If you are a Data Scientist ..

If you are a Data Scientist make sure this definition is true for you.

Data Scientist (n.): Person who is better at statistics than any software engineer and better at software engineering than any statistician.

Huge Difference : Govt Selling Medicine Cheaper

Kerala Government owned enterprise, Kerala Medical Services Corporation Ltd in short  "KMSCL",  sells life saving drugs at substantially lower cost - in some cases one sixth of the market price making the treatment for the killer diseases significantly affordable. Read on the complete story at The Economics Time ...

Can you hear me? Mobile is 40 years old now.

Undoubtedly one of the biggest innovation of our time is Mobile Phone. Today, over 5 billion people uses mobile phone to communicate with each other. Do you know that first mobile call was made in 40 years back - April 1973. 

Any Idea Why Digital Format Costs More Than Print?

I failed to figure out why Kindle edition cost more than the printed edition.

Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster by Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz (Mar 18, 2013)

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Formats		Price		New	Used
HardcoverOrder in the next 19 hours to get it by Thursday, Apr 4. Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping.	$29.99	$15.31		$15.31	$18.37
Kindle EditionAuto-delivered wirelessly		$22.07

Any idea?

Lets Call It Vision Assam 2020

Over 35 million people, 800 plus tea gardens, mighty Brahmaputra and abundant water resources; 10 universities & equal number of institutes of higher learning in technology and medicine, endowed with resources like natural gases, petroleum, limestone and other minerals, good demographic diversity, high literacy rate, diverse flora and fauna, suitable agricultural climate, great wild life and one horn rhino, surrounded states having rich unexplored natural beauty, rich cultural heritage (not to forget Dr Bhupen Hazarika), and more than one decade of stable political environment. Still amidst this abundance we are lagging behind in economic development.

Why?

Take any sector - Tourism, Healthcare, Education, IT & ITES, Knowledge Industry, Agri, Power,  overall employment generation  etc. etc. and we are just not there! Even state like Orissa is ahead of us now.

What we, as general citizen, can do about it?

Put forward our ideas/ thoughts, play the role of a catalyst and act as a think tank. Mobilize intelectia and responsible media to raise societal awareness on these topics and in the process help authorities and society at large to come up with actionable plan.

This is the backdrop for Sunday, 4th Nov evening. Let’s discuss on what should be our collective vision. Vision for next 10 years. Call it Vision Assam 2020. 

Due to various constraints we will not be able to invite all. But please share your thoughts/ ideas & will get in touch with you.

Ten Gandhi's Memorable Quotes

Let’s start with the eleventh one - this is my all time favorite quote. 

• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Here are the ten :

1. My life is my message.
2. I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.
3. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
4. Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
5. Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.
6. An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained.

Read on ...

Hey, It's Weekend Here!

Three posts for your weekend. Hope you will like!

1. You will agree that we are all politician to certain degree. But, if you want to be a successful politician and particularly if you are a women you can run to IIM Bangalore. IIM-Bangalore offers course to make women ‘professional politicians'. Read on ...

2. If you are planning to do weekend shopping then before you headout check this out. My Father's Fashion Tips

3. Do you know why everything looks so amazing and nobody is happy? Here you go - hilerious Louis CK


Enjoy the weekend!