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Amazon package day….yaaayyyy!

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 17:42:49 +0530

Amazon package day….yaaayyyy!

iDoneThis blog: Jeff Bezos’s Peculiar Management Tool for Self-Discipline

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:48:45 +0530

iDoneThis blog: Jeff Bezos’s Peculiar Management Tool for Self-Discipline:

The modern workplace’s vogue is informal information exchange. We sit in open floor plan offices so that we can spontaneously collide, chat, and collaborate. The office setup for a meet-cute of ideas can be fizzy and energizing, though when sparks aren’t flying, the colliding can be noisy…

"Studies have shown that highlighting and rereading text is among the least effective ways for..."

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 12:07:06 +0530

“Studies have shown that highlighting and rereading text is among the least effective ways for students to remember the content of what they have read. A far better technique is for students to quiz themselves. In one study, students who read a text once and then tried to recall it on three occasions scored 50 percent higher on exams than students who read the text and then reread it three times. And yet many teachers persist in encouraging—or at least not discouraging—the techniques that science has proved to fall short.”

- http://anniemurphypaul.com/2012/08/put-down-that-highlighter/ (via searchforknowledge)

The tragedy of reading history is that we are reminded how brief life really is. It’s like...

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:38:28 +0530

The tragedy of reading history is that we are reminded how brief life really is. It’s like leaving an engrossing movie midway

"The past, present and future of the universe are just different regions of a single vast spacetime...."

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 10:21:38 +0530

“The past, present and future of the universe are just different regions of a single vast spacetime. Time is part of space-time, but space-time is a higher reality existing outside of time.”

- Memories of Kurt Godel: http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2012/08/01/memories-of-kurt-godel/

Spent some time this weekend polishing up an old google app engine project that was in hibernation....

Mon, 28 May 2012 09:22:50 +0530

Spent some time this weekend polishing up an old google app engine project that was in hibernation. Given that my knowledge of web applications is fairly limited, I ended up learning quite a few things:

That data can be separated from the structure/design via XML/JSON. The fact that the data, structure & design can all be separated by XML, HTML & CSS is fairly elegant.
That jquery can be used as a high-level abstraction layer to avoid dealing with browser nitty-gritties.
How AJAX/Javascript work.

Most happily, I have a simple note-sharing application that does what I want it to do, and something that I can use today & everyday.

Isomorphismes: I feel vindicated in several ways by the Netflix Engineering team’s...

Sun, 13 May 2012 23:52:19 +0530

Isomorphismes: I feel vindicated in several ways by the Netflix Engineering team’s...:

isomorphismes:

I feel vindicated in several ways by the Netflix Engineering team’s recent blog post explaining what they did with the results of the Netflix Prize. What they wrote confirms what I’ve been saying about recommendations as well as my experience designing recommendation engines for clients, in…

"But our success actually hinges on the opposite: on our willingness to risk missing some..."

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:26:55 +0530

“But our success actually hinges on the opposite: on our willingness to risk missing some information. Because trying to focus on it all is a risk in itself.”

- http://blogs.hbr.org/bregman/2009/05/two-lists-you-should-look-at-e.html

“no thing, no person, no event,no situation has the power...

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:45:12 +0530

“no thing, no person, no event,no situation has the power to make you suffer or even should be seen as negative”

Hacking and investing are similar in that both involve making sense of complex systems.

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:25:52 +0530

Hacking and investing are similar in that both involve making sense of complex systems.

Fascinating that Subash Chandra has found the time to do 17 meditation...

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:51:35 +0530

Fascinating that Subash Chandra has found the time to do 17 meditation retreats: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2012/0326/billionaires-12-asia-pacific-subhash-chandra-zee-tv-vipassana-transcendental.html . Having done just one, I can say that it takes a serious amount of discipline. But more than doing retreats, it’s imperative to find the time to meditate everyday. I’ve been doing so on most days since January 2009 (clocked in close to 1500 hours so far), and I must say it’s really one of the most rewarding things that you can do. Still need to find the time to do more retreats though.

Everything’s amazing and nobody’s happy.

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:38:00 +0530

Everything’s amazing and nobody’s happy.

"The two hemispheres do complementary processing… The right hemisphere of the brain provides the ‘big..."

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:07:31 +0530

“The two hemispheres do complementary processing… The right hemisphere of the brain provides the ‘big picture,’ and the left controls sequential processing. Both of those are important for creativity… Creativity is a more whole-brained activity than we’d like to imagine… Reason relies on emotion… Logical decisions such as buying a car are actually influenced by highly emotional impulses [from the right brain] that we then rationalize.”

- Researchers probe the neuroscience of creativity, seeing fMRI evidence that our notion of the “divided brain” is indeed mistaken. (via explore-blog)

Display advertising ecosystem

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:38:39 +0530

Display advertising ecosystem

Video

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:41:39 +0530

http://syntheticassets.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/what-is-capital/

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:03:31 +0530

http://syntheticassets.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/what-is-capital/:

“capital should be understood as a social construct, not in fixed supply or growing due to investment, but a product of institutional infrastructure.”

In a different age, one had to simply glance at the front pages of the major papers to get a sense...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:56:54 +0530

In a different age, one had to simply glance at the front pages of the major papers to get a sense of what the major news stories of the day were. Today, with twitter, the core has moved towards the edges. Instead of focusing on a selected set of core stories, we are walking along the ever expanding edges.

This invariably leads to an experience of ever higher amount of noise versus signal, and a lower amount of time to actually digest events.

What one needs is a set of informational products that enable one to zoom into the cores, and expand out onto the edges. From what I can see with all the products out there, this is a hard problem. And part of the reason why this is so hard is that most products are created with a general use-case in mind, and not a specific context. Once you narrow down your vision to a specific context (say business & markets), then a little bit of machine learning + some curation might actually end up taking you quite far. Unfortunately, I don’t really see any such products or even projects in the horizon.

Why on earth would a pensions body take a stake in a hedge fund? Taking an equity stake in a hedge...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:10:24 +0530

Why on earth would a pensions body take a stake in a hedge fund?

Taking an equity stake in a hedge fund doesn’t really make sense in most situations. The franchise is only as good as last years returns. And black boxes aren’t enduring assets. The only situation it makes sense to take an equity stake in a hedge fund is if you are the anchor investor in a new fund. In that case, you are taking a risk and should be fairly rewarded for it.

And why does the world’s biggest hedge fund need to raise a trivial $250m anyways?

How is it that we have a jewellery company buying 2 solar power firms and NTPC encashing bank...

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:50:21 +0530

How is it that we have a jewellery company buying 2 solar power firms and NTPC encashing bank guarantees on the same day? A question of aggressive bidding strategies?

curiositycounts: Striking multiple-exposure photo of air...

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:36:47 +0530

curiositycounts:

Striking multiple-exposure photo of air traffic by artist Ryu HoYeol.