Did you know that – Terror attack on Charlie Hebdo was imminent? Google Glass was destined to be a failure given the privacy concerns and high price? India outperformed other emerging economies in the recent past? The information technology sector is the primary driver of India’s economic growth? Given our past experience and things we…
Makar Sankranthi is a festival of change. During this period, the Sun passes through the winter solstice, from the Tropic of Cancer to the Tropic of Capricorn i.e. a journey from South to North, an evolution towards a positive direction, a journey to make days longer, brighter and warmer. The Sanskrit word Sankranthi literally means sacred…
You are the CEO of a Fortune 500 company and you have been reading about the Sony Pictures hack news in the media lately. You are worried that your company’s systems may be vulnerable for hack attacks too. You hire IT consultants to make recommendations. They tell you – Only 2% of the Fortune 500…
Bill Gates, Nicola Tesla, Leonardo Da Vinci, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Abraham Lincoln, James Cameroon, Amitabh Bachchan and many other famous personalities are/were left handed. If you are left handed you will be famous. John is a great Doctor and I am sure his son will also be a great Doctor too. Maya, Anita and Mary…
Markov Model This is an interesting model that I learnt while taking an online course ‘Model Thinking’ by Scott E Page on Coursera.org. Many of the statistical/mathematical models are very academic in nature with very limited use in the day-to-day life. However I can see potential of this model to understand/analyze many of real life situations…
I have been thinking about ‘thinking’ and lately have realized how some facts, information, experiences and wisdom acquired in the past have either been partially or completely wiped out from my working memory. When I re-read some of the old books that I had already read, they seem absolutely new to me. I continue to commit the same…
We don’t learn that we don’t learn from past mistakes until it hits us hard again and again. Somehow in evolution, I see the coding for systematic and automatic learning exists only at a subconscious / cellular level. Our bodies have memory cells that store vital information relating to viral infections, diseases, etc. and the…
chakshuRA - as i see it 