As a data scientist, I often get asked about my personal thoughts on the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on future societies. Since AI has caught the public’s imagination in a major way after the release of ChatGPT, I figured this would be a good time to answer this question. …

Today the word “Bluetooth” is ubiquitous in the way we communicate between electronic devices. A large percentage of the world’s population owns at least a Bluetooth device, starting with humble headsets. Did you ever wonder where the name came from? The name has Viking origins from the king Harald Haraldr…

Decades from now, the two years of the post-COVID world 2021 and 2022, will be seen as watershed moments in Artificial Intelligence (AI). …

Decades from now, the two years of the post-COVID world, 2020 and 2021, would be seen as watershed moments in Artificial Intelligence (AI). …

Acharya Kanada, ancient Indian philosopher, imagined atoms ~2,500 years back and estimated it to be 7.2X10-⁸ meters — Acharya Kanada, also known as Kashyapa, an ancient Indian natural scientist and philosopher, formulated the theory of atoms 2500 years before John Dalton’s discovery. He founded the Vaisheshika school of Indian philosophy that epitomized the earliest Indian physics. …

2021 will see businesses embrace AI, not because they want to, but because they have to — Many years from now, 2020 would be seen as a watershed moment in AI. …

While India lags in the AI race compared to the USA and China, it can still craft its own unique story to build an AI future — Today, India lags behind in the AI race significantly compared to the US or China. Indian university or institutes are not yet top notch AI research entities, either measured by citations or other measures such as winning prestigious AI contests. …

Exploring the Planetary Nebulae — The “ Eye of God” or The Helix Nebula is a planetary nebula located in the constellation Aquarius, at about 650 light years from the Earth. Discovered by Karl Ludwig Harding in the early 19th century, Helix is one of the closest of all the bright planetary nebulae. …

The Hindu calendars have been in use in the Indian subcontinent since ancient times (from about 1000 BCE) and are used to determine the auspicious times for festivals such as Holi, Shivaratri, Pongal, Onam, Janmashtami, Durga Puja, Diwali and many others. But that’s only a calendar for humans. The calendar…