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Author Archives: Siva
Does Crowdsourcing Solve Big Data Problem?
Say there is a system that allows everyone to submit their own ideas for new products and people can vote which of those ideas are best. The top ideas are decided by the entire userbase and not by a few … Continue reading
Reduce (the Order) or Map/Reduce?
Recently there was an interesting Problem on Project Euler, Problem 415 called Titanic Sets. The problem essentially asks for how many sets are possible from a lattice grid of GxG points such that the sets have only two co-linear points. … Continue reading
Car Performance
This is the 4th post related to my car buying experience. The previous one was Buying a new car. As I mentioned, my first criteria was a Hybrid. Hybrid cars give a good MPG and that’s attractive to some of … Continue reading
Buying A New Car
As I mentioned in my previous post, I recently bought a new car. I am one of those people who is not really good at haggling. Infact, in this day of the Internet age (I think we need to rewrite … Continue reading
CT 200h
About two months back I wrote about hybrid car savings. That was around the time I actually thought of getting a new car and was researching on getting a regular car vs a hybrid. I finally ended up getting the … Continue reading
The truth about the truth tables
In my previous post Learning Mathematics I mentioned how I wished I was told some practical uses of advanced mathematical entities such as polynomials and matrices. In this section I am going to talk about truth tables. Actually, I am … Continue reading
Why is NetSuite more globally followed than Salesforce & Workday?
In my previous posts on deducing the global presence of a company from it’s social network part 1 and part 2 I presented data for Salesforce and Workday. English speakers predominantly dominated in both cases making the rest of the … Continue reading
Should CEOs be following their company twitter account?
In this 8th post on Social Network Intelligence, I want to ask an interesting question. Should CEOs of the companies spend time following their corporate twitter accounts? Does it add any value to the company? Is it going to take … Continue reading
Deducing global presence from social network – part 2
In earlier post we talked about how the language of the twitter followers can be used to deduce global presence. We also discussed how it will not give a complete picture because many people may give English as their language … Continue reading
Stacking Coupons On Top Of Existing Sales
When buying stuff online and going through the checkout process, on the billing section there is typically a Promo Code/Coupon box. I think this prompts people to start wondering if they are missing some deals. At least it does to … Continue reading