Why I love Open Source

No egos about sharing your hard work

No egos about sharing your great ideas

Lets write the code now lets focus on money later

Reminds me of the Hacker Attitude especially point 4. If only companies could focus on STOPPING selective open source and open core (that Revolution Did with the RevoScaleR package et al)

1. The world is full of fascinating problems waiting to be solved.

2. No problem should ever have to be solved twice.

3. Boredom and drudgery are evil.

4. Freedom is good.

5. Attitude is no substitute for competence.

This made me smile though

Screenshot from 2015-08-05 16:41:55

 

Trolling Behavior on StackOverflow

I have asked a question on Stack Overflow based on discussions between myself and a few others members of Delhi Data Science groups

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/296887/447537

How do we report trolling behavior, bullying or harassment in terms of constant and targeted down voting?

I have sometimes noticed trolling behavior by a group of people, they are fairly highly ranked in terms of reputation, but have abysmal manners in terms of snark, group down-voting as well as targeted down-voting.

How do i report such behavior?

Does Stack Overflow have any remedy for small and new users targeted by high reputation users ?

a lovely tool for Data Explorer in Stack Overflow

http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/25355/have-we-met

 

Have we met?

Where have I ‘met’ another user? (Reminder, Jon Skeet’s user id is 22656 🙂 May throw up some false positives because of @Name matches.
- Have we met?
-- Where have I 'met' another user? (Reminder, Jon Skeet's user id is 22656 🙂 May throw up some false positives because of @Name matches.

declare @MyId int = ##MyId##;
declare @TheirId int = ##TheirId##;

declare @LikeMyName nvarchar(40)
select @LikeMyName = '%' + DisplayName + '%' from Users where Id = @MyId

declare @TheirName nvarchar(40)
declare @LikeTheirName nvarchar(40)
select @TheirName = DisplayName from Users where Id = @TheirId
select @LikeTheirName = '%' + @TheirName + '%'

-- Question/Answer meetings
  select
   Questions.Id as [Post Link],  
    case
      when Questions.OwnerUserId = @TheirId then @TheirName + '''s question, my answer'
    else 'My question, ' + @TheirName + '''s answer'
    end as [What]
  from Posts as Questions
  inner join Posts as Answers
   on Questions.Id = Answers.ParentId
  where Answers.PostTypeId = 2 and Questions.PostTypeId = 1
   and ((Questions.OwnerUserId = @TheirId and Answers.OwnerUserId = @MyId )
     or (Questions.OwnerUserid = @MyId and Answers.OwnerUserId = @TheirId ))
union
  -- Comments on owned posts
  select Posts.Id as [Post Link],
    case
      when Posts.PostTypeId = 1 and Posts.OwnerUserId = @TheirId then @TheirName + '''s question, my comment'
      when Posts.PostTypeId = 1 and Posts.OwnerUserId = @MyId then 'My question, ' + @TheirName + '''s comment'
      when Posts.PostTypeId = 2 and Posts.OwnerUserId = @TheirId then @TheirName + '''s answer, my comment'
      when Posts.PostTypeId = 2 and Posts.OwnerUserId = @MyId then 'My answer, ' + @TheirName + '''s comment'
    end as [What]  
  from Posts
  inner join Comments
    on Posts.Id = Comments.PostId
  where ((Posts.OwnerUserId = @TheirId and Comments.UserId = @MyId )
     or (Posts.OwnerUserid = @MyId and Comments.UserId = @TheirId ))

union
 -- @comments on posts
  select Posts.Id as [Post Link],
    case
      when UserId = @TheirId then @TheirName + '''s reply to my comment'
      when UserId = @MyId then 'My reply to ' + @TheirName + '''s comment'
    end as [What]  
  from Comments
    inner join Posts on Comments.PostId = Posts.Id
  where ((UserId = @TheirId and Text like @LikeMyName )
     or (UserId = @MyId and Text like @LikeTheirName))

order by [Post Link]

Random Thoughts on Cryptography

Some random thoughts while taking a walk in the park-az1

1) The inevitability of interception- Sooner or later, encrypted messages will be captured.

2) The cost of decryption- Decryption is inevitable. All the coder can do is increase the cost (time, money and computation) to the enemy

3) Signal/Noise- Introducing multiple algorithms to create random noise messages can increase the cost of decryption but reduce the probability of interception.  The technologically weaker player should introduce more noise to distort the signal/noise ratio knowing the messages are being intercepted anyways ( especially electronic, radio or digital)

4) Intercepted flag- Interception takes time. Flags to capture interception shall help coders in knowing which messages have been intercepted and which not. This of course can be manipulated by the interceptor.

5) Turing is not God- You can use pictures, use Navajo slang, poetry code in the same message. Maybe change the code from binary to something else.cryptography

6) Kill all the decryptographers- Focusing on the personnel of the enemy can help increase the cost of decryption.

(yawns and shrugs)

 

Talking on Social Media And Social Media Analytics

Over the past seven years, words written by me have hit millions of views. Here is a short talk I gave recently in a workshop at Hauz Khas Village recently

 

Teaching Blogging and Social Media Analytics

I am holding a workshop near my residence in Hauz Khas Village, Delhi, India

It is to teach Marketing via Internet, Branding via Blogging and other fun stuff to make money while having fun on the internet.

Here is the event

https://www.facebook.com/events/1399437753708150/

A 2 hour Workshop on Web Analytics and Social Media Analytics
By Ajay Ohri, Founder of DecisionStats and a Technology expert with two published books and blogs with lakhs of views.
10th April 2015, Friday
Venue: Hauz Khas Village

Learn Blogging
Spread your credentials to the entire world by Blogging! It becomes easy for professionals to prove their worth by showing their knowledge through their blog. A good blog earns money too. It definitely acts as your launching pad in the world.

Build Effective Profiles
93% of recruiters review social profiles of candidates while recruiting. Learn how to build awesome profiles on LinkedIn.

Web Analytics (Google Analytics) – Measure your traffic in websites. Improve your web traffic through organic Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing (Adwords).

What’s More?
Learn how to Run Marketing Campaigns on Twitter & Facebook Pages Facebook can help make and succeed businesses through it’s marketing features.Use Twitter hashtags and campaigns for promoting your product.
Step into a world of unlimited possibilities by a digital analyst training.

Entry fee: Rs 100 per person (Student I card) Rs 200 (normal)

Register :http://bit.ly/decisionstats
Contact: Sonam Tuteja – 9999659616 decisionstats2015@gmail.com

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