Computer Programming Languages worth learning.

 

People often ask us which computer languages we must learn? There are many computer languages which we can learn. But the question, we must ask is, what is our end objective?

Let us take an example of Facebook :

Front End : Java Script.

Back End : Flow, Hack, PHP (HHVM), Python, C++, Java, Erlang.

Database : MariaDB, MySQL, HBase, Cassandra.

Users : 3 billion, that is almost half the world.

Networth : 1 billion dollars.

FaceBook is a popular social networking website. You can also find other popular websites from google in which language they are written.

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5 easy steps to do financial planning.

Article - Sudhir Pai

Having worked with ICICI Bank, Kotak Group and Motilal Oswal Securities in the past, and interacting with many small and big clients, these are 5 steps, all successful investors follow :

1) Have a clear plan :

Remember the rule of 6P (Proper planning and preparation prevents poor performance). Correct planning cuts losses, increase financial gains and avoid the pain and panic of financial or lifestage crisis.

2) Upgrade yourself :

Atleast one hour of your day (preferably early mornings), must be set aside, to read newspapers like Economic Times, Business Standard and keep ourselves updated with what changes are happening in our society, nation and world, in terms of politics, technology, innovation, economy etc.

3) Network :

Network = Networth.

Please invest time to develop and maintain friendship with moderate minded, progressive human beings who believe in Win Win ecosystem. Ensure you also contribute in terms of helping and reaching out to them. 

4) Live a simple life :

We must understand the difference between wants and needs. Take a stock of your daily and monthly expenses and regularly do smart budgeting to ensure that we are not spending on unwanted things. Do yoga and meditation . Follow a disciplined lifestyle and eat healthy food.

5) Hire a life and investment coach :

It is always better to invest some money to hire a life coach, who will guide us through happy and sad days. Even the best movie actor or sports celebrity has such life coach who help them to keep a balanced attitude toward life and career.

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Amazing Indian - Uma Venkatachalam

22-year-old Jayavel Chinnaiah says he still remembers how he lay as a toddler on the sidewalks of a busy road on Chennai's suburbs where his mother waded through raging motorists begging for money many years ago. 

But those hazy pictures from his past are now being replaced with hopes of a bright future. Jayavel has just one more on-campus examination to clear for enrolment in an automotive engineering course in Italy's Politecnico Di Torino. 

He is in Chennai awaiting financial aid from those who had shaped his life so far -from the time he was taken off the foot path to the day he is looking to head for a course in his dream subject. 

"I want to finish my course, get a good job, earn money to repay my loans, build a house for my mother and then get into the Indian Administrative Service to do service to this nation," says Jayavel in a rush as if he is listing out provisions from a shopping list. 

Full Story >> Economic Times 

90 years young Padma Vibhushan Dr. V Shanta

90 years young and focussed, Dr. V Shanta, grand niece of renowned scientist, Shri C V Raman, is doing amazing work in ensuring cancer treatment is made affordable to all citizens of India and world.

Dr. V. Shanta, is the chairperson of Cancer Institute at Adyar, Chennai.

She regularly inspires and tell her patients not to get worried and frightened of cancer. And like any other diseases, cancer is curable and can be treated with medicines and diet.

Dr. V Shanta, first joined as a RMO (Resident Medical Officer) at Adyar Cancer Institute and have been working for last 61 years and is now the Chairperson of this institute.

Even at age 90, she is active, focussed and passionate to ensure that all her patients are taken care of and get the best treatment.

Please Google and YouTube her for more information. If you like this short article, please share it with your friends. Let's build a positive and better world.

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What is Intuition?

When human body functions spontaneously, we call it as instinct. When the soul functions spontaneously, that is called intuition. Instinct is of the body - the gross; and intuition is of the soul - the subtle.

When you are totally awake and aware, this shift happens: from the [brain’s] left hemisphere the energy moves to the right hemisphere. The male is naturally an aggressive living being, the male is constantly in struggle – the feminine is constantly in surrender, in deep trust. Hence females have a better intuition or sixth sense.

Scientists have discovered that humans appear to have two, very different “operating systems.” (link is external)  System 1 is our quick, instinctual, and often subconscious way of operating – it is controlled by our right brain and by other parts of our brain that have been around since prehistoric times, known as the “limbic” and reptilian” parts of our brain.  System 2 is our slower, more analytical, and conscious way of operating – it is controlled by our left brain and by newer parts of our brain that have only developed since prehistoric times (also known as the “neocortex”).  Researchers have found that intuition is part of System 1, which is why it comes on so rapidly and often does not make rational sense to us.  In other words, intuitive decisions are not something that we have thought out carefully with reason, but rather choices that have arisen quickly out of instinct.

In my book, THINK LIKE A WINNER, I have briefly touched upon how our human mind can be programmed for success. In my second book, LIVE YOUR DREAMS, I have discussed, how people used their power of mind to achieve their personal and professional goals.

Intuition is challenging to define, despite the huge role it plays in our everyday lives. Steve Jobs called it, for instance, "more powerful than intellect." But however we put it into words, we all, well, intuitively know just what it is.

Pretty much everyone has experienced a gut feeling -- that unconscious reasoning that propels us to do something without telling us why or how. But the nature of intuition has long eluded us, and has inspired centuries' worth of research and inquiry in the fields of philosophy and psychology.

If you want to get in touch with your intuition, a little time alone may be the most effective way. Just as solitude can help give rise to creative thinking, it can also help us connect to our deepest inner wisdom.

Intuitive people are often introverted, according to Burnham. But whether you're an introvert or not, taking time for solitude can help you engage in deeper thought and reconnect with yourself.

"You have to be able to have a little bit of solitude; a little bit of silence," she says. "In the middle of craziness ... you can't recognize [intuition] above all of the noise of everyday life." 

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50 Inspiring Interesting Things about Nawazuddin Siddiqui

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50 Inspiring Interesting Things about Nawazuddin Siddiqui

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Young Innovator - Story of Vignesh Subrahmaniam

Age: 29

Technical area: Software

Current position: Lead scientist at GE Global Research

As a child, Subrahmaniam had an unusual combination of interests. He was interested in mathematics as well as music. While he was fond of reading books, he liked forecasting the weather and playing the veena. He grew up to become of one the youngest and finest statisticians and data scientists in the country.

Twelve years ago, when he had to decide the course of his career, his mother encouraged him to take up the field which he so passionately adored. “My mother has always believed that to really become successful, you need to do what you are passionate about,” says Subrahmaniam.

So, at that time, when people usually opted to study for a medical or engineering degree, he went to the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.

After completing his studies in 2008, he joined the global research team at the US-based products and services firm General Electric Co., where he had interned in 2005. His forte is statistical modelling for weather forecasting to solve industrial problems.

In the early stages of his career, he developed mathematical models and algorithms that added significant value to diverse industrial applications. He worked with two more researchers to develop a new machine-learning algorithm which analysed historical weather data in the Indian subcontinent to identify regions that have similar rainfall patterns. His research led to the discovery of a new monsoon region called the Homogenous Indian Monsoon Region, which later improved monsoon forecasting over large areas of northern and eastern India. His work was published in the Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (2009).

In 2010, Subrahmaniam invented an automated mixture analysis algorithm for identifying unknown substances based on its Raman spectra. This method was later granted a patent. “It was used by GE’s Homeland Protection business to identify unknown mixtures such as narcotics or drugs correctly,” says Subrahmaniam.

Though identification of mixtures from spectral data is a well-studied topic, Subrahmaniam developed the first ever method based on partial correlation to generate probabilities on all the identified mixture components. His work on this was published in the Journal of Applied Spectroscopy in 2010.

Over the last seven years, Subrahmaniam has been involved in creating a software system consists of self-learning algorithms, which analyse historical weather patterns at a location and predict the most repeatable patterns. It compares that information with the requirements for its clients, such as setting up a wind farm at that location, to come up with the best model to do so. The method has been adopted by GE’s wind business for setting up wind turbines.

Subrahmaniam has been involved in industry applications related to wind farming, power grids, transport and aviation.

“Over a period of time, the system that we have created has demonstrated verifiable results,” he says.

Subrahmaniam is now experimenting with deep learning, a new field in machine learning, which uses artificial neural networks to learn levels of representation and abstraction that make sense of data such as images, sound, and text, in a way the human brain learns and understands it.

“We are using new analytical models and deep learning for analysing historical weather data to increase the accuracy of our predictions,” he says. “We are also looking to use this model to expand our horizons and solve problems across various industries.”

Source : Google, LiveMint.

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Nobel Peace Prize 2011 - Ms. Ellen Sirleaf

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Born 29 Oct 1938), age 79, is a Liberian politician, and Nobel Peace Prize 2011 winner. She is 24th and current President of Liberia since 2006.

Ellen is often referred as "Iron Lady of Liberia" for her strong will and political persistence, and is Africa's first democratically elected female leader. Her political path has not been an easy one and she was imprisoned in 1980's for criticizing government policies in Liberia.

In her book, This Child will be great, she writes - If asked to describe my homeland in one sentence, I may say something like this: Liberia is a wonderful, beautiful, mixed up country, struggling mightily to find itself.

Given more space, however, I would certainly elaborate.

Liberia is some 43,000 square miles of lush, well-watered land on the bulge of West Africa, a country slightly larger than the state of Ohio, a lilliputian nation with a giant history. It has a population of 3.5 million people from some sixteen ethnic groups speaking some sixteen indigenous languages plus English. It has never known hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, droughts, or other natural disasters, only the occasional flood and the more frequent havoc wreaked by man. Liberia is complicated. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, Liberia is a conundrum wrapped in complexity and stuffed inside a paradox. Then again, it was born that way.

In 2011 - She won Nobel Peace Prize for her relentless efforts to bring peace, prosperity and progress for Liberia.

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Want to make your child genius ? Play chess with your child !

Every parents want their child to become a genius. They want their child to think creatively and logically. Alongwith sports, exercise and nutritious food, try playing CHESS with your child.

Here are top benefits of playing CHESS with your child :

1) It develops healthy relation between parents and child.

2) It helps to develop logic (left brain) and creativity (right brain).

3) When CHESS is played on regular basis, it helps to develop concentration.

4) CHESS helps to develop problem solving skills.

5) It improves memory.

6) Child learns to think short term and long term.

7) Strategic thinking improves over a period of time.

8) A good exercise for brain and can help in Alzheimer's condition

    for senior citizens.

9) It also helps to develop intuition.

10) Children learn to think fast and correct.

So - if you are motivated enough, teach your kids this wonderful game and encourage others as well to play this game on regular basis.

Stay Happy and Stay Motivated.

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Story of Saloni Malhotra (Desi Crew)

Saloni Malhotra (Founder - DesiCrew)

Saloni Malhotra is polite, petite and soft-spoken. In fact, she looks like she might still be in college.

"It is a problem sometimes," she admits. "People in this industry are expected to have some white hair - it gives confidence to the client ! She sometimes laugh off.

Saloni Malhotra is the founder and CEO of DesiCrew, an IT enabled services company, that provide back office and support services in rural part of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.

After doing engineering from Pune Universtity and working with interactive media startup Web Chutney, based out of Delhi, she came in contact with Prof. Jhunjhunwala of TeNet group, IIT Madras and came up with idea of Desi Crew.

Desi Crew started with an objective to setup rural BPO's in Tier 2 cities towns and villages, which will generate employment opportunities to backward unemployed youth in these towns and villages.

Initially, Desi Crew struggled with intial hiccups of starting a social enterprise, but today stands tall and successful giving employment to 400 plus youth in these villages of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

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Vikas Das - Engineer quits job to work with tribals

VAT VRIKSHA (Sanskrit word for Banyan Tree), an social enterprise started by Vikas Das, who left high paying engineering job to do something meaningful in life and create a positive impact on lives of tribal community struggling to live a dignified life.

Vat Vriksha helps tribal women with almost zero formal education to design and run small enterprises.

At age 28, after working long hours from cubicle of MNC, he was wondering whether he is going to repeat this schedule his entire life making MNCs richer and richer. After deep introspection and self analysis, he decided to finally quit his comfortable high paying job and decided to work with tribals.

A trip back to Bhubaneshwar decided what he will ultimately do with his life.

Vikas decided to dedicate his life for upliftment of tribal areas in naxalite infested areas like Chhatisgarh, Jharkhand and West Bengal.

His social enterprise Vat Vriksha is based on concept of Vasudhev Kutumbhakam, which means, the whole universe is my family. He recalls an incident from childhood, when tribals were not allowed to enter temple as they were considered inferior and impure. This hurted him a lot and he decided to do something about it when he grows up.

Vat Vriksha is built on solid foundation of ethics and integrity to provide dignified life to tribals in a way of basic education and entrepreneurship !

Please google Vikas Das Vat Vriksha for more information on his work.

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Growth Mindset

Article : Sudhir Pai

It is said, universe began 13.82 billion years ago from a small dot which exploded as BIG BANG.

Since then, it is only growing and expanding.

Look around:
Everything from plants, fishes, trees, birds, animals and humans everything has grown from a small seed. Is'nt it?

Growth, abundance and prosperity is a natural instinct. Think Big. Aim Bigger. Don't feel guilty in doing so.

Some people may like your behaviour. Some may criticize you. Some may ignore you. Don't bother too much.

Keep your focus intact on growth and prosperity, and keep working towards it.

Best Wishes,

Sudhir Pai
Trainer Author - Think Like A Winner

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Mashelkar Kaka - The man passionate about watches for 40 years.

Article : Sudhir Pai

I remember going to his shop at the age of 12 when I got my first watch as a gift and in six months, there was some problem and needed to repair it urgently.

As I looked in his 50 square feet cute little shop, I was amazed by the collection of watches he had which had come for repair and the new ones he had put for sale.

This shop is located at Thakurdwar Naka as you keep walking slightly towards C.P.Tank on left hand side. The shop is in South Mumbai area. And Mashelkar Kaka (That's Uncle in English), as we fondly call him, has been passionate about discussing, repairing and selling all types of watches for last 40 years.

There is a child like twinkle in his eyes even today, as he discusses about clocks and watches. And we take his advice before buying new watches.

His only advice - Avoid Chinese watches and buy Indian ones 😊

Few days back, I had visited his shop to get my watch repaired and he repaired it in 7 minutes. And as usual shared a cup of tea and some happy moments discussing about clocks, watches and electronic gadgets.

I wish, Mashelkar Kaka keeps on following his passion of repairing watches for next 100 years ...

So Folks - Next time, if you are in South Mumbai and your watch needs repair, do visit him.

Sudhir Pai, is a qualified electronics engineer, who has worked with organizations like Jetking, ICICI Bank and Kotak group. He is author of 2 motivational books and speaker at various forums. He can be reached on 9820073993 (Mumbai - India)

How to deal with a difficult boss?

Article - Sudhir Pai

Are you one of those, who feel that your boss is very difficult to handle? You do everything in best possible way, work really hard but your boss is never happy and many times shouts at you or insults you in front of other colleagues.

Chill. Take a cup of warm or cold coffee and keep reading below article. We are going to discuss today how to manage and deal with difficult boss?

Let's start.

Observe your boss for a few days with a neutral frame of mind. Regular meditation can help you to develop a cool and neutral mindset. Understand your boss and his or her priorities. Listen to what he or she says very carefully. Try to listen to what is unsaid.

Try to understand that your boss may be a very good person in personal life but targets and deadlines can put huge pressure on him or her and that work pressure can get transferred down on subordinates.

Art of managing boss is more often art of managing the pressure downloaded by the boss. And to manage the pressure, one needs to be in cool frame of mind. Trust me folks, regular deep breathing and meditation helps to develop this cool mind.

Documentation plays an important role in managing boss's expectations. During meetings with our superiors, make a note of everything in bulleted points. After meeting, email minutes of meeting to your boss and colleagues to ensure whole team is on same page. and get assign off from your boss. On regular intervals, send him status of work allotted with deadlines and tasks completed. This will ensure, that boss is updated on regular basis of work status. Also ask for feedback and inputs from boss about the progress of work.

Open and regular communication is the way to develop and strengthen relationship with your boss and colleagues.

I hope this article has helped you to get clarity on How to deal with difficult boss?

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Why Tulsi (Holy Basil) is planted at entrance of house?

Article : Sudhir Pai

As a child, I was fascinated with lot of things I observed around me. Some traditions were faith. Some were blind faith. And yet another had some scientific thinking.

I always used to wonder, why Tulsi (Holy Basil) is planted at entrance and worshipped. And I used to ask this question to lot of people and my elders and each one of them had their own version of story as they heard from their elders and friends.

But I was looking for a more scientific explantion until I met an engineer who had more interest in Ayurveda and Indian tradition and I felt his explanation was closest which answered my logical mind.

He first told me benefits of Tulsi plant and leaves which are as follows:

1) Tulsi plant emits oxygen in abundance.

2) Fights cancer.

3) Improves immunity.

4) Fights bacteria and viruses.

5) Useful in cold and cough.

Tulsi leaves can be boiled with tea and milk and drink for healthier life.

You can google and youtube for more information.

Bottom line - Tulsi plant at entrance was a reminder to take (eat tulsi leaves) daily dose of immunity before you go for outdoor work, so that you always remain immune to external harmful viruses and stay healthy.

So, eat tulsi leaves for a good health.

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What is courage?

To accept the challenge of unknown inspite of all fear and insecurities and work towards it is courage.

Courage is the ability to come out of logic and reasoning of past experiences, challenge status quo, try out something new, something different and emerge out victorious. Courage is not the absence of fear. Infact, it is acknowledging the presence of fear, accepting fear and overcoming it.

It is infact, the ability to let go of our past experiences and venture out in the unknown. Courage is not essentially positive thinking but more of possibility thinking. Positive thinking may help to reduce fear, but possibility thinking will help us to overcome future, think of innovative solutions and ultimately emerge out as winner in life.

Courage is the self-affirmation of being inspite of the fact of non-being. It is an act of asserting our inner powers and strength over our weakness.

When I first decided to quit job and start something on my own, I had lot of fear about future, about financial burden and how I will manage my career. It took almost 5 years to fight with my fear and ultimately I quit my job and started my consultancy business.

I wrote 2 books, first one was Think Like A Winner, which has proven new age techniques of how to develop a winning mindset. and second one is Live Your Dreams, about those 10 ordinary real life people who became extra ordinary because they followed their heart and pursued their dreams.

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Life of Radhanath Swami

Radhanath Swami (Richard Slavin) was born in comforts of Chicago (USA). As a teenager, he embarked on a fascinating journey of hitch-hiking the world in search of self discovery and spirituality that ultimately led him to join ISKCON (International Society of Krishna Consciousness)

During 1960s and 1970s, there was a general disillusionment amongst European and American youth about society and materialistic pleasure and hippie movement started where unfortunately many young folks got trapped in drugs, rock and roll and sex.

 

Something similar was happening to Richard Slavin. He was young. He was confused. And he left home, leaving behind his family and comforts of US life and started spiritual journey.

Growing up in Chicago, he was restless and had plenty reason to be unhappy. Civil unrest, Vietnam war and general aversion to trappings of material life.

He wanted to be free. He wanted to experience freedom and liberation.

In his book, The Journey Home, he gives colourful details of his spiritual journey from Chichago suburubs to caves of Himalayas. he gives an intimate account of the steps to self-awareness and also a penetrating glimpse various mystic traditions across the world like Arabia, Rome, Greek and finally he lands into India.

His spiritual journey ends with becoming an ISKCON sanyasi and now heads the organization and run food program for underpriviledged kids by name of Akshay Patra where around 1.6 million school kids are fed with nutritious meals on daily basis.

Hare Krishna !

Sudhir Pai

Author - Trainer - Consultant

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The happiest man on earth - Matthieu Ricard

Matthieu Ricard is a French writer and a Buddhist monk, who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal and is been declared as happiest person in the world.

Ricard is a PhD in molecular biology from Pasteur Institute under French Nobel Laureate Francois Jacob. In 1972, Ricard decided to become a Tibetan Monk. He came to India and started studying Buddhism under master Kangyur Rinpoche.

Ricard volunteered himself for a scientific laboratory experiments at University of Wisconsin and the scientists who performed experiments found his happiness levels way above other individuals.

Matthieu Ricard undergoing experiment.

Brain scans revealed that Matthieu Ricards brain had large capacity for joy and happiness thanks to his daily practice of meditation for last 45 years.

Neuroscientist Richard Davidson wired up monk's skull with 250 sensors at university of Wisconsin as a part of research on various people with and without meditation practice.

The scans showed, that when meditating on compassion and peace, Ricard's brain produced high levels of gamma waves, those which gave joy and happiness were found in pre frontal cortex.

Daily 20 minutes of meditation for 21 days results in better memory, concentration and happiness.

So - Meditate and Be Happy.

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