As the world prepares to live with the pandemic, all of us are questioning everything around us – ourselves, our people, our behaviors, our possessions, our artifacts, our organizations, our residences, our lifestyles, our entertainment, our institutions – public and…
Book Summary – Promise of Artificial Intelligence, Reckoning and Judgement
Back to blogging after a long hiatus. The current pandemic has provided all of us ample downtime to reflect and regroup. One of the main tasks for me on the backburner has been an evergrowing reading list, which I have…
Ruminations on AI, ML, Data Science – where are we?
This is the first post after a long hiatus from active blogging. Having spent the past nearly 3+ years running a tech – (all of product, data and engineering) – team out of Bangalore, I have learnt much as how…
Meteor.js – A Server Side Developer’s Experience
Over the past few months, I have been working with Meteor.js, henceforth called Meteor, building out some complex UX workflows. Being a platform architect and systems developer, I had shied away from working on product UI’s. However, sitting in innumerable meetings…
Building Product – Transitioning from a Service mindset
Many “realworld” ideas that initiate the launch of a startup have their roots in the world of “services”. Somewhere, someone who was trying to solve a problem for a customer realizes that there is a major need for a viable…
Big Data – Ponderings of a Practitioner – IV
Over the past few weeks, I have been reviewing the big data startup space – looking for companies with key ideas in exploiting big data. During this exercise, I noticed that a number of start-ups focused on “data cleanup” tools…
Text analytics – a practitioner’s view – I
After nearly a four month hiatus from blogging, I finally got around to writing up the first in a series of blogs on the state of art in text analytics. I have been interacting with various practitioners in both industry…
“Design” – Some thoughts
I recently read “Design of Design – Essays from a Computer Scientist” by Fred Brooks of the “Mythical Man Month” fame. The collection of essays attempts to make a larger point about the role of “design” in engineering activity as…
Big Data – Ponderings of Practitioner – III
My earlier posts on this topic have taken a top down view – from model building to implementation. In this post, I attempt to understand the bottom up view of this world – the vendor landscape and tools in this…
Big Data – Ponderings of a Practitioner – II
Continuing the vein of thought outlined in my earlier post on Big Data, the key issue to have in mind before jumping into big data is: Are you collecting/analyzing data to build/improve a theory? or you have a theory that…