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parul

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About parul

Parul is passionate about the potential of open learning - co-founding Springboard (www.springboard.com) is her way to contribute to the movement. In the past, she has worked at Ittiam systems and IBM Research on problems spanning wireless communication systems, cloud computing, green technologies and analytics. She is a Senior member of IEEE and ACM, and has coauthored 12 publications and 8 patents. She is a recipient of MIT Technology Review India's Top Innovators under 35 award, IIT Bombay Distinguished Service Award and the Foundation of Youth Social Entrepreneurship’s fellowship for 100 changemakers under 30yrs in the Asia-Pacific region. Parul has Bachelors and Masters degrees from IIT Bombay and UCLA respectively.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #25918151

    Great initiative! Need more of these. Sharing with friends.

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    Comment #21841601

    How is this different from Google Maps ridesharing API? https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/ridesharing/

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    Comment #16755208

    +100 to Andrew NGs machine learning. Inspired me enough about the potential of online education to start a (now reasonably successful edtech) company!

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    Comment #14382837

    Looks pretty cool! Do you have something for iOS as well?

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    Comment #13638774

    Try the Khan Academy stats resources - https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability Datacamp also launched a bunch of new stats courses recently. I haven't checked them …

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    Comment #13374640

    Seems to compete with the Amazon visa they've had for over a decade!

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    Comment #13374627

    I love the crystal Ball analogy, LOL!

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    Comment #12321280

    I would definitely expect a senior manager in a tech company to know that! Keeping an eye on trends, competitors, influencers, big shakeups is a must for doing their job.

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    Comment #12321252

    We are a 3 year old startup and have had product/marketing/ops in San Francisco and engineering in Bangalore all this while. We use Google Docs power users and spontaneous communic…

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    Comment #8783746

    Part of a VC's job is advertisement (for their portfolio companies) ;-) However, in this case I couldn't find a past association between Flatiron school & Fred Wilson and/or Union …

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    Comment #8538952

    You are right, @Wuliwong. Our learning paths ("tutorials" comprised of online courses, videos, blog posts etc) are free, and experts help curate them for the joy of sharing their k…

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    Comment #8538939

    Glad you like it, Sam. You seem to be an expert on -- SlideRules! Want to help create a learning path on them ;-)

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    Comment #8538919

    Thanks for sharing!

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    Comment #8237830

    Seems like "Design of Everyday Things" is a really short course, with only 3 Chapters and each video of 1-2 minutes. The total video lecture time for the entire course could well b…

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    Comment #7529443

    On the contrary, we have had a great experience with remote working teams. We are a young startup, and we started out wanting to hire the best local folks (that is clearly preferre…

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    Comment #7521217

    Hey, sorry about that! Could you please try again and see if the error persists? If it does, please send me an email with your work setup & flow details at parul@mysliderule.com

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    Comment #7521214

    some mindblowing numbers there. Thanks for sharing!

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    Comment #7512719

    Hi elbear, Please add me to the notification list too. Would love to know when the course is ready

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    Comment #7506125

    Hi Steve, I'm the author of the path and a big fan of your course - thanks so much for putting it together! However I would like to echo @rattray's point - when I started learning …

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    Comment #7506067

    I strongly think so. Even as someone who had used version control before (CVS), I found Git fairly intimidating in the beginning. I feared it much till I fell in love with it. Furt…

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    Comment #7506050

    Definitely. Making the tool more intelligent and providing personalized recommendations is on our mind. Priority++ based on your request.

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    Comment #7505998

    Not necessarily.. depends on your choice of browser. I prefer Chrome, but I know a lot of web-devs, esp those are on Linux or those who have been coding from pre-Chrome days, prefe…

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    Comment #7503110

    AI path added to the "To-Do" :-) Currently, one way to include courses you have taken to your "binder" would be to review them on our site and mark their enrolled/completed/dropped…