Author: Shankar Ananth Asokan
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Reflections on Honesty
It was my first day in Wipro (earlier company I worked with) and during the induction session was faced with a very difficult question. We were given a list of moral principles(general ones) and were asked to choose 10 principles that we would never dishonor. Everyone had a tough time choosing it. Suddenly a lady…
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What Google can your Wife cannot? – Read your mind!
Just realized how powerful Google can get. It did find out what was in my mind with a few words. Either I searched what billion others searched or it can really read what’s in my mind. Amazing!
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India’s Mobile Potential
I am not sure if any other country has this. India’s internet mobile users are higher than desktop users. Though the trend towards mobile is increasing worldwide the gap is still to high. Most of the countries have similar trends and may be India is the only one to have higher web usage thru mobile…
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Taleb’s 50/01 principle and human limits of observation
Most of us would have heard about the Pareto’s 80/20 principle. The 80/20 rule is a principle created by Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto. This is a mathematical formula he used to describe the unequal distribution of wealth. Pareto observed that twenty percent of the people owned eighty percent of the wealth. This rule can be…
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Experiments with NetBook OS
Wanted to make usable our 3 yr old HP Pavilion DV4T laptop. The laptop had issues of over heating up and was highly noisy (fan was continuously running). Tried out options suggested online, Clean the fan and heat sink – Trust me you literally have to disassemble the complete laptop to clean the fan Update…
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Snapshots – Effects!
Hey! Its been a long time I blogged.. Work has kept me very busy! And life is going on interesting! I wish to publish more in 2012 atleast to make sure I don’t lose my Google rankings. Here is a collection of events and thoughts.. 🙂 The Panipuri Effect I really don’t understand whats so…
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Einstein’s Blouse
Google Patents is very handy to search thru recent developments in technology especially the ongoing patent war. Out of curiosity I searched for Albert Einstein and was surprised to find this patent of him ‘Design for a Blouse’. Interesting!
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World Cup – Welcome Home!
1983 – We the last of the Generation X were born before India won its first cricket world cup and were too young to experience that victory. But we grew up hoping to experience it, not for a year or two but for 28 yrs. By this time my son is of the age I…