Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

Thoughts and behavior are determined (or are at least partially influenced) by language To this day it has not been completely disputed or defended, but has continued to intrigue researchers around the world.

Sensex at 30,000 by 2012

Swaminatham A. Iyer , a known economist writes in TOI Op-ed that he expects Sensex to reach 30k with in 6 years , logic being 18% profit rate per annum is perfectly sustainable…If not for anything , there is a case for stashing away some money in the index funds..

Sphinx

Searching for content in mysql was always an issue. The implementation that I was aware of ranged from the very basic “select * from xyz where name like % " to using indexing and culling out statistically significant result. The implementation itself took quite sometime. Recently I stumbled upon Sphinx, an open source full text search engine. It is very very useful for any app which includes showing users some sort of search results based on text mining.

Case for Bot

Shouldn’t there be a bot to cut down the 25 web pages mentioned below to possibly 2/1 links ( I mention the activity and the bot carries out on the net ) Experience teaches us not to trust new sites straightaway. There are so many web sites out there, when we’re searching for something, it’s likely that this unfamiliar site we’re on is the wrong one. If we’re on the right site, we’re probably on the wrong page.

Non Designer's Design Book : Summary

Today was design day . I had made up my mind to spend the entire day on understanding the elements of Design. Picked up a book titled " The Non - Designer’s Design Book" by Robin Williams. Had heard a lot about this book from various sources and hence plunged in to it, considering that it is the best book available or visual novice. The book starts with a basic premise that once you name something, you are conscious of it, you can control it and you have power over it.