Education hasn’t kept up with development in Big Data according to Deng. “We are facing a huge deficit in people to not only handle big data, but more importantly to have the knowledge and skills to generate value from data — dealing with the non-stop tsunami. How do you aggregate and filter data, how do… [Read more…]
January 19, 2012
Some times, a blog is not paragraphs of text. It is just one beautiful idea or a philosophy, you resonate with. When you see something this good, you want to share it and know what others think. Great thoughts by Scott Chacon on Handy Tools for Optimizing Your Team. I don’t think it applies just… [Read more…]
January 17, 2012
In one of my Infostreams alerts, there was an entry for a Librarian job. Out of curiosity I clicked on the link and was surprised to see these job skill requirements (partial) for a Digial Asset’s Librarian. knowledge of emerging trends in scholarly communications and library and information technologies. Qualifications: MLS degree (or recognized equivalent)… [Read more…]
January 16, 2012
What does it take to build an ecosystem that fosters product development in the technology space? This question came up in our Chennai Open Coffee Club meeting in Jan. Here are some thoughts. You need an entrepreneurial spirit. These are people who are willing to risk their careers on building some thing to solve a… [Read more…]
January 15, 2012
This is an amazing view. I kept saying ‘No’ while I was listening to Mark Pagel but some how it seemed very convincing. A tiny number of ideas can go a long way, as we’ve seen. And the Internet makes that more and more likely. What’s happening is that we might, in fact, be at a… [Read more…]
January 15, 2012
Favorite theories of the world’s most eminent thinkers are as eclectic as science itself. In this fascinating study, they cover: Darwin’s Natural Selection Einstein’s Theory of Relativity The discovery that the conscious, deliberative mind is not the author of important decisions Emergence Pavlovian conditioning Two brain systems Chance shaping Personality People become what they do… [Read more…]
January 14, 2012
Does that sound like an oxymoron? Not as long as we have people who think like this: The strange history of “Think Python” (Allen B. Downey) In January 1999 I was preparing to teach an introductory programming class in Java. I had taught it three times and I was getting frustrated. The failure rate in… [Read more…]
January 14, 2012
I keep thinking about my compulsion to tweet. After a bit of reflection, I concluded that to me a tweet is: A shared (social?) bookmark – something I want to remember with some context A fleeting thought – something I want to capture but mull over later An opinion – an opinion fragment, really. It… [Read more…]
January 9, 2012
FirstDot powered by NEN’ is India’s national mentoring and recognition platform for student startups. I was at FirstDot along with Kiruba, Pravin Sekhar, Narayanan, Soundarya, Karthikeyan Vijaykumar to do unconference style sessions. Some notes from my session on Innovation and Entrepreneurship We started with – What, Why and How of Innovation and discussed Ideas and… [Read more…]
January 4, 2012
Here are a set of links about Python and related products like Django, Pyramid and lots of libraries and tools. obspy.core 0.6.0o - a Python framework for seismological observatories. opencl-for-python 0.4.0 Open CL Python bindings Clyther 0.3-beta OpenCL Python integration selenium 2.16.0 Python bindings for Selenium bliss 0.1.17 A native Python implementation of the OGF SAGA standard (GFD.90). fandjango… [Read more…]
January 22, 2012
2