…is to not use your own brain but rather ride on the shoulders of an expert. Surprisingly enough (for most), a popular ‘expert’ is Stanford CoreNLP. Suppose you have the following paragraph (credit): Born in Pretoria, South Africa, Musk taught himself computer programming at the age of 12. He moved to Canada when he was […]
60 Years Of Bollywood Part II
Posted on under Music — Leave a commentThey are back on public demand! There first edition was so good that I spent one and a half hour transcribing it. So, have they bettered it this time? Well, this one is different–both in terms of focus and chords. The focus is on singing (what an incredible alaap on Roja song!). The chord progressions […]
A great AI show-and-tell meetup at Knowlarity
Posted on under Public Speaking — Leave a commentIt was a good day spent at the cute little offices of Knowlarity. Nice to see so many others working on genuine artificial intelligence projects, at a time when AI is primarily being used to create demo-only applications meant to impress potential enterprise clients. I think our presentation-cum-demo on improving a webpage’s accessibility through automatic […]
My little improvement to an already great WordPress to Twitter plugin
Posted on under Coding & Tech — Leave a commentI am blogging as much as I am tweeting these days. To keep the momentum going, I decided to link my blog with Twitter. I checked available plugins and instantly linked WP Twitter Auto Publish. It has a rating of 4.8 (with 130 ratings), which I think is great for a WordPress plugin. It’s both […]
Curse of the champions
Posted on under Life & Thoughts — Leave a commentIt’s done. They are gone! With a heart heavier than a steamroller, I saw Germany bow out of the world cup yesterday. Didn’t we all see that coming? From the start of the tournament, we could all feel something was amiss in this German attack. It was far-far from its past “blitzkrieg” glory. The way […]