The Invisible God of Networks
The life and times of prolific hacker fxmsp – A true story “Let me tell you why I’m famous”, Turchin said, casually. He turned in his chair and yawned. He looked around till his eyes met his friend sitting behind him. The friend looked anxious. Turchin, however, did not. He was God. “I amfxmsp.” I […]
US visa restrictions may open new options for AI students
What US may lose might be gain for others, as new demands emerge elsewhere On 22 June 2020, US president Donald Trump signed an executive order, enforcing certain strict restriction related to the US immigration policy. That was nothing new anyway, because ever since he was elected Trump was vocal about migrants grabbing a sizeable […]
An Inbuilt Watchman
Adversarial and image generation networks battle it out to create fail-proof machine learning A self-driving car approaches a stop sign, but instead of slowing down it accelerates into the busy intersection. In March 2019, security researchers at Tencent managed to trick a Tesla Model S into switching lanes. All they had to do was to place a […]
The Empowered Employee
WFH makes managers shift gear from monitoring to motivating Just six-months ago, recruitment interviews assessed the team-player scores of future employees; today they try to figure out the remote-working mindset of new talents. Companies are looking for self-motivated, empowered employees who need little physical supervision to accomplish their work and be innovative. Covid-19 has dramatically […]
The Second Coming: Rewriting the Internet – Part 1
We can soon see a new internet model challenging the cyber-monopoly Who owns the internet? Well no one in particular – at least not all of it. That is not possible due to several complications – legal and logistical being the foremost of them. Yet there is control, and web-users are gradually waking up to […]
The Second Coming: Rewriting the Internet – Part 2
With a new protocol and new apps, Dfinity is leading the charge in the search for a new internet The new internet model that the Zurich-based non-profit organisation, Dfinity Foundation, is working on primarily hinges around the idea of keeping the show running – but not through large-scale server farms, which is the prevalent commercial […]
Data Science jobs may be recession-resistant; but can they help in cutting costs?
As the global slowdown impacts almost every profession, the big question being asked by everyone is how it will impact future careers in Data Science – the most promising career choice in 2019 as per a LinkedIn survey. According to corporate sources and independent research by consulting firms, cutting costs will be one of the […]
Want to help NASA drive the Mars Rover through AI?
You can indeed do just that from home – no fine print involved Do you really want to try your hand at astronomy? Why not start by helping NASA in driving Curiosity – their Mars Rover? That too on the Martian surface! All you need to do is to tag raw images with appropriate labels […]
Unscripted : The AI Reset
Prepare for some big changes A couple of reports caught our attention over the last few weeks. Artificial Intelligence (AI) was failing to forecast things during the pandemic. The reason was that AI needed lots of past data to run its predictive engines. But COVID-19, being a once-in-a-century event, doesn’t have past data. It was […]
Charanpreet Singh, Co-Founder, Praxis Business School shares the glory of the institution with Great Place to Study
Charanpreet Singh, Co-Founder of Praxis Business School happens to be a stalwart in the education industry. Being on a constant mission to raise global citizens, the co-founder of Praxis Business School Foundation, Charanpreet Singh is a zealous educationist taking his business school to stand tall amidst the B-School giants. Watch him narrate his inspiring story […]