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Keto diet saved my life
Keto Saved My Life Most people would be embarrassed by the picture on the left. I was too. That picture was about 5 years old, and serves as a constant reminder of what a dangerous downward spiral I was on when it comes to health. Mind you, I was not doing anything “wrong” per conventional…
How to deactivate and delete your Twitter profile!!
Let’s admit it, Twitter was always a ticking time-bomb for most of us. In this age of instant outrage and cancel culture, we are only one tweet away from our personal and professional lives destroyed. What we may have said in the heat of the moment, a drunken “joke” could forever tarnish your image and…
Object Detection using YOLO V4 Darknet
What is object detection Bounding boxes mAP – Mean Average Precision Prediction Confidence Fast (er) R-CNN, HOG, SSD etc. YOLO is the most recent and most effective Prior to YOLO, object detection systems used classifiers or localizers to perform detection. Essentially, they would take an object from the list of classes, and they make several…
Why are the months September through December misaligned with the numbers they imply?
Why are the months September through December misaligned with the numbers they imply? Not many people think about this issue. We have always used the calendar without questioning it, and we have always known September as the ninth month, October as the tenth, November as the Eleventh, and of course December the twelfth. What seems…
Death of encryption, Thanks a lot Facebook.
Facebook has effectively ushered in the death of encryption. With device-level and at-client snooping to be enabled on Whatsapp, our communications will be only a few keystrokes away for the company. This would mean a government or legal agency could subpoena those comms or bring a warrant to access all of them. What this means…
Scammers exploiting unsuspecting users with Teamviewer
There is a flurry of scams perpetrated on unsuspecting people using the hugely popular tool Teamviewer. IF you are installing it on your friends or families’ computers, be aware that there are a bunch of scammers trying to exploit that.
Binaural audio!!
Most of the advancements in home entertainment have been with video. After the hugely successful 1080p/i format, it didn’t take long for TV manufacturers to up the ante with UHD and 4K. Even though the broadcasters haven’t kept up( none of the channels broadcast are in 4K), people went ahead and bought those TVs in…
Think like a freak: Sunk cost fallacy
I have always been a great fan of Michael Levitt’s book “Freakonomics”. In my early post-college years, it was one of the very few books which shocked my brain into looking at things in radically different perspectives. I have used that book as a guide post when faced with challenges in life and work, and…
Time for the southern states to rise up against Modi and his fascist government
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”The honeymoon is finally over for Modi”][vc_column_text]For four long years the entire southern India has endured Modi’s step-motherly treatment in terms of allocation of funds and infrastructure projects, and his heavy handed use of justice system as a tool to inflict political vendetta on regional leaders. Over these four years, South has received fewer…
Testing Oracle DRM Webservices with SoapUI
Oracle Data Relationship Manager ships with a robust webservice API which can be used to develop customised screens and workflows uisng Java. However, one of the first steps before embarking on that process is to deploy the DRM Webservice API onto Oracle Weblogic application server. Oracle have provided a very good tutorial on how to…