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by birbal 10y ago
I have shared my experience of teaching kids geometry in spare time, in this post. Would love to hear from others who have tried this and have learnt things that work vs things that don't
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Teaching kids geometry(linkedin.com)
1 points by birbal 10y ago|1 comments
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by birbal 10y ago
This is IMO a big deal because MSFT will now own business identity. Linkedin will become your business ID regardless of which company you join. Owning identity that travels across companies is incredibly powerful. This is a huge upgrade to
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Salesforce Amazon deal- an evolutionary connection(linkedin.com)
1 points by birbal 10y ago|0 comments
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Tech co-founder myth(linkedin.com)
2 points by birbal 10y ago|2 comments
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Want to find out all reported deaths today in the world
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Best resource for retail investors
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by birbal 11y ago
this is so awesome. My wife and I have been thinking and working on how can family productivity be improved. It's not an easy task as we are figuring out. There was a recent blog post that became reasonably popular. https:/&#x2F
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by birbal 11y ago
One of the analogies i gave to the kids was that why did man have to learn to travel by water. Because walking on land wouldn't get them to the other island. Complex numbers sometimes sometimes are used to get to islands that aren&#x27
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by birbal 11y ago
Great job Kalid. I try to do this with kids. Simple ideas like why anything to power zero is 1 ? why do we need complex numbers ? Why is limit of something tending to zero/infinity even an interesting and useful concept ?
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by birbal 11y ago
I think in general working with large IT firms is always going to be a CF regardless of where they are from. This is especially true if you are a product dev shop as against enterprise IT. I think a better comparison would be small sized co
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by birbal 11y ago
What about search going social. It seems to me that I find a lot of my information on the social media now like Facebook. It just seems like i search a lot less now than i used to. Its not that people search on social media. I get fed infor
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by birbal 11y ago
How do i up vote this. I have the genius but lacking the opportunity i think
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by birbal 11y ago
An idea who has time has come
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by birbal 11y ago
I think my points are made at a macro level and not at a specific company level. There is no fool-proof proof to any business/economic hypothesis. Oracle, MSFT and SAP aren't the only companies that make up on-prem software. But e
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by birbal 11y ago
This is a bit of shameless plug but i think quite aligned with Sam's post but makes a slightly different argument. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-have-been-bigger-tech-bubb... Would love to get critiqued by thi
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by birbal 11y ago
This was 7 years back my friend. We built software prototype for measuring dimensions, classifying grain type and measuring color / brokenness. For hardware we had some initial designs where the objectives were - to easily put grains
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by birbal 11y ago
I actually love the sentence but I wouldn't expect it in spoken english. (That part is ironical in the sense that it goes against the core of the article.. Seems like an exception that proves the rule). Written word gives the reader m
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by birbal 11y ago
"Informal language is the athletic clothing of ideas" The irony in this sentence from the article is breathtaking.
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by birbal 11y ago
The nature vs nurture debate will go on. But I think the question needs to be framed differently. Its not about comparing one person with the other but the approach that best maximizes ones own potential. When framed this way, the answer be
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by birbal 11y ago
I have some personal experience with applying computer/machine vision techniques to assessing rice quality. In India, rice quality assessment is a high value activity as the difference in per unit weight price is dramatic across differ
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by birbal 11y ago
My kids don't think its normal. They actually complain when i have the phone stuck to my ear. Our assumptions on what and how kids learn from us are over-simplified.