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I have shared my experience of teaching kids geometry in spare time, in this post. Would love to hear from others who have tried this and have learnt things that work vs things tha…

This is IMO a big deal because MSFT will now own business identity. Linkedin will become your business ID regardless of which company you join. Owning identity that travels across …

Each day a lot of people die in the world. If i wanted to find a list of all the news items that that resulted in deaths of say more than 5 (to rule out natural deaths), what are t…

It seems like retail investors don't have better investment options than dabbling in the stock market or settling for some mutual fund. Are there other great options out there that…

this is so awesome. My wife and I have been thinking and working on how can family productivity be improved. It's not an easy task as we are figuring out. There was a recent blog p…

One of the analogies i gave to the kids was that why did man have to learn to travel by water. Because walking on land wouldn't get them to the other island. Complex numbers someti…

Great job Kalid. I try to do this with kids. Simple ideas like why anything to power zero is 1 ? why do we need complex numbers ? Why is limit of something tending to zero/infinity…

I think in general working with large IT firms is always going to be a CF regardless of where they are from. This is especially true if you are a product dev shop as against enterp…

What about search going social. It seems to me that I find a lot of my information on the social media now like Facebook. It just seems like i search a lot less now than i used to.…

How do i up vote this. I have the genius but lacking the opportunity i think

An idea who has time has come

I think my points are made at a macro level and not at a specific company level. There is no fool-proof proof to any business/economic hypothesis. Oracle, MSFT and SAP aren't the o…

This is a bit of shameless plug but i think quite aligned with Sam's post but makes a slightly different argument. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-have-been-bigger-tech-bubb... W…

This was 7 years back my friend. We built software prototype for measuring dimensions, classifying grain type and measuring color / brokenness. For hardware we had some initial des…

I actually love the sentence but I wouldn't expect it in spoken english. (That part is ironical in the sense that it goes against the core of the article.. Seems like an exception …

"Informal language is the athletic clothing of ideas" The irony in this sentence from the article is breathtaking.

The nature vs nurture debate will go on. But I think the question needs to be framed differently. Its not about comparing one person with the other but the approach that best maxim…

I have some personal experience with applying computer/machine vision techniques to assessing rice quality. In India, rice quality assessment is a high value activity as the differ…

My kids don't think its normal. They actually complain when i have the phone stuck to my ear. Our assumptions on what and how kids learn from us are over-simplified.