Author Archives: Nidhi Rai
Book: First principles thinking for building winning products
Can innovation be taught and learned in a methodical manner? Can there be an innovation playbook using which, given a need to create a thing, product, or solve a complex problem, a set of well-defined steps be followed? How has Elon Musk been super successful time and again to create game-changing innovative products that created tremendous value for end-users and society at large? The answers to these questions can be found with a reasoning technique called first principles thinking. First principles thinking is defined as a method of reasoning or a thought process in which you try and understand the fundamental truth regarding different aspects of the existence of a …
Free AI / Machine Learning Courses at Alison.com
Are you interested in learning about AI / machine learning / data sicence and looking for free online courses? As per MANUELA M. VELOSO, Herbert A. Simon University Professor at CMU,Machine Learning (ML) is a fascinating field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) research and practice where we investigate how computer agents can improve their perception, cognition, and action with experience. Machine Learning is about machines improving from data, knowledge, experience, and interaction. Machine Learning utilizes a variety of techniques to intelligently handle large and complex amounts of information build upon foundations in many disciplines, including statistics, knowledge representation, planning and control, databases, causal inference, computer systems, machine vision, and natural language …
12 Weeks Free course on AI: Knowledge Representation & Reasoning (IIT Madras)
Are you interested in learning about exploring a variety of representation formalisms and the associated algorithms for reasoning in Artificial intelligence? IIT Madras is going to offer a free online course on AI: knowledge representation and reasoning. This course will help you understand the basics of knowledge representation and reasoning. You’ll learn how to solve problems using logic, how to build intelligent systems that can interpret natural language, reason using formal methods and more. The course is taught by Professor Deepak Khemani, who has over 20 years of experience teaching at IIT Madras. Prof. Khemani is a Professor at Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He’s also written several books …
12 Weeks Free Course on IOT by IIT Kharagpur
Are you interested in learning about the Internet of Things (IoT)? The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of physical objects or “things” embedded with electronics, software, sensors and connectivity to enable objects to exchange data. IoT allows devices such as heart monitoring implants, biochip transponders on farm animals and cars to communicate to other devices using IP addresses over the Internet without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. It enables everyday objects to collect and exchange data. This course will help you learn about the fundamentals of IoT technology. IIT khargpur offers 12 weeks free online course on IOT. The course is designed to help students understand the fundamentals …
Week Nov1, 2021: Top 3 Machine Learning Tutorial Videos
The field of machine learning is a vast topic and it can be hard to know where to start. In this blog post, we’ll cover the top three free tutorial videos on machine learning from YouTube published this week (Week of Nov 1, 2021). These videos will help you get started with the basics of machine learning & deep learning, introduce you to some popular algorithms in use today, and give you an idea of what’s possible when building a model from scratch. Build a Machine Learning Project From Scratch with Python and Scikit-learn Let’s say you want to build a machine learning project from scratch. Maybe you’re not sure …
Top 10+ Mobile / Web App UI Mockup Tools
If you are looking to create UI mockups for your upcoming mobile / web app, then, here is the the list of top 10+ Mobile / Web app UI mockup tools: JustinMind: A great tool where one can define various mobile gestures / transitions during prototyping and test the look-and-feel using mobile app Axure: Good tool for creating and publishing mockups in collaborative manner Marvel App: Easy to use and cloud-based tool Hotgloo: A UX, wireframe and prototyping tool designed to build wireframes for web, mobile and wearables. Used by companies like Disney, Deloitte, IBM etc. Proto.io: Helps create fully-interactive prototypes that look and work exactly like your app with absolutely no coding required. …
Top 10 Startups Building Speech-to-text Conversion Solutions
This is a list of 10 startups which are using speech recognition technology (Speech-to-text Conversion) to solve different problems. Startup Name What they are doing Behavioral Signals Building emotion recognition and behavioral analytics technology; They are speech-to-text conversion with AI to create powerful predictions. SpeakSee Makes conversations visual and easy to hear for the deaf and hard-of-hearing; It may require integration with Cloud Speech API integration to get real time transcription. HelixAI Helps scientists, researchers, and lab technicians access information and reference data simply using their voice; Spitch Swiss-based provider of solutions in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Voice Biometrics, Voice User Interfaces (VUI), and natural language voice data analytics. The …
Key eCommerce Job Responsibilities for Back-office Staff
This article represents some of the key job responsibilities for a back-office staff working with one of the ecommerce platforms such as Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, OpenCart, PrestaShop etc. Please feel free to comment/suggest if I missed to mention one or more important points. Also, sorry for the typos. List of Job Responsbilities in relation with Ecommerce Platforms Following is the list of job responsibilities for a back-office staff working with one of the ecommerce platforms. Product Sourcing Product research to augment product catalog Getting products details from other ecommerce stores such as EBay, Aliexpress Product Merchandising Edit product images Upload products onto the store Write SEO optimized product descriptions Sanity …
Top 10 Ecommerce Platforms for Online Store – 2016-2017
This article presents a list of Top 10 ecommerce platforms (2016-2017) which can be used to get started with your ecommerce business by getting your shop online. Please feel free to comment/suggest if I missed to mention one or more important points. Also, sorry for the typos. Top 10 eCommerce Platform to Create Your Own Shop Online Following is a list of top 10 ecommerce platform, commercial and open-source, which can be used to create presence for your business online. All of these platform can easily be customized to suit one’s online business needs. Note that these ecommerce platforms have been put in order based on Google Trends. Magento Shopify …
Learn R – How to Get Started with GGPlot – Code Example
This article represents quick introduction to GGPlot along with key concepts and code examples using R programming language. Please feel free to comment/suggest if I missed to mention one or more important points. Also, sorry for the typos. Following are the key points described later in this article: Quick introduction to GGPlot Installation and loading of GGPlot GGPlot – Key Concepts Quick Introduction to GGPlot ggplot is one of statistical package that facilitates the easy creation of different plots. One of the key concept related to ggplot is that ggplot is built up layer by layer. This means that one could start by initializing the ggplot using ggplot(data) …
Brackets – New Code Editor for Web Development – Worth a Try!
I came across this code editor, Brackets, today morning as I was browsing AngularUI home page and saw the mention under IDE plugins. Brackets is an open-source code editor for the web built using web technologies, primarily Javascript. After spending sometime with it, I found it to be very interesting one. You may want to give it a try. One caution is that there are still some bugs out there. Following are some real cool features why you would love Brackets to start with: Code completion Inline editor Live Preview Language Support Code Completion One cool feature with Bracket is code completion feature. I have not tested with different …
Learn R – Different Data Types with Code Examples
This article represents quick concepts on key data types in R programming language, along with code examples and some good go-to links for further read. For those new to R, I would like to quickly re-iterate that R programming language helps in performing data analysis and, is an integral part of data science as a practice. In other words, it is one of the go-to language/platform for data scientist to work with the data. Please feel free to comment/suggest if I missed to mention one or more important points. Also, sorry for the typos. Following are different data types in R that would be discussed in this article: Vector List Factor …
Javascript – StapesJS Hello World with Code Example
This article represents facts around what is StapesJS and why you would want to make a note of it or, in other words, get started with it. Please feel free to comment/suggest if I missed to mention one or more important points. Also, sorry for the typos. Following are the key points described later in this article: What is StapesJS? Key Reasons Why You May Love StapesJS StapesJS Hello World – Code Example What is StapesJS? A tiny Javascript framework, StapesJS provides simple and easy-to-understand-and-use building blocks that could be helpful in coding our web apps using libraries/frameworks such as JQuery, ReactJS, Zepto etc. I must say that I have …
Trends – Top 5 Javascript Web Frameworks – Oct 2014
This article represents top 5 Javascript frameworks for web apps as of this month, Octobar 2014. Please note that that I call them out as top 5 based on Google trends and that is it. To my amaze, I found meteorjs as a real cool one which I would try and post my opinion in future blogs. Please feel free to comment/suggest if I missed to mention one or more popular frameworks. Also, sorry for the typos. Following are the top 5 frameworks: AngularJS ReactJS EmberJS MeteorJS KnockoutJS or BackboneJS AngularJS One of my personal favorites, AngularJS is trending upward. Take a look at the plot below: …
Learn PHP – How to Write A Class in PHP
This article represents some high-level concepts and a code example on how to write a PHP class and use it elsewhere. Please feel free to comment/suggest if I missed to mention one or more important points. Also, sorry for the typos. Following are some of the key points described later in this article: Why write a PHP class? Key aspects of a PHP class A PHP class – Code Example Using PHP class in PHP files Why Write a PHP Class? As a beginner, I have come across this common thing that PHP developers tend to write one or more functions in the PHP files/scripts. As a matter of …
PHP – How to Install Apache 2.4 with PHP 5.6 on Windows
This article represents instructions on what’s needed to be done to install Apache 2.4 with PHP 5.6 on Windows (64-bit). Please feel free to comment/suggest if I missed to mention one or more important points. Also, sorry for the typos. Following are the key steps/points described later in this article: Install Apache 2.4 Install PHP 5.6 Configure Apache 2.4 for PHP Configure PHP 5.6 Test Install Apache 2.4 This step looks to be obvious. However, after I am done with the entire installation, it looked to be a bit tricky especially when you got 64-bit Windows. If you go to website, http://httpd.apache.org, you are taken to download page for win32 …
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