence. The 8 panel members exchanged looks. Finally one spoke. “Why not?”. Sir, first, I did not design that […]

Let the machines do the routine and brute work, we think. Sounds like a reasonable argument. But machines are not capable of replacing humans in every aspect of work. In some cases (like fighting Covid19, it will be nice if machines can completely take over, but they can’t). They can do parts, but not the […]

Slowly more and more products are incorporating elements of Machine Learning and AI. Product Managers need to understand what the technologies are about and their impact. These articles ease you gently into the role of a product manager and provide some great tips. Machine Learning for Product Managers As Martin Zinkevich’s document on best practices […]

If you are just starting out programming, you may want to learn a language, and start exploring by building small applications. Don’t worry that you don’t know object-oriented analysis/modeling and design. You can learn them when you need them. This is true of algorithms, data structures, object-orientation, software engineering as well. You can build simple […]

Keep the talking part of sessions between 20-40 minutes. Have 2 or 3 sessions distributed through the day. Have people work on things individually or in small groups. Identify clear (intermediate) deliverables each day. Let people present/showcase their work in the final session. Set up a system to track engagement Create a system of #LearningAnalytics […]

If you are trying to build Machine Learning/AI applications, you may need a lot data to test your models. Here are a few of my favorite lists and a search engine for finding data sets. Kdnuggets Datasets for Data Mining and Data Science Google Dataset Search is another cool resource. I discovered it while browsing […]