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7 skills you should have to get a job at Google, Apple, or Microsoft Job site Paysa résumés of people who work at Google, Apple, and Microsoft, to get a sense of what skills those employees had in common.

What would happen if you didn't sleep ?

What would happen if you didn’t sleep? - Claudia Aguirre View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-would-happen-if-you-didn-t-sleep-claudia-aguirre In the United States, it’s estimated that 30 percent of adu...

Orcale,s Top 6 Predictions

1. New application development and deployment on containers will become more popular than dev-and-deploy on virtual machines toward the end of 2017 and into 2018.

2. The number of application releases from typical businesses will double over the coming year.

3. All new devtest will be done in the cloud by 2020. A bold prediction, but a logical one, Agarwal said, given customer

4. Everyone is going to want to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in their applications.feedback.

4a. Chatbot apps with natural language processing will become the norm by 2018.

5. By 2020 more than 20 percent of the developer community will be made up of non-traditional developers.

6. Finally, 60 percent of IT organizations will move their critical systems management to the cloud by 2020

1. New application development and deployment on containers will become more popular than dev-and-deploy on virtual machines toward the end of 2017 and into 2018.

2. The number of application releases from typical businesses will double over the coming year.

3. All new devtest will be done in the cloud by 2020. A bold prediction, but a logical one, Agarwal said, given customer

4. Everyone is going to want to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in their applications.feedback.

4a. Chatbot apps with natural language processing will become the norm by 2018.

5. By 2020 more than 20 percent of the developer community will be made up of non-traditional developers.

6. Finally, 60 percent of IT organizations will move their critical systems management to the cloud by 2020

Entrepreneurship is Experimentation!

You had an idea of a product. You find out a way to sell it, it works and your company starts making money. Maybe you are a services guy, you first start selling your skills and then you find out you can sell skills of other people who you hire.

You reach a stage where your product has decent revenues and your company is making a good profit. If you are a services guy, maybe you have 2-3 clients who are enough to run the show for your company and make a decent amount of money.

You enter a phase where life is set for your company. Revenues are coming, existing clients are giving more business and you hire managers and teams to handle the growth of the company.

Fast forward a few years, as a services guy, you start to find out that two of your main customers left for totally unexpected reasons. Maybe they were acquired, may be they went bankrupt.

If you are a product guy, may be the strategy you were using to generate initial sales are no longer working. Your sales are going down, your profits have turned into losses.

At this stage, you are left with lesser choices. You may have to let go of your most of your staff but you also ideally want to put the company back on its feet. You want to now look for other ways as well. Maybe you want to get more customers for your services company. Maybe you want to try out inbound marketing for generating sales as opposed to sales guy giving presentations and generating sales.

You want to Experiment. Experiment with new things, test out new strategies for getting clients. Test out strategies to get new business for your services shop. But now the time is tough. The time has changed because your reserves in the bank are going down. Your employee moral is bad. You are put into a mode of “survival” by unfortunate circumstances.

The question I mostly ask entrepreneurs is that if it's a good time to start doing that? Should you do it when you were going great and everything was running smooth. Money was coming in and everything was all great. Spending a small percentage of your profit on experimentation was not a problem at all. Putting a small team, to try a new idea of selling or working on a completely new product was not a financial problem at all.

The answer is obvious to this question. However, when I look around I see most entrepreneurs doing this mistake including myself in the past.

Why do we do it when we run out of options? Yes, we are resilient as entrepreneurs and getting back up on their feet is a strong trait of many entrepreneurs. They work against odds in times of extreme pressure and are able to come out more strong out of such crisis situations.

The answer is probably more rooted in the fact that we as a human being get into a mode of comfort. Or a mode where we don’t prefer change. Sometimes we become so successful because of our initial strategy, that we either think that the strategy will continue to give us dividends for our life to come. Sometimes we start believing that everything that we do in future will work. We are the super Entrepreneurs right!.

Some of us consider it a bad thing to fail on projects. Everybody sees us as an example of a success story in the outside world, the tech blogs, the networking circle you are in. Why dent your name with failure product or a failure strategy to the maybe the outside world or inside your company?

It’s not just small companies that get into this mode. Look at the example of big companies like Nokia who thought that cell phone world will not change by the coming of iPhone. The example of Kodak where they thought the world will not change and they will continue to make huge money from selling films.

Interestingly, both these companies were doing experimentation on what’s next on the technology. Nokia had it’s own view of how the smartphone of the future would work and they were trying out different things like bent smartphones that you could wear on your wrist and Kodak was the first one to experiment with digital cameras.

The problem with both these companies was that they failed to experiment on testing these ideas with the public. They were not late on experimenting on technology but they failed to test out these strategies with their own customers or maybe new market segments. They had a fixed view of how the world will change around them or how soon it will change. The iPhone and the digital cameras were both disruptive.

They ultimately learned the lesson and Nokia experimented with launching Microsoft OS based smartphones and Kodak came out with digital cameras eventually. Imagine if Nokia had experimented with an Android based OS and Kodak launched the digital cameras when it’s innovation team presented it to the higher management. The world might have been very different for both these companies.

Do you think apple would continue to sell us these amazing looking iPhones for the rest of our lives? And facebook will be the number one social network of the future? I am sure if Tim cook doesn’t experiment with cars, artificial intelligence, etc etc and facebook doesn’t experiment with new forms of social networks. They will have a high chance of landing into trouble. These big companies do have the option of buying something that becomes promising because they are so big but then they usually pay a huge price for it.

The idea that I have come to realise as an entrepreneur is that entrepreneurship is constant experimentation. As entrepreneurs, it's part of our job description to continue working on new ideas, new sales strategies, new product ideas etc. Yes maybe you hit a jackpot and you land a big customer that just needs you to focus on growth and not experimentation. You find out a sales formula that requires you to increase your team 10x. Then definitely your priority is to take it to the max level you can.

But as soon as we get to a point where we can do some experimentation on new ideas. We should not waste any time. If you are a big player and it’s not possible for you to focus on experimentation. You can always set up new teams or new companies to test out new ideas assuming you have the budgets and profits to do that when you are doing awesome.

So, if you are at the stage where you are cashing on one sales strategy or maybe one or two customers but are doing really well. Maybe it's a good time to start spending some time to experiment with new ideas and new strategies. It will be much easier to do it now than to do it in tough times.

Happy Experimenting!
Artical by : Saeed Bakran
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What filter do you use in INSTA ?

[Research by Andrew G. Reece
Christopher M. Danforth ]

In studies associating mood, color, and mental health, healthy individuals identified
darker, grayer colors with negative mood, and generally preferred brighter, more vivid colors
(16­19). By contrast, depressed individuals were found to prefer darker, grayer colors (17). In
addition, Barrick, Taylor, & Correa (19) found a positive correlation between self­identification
with depression and a tendency to perceive one’s surroundings as gray or lacking in color. These
findings motivated us to include measures of hue, saturation, and brightness in our analysis. We
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also tracked the use of Instagram filters, which allow users to modify the color and tint of a
photograph.
Depression is strongly associated with reduced social activity (20,21). As Instagram is
used to share personal experiences, it is reasonable to infer that posted photos with people in
them may capture aspects of a user’s social life. On this premise, we used a face detection
algorithm to analyze Instagram posts for the presence and number of human faces in each
photograph.

Lena hi q bhai ?
want to know ? Read the description below .

WHY LENA ? WHY ?
[keep on reading ]
The image of Lena Söderberg is a standard test image widely used in the field of image processing since 1973. The image was cropped from the centerfold of November 1972 issue of Pl***oy magazine.
The editor-in-chief of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Transactions on Image Processing, David Munson, gave two reasons why the image is so popular:

a. It contains a nice mixture of detail, flat regions, shading and texture that do a good job of testing the capabilities of any image processing software.

b. Lena’s image is a picture of an attractive woman. It is not surprising that the (mostly male) image processing research community are inclined to use the image.

WHY LENA ? WHY ?
[keep on reading ]
The image of Lena Söderberg is a standard test image widely used in the field of image processing since 1973. The image was cropped from the centerfold of November 1972 issue of Pl***oy magazine.
The editor-in-chief of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Transactions on Image Processing, David Munson, gave two reasons why the image is so popular:

a. It contains a nice mixture of detail, flat regions, shading and texture that do a good job of testing the capabilities of any image processing software.

b. Lena’s image is a picture of an attractive woman. It is not surprising that the (mostly male) image processing research community are inclined to use the image.

The first Computer Programmer was a lady , WOW

In 1843, Ada Lovelace, a British mathematician, published an English translation of an Analytical Engine article written by Luigi Menabrea, an Italian engineer.
In one of her notes, she described an algorithm for the Analytical Engine to compute Bernoulli numbers. Since the algorithm was considered to be the first specifically written for implementation on a computer, she has been cited as the first computer programmer.

Did Lovelace go onto a life of Ted Talks (or whatever the Victorian equivalent was)? Sadly not, she died at the age of 36, but her legacy thankfully lives on.

In 1843, Ada Lovelace, a British mathematician, published an English translation of an Analytical Engine article written by Luigi Menabrea, an Italian engineer.
In one of her notes, she described an algorithm for the Analytical Engine to compute Bernoulli numbers. Since the algorithm was considered to be the first specifically written for implementation on a computer, she has been cited as the first computer programmer.

Did Lovelace go onto a life of Ted Talks (or whatever the Victorian equivalent was)? Sadly not, she died at the age of 36, but her legacy thankfully lives on.

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Why don't we use Variables in interface ?