Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
Marvels of technology, I’m sitting here in Amtrak traveling to Vancouver, British Columbia while talking to a friend in England on skype with verizon wireless broadband connection, checking work emails and posting this entry in my weblog. The coast line is amazing; I found nature humbling me as its vast and pure, was here…
We're at Microsoft building 10 3240; awesome hi-tech campus.
I'm traveling Seattle, Victoria and Vancouver BC on the labor day weekend. Washington is beautiful; no wonder Microsoft select it as a place to make its software headquarters; right atmosphere, right light, right place to brainstorm to create software for world's market leader. I'll be visiting Microsoft Campus, seeing space needle, Pacific Science Center and…
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.“Christopher Morley American writer and editor 1890-1957 So I decided to read a Guid…
Rob Walling has posted an excellent article today “Using Technology to Fight Poverty” explaining his experiences of recent trip to Ghana. A must read for everyone who believes in “One does evil enough when one does nothing good.”
Mark Haddon's Curious incident of the dog in the night time is an excellent read (Thanks for the recommendation David!); I finished it couple of weeks ago and want to go back and re-read it. Its the story of autistic boy, Christopher John Francis Boone, which is not reinforcing the stereotype of the mathematically gifted social inadequate and…
Not much left to say about the following dialog box; leaving format specifier unpopulated. Where is the QA guy!
Nick calls it a digital leash but I love my new tech-toy; BlackBerry is a developer's dream come true. I can get app errors, process status and a whole lot of status when not around my machine. Also, I can surf slashdot while waiting in a queue at Fry's or KrispyKreme (they won't give you a donut with…
While back Lorry and I had a discussion about pH balance of tap water vs. bottled water. She thought that our fishes are having gill flukes due to acidity of water. Also, I shouldn't drink tap water since it has high concentration of ammonia and just general 'poop' in it. I doubted these allegations and we…
Windows Communication Foundation (formerly code name "Indigo") Road Show was an interesting event for developers; a good combination of little marketing and more drilled in code for windows communication foundation. In the Orange Coast College Costa Mesa, this event was presented by Ami Vora and Piyam Shodjai. In connection to Don Box's Tour of Indigo Team it was…