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A Very British Web Form

While the rest of the World uses just Mr or Ms for titles within web forms, the British show why they are so different

Game Review : Google Ingress

Android Only Game
Uses GIS or Google Maps API/ for geo-caching game
Healthy for you- makes players walk from portals to another. You have to be within 40 m of a portal to recharge,capture of attack it. Makes you really walk a lot.
Addictive and Immersive with impressive follow up media story.
Can be used as base template for other games , and social experimentation
Uses Points, Badges, Leaderboard of gamification
Encourages direct face to face social interaction
Has in game chat facility
Zero in game currency . So no coiners or cheaters here

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Things I wish I could Classify — by better and easier Machine Learning

Web Analytics- Which customers are likely to convert and didnt. Which customers are not likely to stay and do. More analytics added to Google Analytics like Web Analytics
Web Analytics Time Series models- web analytics is TS data. More forecasts. Automated Error detection and correction in forecasts
Data Cleaning and Quality- Something like Google Refine (or open refine https://github.com/OpenRefine ) added before every Machine Learning Classification system I see. or software I see.
More API integration- for data from the web, to classification models to the web
Financial Data – Better interfaces and easier analytics. Every Financial Data is basically adding to a classification – Buy Sell Hold.
Sentimental Analysis for the People- Easier to integrate Blog Data (though GA api) and Social Media Data (twitter , google plus, facebook APIs) to give user analytics of his own reputation across multiple social networks.
Dating Website Recommendation Systems

These are a few of my favorite things…that I wish I could classify

And some military spying alogirthms that I wish they de classify because everyone has them- so they can show better ads, or build better internet connected night vision Glasses

Ads and Analytics on Twitter is a lovely platform #ads #twitter #ipo #analytics #socialmedia

I really liked the simplicity and design of the Ads Platform in Twitter.

You can visit it here- https://ads.twitter.com

There are two options- either promote your tweet or promote your account

You pay only if the tweet gets an activity (retweet,favourite,reply,follow) or if you get a new follower.

That is an innovative breakthrough in social networks marketing.

Now if only Google Plus and LinkedIn network showed more such options- I would love to promote my blog on Google Plus- but I am not sure on the options.

I also like the simple design that Twitter Ads offers. I do think an initial free $5 for some accounts should help kickstart this adaptation in a much bigger way. The recommended keywords is designed very nicely and subtly. You can click on screenshots for a better look (links have been updated)

Once you finalize your campaign- you should see a campaign dashboard.

You can also click on the Analytics tab on the top of campaign dashboard and see your own activity, thus adding to social media analytics options. Here it is more of a series of screenshots that is supposed to act as a mini- tutorial to make you familiar with the paltform.

Installing the book (SVMono) class in Lyx

Start Lyx
Your user directory can be got from looking at Help (last tab top -right)> About Lyx ( For Windows this can be AppData – to find AppData put %appdata% at cmd line – or using windows button and R to run it – something like C:\Users\dell\AppData\Roaming\LyX2.0)
Download SVMono class from SVMono
Unzip all the files into the layouts folder of your User Directory (step1)
Go to Lyx- Tools (second last tab-top right-) Reconfigure
Close Lyx
Start Lyx again
Lyx (Documents (third last tab -top right ) Preferences- select Sv Mono as document class

References-

http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Layouts

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/UserDir

Thoughts on Soft Ware and Soft Vapour

Interfaces for software, hardware,design and products evolve as technology enables better materials and more efficient consumption. The basic handicap though remains that humans do not evolve, at least not noticeable to themselves
Human psychology continues to play a key role in marking success and failure of technological adoption. This includes the paradigms of loss aversion and being prone to logical fallacies in arguments put forward in advertising by fellow humans.
What is easier? To create a better machine for a man. To train a man to be better at the machine. Often it is a mixture of both. Both have multiple costs and benefits to various agency players including incumbent corporations , challenger innovators, countries, regions and trade zones and environment.
The practice of shipping code with an impatience of making up metrics alongside evolving industries causes dishonesty among interested stakeholders
There are some things that can not be explained unless the receiver is trained to think along different paradigms than he has been used. The altered state of consciousness however is almost never credibly reversible.
Information processing is the drug, not information itself.
A Feedback loop is simple to construct with the results and errors flowing into inputs and next iteration processing. A Feedback loop is tough to sell to your own team , sometimes! Feedback loops are also inevitably gamed sometimes! By people of course