DailyPost 433 CONSOLIDATE / VALIDATE KNOWLEDGE “Jugaad” has been the flavour of India, euphemistically called as Frugal Innovation in business school parlance. But in knowledge, frugal doesn’t work, it can lead you to: from suboptimal performance to outright disaster, depending sector / project & time. The small repository of daily skill gets validated, what about […]
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DailyPost 432 CAN WE SALVAGE PRIVACY? Edward Snowden ripped off the lid of Govt. surveillance in the US, the shock US & the world has not been able to recover from. The start of the privacy movement will remain to be Edward Snowden’s lasting legacy. To call his leaks as the 9/11 of Privacy sounds
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DailyPost 428 A CONFERENCE PROTOCOL Conferencing is a serious business& is rightly presumed to a manifestation of a vibrant intellectual culture. Lots of time & energy goes into it, with months of preparation. Unformatted it remains and the output remains unaudited. Either the funds are to be exhausted or the sponsorship money ( some delegate
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DailyPost 423 READING DECODED What you read is what you are. Conversely, if you don’t read anything, you are nothing. The apt analogy is a student who doesn’t read anything the whole academic year. Where does he land. ”Reading is a means of language acquisition, communication, and of sharing information and ideas.” A person who
DailyPost 422 DEEP REINFORCEMENT LEARNING The mankind has always looked for an intelligent assistant. Computers a byproduct of this exploration has reached the stage of deep reinforcement learning. It is radically different from supervised learning and takes computer / machine learning on a totally different trajectory. The aim to create artificial agents that can achieve
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DailyPost 421 READING & WRITING – AN ANATHEMA! How many of our discussion centre around reading habits? What we read is what we are, they say. Have you ever felt like writing something, to communicate your ideas, thoughts or feelings. Are we a community of literacy certified individuals, unwilling to practice the ultimate gift given
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DailyPost 419 AN INTUITIVE MIND Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion”. – Steve Jobs. One survey of 83 Nobel Laureates in science and medicine found 72 of them attributing their success to intuition. One of the ultimate gift of God is an intuitive mind, a rarity. If you
DailyPost 418 GUIDES Guides we generally use while discussing research mostly doctoral or for experts at tourist locations. The one at the tourist location supposedly knows all about the monument. Though he is not arbiter of tourist traffic, a good troupe of guides can make a difference. Guides in the academic life, if taken together
DailyPost 415 HAPPY CHILDREN’s DAY Children provide us the ultimate happiness. Child is the father of man. Indeed! There is immense learning in this ignorant being. To make the child bloom through grooming provides us the satisfaction of life. Parenting is the tool to achieve this feat. How many of us are equipped to do
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DailyPost 414 HAS KNOWLEDGE PLATEAUED? In the present deluge of data & information, knowledge for vast majority has in reality plateaued, though they claim to the contrary. We have become tools in transaction of useless data & information , adding literally no value to our knowledge. This information does not pertain to what we have
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DailyPost 412 BEING BUSY – A MENTAL SEIZE! A nation seized in this mindset, might be does not deserve anybody’s sympathy, it has to be ruthlessly broken down. They have stalled all progress in this country; intellectual or otherwise. They have become the brand ambassadors of hard work while delivering nothing. They have taken the
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