Still remember the heyday of Computing – the 60’s and the 70’s when the input was a punched card reader or a teletype. We have come a long way from then. From there we are in a mouse and keyboard input transitioning to voice. The future will be voice and thought interfaces. Your kids and…
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“Software is eating the world” — Marc Andreessen (August 20, 2011) The case for software today – infinite choices In today’s world, the statement holds true. There is a deluge of software all around us. If you are looking for productivity software, you can choose between MS Excel, LibreOffice, Zoho, and a plethora of others.…
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Around 60 years back, we were using machine/assembly language to program the computer. Then came programming languages like ALGOL, COBOL, FORTRAN, etc. Now these languages are better but still tedious. With the arrival of BASIC, the learning curve was reduced a lot. However, BASIC was too high level. In the 80-90’s we saw the arrival…
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A good virus will not crash a machine. It simply attaches itself to executable parts of the software inside our machines. It’s triggered by an event and will do whatever it has been designed to do (payload) and simply let the machine continue where it left off. The virus is a parasite. It feeds on…
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Excel is a good ‘analytic’ tool. So are some data mining tools that help us slice and dice the information into perspectives, or should I say views. A dashboard consisting of related views can tell a hidden story. But all stories have something in common viz. assumptions. The story holds water only if certain pre-defined…
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Understanding chatGPT So much noise over chatGPT. It’s amazing to watch how this AI throws out answers to the most mundane and twisted questions. It seems to know. But does it? For that, we have to understand a little bit about AI. There are 3 kinds of learning in AI: Supervised Unsupervised Reinforced Now, chatGPT…
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The location where Data exists Data originates from a source as something pristine or fresh. Then it gets tagged. For example, name, voltage, etc. Now this tagged information is typically stored in a file or a database. Thus, you may have a file with a sensor’s information like current, voltage, and power (watts). For a…
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We are creatures of Habit Can you predict the future by looking at past data? Well, mostly yes! But it will never be 100% true. The reason why we can predict the future from the past is that we all are creatures of habit. If we tend to drink coffee in the morning, we will…
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The Complete Guide to Business and How to Get Started Introduction: Starting a Business or Growing Your Company? How to Develop Strategies for Your Business How to Market Your Brand and Get it Seen by People Promote and Sell Products and Services Online 4 Proven Ways To Use Business Analytics to Get Ahead of Your…
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Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality AR Augmented reality is about superimposing images/videos etc onto reality. Take for example the game Pokemon Go. Players would try to collect pokemon from the world. You keep walking and you see a Pokemon here and then there. The idea is to collect as many pokemon as possible. Now, this…
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