For the past four months, I’ve been busy at work completing a major release in our algorithmic distribution platform that blends the use of LLMs and traditional machine learning. I’ll publish more about the release on the Times Internet LinkedIn blog soon. A recurring theme in this release was the cognitive dissonance between data scientists…
We survived Part 1 of the modern communication crisis—people not reading our messages properly. But what happens when they do read our messages and still manage to confuse, annoy, or terrify us? Welcome to the sequel: the land of blue ticks, vanishing dots, and one-word replies. Let us take a look at each of these…
Multiple Times, we can find ourselves in a situation where we are doing a task / or we have to do a task, and our will power gets checked and tested. Starting and taking up a task might seem not so difficult, but as we get into it, in order to complete any task in…
The scientific peer review system, long considered the backbone of research quality control, is showing signs of serious strain. Editors and authors alike report mounting difficulties in finding qualified reviewers. A recent study noted that fewer than half of invited reviewers now accept invitations, lengthening the review process and adding to editorial workloads. One editor…
…Why can’t we? TOI’s Christie-in-India story is a reminder how we do disservice to India’s vernacular crime fiction Agatha Christie’s fiction gives one a sense that she travelled lots. And she did. For example, in… Source link
On preserving the multi-lingua franca of Bengaluru Cities speak. Some in a single tongue, others in several. Bengaluru has always belonged to the second kind. I’m a thoroughbred Bengalurean. My mother, her parents, and theirs were born here. Kannada is our mother tongue. But growing up here, you’d often hear a sentence begin in Kannada,…
The first time the shoulder dislocates is memorable. It hurts. What to do? The upper end of the arm (the humerus) sits in a shallow socket (the glenoid). It is held there by a circular ring of tissue (ligament labrum complex), similar to a gasket in a hose. When torn, it permits the humerus to…
Our lives in India were perfectly paced until the year 1983. This is the year when the revolutionary word “Instant” hit India in a yummy way, and we never looked back since then. Yes, this was the year when the famous instant two-minute noodle was launched in India. Anything slow, gradually became out fashioned; and…
Hindi Pakhwara (Hindi Fortnight) is observed in the Indian Navy (Bhartiya Nau Sena) and all central and state government offices and establishments each year from 14 September (Hindi Day) to 28 September. During this period, various programmes and events are conducted to promote Hindi such as debate, essay, slogan writing, short story writing, poetry writing,…
By Jug Suraiya When we think of the environment, we think of the world out there, and for the majority of us, that world out there is of increasing concern because of the jeopardy it faces through our interaction with it. In pursuit of what we deem to be progress, we have darkened the skies…
