Bill Maher’s movie (documentary) Religulous is a direct assualt on religion — shows all the inconsistencis — in fact total stupid beliefs and behavior by religious people. I found it very interesting and compelling. This movies makes one think about…
Religulous: Religion considered extremely harmful
Google’s Speech Interfaces — using context
Though speech interfaces have been slowly gaining in popularity, this week saw a lot of talk about Google’s speech recognition or voice search algorithms. This is a big step not because it uses speech recognition, but how it does it.…
Study Astrology!!!
If you want lucrative jobs, study Astrology. As reported in TOI : Hired as vedic consultants, financial astrologers and vaasthu experts both in India and abroad, they’ll be required to make predictions on the stock market, the success of business…
Obama appoints Sonal Shah
Obama administration has included 4 Indians in his transition team. Now he appointed Sonal Shah to co-chair the Technology, Innovation and Government Reform panel along with Julius Genachowski and Blair Levin. Sonal Shah heads Google.Org, the philanthropic arm of Google.…
Technology and Auto Industry
In the debate about the US auto industry, a perspective is that this could only be saved in the long term thru the use of technology. This view is expressed here. Clearly there is some truth to this view, but…