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Intuition behind Average Precision and MAP

Following topics are covered in the blog , Difference between system programming and scripting language Why do we need a new programming language Understand the different terminology in system programming language Deep-drive into the value propositions of Rust language Introduction This blog is focussed on bringing about a behavioural change in the readers on understanding the problems in system…

Experience @ MakerFest 17

https://twitter.com/MakerFestMJFF/status/817716590531792896

MakerFest is amazing fest to celebrate the spirit of Makers and think about how we could expand this spirit to domains which are not yet explored.. hosted by Motwani Jadeja Family Foundation and founded by Asha Jadeja, I could not chat with her much but found an oppurtunity to invite her to our Mozilla stall, she seemed to be very happy…

Experiences from a Botathon

FoxIOT SG Event 4

We had a new location for this meetup which was at the hackerspace of KGISL college, technically we have been there already but this was a new space in the campus itself. (In short, it was an amazing place for making cool stuff) Let me start off thanking @Sudhersen and @Parthi for taking care of the location arrangement and logistics. Just a quick into about FoxIOT Study group (we are a Mozilla…

My next 6 month Plans for MozillaTN

In this blog, I am composing my next 6 months event and activity plan for Mozilla Tamil Nadu region. Mozilla TN is very special to me, I really enjoy each and every moment in being part of this group of people and conduct kick ass events. For the next six months, I am gonna concentrate on really few core areas which are rust ( I will be devoting my max time for this upcoming system programming…

IOT Policies for the near future

IOT stands for the internet of things, which is a system of interrelated computing devices and machines around us where the machine generated data is collected over a network without human interference and processed to get insights for decision making in real time.

I am part of a generation who can say that,

The only thing in my house that was connected to the network was my PC  :D

In 2014, 3.8…

Solving the problem of Connecting Rural Women

For all the great things to happen .. you need a trigger .. well I can say I am TRIGGERED and excited to solve a very big problem of connecting rural women to the internet.

Solving such a social problem of this scale will open doors to the enrichment of so many lives and lead to endless opportunities for the unconnected.

Initially, I was not sure (kinda perplexed) how in two days are we gonna end…

All you need to know about RUST

Rust is a safe system programming language which is fast and concurrent by Mozilla and its communities.

The Rust playlist  contains 6 videos in rust team talks about the various ascpects of rust language and their vision for rust language.

This blog is just a summary of those video series,

why do we call rust safe well there are lof of factors by which rust earns that status.

what if I tell you,…

Solutions for the problems in Diversity & Inclusion

I am part of Mozilla India community which is one of the most diverse tech community in the world.

In this blog, I am trying to suggest few solutions which have worked for the community where I have been an active part of.

]Diversity is what we portrait of the peer and being inclusive is a way we think and act, defining a proper process with a clear goal can solve so many tensions in this space

T…

Why web compat is important ?

Web compat is very important to Mozilla as they want obviously for one reason that people to get the best experience with Firefox and want to continuously  improve the Firefox product in order to support all kind of  latest technology out there. Mozilla campaigns and its communities have been a very strong organic testing and feedback system which is why Firefox browser is for the people and is…

Docker Swarm reading list

Docker swarm is an orchestration tool which helps to run your docker container across multiple nodes of the swarm cluster with a swarm manager and back-end service named consul. Reading list : https://docs.docker.com/swarm/ https://www.upcloud.com/support/how-to-configure-docker-swarm/ Installation instructions: Installing docker sudo apt-get install curl -y curl -sSL https://get.docker.com/ | sh…

*args and **kwargs in python explained

Learn to play with *args and *kwargs

Demystifying AI in Mozfest

Demystifying AI was the title of my session at Mozfest 2016. In this blog post, I plan to write about what I had discussed with my audience in my fireside session. Check out my poster which I made for my session https://twitter.com/dvigneshwer/status/792039340784381952 Well I am not really good at poster making never has been my cup of tea but I had compensated it with my jupyter notebook on the…

Demistifying Connected Device concept @Mozilla

So I recently was at the Mozilla India meetup 2016 in pune where I was fortunate enough to attend the connected device session by Detrich who is a one of the members of the IOT and connected device team in Mozilla.

Mozilla sees a lot of potential problem in the space of connected device which are in alignment with what Mozilla identifies as their core problems in the open web like users online…

SFD Celebration in Coimbatore

Sept 17 2016 a day well spent with the members of Mozilla TN community in Coimbatore on the occasion of software freedom day 2016 (http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/) celebration at SKCET (http://www.skcet.ac.in/) and SNSCT  (http://snsct.org/)

There were two events scheduled by parthipabalaji and prasanth at these two colleges.

6 contributors from Mozilla TN community turned up for these events…

Reading list for AI topics Aug

https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer

https://jack-clark.net/2016/04/03/why-ai-development-is-going-to-get-even-faster-yes-really/

https://research.googleblog.com/2016/03/deep-learning-for-robots-learning-from.html

http://www.oreilly.com/data/free/future-of-machine-intelligence.csp?cmp=tw-data-books-videos-product-na_future_machine_learning

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