I was very eager to hear John Kerry’s acceptance speech. So I waited and heard it. I had to request Jay to discontinue watching his program. He was definitely not happy about it. But the more interesting part was that within 10 minutes after the speech when they were still showing baloons and confetti falling, we [...]
I recently received a mail from Jeff Bach that he is also no longer with Virage. I was talking with Bradley also about his new job at Yahoo. And I had some discussion with a friend at Comcast cable company in that context name of Virage came in. All these brought some old memories of [...]
My health is definitely on an upswing. I still get nausea in morning on some days and feel tired on some other days, but overall I am doing well. Very clearly, my energy level and enthusiasm towards things is improving everyday. I think I can walk continuously at a regular pace, for my current health, [...]
Our ability to view the world through a filter of our past knowledge underlines the importance of having systems that understand the difference between data and knowledge and their strong interdependence. We need both data and knowledge to perceive with accuracy. Without knowledge, data is meaningless. How can you conclude that the blobs in a figure are [...]
Data represents just observations or facts. People look at this data and try to find patterns in it and assign meanings to it. But the data is just the data. How does any pattern or meaning emerges from it?
Consider the picture above. At first glance it appears to be nothing more than a set of blobs. [...]