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07 May 2019
One of the occupational hazards of being a management consultant is that sometimes you have to be the harbinger of bad news. It’s depressing, to say the least. But, you have no other choice. It’s always better to be direct and not dance around the issue. It’s all part of...
06 May 2019
A little Background Around 2006, I gave a presentation about “Big Data” at our organization to a group of engineers and analysts, who had visited us from our sister lab in the USA. I was the primary “Data Dude” at our facility up until that point and I was planning...
05 May 2019
Whenever I hear “Big Data”, my mind automatically conjures up the above image. Data was fascinating and he is my sixth favorite character from the Star Trek universe after Spock, Kirk, Scotty, McCoy and Picard. A few years ago, “Big Data” exploded on to the scene and disrupted a whole...
04 May 2019
On shifting back to India, I had a few other things to take care of and hence, couldn’t keep up with my collection hobby. I was still following up online and when Flipkart pulled ebay off the market, my passion went down the drain as well. Given the regulatory landmines...
03 May 2019
I used to collect old computers when I was in Europe. The very first one was a Sun Blade 1000. Our research facility experienced a growth spurt then and our senior Sysadmin felt that scaling our UNIX server and computing lab would cost a fortune. He advised the boss to...
02 May 2019
We experienced some unexpected close calls at work that required my complete attention over the last few days. It could have become a huge mess! Long story short, a colleague and I found some discrepancies in our model performance that rendered our strategy sub optimal. We carried out a careful...
01 May 2019
Welcome to my thoughts assimilator. I have been blogging for nearly a decade now. A couple of my sites are still online and one of them gets a lot of visitors even now. I wrote a lot about programming and technology back then. Here, I would like to write about...