Well, these years I learnt a bunch of languages from C to Java to python to groovy to Javascript..... If i want to learn another, I will go with the language of math. I took slightly long time to understand that the language of computers is language of math and not just 0's and 1's. After all, these machines only know Arithmetic and Logic. So, If I want to make these machines to think, I must start to think in mathematical way. I may be doing that already, but I am trying hard to connect at the moment. One fine day, everything I think, write, understand and speak(source of feelings are excluded) will be placed on top of foundation of arithmetic and logic. Then comes the fun part, sitting down in front of machine and do programming - an action of transferring ones mathematically well established thoughts to 'memory' of the computer!
Thursday, 14 November 2013
Friday, 1 November 2013
Why is Kannada Language suffering? : All thoughts here are personal
Today is November 1st, Every year on this day "Kannada Rajyothsava" is celebrated by Kannada speaking people. So many things happen on this day. Many schools, colleges and government offices of my state celebrates this day just like Independence day which is celebrated on August 15th every year. I can see many wishes by political parties on media.
You can see Saffron-White-Green flags on August 15th and Yellow-Red colors on November 1st. Many people who are Kannada language lovers publicly complain that our language is dying as number of people who speaks Kannada is diminishing as years pass on. These things happens every year and i am grown up in this environment. Yes I am Kannadiga( a person who speak Kannada) and I do love my language.
I got a new crazy bunch of thoughts about my native language, which i thought of sharing with you all. How is Kannada Linguistics evolving? Well, i tried to find answer for this question, I googled it for a while and was disappointed by results.
As you know by facts - Bangalore is 'Silicon Valley of India' or 'IT capital of India'. Though you can see huge talent pool here in Bengaluru, the fact is - not much work is done in technical adaption of Kannada, in my humble opinion, the current adaption is no where sufficient. This 21st century is where exciting technologies are making impact on life. Kannada as a language is seriously lacking in technical field. My parents speaks Kannada, i had my formal primary school education in Kannada medium. In fact, if i know one language to good extent, that is Kannada(the odd thing is - i had to write this in English!).
I have been learning Natural language processing(NLP). Well, all the time now i am dealing with English text and its grammar. This is where Kannada lacks. Why does not some tools like 'Wordnet lexical data base', 'Stanford Core NLP' and 'Part of Speech tagger' exists for Kannada? From my knowledge it is completely possible because Kannada is a beautiful language with wonderful grammar influenced by Sanskrit(thanks to the works of Paanini).
If you are wondering "why on this planet earth I should really care for tools like above!" Well, applications are front end of technology, that's how people get access to technology. More the availability of tools, easy it is to develop applications and many developers jump to develop for it. I am yet to imagine when Apple's Siri like virtual assistant application can understand and act on my mothers words which are in Kannada!
To conclude, My crazy thoughts are these:
1) I wish some Kannada Universities over there who are encouraging language by giving doctorates to Kannada literature and music, should also consider development of software tools/libraries like this.
2) Its not that Government hiring a team of pure technical people, pay their wages and tell them to do it. Its about building a bigger ecosystem to adapt Kannada language. In my opinions, Kannadigas who managed to get technical education are the people who can make a difference here.
3) Once Sir M. Visvesvaraya, Diwan of Mysore kingdom, then said - "Get industrialized or else.....". Now in this era, it is, "Get used to technology or else you will suffer!"
UPDATE:
I found that LTRC at IIT Hyderabad is doing some work in related field.
You can see Saffron-White-Green flags on August 15th and Yellow-Red colors on November 1st. Many people who are Kannada language lovers publicly complain that our language is dying as number of people who speaks Kannada is diminishing as years pass on. These things happens every year and i am grown up in this environment. Yes I am Kannadiga( a person who speak Kannada) and I do love my language.
I got a new crazy bunch of thoughts about my native language, which i thought of sharing with you all. How is Kannada Linguistics evolving? Well, i tried to find answer for this question, I googled it for a while and was disappointed by results.
As you know by facts - Bangalore is 'Silicon Valley of India' or 'IT capital of India'. Though you can see huge talent pool here in Bengaluru, the fact is - not much work is done in technical adaption of Kannada, in my humble opinion, the current adaption is no where sufficient. This 21st century is where exciting technologies are making impact on life. Kannada as a language is seriously lacking in technical field. My parents speaks Kannada, i had my formal primary school education in Kannada medium. In fact, if i know one language to good extent, that is Kannada(the odd thing is - i had to write this in English!).
I have been learning Natural language processing(NLP). Well, all the time now i am dealing with English text and its grammar. This is where Kannada lacks. Why does not some tools like 'Wordnet lexical data base', 'Stanford Core NLP' and 'Part of Speech tagger' exists for Kannada? From my knowledge it is completely possible because Kannada is a beautiful language with wonderful grammar influenced by Sanskrit(thanks to the works of Paanini).
If you are wondering "why on this planet earth I should really care for tools like above!" Well, applications are front end of technology, that's how people get access to technology. More the availability of tools, easy it is to develop applications and many developers jump to develop for it. I am yet to imagine when Apple's Siri like virtual assistant application can understand and act on my mothers words which are in Kannada!
To conclude, My crazy thoughts are these:
1) I wish some Kannada Universities over there who are encouraging language by giving doctorates to Kannada literature and music, should also consider development of software tools/libraries like this.
2) Its not that Government hiring a team of pure technical people, pay their wages and tell them to do it. Its about building a bigger ecosystem to adapt Kannada language. In my opinions, Kannadigas who managed to get technical education are the people who can make a difference here.
3) Once Sir M. Visvesvaraya, Diwan of Mysore kingdom, then said - "Get industrialized or else.....". Now in this era, it is, "Get used to technology or else you will suffer!"
UPDATE:
I found that LTRC at IIT Hyderabad is doing some work in related field.
Saturday, 20 July 2013
Leisure cycling: 72km a day to start with
Wowwww! I did it! I did it! Yes, I pedaled my bicycle 60KM + 12KM today!
It was early morning 5.30am, when i started my journey from Bangalore towards my native which is located at foot of Nandhi hills. It was a 60km ride, and took almost 3 hours and 24 minutes! Thanks to my boss, who advised me to carry few bottles of Getorade's, lots of water, these guys really saved me from dehydration.
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Some beliefs wont change, after reaching home, i took my cycle to a temple to perform pooja to cycle just like we do to every new vehicle we buy. Actually, for me my btwin RockRider bicycle is no less than my Honda bike. This temple was 6Km away from home, my legs were already tired but still had another 12Km of ride.
It was fun for me. I believe, when we are young, the more we work-out in a field, the more stronger we become in that. One should maintain a good health, no matter what field he works for.
It was fun for me. I believe, when we are young, the more we work-out in a field, the more stronger we become in that. One should maintain a good health, no matter what field he works for.
Monday, 15 July 2013
Business versus engineering
Today I submitted my first document of plan. I got a nice feedback from my team about my plan. It was engineer's plan rather than business plan. I was given with example of hotel business plan and plan of hotel building. I don't forget this example. One thing that became clear to mind is: even the most awesomely built systems can fail because of not having good business plan. Yes, I am engineer, and I don't want to build systems which are not useful.
Saturday, 13 July 2013
I got a new bike: btwin RockRider 5.1
Yeah! I got a new bike,
Its b'twin Rock Rider 5.1. I love my cycle. In childhood, I used to ride cycle to reach school. Now, its an MTB from btwin. No, i am not here to write review about cycle. I know its a good quality one.
As my boss said once, - "The problem with software guys is that, they(should have been 'we') earn good amount of money, they eat good quality food, but they do less physical work". Its true, one should have a good health.
Before coming to software industry, i used to get sufficient physical exercise by doing some sort of work(son of a farmer, before all!). My life has changed much in past one year, as Life of a software engineer.
My Honda bike is pretty good but it does not give me sufficient exercise. I need some physical exercise. I need to write lots and lots of useful code for that i need to maintain good health. From today, I'll use my cycle to commute to office. Its healthy, eco-friendly, and has much more benefits.
Its b'twin Rock Rider 5.1. I love my cycle. In childhood, I used to ride cycle to reach school. Now, its an MTB from btwin. No, i am not here to write review about cycle. I know its a good quality one.
As my boss said once, - "The problem with software guys is that, they(should have been 'we') earn good amount of money, they eat good quality food, but they do less physical work". Its true, one should have a good health.
Before coming to software industry, i used to get sufficient physical exercise by doing some sort of work(son of a farmer, before all!). My life has changed much in past one year, as Life of a software engineer.
My Honda bike is pretty good but it does not give me sufficient exercise. I need some physical exercise. I need to write lots and lots of useful code for that i need to maintain good health. From today, I'll use my cycle to commute to office. Its healthy, eco-friendly, and has much more benefits.
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