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Using Google Image search for OkCupid Profile Images

Ajay Ohri — Tue, 21 May 2013 04:16:41 +0000

Suppose you like some one on OKCupid. Click to navigate to photos.
Click Save as to save the webpage completely. All Images are now in a folder on your laptop
Use Google Image Search Upload to one by one . The biggest privacy drawback, Google Image search doesn’t find Instagram or Twitter or Facebook or LinkedIn profile images so well, but does it extremely well for Google Plus Profile Image. Lolcat!
Solution- have two sets of photos that make you look good, one for friends, other for OKCupid or other online dating shenanigans!

I interview Stephen, awesome Face Recognition hacker here, and I think his solution is the best for privacy- use a robots.txt equivalent for images, just as you use it for websites.

I hope they find a solution, in time for wearable computing to take off properly.

In the meantime, I am telling people on OK Cupid that I am a fortune teller. It is really working awesome!

Tagged: Face Recognition, Google, linkedin, okcupid, Online dating service, privacy, Searching

Logical Fallacies Poster

Ajay Ohri — Mon, 20 May 2013 20:53:52 +0000

I really loved this-

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/poster

Hat Tip- Revo Blog D Smith

Tagged: logical fallacies, poster

How to be a better writer

Ajay Ohri — Tue, 14 May 2013 04:02:24 +0000

Write 50 words . That’s a paragraph.
Write 400 words . That’s a page.
Write 300 pages. That’s a manuscript.
Write everyday. That’s a habit.
Edit and Rewrite. That’s how you get better.
Spread your writing for people to comment. That’s called feedback.
Dont worry about rejection or publication. That’s a writer.
When not writing, read. Read from writers better than you. Read and Perceive.

But overall, just write more to get better.

1000+ votes on Quora!! Probably my most viewed content ever (besides my Poem on Michael Jackson)

31678 people have viewed this answer!

https://www.quora.com/Writing/How-can-we-improve-our-writing-skill/answers/2048810?__snids__=94784810&__nsrc__=1

Tagged: arts, blog, Book Writing, FAQs Help and Tutorials, Manuscript, michael jackson, Quora, Rewrite, Writer, Writer Resources, writing, Writing Exercises

Writing on APIs for Programmable Web

Ajay Ohri — Tue, 14 May 2013 04:01:09 +0000

I have been writing free lance on APIs for Programmable Web. Here is an updated list of the articles, many of these would be of interest to analytics users. Note- some of these are interviews and they are in bold.

PW Interview: Jeh Daruwala CEO Yactraq API, Behavorial Targeting for videos

PW Interview: Michael Schonfield of Dwolla API on Innovation Meeting the Payment Web 2013/05/02

PW Interview: Stephen Balaban of Lamda Labs on the Face Recognition API 2013/04/29

PW Interview: Amber Feng, Stripe API, The Payment Web 2013/04/24

PW Interview: Greg Lamp and Austin Ogilvie of Yhat on Shipping Predictive Models via API 2013/04/22

Google Mirror API documentation is open for developers 2013/04/18

PW Interview: Ricky Robinett, Ordr.in API, Ordering Food meets API 2013/04/16

PW Interview: Jacob Perkins, Text Processing API, NLP meets API 2013/04/10

Amazon EC2 On Demand Windows Instances -Prices reduced by 20% 2013/04/08

Amazon S3 API Requests prices slashed by half 2013/04/02

PW Interview: Stuart Battersby, Chatterbox API, Machine Learning meets Social 2013/04/02

PW Interview: Karthik Ram, rOpenSci, Wrapping all science APIs 2013/03/20

Viralheat Human Intent API- To buy or not to buy 2013/03/13

Interview Tammer Kamel CEO and Founder Quandl 2013/03/07

YHatHQ API: Calling Hosted Statistical Models 2013/03/04

Quandl API: A Wikipedia for Numerical Data 2013/02/25

Amazon Redshift API is out of limited preview and available! 2013/02/18

Windows Azure Media Services REST API 2013/02/14

Data Science Toolkit Wraps Many Data Services in One API 2013/02/11

Diving into Codeacademy’s API Lessons 2013/01/31

Google APIs finetuning Cloud Storage JSON API 2013/01/29

Interview Hilary Mason Chief Scientist bitly 2013/01/28

Interview: Viralheat CEO Raj Kadam on API Growth 2013/01/22

Google Compute API – Affordable Computing at Google Scale 2013/01/17

2012

Ergast API Puts Car Racing Fans in the Driver’s Seat 2012/12/05
Springer APIs- Fostering Innovation via API Contests 2012/11/20
Statistically programming the web – Shiny,HttR and RevoDeploy API 2012/11/19
Google Cloud SQL API- Bigger ,Faster and now Free 2012/11/12
A Look at the Web’s Most Popular API -Google Maps API 2012/10/09
Cloud Storage APIs for the next generation Enterprise 2012/09/26
Last.fm API: Sultan of Musical APIs 2012/09/12
Socrata Data API: Keeping Government Open 2012/08/29
BigML API Gets Bigger 2012/08/22
Bing APIs: the Empire Strikes Back 2012/08/15
Google Cloud SQL: Relational Database on the Cloud 2012/08/13
Google BigQuery API Makes Big Data Analytics Easy 2012/08/05
Your Store in The Cloud -Google Cloud Storage API 2012/08/01
Predict the future with Google Prediction API 2012/07/30
The Romney vs Obama API 2012/07/27

API Evangelist (programmableweb.com)

Tagged: ajay ohri, amazon s3, apis, Application programming interface, Cloud Storage JSON, Dwolla, Google, Hilary Mason, Jacob Perkins, JSON, Machine learning, programmableweb, Raj Kadam, To Buy or Not to Buy, Viralheat, WCF Data Services, wikipedia, writing

How to make inforgraphics easily- Use Infogr.am

Ajay Ohri — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:00:35 +0000

What is an Infographic?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infographic

Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended to present complex information quickly and clearly.^[1]^[2] They can improve cognition by utilizing graphics to enhance the human visual system’s ability to see patterns and trends.^[3]^[4] The process of creating infographics can be referred to as data visualization, information design, or information architecture.^[2]

What is Infogr.am?

It Create infographics and interactive online charts. It’s free and super-easy!

How?

Step 1

Step 2

Create

Step 3

Choose New Infographic or New Chart?

Step 4

Create using options-you can edit the table, figures, text, colors etc

That’s it

Use Infogr.am to make inforgraphics easily!

Tagged: data visualization, Infographic, Information architecture, Information graphics, knowledge discovery, knowledge management, twitter

Coursera gets cluttered

Ajay Ohri — Mon, 13 May 2013 00:25:20 +0000

I am a big fan of Coursera, but I really think they should organize the Courses along tracks for people wanting to gain multiple skills for a domain or a career.

Their current system of tracks is a signature track that at 39/69$ offers a certificate. Can’t this be upgraded to something like a Data Scientist certification – say if you complete 5-6 courses that are specified.

Also there needs to be much more external social (rather than internal social /forums discussion) as well as some gamification like Codeacademy does (points, badges, leaderboard) to make it more fun.

Lastly- I wish there was a way to read the transcripts fast or at least some way for professionals who are busy to change the rate of learning (the video speed can be changed but its not that effective)

See this- with 370 courses I think Coursera should really build a layer of certifications for multiple courses along a single industry/domain.

Tagged: Codeacademy, Coursera, E-learning, education, Gamification, Higher education, Massive open online course

Goa Goa Gone Review

Ajay Ohri — Sat, 11 May 2013 14:18:23 +0000

Go Goa Gone, is both a stoner movie combined with a zombies attack setting in the scenic heaven of Goa, India. As such it is a sharp, taut comedy with nice acting and crisp direction . The humor is bawdy but some dialogues have potential to be classic. A small budget movie- this is one nice production and shows Bollywood innovating global storylines and adding some desi masala to it. The newbie Puja Gupta looks hot, Saif Ali Khan lampoons the tough guy with a gun image, and Kunal Khemu and Vir Das are great in comic timing.

Watch it for laughs, though it is probably unsuitable for a family outing or with kids. Clearly inspired the cult Hollywood Movie, Zombieland- it has its own desi spin on it. Spicy and Delicious!

Tagged: Go Goa Gone, Goa, India, Kunal Khemu, Puja Gupta, Saif Ali Khan, Vir Das