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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
