Google launches Google News initiative to promote quality journalism via technology
https://newsinitiative.withgoogle.com/
Case study, featuring my work using Google Cloud, Machine Learning and BigQuery
Category: Company News
General New and announcements about Navacron LLC
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Evolutionary Strategies to Play Atari Games OpenAi Blog
Alternate to Deep Reinforcement Learning
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Ping Pong Singles Trophy at Work 2016
Another ping pong trophy from a tournament at work. Its actually a picture of a trophy.
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SugarBot from SugarCon
Welcome to sugarbot from SugarCon 2015
I was the presented for New York Times implementation http://sugarcon.sugarcrm.com/sessions/
Slides
https://www.slideshare.net/secret/CByUabtdOuQRai
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At New York Times Press
An learning experience  trip to The New York Times press.
Printing press in the background.
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Algorithm professor used to say, Simple is Beautiful. The new theme for the website.
Just moved older home page over and installed this new Wordpress vanilla template.
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Hungry Ants is now available on the iTunes App Store
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hungry-ants/id466967709?mt=8&uo=4
Checked the stats, about 64 people have downloaded on the first day, and above a 1000 on the second day of release. Was a pleasant surprise!!
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Launched Company WebSite http://navacron.com
Launched Company WebSite https://navacron.com
Revamped company website https://navacron.com. Have obsession with sky background. Love the new logo. I signifies a unit of thinking like a neuron.
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Hungry Ants? Version 1.0 is submitted to Apple Store for Review
Fingers crossed. This is our first iphone app using cocos2d framework. Its fun game, kids love it.
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Started Reading Cocos2d for iPhone 0.99 Beginner’s Guide
Started Reading Cocos2d for iPhone 0.99 Beginner’s Guide
Just got another valuable resource in learning polishing my cocos2d skills. Cocos2d is an excellent framework for developing 2D games. The book can be purchased from Packt Publishing. It comes with a few example games. Plan on reading through and learning more.
Cocos2d for iPhone 0.99 Beginner’s Guide
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Finished Natural Language Processing Course CS224N
Finished Natural Language Processing Course CS224N
Been a long time i havent written my blog. I was busy studying Natural Language Processing taught by Professor Chris Manning from Stanford. It was a a pretty useful course, and was very hands on with 3 programming assignments and a final project.
These are the few things that i learned and found very useful.
- Machine translation using parallel corpa from different language. We implemented various IBM models for machine translations. Heart of them was EM algorithm
- Creating language model one of the assignment made us create a language model from european parliment text and de scramble emails
- Max Ent to label entities in a biological corpus
- Wrote a part of speech parser
My final project was to predict stock volatility from quarterly transcripts. We used Scalar vector regression using features such as bag of words.
All in all it was a pretty useful and hands on course.
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Muhammad Yunus Gramin Bank Bank For The Poor
This is a great lecture by Mohammad Younus the Nobel Peace Price Winner for work for micro credit for poor people. The lecture is very interesting how the bank for poor people works. He simply reverses the rules of modern day commercial banks and the bank still works. It is a non profit bank i.e. the earnings are re-invested into the bank. It is a truly an eye opener, that there are alternative ways of doing things.
The key concepts of operations are.
- Small loans to poor people, with no collateral
- No penalization if poor person cannot repay a loan. The only thing he looses he will not be able to get a loan again
- Bank goes out to people, especially women, instead of people coming to the bank. The especially go for women who do not know what to do with the loan
- The interest never exceeds the principal. This is in contrast to the loan sharks
- No business plan needed for the loan. Every human is an enterpeneur
- No training given to the loan beneficiary. The loan beneficiary uses own creativity to find the right business
It is truely amazing how this bank works. His goal is to have a world without poverty.
