Searching for causation
Reblogged from Algorithms in Real Life: If you are an author, there are three things you worry about. How many have purchased the book? How many have read the book? How many have understood the book? If you have written the book with the aim of making money, then asking the first question is sufficient. … Read more
Ant Colony Optimization
Reblogged from Algorithms in Real Life: Many interesting meta-heuristics have been bio-inspired. Some of them are: Ant colony Optimization Cuckoo Search Genetic Algorithm Ant Colony Optimization This technique has been adapted from the studies carried out on the behavior of ants. It was observed that foraging ants quickly traversed the shortest path from the anthill … Read more
Introduction to Algorithms, Heuristics and Meta-heuristics
Reblogged from Algorithms in Real Life: At school I was always confused between Algorithms and Logarithms…Anagrams were meaningful later. Then I encountered heuristics and lately meta-heuristics. I tried to differentiate algorithms, heuristics and meta-heuristics. Additional words such as methods, steps and instructions also joined the fray. A simple definition of algorithm – Wikipedia defines it as … Read more
What is the Definition of Big Data?
Is Big Data a buzzword with no clear definition? Wikipedia defines Big Data as… …a collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using on-hand database management tools or traditional data processing applications… 13 More Definitions of Big Data Here is a collection of 13 (unlucky?) other definitions of “Big Data” … Read more
Amazon AWS 19th Price Reduction – a Closer Look
If you have been following me regularly then you would know that I maintain that charges for cloud services are not coming down in proportion to the routine reduction of hardware cost. So, let us examine in Amazon has reversed the trend with its latest announcement of price reduction. On 6th March, 2012 Amazon announced: … Read more
6 Game Changing Technology Events of 2011 – and 2 Non-Events
1. Steve Jobs resigns permanently Steve Jobs, the genius is no longer with Apple. Would you like to take a bet that within next three years, Apple will not be able to come up with another game changing innovation like iPad, iPhone, iPod, Mac or Apple PC? 2. Google goes social Paul Allen says Google+ … Read more
Microsoft’s Second UI Innovation
Critics have always accused Microsoft of copying UI from Apple. As Chris Madden in this interesting post point out that Apple fans state that: “…every Mac OS feature and icon eventually shows up in Windows (and in fairness many do)…” First time Microsoft came up with a revolutionary UI design was when it created the … Read more
Are we falling back on IT Innovation?
Smartphones, tablets, and the cloud – are they true IT innovation? Or, As Bob Lewis suggests, are they consumer innovation or port of one or more of the dozen earlier innovations to these new platforms? In this article he has listed out a list of 12 innovations that had created the ability to do something … Read more
Microsoft spends more on R&D than Google
[Update September, 2012 - R&D spend data from Dan Lyons's post (figures are R&D spend as a % of revenue Google - 14%, Microsoft - 14%, Samsung - 6%, Apple - 2%] This is true not only in absolute dollar term but also true as a percentage of revenue. In fact, Microsoft spends more on R&D … Read more
How IBM Watson has influenced Google?
Try searching for “The capital of Oman”. What do you expect to see? Couple of sponsored link followed by ten resultant pages – right? Wrong. You will see the following. When did Google introduce this feature? It was done quietly. There is a news item on 23rd March, 2011 in Realwebseo talking about this feature. … Read more
