Showing posts with label Management. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Management. Show all posts
BAPS IT Convention
On January 18, 2026 BAPS Banglore temple hosted IT convention event from morning to evening. More than 375 participants.
Here are few take away points
1. "Changing Trends of AI in technologies" by Prof. Rahul De
Prof. Rahul De' is founder and CEO of https://www.memoricai.in/ He provided nice academic insight, history of AI, present state and future. AI is about inference and inference is predications, classification and generative output
Human brain has 80 to 86 billion neurons (cells).
Evolution of AI
1. ANI : Artificial Narrow Intelligence
2. GNI : General Narrow Intelligence
3. ANI : Super Narrow Intelligence
In 1966 a professor Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT developed first chatbot by name ELIZA. It acts like a Rogerian psychotherapist. People like it so much. Later on, we had to convince, that it is not a real person. It is just a computer program that simulates human conversation, through pattern matching and keyword substitution.
Late in 1980 John Searle did "Chinese Room Experiment". Here, a non-Chinese speaker in a room, just manipulate Chinese symbols manually and produce fluent responses without understanding the language. It proves that just through syntax (rule-following) alone, computer cannot achieve semantics (genuine understanding or consciousness).
Probably that is why today, GenAI has caveats like hallucinations, jail breaking, bias, privacy violations and unfair responses. In the context of bias, he mentioned about recent movie "Human in the loop" Available on Netflix. "An indigenous woman works as an AI data-labeler after returning to her village with her children, but soon questions the human bias in machine learning."
He shared some statistics
- - 2.5 billion prompts are handled by ChatGPT alone in a year.
- - 2.4 million models are present at hugging face
- - 50 billion USD are spent for AI in year 2025.
- - 95% firms fail in GenAI adoption.
- - We achieved 15% improvement by GenAI
The above numbers raised serious questions that does spending behind GenAI is worth?
He mentioned few books and categorised all AI adopters in four groups. Boomers (books by Ray Kurzweil), Doomers , Skeptics and Critics "Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI"
2. panel discussion on "Ways to overcome Challenges in IT"
One of the discussion point was about reducing 95% failure rate in 2026
We need:
- - Automated task workflow
- - Cross functional aggregation across various departments
- - Collaboration between AI and human
- - Orchestration for AI in day-today work
How can you fail? Your effort (to adapt AI, to retain job etc) can fail. In fact the definition for failure came after industry revolution. During the last century, "Productivity" was more in focus due to industry revolution.
Other points:
Former OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever has indicated that simply scaling up to 1 trillion parameters model will not improve AI capability further.
May be, personalised AI will be next thing
We are humans so
- - we are always optimistic, we have hope.
- - We have ability to adapt.
- - We are creator of AI so we are smarter than AI
We shall remove the fear that we need to learn everything. Yes, we shall learn something new everyday and take its now on NotebookLM. Internet is flooded with many buzzword about AI. We need to separate signal from noise.
Now learning is not same as degree earning.
Now, we need to be aware about all domain. That knowledge shall not be gain by asking ChatGPT.
Few points were discussed about parenting: We shall have 30 min of productive arguments with kids. We will learn AI from the end-user. We shall enable parental control for Internet, OTT. While using AI, be skeptic. You are interacting with product. So product has market, company / organisation behind it, that want to earn profit. AI product is not your friend. More we use LLM, that much brain is unused and lost.
We need to learn basic values like
- - Humans are not means
- - Respect life in people
About firing due to AI.
- * If software engineers consider themselves as coder then AI will replace them. They shall consider themselves as problem solver.
- * On lighter notes: Pujya Aksharatit Swami mentioned that we SADHUs are easier to get replace. Chat with AI is available round the clock.
- * On lighter notes: Pujya Aksharatit Swami mentioned
येषाम् न विद्या न तपः न दानम् न ज्ञानम् न शीलम् न गुणः न धर्मः ।।
ते मृत्यु-लोके भुवि भार-भूता मनुष्यरूपेण मृगाः चरन्ति ।
It means: Those who possess no knowledge (Vidya), no penance (Tapa), no charity (Dana), no wisdom (Jnana), no good character (Sheela), no virtues (Guna), and no righteousness (Dharma), are a burden to the earth. Although they look like humans, they roam the earth like animals in human form.
Now this sloka is applicable for knowledge of AI also :-)
During the panel discussion, the floor is open for everyone to ask question via WhatsApp group, that was flooded with many questions.
3. Networking
The audience was divided into many groups. The participants had a round of introductions within group. There was engaging quiz, where all groups participated and the group leader responded to questions on behalf of group.
We had delicious vegetarian, SAATTVIK food. Now some key take away points from post lunch sessions.
4. Work-Life Integration & Wellbeing
“In God we trust. All others must bring data.” - W. Edwards Deming
Here are some shocking data points
- 83% of Indian IT professional are burnout
- 73% of European IT professional are burnout
- 72% are working beyond limit
The data source is ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association)
5 pillars of work life integration
1. Know your why?
What is purpose? It brings impact, mastery and autonomy.
Our health and family should tune to work.
2. Design your system
Define boundaries so you can protect capacity
Bring rhythms by frequent breaks.
3. Recovery and build resilience practices
3.1 Mindful ness and reflection. Moment to moment non-reactive, non-judgmental awareness is mindful ness.
3.2 physical movement
3.3 social connections
4. Align your environment
5. Seek help early
Something about sleep
- Sleep is non-negotiable.
- Sleep hygiene and nutrition
- Stop all screens 60 to 90 min before going to bed. It is digital sunset.
- use eye mask while sleeping.
Next topic was NSANE
Nutrition
Screen Time
Automatic health. He mentioned about book : "Atomic Habit"
Notice Signal
Engage with real people
Remember 3 truths
1. Mind = body. Means if body is unhealthy, means mind is unhealthy. Body can be healthy by making healthy mind
2. Work family balance is important
3. It is still not too late.
Ask your wife, what she expect about husband?
- Rich husband?
- Healthy husband?
- Rich but unhealthy husband?
- burn out person as husband?
3. Personal/Spiritual Fire Chat with Pujya Santo
Along with other relevant questions and guidance by Pujya SAINTs, again IT layoff was discussed. The apparent reason is AI for layoff. The real reason can be poor performance of employee. Extra hiring happens during COVID phase, so now layoff is inevitable. जातस्य हि ध्रुवो मृत्युः Same way, if you have job, you may get fire. If not today then in future, at age of 62 years. Even after 10 years, the present software application has no values. This is also as per SANKHYA philosophy. It inspires us to make better documentation of product.
Summary
1. Be happy
2. Worship God.
બી.એ.પી.એસ. પ્રકાશ એપ
પ્રકાશ વિશેષ :
બેંગલુરુમાં આઇ.ટી. પ્રોફેશનલ્સ માટે યોજાયો વિશેષ સમારોહ
વધુ માહિતી માટે નીચેની લિંક પર ક્લિક કરો.
Disclaimer: The author had put best effort to capture all the points, as per his understanding. It may or may not reflect exact intention of the speaker. So any corrections are welcome. This article is not verbatim
Finance Tips
1. We must have Monthly Budget
- We need to analyze our expenses to find out planned and unplanned expenses
2. We shall have Emergency Fund (9x to 12x monthly expenses)
It includes:
- Term insurance
- health insurance
- Critical illness cover
- disability cover
Does it includes
- credit cards?
3. Do not ignore inflation.
4. Power of compounding : SIP
5. Invest in equity and equity related product
- People invest in FD, Real estate, Gold
- Rich people do not invest in FD, Real estate and gold.
- They become rich by their own business or other's business (equity)
1991 to 2023
CAGR 19%
BSE sensex 999 to 65000 points
- No for F&O
- No for intra-day
- We should have Goal Based investment. Without that, we get sub optimal return
A. Child's education
B. Dream vacation
C. Retirement plan
- What create wealth
A. income
B. savings
C. investment
We buy things we don't need. with money we don't have to impress people, that we do not like.
6. New trend in abroad: Financial freedom and retire early.
Funding retire is different.
- must do
- no return
- For car/home all wants to provide load. No loan for retirement.
How long saving will last after retirement?
0 to 30 : student and early stage career.
30 to 60 : accumulation and save
60 to 100 : distribution
Today Rs. 60,000 monthly expense
7% inflation
325646 after 25 years.
We can try "retirement corpus building XLS"
Bengaluru Tech Summit : Day 3 - Part 2
Next panel discussion was on "Society 5.0 : Moving towards smart society by Japan". The investment in infrastructure projects needs patience, while US investors are impatients. So Japan is better choice with its excess capital. In Bangalore, all metro project, sewage project etc infrastructure projects are funded by Japan. Human species evolved from hunting to agriculture to industry revolution. Japan had huge contribution during the industry revolution with its unique quality processes/tools etc. Even today they are applicable in software/IT industry as DevOps practices. India's strength is neither manufacturing nor hardware. India strength is knowledge. Its skilled, English speaking manpower in knowledge driven industry of today's. India also has massive data for machine learning of around 1.2 billion UID. China has even more data, but under full control of government, so no use. "Bengaluru Tokyo Technology Initiative" is worth to explore. Bangalore is hub for technology, efficiency and entrepreneurship. Japan welcomes Indians.
Dolphin tank is an interesting initiative at Bangalore. It proposes to mentor and guide the start-ups through the next stage of journey for 6 months. Just like the dolphin who is a friend in the ocean, Dolphin guides the person through the journey in the rough sea till the person becomes independent. India had cost arbitrage earlier, now India has skill arbitrage. Large organisations depends on India for innovation. Now such organisation does not increase head count at Indian center. They effectively utilizes the startup ecosystem of India.
Panel discussion about "Decoding industry 4.0 and digitization: from vision to reality by Germany". Today if one cannot learn, unlearn and relearn then he/she is illiterate. There will be 200 billion devices by year 2025. There are four pillars of IoT:
1. Hardware,
2. Extremely complex algorithms,
3. Software = Algorithm + data. Software takes action based on them.
4. Cyber Security.
It requires risk taking attitude for testing and trial for IoT project. German has more corporate culture. An average German person is skillful in analog, slow and perfect in engineering. While India has startup culture, risk taking attitude, software skill etc. So both are supplementary to each other.
The industry 4.0 revolution is happening right now. There is no time of 8 years of fundamental research. The capable heavy industry needs supports from SMEs for smart factories. Today with AR and VR, one can get feel of being in middle of dangerous machine, aviation and heavy sector. All regions of world has different lead time to manufacture IC in small quantity. China/Tiwan never accept order in small quantity. German quotes high price with long delivery time. The IoT and Industry 4.0 revolution is happening now, here in college curriculum. During QA, three challenges for startups were discussed:
1. Skillset
2. Finance
3. Scalability
"Who is better? A German leader or Modi?" "Nelson Mandela."
It is possible to write book / biography by "ghost writer" using NLP based software.
Panel discussion about "Geospatial innovations in the times of disruptive changes by KSRSAC" Karnataka Geographic Information System is worth to explore. Geospatial analysis and deep learning based GeoAI are also interesting fields. Bharat Lohani explains, how his company Geokno use LiDAR technology to capture data. They cover 300 square km per day. They have developed alogrihtms, that can detect terrain even in dense forest. They can detect wild creatures in forest. they can detect water channel, very useful to divide water between two states and to help better irrigation. They can create 3d maps. The shadow analysis throughout a day, is very useful for establishing solar energy plant. One more interesting talk by Laxmi Prasad Putta from Vassar Labs.
Panel discussion about " Emerging Technologies areas in the Indic language-technology Industry by FICCI". Vivekanand Pani talked about his company Reverie Language Technologies's product "Gopal". It is a virtual assistant that can speak many Indian languages. Thirumalai Anandanpillai mentioned that Microsfot's Azure cloud exposes we service API for speech to text for Indian languages. Vinay Chhajlani's WebDunia.com turns 19 years old company in September 2018, who survived through dot com boom. In 2014, DNS was supporting 15 different languages. In 2019, Kannada will be also added in DNS, that is called IDN (International Domain Name). In the world 20 % people knows English and in India 12 % people knows English. So IDN is needed for non-English domain name. On 1st May 2018, a legal framework for Indic language was established. Since 2014 Gmail supports IDN based e-mail addresses. 4 million users uses Hindi email address by Rajsthan Government. Today more Internet data traffic is about entertainment content. However it will change, as government will give more online services in regional languages. The emerging opportunity is driving emerging of technology. In year 2010, VCs thought that Indian language speaking customers has no money so they were reluctant to invest for such language based startups. 22 years ago, we had only 1 % of PC penetration, so no need of Hindi. In 2010, 50% of mobile penetration, so Hindi was needed. So in 2011, first mobile phone launched with Hindi supports. Today many people are first time Internet user with mobile. In 2002, the way people were behaving at Yahoo chat room, today this first time user may behave same way.
During QA, I asked about Sanskrit, Sage Panini's Sanskrit grammar and its relevant with NLP. Everyone nominated Thirumalai Anandanpillai from Microsoft to answer the question. May be because he has nice TILAK on his forehead. He replied, that today translation happens by Neural Network. It is not rule based. Panini's grammar is relevant and useful for rule based services.
So overall "Bengaluru Tech Summit" was worth to attend event, with many thought provoking ideas, updates about recent trends, startups and insight to upcoming futures. There was also exhibition with stalls from established companies and startups both.
Dolphin tank is an interesting initiative at Bangalore. It proposes to mentor and guide the start-ups through the next stage of journey for 6 months. Just like the dolphin who is a friend in the ocean, Dolphin guides the person through the journey in the rough sea till the person becomes independent. India had cost arbitrage earlier, now India has skill arbitrage. Large organisations depends on India for innovation. Now such organisation does not increase head count at Indian center. They effectively utilizes the startup ecosystem of India.
Panel discussion about "Decoding industry 4.0 and digitization: from vision to reality by Germany". Today if one cannot learn, unlearn and relearn then he/she is illiterate. There will be 200 billion devices by year 2025. There are four pillars of IoT:
1. Hardware,
2. Extremely complex algorithms,
3. Software = Algorithm + data. Software takes action based on them.
4. Cyber Security.
It requires risk taking attitude for testing and trial for IoT project. German has more corporate culture. An average German person is skillful in analog, slow and perfect in engineering. While India has startup culture, risk taking attitude, software skill etc. So both are supplementary to each other.
The industry 4.0 revolution is happening right now. There is no time of 8 years of fundamental research. The capable heavy industry needs supports from SMEs for smart factories. Today with AR and VR, one can get feel of being in middle of dangerous machine, aviation and heavy sector. All regions of world has different lead time to manufacture IC in small quantity. China/Tiwan never accept order in small quantity. German quotes high price with long delivery time. The IoT and Industry 4.0 revolution is happening now, here in college curriculum. During QA, three challenges for startups were discussed:
1. Skillset
2. Finance
3. Scalability
"Who is better? A German leader or Modi?" "Nelson Mandela."
It is possible to write book / biography by "ghost writer" using NLP based software.
Panel discussion about "Geospatial innovations in the times of disruptive changes by KSRSAC" Karnataka Geographic Information System is worth to explore. Geospatial analysis and deep learning based GeoAI are also interesting fields. Bharat Lohani explains, how his company Geokno use LiDAR technology to capture data. They cover 300 square km per day. They have developed alogrihtms, that can detect terrain even in dense forest. They can detect wild creatures in forest. they can detect water channel, very useful to divide water between two states and to help better irrigation. They can create 3d maps. The shadow analysis throughout a day, is very useful for establishing solar energy plant. One more interesting talk by Laxmi Prasad Putta from Vassar Labs.
Panel discussion about " Emerging Technologies areas in the Indic language-technology Industry by FICCI". Vivekanand Pani talked about his company Reverie Language Technologies's product "Gopal". It is a virtual assistant that can speak many Indian languages. Thirumalai Anandanpillai mentioned that Microsfot's Azure cloud exposes we service API for speech to text for Indian languages. Vinay Chhajlani's WebDunia.com turns 19 years old company in September 2018, who survived through dot com boom. In 2014, DNS was supporting 15 different languages. In 2019, Kannada will be also added in DNS, that is called IDN (International Domain Name). In the world 20 % people knows English and in India 12 % people knows English. So IDN is needed for non-English domain name. On 1st May 2018, a legal framework for Indic language was established. Since 2014 Gmail supports IDN based e-mail addresses. 4 million users uses Hindi email address by Rajsthan Government. Today more Internet data traffic is about entertainment content. However it will change, as government will give more online services in regional languages. The emerging opportunity is driving emerging of technology. In year 2010, VCs thought that Indian language speaking customers has no money so they were reluctant to invest for such language based startups. 22 years ago, we had only 1 % of PC penetration, so no need of Hindi. In 2010, 50% of mobile penetration, so Hindi was needed. So in 2011, first mobile phone launched with Hindi supports. Today many people are first time Internet user with mobile. In 2002, the way people were behaving at Yahoo chat room, today this first time user may behave same way.
During QA, I asked about Sanskrit, Sage Panini's Sanskrit grammar and its relevant with NLP. Everyone nominated Thirumalai Anandanpillai from Microsoft to answer the question. May be because he has nice TILAK on his forehead. He replied, that today translation happens by Neural Network. It is not rule based. Panini's grammar is relevant and useful for rule based services.
So overall "Bengaluru Tech Summit" was worth to attend event, with many thought provoking ideas, updates about recent trends, startups and insight to upcoming futures. There was also exhibition with stalls from established companies and startups both.
Effective PPT
The goal for any presentation can be to create slides that lead to yes !
Yes for question about Why, How and What
Design Aspect
Content of PPT
Data
1. Relationship
Bubble chart (2 variables)
Scatter chart (3 variables)
2. Composition
2.1 Changing over time
Stacked 100% column chart
Stacked column chart
Stacked 100% area chart
Stacked area chart
2.2 static
Pie chart
Waterfall chart
Stacked 100% column chart with subcomponents
3. Distribution
Histogram (1 variable few items)
Line Histogram (1 variable many items)
Scatter Chart (2 variable)
3D Area chart (3 variable)
4. Comparison
Cyclic Area Chart
Line Chart
Column Chart
Single Bar Chart
Variable Width Column Chart
Reference Books
1. "brain rules" by John Medina
2. slide:ology
3. "Presentation Zen" by Garr Reynolds
4. "PresentationZen Design" by Garr Reynolds
5. "The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics" by Wong, Dona M.
Yes for question about Why, How and What
- The audience can retain limited information. The audience want to listen to you, instead of too much content on PPT slides.
- Show important points with image. Human process 60,000 x faster images compare to text. We can also recall information from image 6x time more easily compare to test.
Design Aspect
- Consistent font, font size, line length, spacing, margin, text alignment, kerning. For consistent arrangements of components, grid functionality can be used.
- Arial and Verdana fonts are better compare to Times New Roman. Avoid ALL CAPS
- Use any and only one highlighting method
- Simple and visually appealing slide is better compare to a cluttered slide to avoid distract and confusion. Avoid picture for decoration. Avoid too much of 3D, clip arts, word art, photos, complex visuals, lengthy text and animations.
- Add logo, slide number and copyright notice
- Select picture that support your message and story line in graphs.
Content of PPT
- Organize points in groups and use SmartArt
- Use concise slide title
- Use brand color as primary color and avoid using so many different colors. Maintain contrast between foreground and background color.
Data
- Use data to highlight important points
- Use table with detail view and summary view (total) both. Highlight key values.
- Mention the source of data
1. Relationship
Bubble chart (2 variables)
Scatter chart (3 variables)
2. Composition
2.1 Changing over time
Stacked 100% column chart
Stacked column chart
Stacked 100% area chart
Stacked area chart
2.2 static
Pie chart
Waterfall chart
Stacked 100% column chart with subcomponents
3. Distribution
Histogram (1 variable few items)
Line Histogram (1 variable many items)
Scatter Chart (2 variable)
3D Area chart (3 variable)
4. Comparison
Cyclic Area Chart
Line Chart
Column Chart
Single Bar Chart
Variable Width Column Chart
Reference Books
1. "brain rules" by John Medina
2. slide:ology
3. "Presentation Zen" by Garr Reynolds
4. "PresentationZen Design" by Garr Reynolds
5. "The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics" by Wong, Dona M.
Bengaluru Tech Summit : Day 3 - Part 1
We had interesting panel discussion on the topic Innovations driving next generation enterprise
Trends
* Now, the personal computing is more affordable compare to 1960s and 1980s due to to reduction is computing cost, storage cose and emergence of open source culture.
* In 1990s all the computers are interconnected and the Internet emerged along with new business models for finance/banking, retail e-commerce and e-mail. New enterprises also got emerged. Today we are living in digital age or mobile age.
* The people who born around 1995, have entered as work force around 2015. Generation Z, how to influence these 2 billion people, with different set of expectations.
* IoT
* Emergence of rural area. Now rural people also have access to information.
* Now people feel pride to work at startups.
* A new startup can be started just using WhatsApp groups.
* Supportive governments and Law. Few examples of few funny laws, that exist even today. Laws are reaction to 150 years of industrial revolution. The government should not stop the growth. So Karnatak is first state in India with regulatory sandbox, where you are allowed to break (only state) law for duration ranges from 3 months to 2 years, powered by Karnataka Innovation Authority. More can be achieve on startup front with de-regularization like allowing crypto currency.
* All the new innovations are becoming necessities.
* Big giant companies like IBM are supporting startups by finance, by connecting them to large customer base, scaling up. They cannot continue with their own R&D center so they come to startups. Block chain based virtual idea market may emerged in next few months.
* Online transactions will ultimately eliminate the need for banks.
* Education: 500 Mbps bandwidth at each home, will eliminate universities. all students will study online. Then even 6th standard students will talk about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, IoT, Block Chain etc.
* The rule based and law based audit will change. Already after GST and demonetization the B.Com degree has more value compare to BBA or BBM. Now working people need to play different roles to remain in job market. Innovations at large enterprises are reducing jobs. On the other hand, same innovation increases the jobs at startups.
The factors that drives innovations are changed based on above trends. The generation z is consumer as well as is at startups, so disruption is bound to happen. Now all enterprise needs innovation to survive or to make more profit in areas of their products, service and/or process.
Discovery v/s Invention v/s Innovation
We know discovery is about something that already exists. Invention is one step further, by combining multiple few discoveries. Innovation goes even further by combining multiple inventions and build a use case to satisfy needs. The startups are all about building faster, better, cheaper solutions with help of inventions. Today major innovations are around (1) Artificial Intelligence, (2) data science and (3) block chain. Again startups need to focus on usage rather than the technology. 90% of startups fail due to lecuna about how to take it forward. All entrepreneurs cannot scale up their venture. Startups are risky, but design driven approach, reduces the risk.
It is not important, what you study (in college/school to get your degree). The important aspect is what you continue to study. Today everyone should know, how to learn new topics, unlearn old topics and re-learn as per emerging trends.
Bengaluru Tech Summit : Day 1
Damiel Manuel talked about Cyber Security. In this world, millions and billions of people are active on various social media like Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn etc. It rises "deep fake" video threat. The video footage that appears to be real but is produced by technology. Now, we can no longer believe our eyes. NIST is a cyber security framework. Link 1 and Link 2 Cyber security is also a layered architecture. Hardware and network security is at physical layer. Application/software security at logical layer. Data security includes protection of personal information, location, accessibility, integrity of data etc. Social aspects covers people, culture and processes. it needs more attention. Cyber security topic now moves to Cyber resilience
Interesting panel discussions about AI/ML.
Ajay Sharma : Machine used to crunch numbers and humans make decision. Now machines are capable of doing both. Use cases (1) use Intel Mobileye to prevent, predict accident zones. (2) CheXNeXt is deep learning for chest radiograph diagnosis. Discussion about Niti Ayog #AIforAll ICTAI (International Center for Transformative AI) etc.
Raj Cherubal: Smart City solutions : (1) Parking management system (2) public bicycle sharing (3) restoration of water bodies (ponds) (4) solar panel on government buildings (5) water meter (6) smart class (7) disaster management system etc. IUDX (Indian Urben Data Exchange) Link Whitepaper Link
Aksah Ravi (gnani) talked about NLP based voice assistant products that supports Hindi, Kannada etc.
Out of all AI/ML projects hardly 13 to 14 % projects are successful and only 8% of customer are happy. Some projects need their ML model to be updated every week, even every day. AI/ML business case is all about identifying and satisfying unmet and unmentioned need. Few challenges (1) AI/ML implementation needs cultural change, where man and machine both work together. (2) upskill of existing staff (3) Data is fuel for AI. More time goes to find out which data to use rather than building AI/ML model. Noise in data can cause bias. The chatbot may learn offensive language over time. (4) explain-ability of AI/ML outcome. (5) Robust governance is also important. At present, chatbots are becoming popular. Long way to go. Information architecture (IA) is must for AI/ML projects. IA is the structural design of shared information environments.
Queryplex and federation are effective tools from IBM to connect multiple data sources. AI OpenScale is another tool from IBM
Ashok Ayengar talked about shopx - buy and sale platform.
Last 25 years of history big enterprise adopted new technologies like ERP and small stratup companies built eco-system around it. Many fortune 500 companies have huge legacy in range of 20 to 100 years. They need machine learning even on end-of-life servers.
The collaboration at Bangalore is not seen even in developed country. Here we have hackathon, open source contribution, discussion at physical meetup etc. It is really proud to be in Bangalore.
The day 1 ended with thought leaders conclave on "TechScape 2035"
The following trends are emerged.
1. Digitalization
2. Rapid Urbanization
3. Customer does not want product, but wants solution
4. so more and more collaborations
The growth of Internet was not predicated.
1. Growth with many IoT devices
2. Growth for amusement e.g. Netflix
3. Many networks E.g. Car has many networks
During 90s, when Internet based innovative services and business was planned, no one predicated that everyone (4 billion people) will have smart phone. Now cost of computing come down. Technology is democratized. This growth will be accelerated further, as everything (e.g. speaker, light etc.) will have compute power, connectivity, intelligent (AI/ML). The enormous data is generated by our wearable. Evolution will happen in laboratory and new human being will be created. Excitement with fear.
Now the smart software makes diagnosis smarter than doctor. In next 5 to 10 years, it will be mandatory to take second opinion from machines. People will get incentive for not being sick by health insurance and hospitals. The Indian doctors and nurses are best in the world. This is a license driven industry.
Now in automobile people need : 0 emission, 0 downtime, 0 accident, and first solution is electric car. Electricity is alternate fuel. The omnipresent 3D printing will eliminate need to keep inventory of spare parts of cars. The digitization, GST have improved logistics a lot. We need more efficiency steps like: spare trailers will just replace the loaded one to save time.
All these trends will empower the bottom of pyramid, surprisingly.
In future, there is no concept of firm. All companies are becoming platform. Apple started as platform for iOS apps. People starts company just on WhatsApp group. Now we will see rapid consolidation of firms. So monopoly will be back.
The present generation is Digital Native and generation Z Their working style is completely different.
Interesting panel discussions about AI/ML.
Ajay Sharma : Machine used to crunch numbers and humans make decision. Now machines are capable of doing both. Use cases (1) use Intel Mobileye to prevent, predict accident zones. (2) CheXNeXt is deep learning for chest radiograph diagnosis. Discussion about Niti Ayog #AIforAll ICTAI (International Center for Transformative AI) etc.
Raj Cherubal: Smart City solutions : (1) Parking management system (2) public bicycle sharing (3) restoration of water bodies (ponds) (4) solar panel on government buildings (5) water meter (6) smart class (7) disaster management system etc. IUDX (Indian Urben Data Exchange) Link Whitepaper Link
Aksah Ravi (gnani) talked about NLP based voice assistant products that supports Hindi, Kannada etc.
Out of all AI/ML projects hardly 13 to 14 % projects are successful and only 8% of customer are happy. Some projects need their ML model to be updated every week, even every day. AI/ML business case is all about identifying and satisfying unmet and unmentioned need. Few challenges (1) AI/ML implementation needs cultural change, where man and machine both work together. (2) upskill of existing staff (3) Data is fuel for AI. More time goes to find out which data to use rather than building AI/ML model. Noise in data can cause bias. The chatbot may learn offensive language over time. (4) explain-ability of AI/ML outcome. (5) Robust governance is also important. At present, chatbots are becoming popular. Long way to go. Information architecture (IA) is must for AI/ML projects. IA is the structural design of shared information environments.
Queryplex and federation are effective tools from IBM to connect multiple data sources. AI OpenScale is another tool from IBM
Ashok Ayengar talked about shopx - buy and sale platform.
Last 25 years of history big enterprise adopted new technologies like ERP and small stratup companies built eco-system around it. Many fortune 500 companies have huge legacy in range of 20 to 100 years. They need machine learning even on end-of-life servers.
The collaboration at Bangalore is not seen even in developed country. Here we have hackathon, open source contribution, discussion at physical meetup etc. It is really proud to be in Bangalore.
The day 1 ended with thought leaders conclave on "TechScape 2035"
The following trends are emerged.
1. Digitalization
2. Rapid Urbanization
3. Customer does not want product, but wants solution
4. so more and more collaborations
The growth of Internet was not predicated.
1. Growth with many IoT devices
2. Growth for amusement e.g. Netflix
3. Many networks E.g. Car has many networks
During 90s, when Internet based innovative services and business was planned, no one predicated that everyone (4 billion people) will have smart phone. Now cost of computing come down. Technology is democratized. This growth will be accelerated further, as everything (e.g. speaker, light etc.) will have compute power, connectivity, intelligent (AI/ML). The enormous data is generated by our wearable. Evolution will happen in laboratory and new human being will be created. Excitement with fear.
Now the smart software makes diagnosis smarter than doctor. In next 5 to 10 years, it will be mandatory to take second opinion from machines. People will get incentive for not being sick by health insurance and hospitals. The Indian doctors and nurses are best in the world. This is a license driven industry.
Now in automobile people need : 0 emission, 0 downtime, 0 accident, and first solution is electric car. Electricity is alternate fuel. The omnipresent 3D printing will eliminate need to keep inventory of spare parts of cars. The digitization, GST have improved logistics a lot. We need more efficiency steps like: spare trailers will just replace the loaded one to save time.
All these trends will empower the bottom of pyramid, surprisingly.
In future, there is no concept of firm. All companies are becoming platform. Apple started as platform for iOS apps. People starts company just on WhatsApp group. Now we will see rapid consolidation of firms. So monopoly will be back.
The present generation is Digital Native and generation Z Their working style is completely different.
AI/ML for SMB
1. Salesforce : Einstein AI Intelligent CRM
2. MailChimp : Email
marketing
3. Clare.AIClare.AI is
an example of a plug and play app for (1) online banking services,
and (2) to handle a larger volume of customer inquiries without hiring more
staff.
4. Malaysian company, Supahands for
upwork like service to select crowd sourcing v/s freelancer
5.
smart speaker or home robot can be used at retail outlet
6. Digital Genius : Intelligent customer service
query. The AI platform for customer service
7. Acquisio : online ads on Facebook, Bing, Adwords
8. Darktrace : Data security. Enterprise Immune System technology for cyber security.
9. Crayon : Competitor analysis
10. Aivo : chat bot
12. Datorama: end to end marketing integration platform
13. VoxPro multilingual customer experience and
technical support solutions
14. bold360 Better customer engagement
15.
call center
16.
SAP CoPilot: Digital Assistant in the Enterprise
18. AISense: Call, Meeting Transcriptions
19. WalkMe: AI for Software Training. Integrated with Athenahealth,
Salesforce, Workday etc.
20.
Workday: Finance and HR
21.
Athenahealth uses WalkMe to train
doctor, nurse about how to use system
22.
ServiceChannel for restaurants
23.
Niles for conversation
24. MESH, Not Rocket Science:
Branded Bots
25.
Acculation Social Media content
decision.
Reference:
1. https://www.salesforce.com/blog/2016/09/introducing-salesforce-einstein.html
2. https://www.cmswire.com/information-management/6-ways-artificial-intelligence-will-impact-the-future-workplace/
5. https://www.cmswire.com/digital-workplace/8-examples-of-artificial-intelligence-ai-in-the-workplace/
Semiconductor Industry 2015
| Rank | Company | % Share | USD B | Up/Down | Location |
| 10 | STMicroelectronics | 2 | 6.8 | -7.8 | Geneva, Switzerland |
| 9 | Infineon Technologies | 2 | 6.8 | 19.6 | Germany |
| 8 | Broadcom | 2.5 | 8.3 | Irvine, Calif | |
| 7 | Toshiba | 2.7 | 9.1 | -14.1 | Japan |
| 6 | Texas Intruments | 3.4 | 11.5 | 0 | Dallas |
| 5 | Micron Technology | 4.1 | 13.8 | -15.1 | |
| 4 | Qualcomm | 4.8 | 16 | -16.7 | San Diego |
| 5 | SK Hynix | 4.9 | 16.3 | 2.4 | S Korea |
| 6 | Samsung | 11.3 | 37.8 | 9 | S Korea |
| 1 | Intel | 15.4 | 51.7 | -1.2 | Santa Clara, Calif |
| 0 | Misc | 46.9 | 161.9 | ||
| 100 | 340 | ||||
Ref: http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/components-peripherals/300080346/gartner-10-semiconductor-vendors-with-the-most-market-share-in-2015.htm
Mobile Operators in Karnataka
This blog is about statistical data analysis to determine, market share of mobile operator in Karnataka.
Input data:
I have access to mobile numbers of 1300+ members of an NGO, since about June 2013.
Method:
As we know the first four digit of mobile number indicates the mobile operator in India. I extracted the first 4 digit. Then I referred wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_telephone_numbering_in_India to find out the mobile operator. I wrote a simple python code using panda library.
Here is the code:
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
df = pd.read_csv("C:\RawData.csv", header=None)
df[2] = df[0] / 1000000
df[2] = np.floor(df[2])
df.groupby(2).count()[0]
series = pd.Series(df.groupby(2).count()[0])
series.to_csv("C:\summary.csv")
result = pd.read_csv("C:\ssummary.csv", header=None)
plot_data = pd.DataFrame(result.groupby(0).sum())
plot_data = plot_data.sort_values(by=1)
plot_data.plot(kind='pie', autopct='%.2f', subplots=True, figsize=(10,10))
Here is the result:
Assumption
1. The raw input data is not current mobile number of member of the NGO. The members may have change their numbers.
2. The members can also opt for Mobile Number Portability. The impact on result is ignored.
3. As part of data cleaning following entries are ignored
- the number with 9 or 11 digits
- the number that belongs to other state.
- the number whose first four digits are not present at wikipedia. May be wrong number.
Disclaimer
Due to above assumptions, the sample does not truly represent the population. The purpose of this blog is to show how quickly we can infer, using python panda library. This blog is not written for positive or negative publicity of any mobile operator.
Input data:
I have access to mobile numbers of 1300+ members of an NGO, since about June 2013.
Method:
As we know the first four digit of mobile number indicates the mobile operator in India. I extracted the first 4 digit. Then I referred wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_telephone_numbering_in_India to find out the mobile operator. I wrote a simple python code using panda library.
Here is the code:
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
df = pd.read_csv("C:\RawData.csv", header=None)
df[2] = df[0] / 1000000
df[2] = np.floor(df[2])
df.groupby(2).count()[0]
series = pd.Series(df.groupby(2).count()[0])
series.to_csv("C:\summary.csv")
result = pd.read_csv("C:\ssummary.csv", header=None)
plot_data = pd.DataFrame(result.groupby(0).sum())
plot_data = plot_data.sort_values(by=1)
plot_data.plot(kind='pie', autopct='%.2f', subplots=True, figsize=(10,10))
Here is the result:
1. The raw input data is not current mobile number of member of the NGO. The members may have change their numbers.
2. The members can also opt for Mobile Number Portability. The impact on result is ignored.
3. As part of data cleaning following entries are ignored
- the number with 9 or 11 digits
- the number that belongs to other state.
- the number whose first four digits are not present at wikipedia. May be wrong number.
Disclaimer
Due to above assumptions, the sample does not truly represent the population. The purpose of this blog is to show how quickly we can infer, using python panda library. This blog is not written for positive or negative publicity of any mobile operator.
Gita - Ancient Indian Wisdom
On 15th Dec, 2012, I attended Geeta Jayanti celebration by Samskrita Bharati. Dr.B.Mahadevan, Professor of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore was president of the programme. Here are the key takeaway points from his speech.
Today the society and government (PMs, MLAs) both have undoubtedly understood importance of Bhagavad Gita. One should, read Bhagavad Gita, with full faith, sincerely and regularly.
He gave an example, suppose, you got a medicine that provide three fold benefits.
- Cure your decease
- Improve your immune system, resistance for that decease
- Also, eliminate need for medicine in future.
Bhagavad Gita is such medicine, that gives three fold benefits. Spiritual Religious and Practical for day to day life. Bhagavad Gita and entire literature about the Ancient Indian wisdom (that includes Bhagavad Gita, Purana, Upnishad etc) undoubtedly provides enormous ideas about spiritual life. Bhagvad Gita talked about Hindu religion philosophy, the concepts of God, Avatara. Here are some useful interpretation of Bhagavad Gita slokas, that provides a unique insight to applied that knowledge into our day to day life.
Equilibrium
यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत।
अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम्।।7।।
yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati bharata |
abhyutthanam adharmasya tadatmanam srjamy aham || (4.7)
This Sloka has obvious religious meaning of Avatara, God. As being a management professor, he talked about management concept of equilibrium, that is famous in economy, management and even in science. We know about price determination by demand and supply curve in micro economics. A organisation should have feedback system for improvement. It is about restoring back to stability in any unstable system.
Innovation
वासांसि जीर्णानि यथा विहायनवानि गृहणाति नरोऽपराणि।
तथा शरीराणि विहाय जीर्णा-न्यन्यानि संयाति नवानि देही।।22।।
vasamsi jirnani yatha vihaya navani grhnati naro 'parani |
tatha sarirani vihaya jirnany anyani samyati navani dehi || (2.22)
It has simple meaning that when shirt / dress is old, we remove that and put on new one. Same way, this soul finds new body when the present body is longer useful. It seems, it has only spiritual idea is about life, life after death etc.
It also explains very important principle called innovation. Innovation is buzz word, nowadays. The Management Gurus are talking about sustaining competitive advantage, how to become competitive / innovative etc. The basic principles for that are here in Bhagavad Gita. The basic requirement for innovation is we have to give up our old ideas. In Organisation context it is called mindset inertia.If one is willing to destroy this mindset inertia, then only progress can happen.
There are many such knowledge points in Bhagavad Gita about management, and day to day life. Our ancestors were so great and extra ordinary people, that they encapsulate multi-dimension in Ancient Indian Wisdom.
Benefits
From his own experience and observation, he found many changes in the people, who read Bhagavad Gita regularly. So he strongly recommend to read Bhagavad Gita regularly, sincerely with faith and devotion. Many ideas in Bhagavad Gita are very very important for the youngsters. Here are the three obvious and important changes in a person, who reads Bhagavd Gita regularly.
1. We will develop great character within ourselves, that is a great transformation. The below are characteristics of great character.
- Fearless:
यस्मान्नोद्विजते लोको लोकान्नोद्विजते च यः |
हर्षामर्षभयोद्वेगैर्मुक्तो यः स च मे प्रियः ||१२- १५||
हर्षामर्षभयोद्वेगैर्मुक्तो यः स च मे प्रियः ||१२- १५||
yasman nodvijate loko lokan nodvijate ca yah |
harsamarsa-bhayodvegair mukto yah sa ca me priyah || (12.15)
(He for whom no one is put into difficulty and who is not disturbed by anyone, who is equipoised in happiness and distress, fear and anxiety, is very dear to Me.)
harsamarsa-bhayodvegair mukto yah sa ca me priyah || (12.15)
(He for whom no one is put into difficulty and who is not disturbed by anyone, who is equipoised in happiness and distress, fear and anxiety, is very dear to Me.)
We will not be afraid of anyone and no body should be fear from us. We should not inculcate any kind of fear in anyone. That develops a very unique character. This characteristic is one of the hallmark of true character.
- Gentleness:
Deep faith and conviction in life, should be co-exist with broad mindedness. Both are equally important.
2. Sincere reading of Bhagavad Gita over longer period of time, helps us to develop enormous capacity to withstand non-sense in life.
मात्रास्पर्शास्तु कौन्तेय शीतोष्णसुखदुःखदाः |
आगमापायिनोऽनित्यास्तांस्तितिक्षस्व भारत ||२- १४||
matra-sparsas tu kaunteya sitosna-sukha-duhkha-dah |
agamapayino 'nityas tams titiksasva bharata || (2.14)
It is surprising that, sometimes, we do not able to handle non-sense in life. Life is full of non-sense also, you can not run away from non-sense. Life is like a roller coaster ride. Sometime, we lack that kind of perspective about life. That is the reason, even teenager sometime commit suicide for trivial matter. In this country India one third of population does not have proper food to eat. The strength to withstand such misery is still resident in Indians, so those people are not committing suicide due to hunger. They are much more stronger. We are the blessed one, that we get timely proper meals. Our Youngster will get such Titiksha to withstand against small, trivial matter, when they will read Bhagavad Gita.
3. We will build enormous faith in life. The faith is essential to progress, whether it is materialistic progress, religious progress or spiritual progress.
श्रद्धावाँल्लभते ज्ञानं तत्परः संयतेन्द्रियः |
ज्ञानं लब्ध्वा परां शान्तिमचिरेणाधिगच्छति ||४- ३९||
अज्ञश्चाश्रद्दधानश्च संशयात्मा विनश्यति |
नायं लोकोऽस्ति न परो न सुखं संशयात्मनः ||४- ४०||
sraddhaval labhate jnanam tat-parah samyatendriyah |
jnanam labdhva param santim acirenadhigacchati || (4.39)
ajnas casraddadhanas ca samsayatma vinasyati |
nayam loko 'sti na paro na sukham samsayatmanah || (4.40)
Faith is extremely important, for anything that we do in our life.The faith and devotion are the greatest benefits, that one achieve by reading Bhagavad Gita genuinely and seriously.
Cardinal Principals
Bhagavad Gita has lots of cardinal, important principles, that never go wrongs. If one understands those principles then faith will go several folds. Few of them are here:
- Every student must understand this sloka very well.
न हि ज्ञानेन सदृशं पवित्रमिह विद्यते |
तत्स्वयं योगसंसिद्धः कालेनात्मनि विन्दति ||४- ३८||
na hi jnanena sadrsam pavitram iha vidyate |
tat svayam yoga-samsiddhah kalenatmani vindati || (4.38)
If a student contemplate on this sloka, he can definitely progress in education.
- Do Good things.
पार्थ नैवेह नामुत्र विनाशस्तस्य विद्यते |
न हि कल्याणकृत्कश्चिद् दुर्गतिं तात गच्छति ||६- ४०||
sri-bhagavan uvaca partha naiveha namutra vinasas tasya vidyate |
na hi kalyana-krt kascid durgatim tata gacchati || (6.40)
na hi kalyana-krt kascid durgatim tata gacchati || (6.40)
(The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Son of Pṛthā,
a transcendentalist engaged in auspicious activities does not meet with
destruction either in this world or in the spiritual world; one who
does good, My friend, is never overcome by evil.)
Even though all principles are important we have to believe in this principle particularly. The good that we do, nothing goes waste. This is the greatest strength on which you can lead your life. Today people wants quick return. Our education system is also may be teaching this. One should not have that kind of expectation for quick fruits for good work. Please contemplate on this sloka
- Law of conservation of divinity.
मत्तः परतरं नान्यत्किञ्चिदस्ति धनञ्जय |
मयि सर्वमिदं प्रोतं सूत्रे मणिगणा इव ||७- ७||
mattah parataram nanyat kincid asti dhananjaya |
mayi sarvam idam protam sutre mani-gana iva || (7.7)
Divinity can neither be created nor can be destroyed. Divinity can only be transformed from one form to another form. The latest research in particle physics about God Particle also, describe this same principle.
- Faith
बहूनां जन्मनामन्ते ज्ञानवान्मां प्रपद्यते |
वासुदेवः सर्वमिति स महात्मा सुदुर्लभः ||७- १९||
bahunam janmanam ante jnanavan mam prapadyate |
vasudevah sarvam iti sa mahatma su-durlabhah || (7.19)
Bhagavad Gita is highway towards supreme divine. Just give up, all your doubts, questions, thoughts. Just have faith.
- Devotee never perishes
क्षिप्रं भवति धर्मात्मा शश्वच्छान्तिं निगच्छति |
कौन्तेय प्रतिजानीहि न मे भक्तः प्रणश्यति ||९- ३१||
ksipram bhavati dharmatma sasvac-chantim nigacchati |
kaunteya pratijanihi na me bhaktah pranasyati || (9.31)
(He quickly becomes righteous and attains lasting peace. O son of Kuntī, declare it boldly that My devotee never perishes.)
Summary
Bhagavad Gita is all about bringing faith. The faith is the greatest motive force not only for spiritual matter but also even in our material life. So far lot's of great people have attracted by Bhagavad Gita. Dr. B. Mahadevan concluded with just two quotes.
"When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-Gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible or invisible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavad Gita "
The Gita was preached as a preparatory lesson for living worldly life with an eye to Release, Nirvana. My last prayer to everyone, therefore, is that one should not fail to thoroughly understand this ancient science of worldly life as early as possible in one’s life.
At the end, Dr. B. Mahadevan suggested that if such great people are benefited by Bhagavad Gita, then we should also follow that path of Ancient Indian Wisdom.
Declaimer: This blog article is not verbatim of speech by B. Mahadevan. I have put my best effort to capture the essence as per my understanding, my interpretation. Any corrections, comments, suggestions are welcome.
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