What is Machine Learning and how to get started

Posted on March 7, 2016 by shuntzblog

In layman’s language, Machine Learning as the name suggests, involves “making the machine learn”.

Learn what?
Learn the decisions to be taken on a particular case, just like humans do. Hence, Machine Learning is a branch of Artificial Intelligence.

Learn How?
How do humans learn something?
By practice, i.e by applying your knowledge many times on different cases.

Imagine you’ve joined Tennis coaching classes. Your coach tells the assistant coach shoot balls at you in different directions and with different speeds. He spins the ball sometimes. He might also shoot the ball at you in ways which is rare. For every ball thrown at you, the coach tells you to hit the ball in a particular way. Maybe for a straight shot with less speed he will tell you to hit it towards the opponents net, while away from the nets for some other shot. In this way you’ll keep practicing on various shots and learn tennis one day. After you’ve learnt tennis, you’ll be able to hit the ball without the help of your coach.

Now,
You- Learning Model
Assistant Coach- Training Data
Coach- Decisions on Training Data

After Learning,
You- Trained Model able to take decisions on Test Data

In machine learning, we give the algorithmic model some training data which already has the decisions taken. The model learns from the data using the algorithm. Next time when you give the model an unknown case, it will make the decision.

There are various ways through which you can learn machine learning, but I think taking this Stanford MOOC by Andrew Ng will be the most helpful way. Apart from being the most popular MOOC, it covers all the topics in Machine Learning with informative videos. It also has multiple quizzes and programming assignments to test what you’ve learnt. Machine Learning – Coursera Machine Learning

You’re gonna love Machine Learning 🙂

– Aditya Awalkar

BIG DATA- WHAT it is and WHY it matters !

Posted on May 13, 2015 by shuntzblog

Big data is a popular term used to describe the exponential growth and availability of data, both structured and unstructured.

Big Data originally emerged as a term to describe datasets whose size is beyond the ability of traditional databases to capture, store, manage and analyze. However, the scope of the term has significantly expanded over the years. Big Data not only refers to the data itself but also a set of technologies that capture, store, manage and analyze large and variable collections of data to solve complex problems.

Data is emerging as the world’s newest resource for competitive advantage.As the value of data continues to grow, current systems won’t keep pace.

Big Data is projected to be a $28.5 billion market in 2014, growing to $50.1 billion in 2015 according to Wikkbon.

Big Data Technologies

NoSQL databases
MapReduce
Hadoop
WibiData
MongoDb
Cassandra

Applications of Big Data

Big data analysis played a large role in Barack Obama’s successful 2012 re-election campaign.

Big data analysis was, in parts, responsible for the BJP and its allies to win a highly successful Indian General Election 2014.

Determine root causes of failures, issues and defects in near-real time, potentially saving billions of dollars annually.

A number of cities are currently piloting big data analytics with the aim of turning themselves into Smart Cities, where the transport infrastructure and utility processes are all joined up. Where a bus would wait for a delayed train and where traffic signals predict traffic volumes and operate to minimize jams.

Improving Sports Performance: Most elite sports have now embraced big data analytics. The IBM SlamTracker tool for tennis tournaments uses video analytics that track the performance of every player in a football or baseball game, and sensor technology in sports equipment such as basket balls or golf clubs allows us to get feedback.

E-Commerce: eBay.com uses two data warehouses at 7.5 petabytes and 40PB as well as a 40PB Hadoop cluster for search, consumer recommendations, and merchandising.

Improving Security and Law Enforcement: National Security Agency (NSA) in the U.S. uses big data analytics to foil terrorist plots (and maybe spy on us). Others use big data techniques to detect and prevent cyber attacks. Police forces use big data tools to catch criminals and even predict criminal activity and credit card companies use big data use it to detect fraudulent transactions.

Improving Science and Research: CERN data center has 65,000 processors to analyze its 30 petabytes of data. It uses the computing powers of thousands of computers distributed across 150 data centers worldwide to analyze the data.

Improving Healthcare and Public Health: The computing power of big data analytics enables us to decode entire DNA strings in minutes and will allow us to find new cures and better understand and predict disease patterns.

Google Flu Trends uses aggregated Google search data to estimate flu activity.

AND

BUSINESS ANALYTICS – This is perhaps the most important reason why Big Data is so valuable. Big Data Models and algorithms help to make decisions involving profit of million dollars.

Job Scope in Big Data Field

New skills are needed to fully harness the power of big data.Though courses are being offered to prepare a new generation of big data experts, it will take some time to get them into the workforce.

Gartner finds that by 2015, the demand for data and analytics resources will reach 4.4 million jobs globally, but only one-third of those jobs will be filled. The emerging role of data scientist is meant to fill that skills gap.

Big Data experts are paid lucratively.Data scientists are some of the most expensive and coveted professionals around today.

Qualified big data analysts command impressive salaries. Someone right out of school can earn $125,000, while someone with a year or two of experience and a demonstrated skill set can easily make double that.

The Sexiest Job of the Century- Data Scientist

Here are the top two highest paying jobs in USA: (Source: Mashable)

1. Data Scientist | $150,000 | Seattle, Washington

2. Data Engineer | $148,000 | Mountain View, California

Video: Big Data

– Aditya Awalkar, ShunTz

Windows 10

Posted on November 30, 2014 by shuntzblog

Windows 10 represents the first step of a whole new generation of Windows. Windows 10 unlocks new experiences for customers to work, play and connect.

Compatible Devices

Windows 10 will be for tablets, smartphones and embedded products, too.It will run on the broadest types of devices ever, from the smallest ‘Internet of things’ device to enterprise data centers worldwide. Some of these devices have 4-inch screens, and some will have 80-inch screens, while some don’t have any screen at all.”

The Start Menu

Windows 10 combines familiarity of Windows 7 with the modern interface of Windows 8. The menu is split: On the left, apps are displayed in the familiar Windows 7 style, while on the right are more colorful live tiles that open the modern, Windows 8-style apps. In addition to this, the start menu has customization enabled, so you can re-size the tiles and move them around, and make the start menu tall and thin or long and flat.

Virtual Multiple Desktops

This is the most exciting and alluring feature of windows 10. Create desktops for different purposes and projects and switch between these desktops easily and pick up where you left off on each desktop.You can also have multiple desktop configurations open and switch between them. So if you have two apps on the screen for a particular task, sized just how you want them, and then you change to some other apps, you’ll be able to get back to those first apps easily without having to re-size them again. You can navigate through several of these desktop displays at the bottom of the screen.

Snap Augmentation

Windows 10 allows four apps snapped on the same screen with a new quadrant layout. It will also show other apps and programs running for additional snapping and even make smart suggestions on filling available screen space with other open apps.

Layout

With Windows 10, the familiar “windows” metaphor is back; you’ll be able to re-size the new-style apps and drag them around the screen like an old Win32 app. Apps from the Windows Store now open in the same format that desktop apps do and can be re-sized and moved around, and have title bars at the top allowing for maximize, minimize, and close with a click. If you’re using an older Win32-style app, it will be able to “snap into place” and fill all the available screen space just like the modern apps.

Windows 10 has a feature like OS X’s Mission Control that lets you zoom out and see everything that’s open on a PC, then select any app to enter it.

There’s a new task-view button on the taskbar for quick switching between open files and quick access to any desktops you create.

It will be touch enabled, so you’ll still be able to use touch to do things like scroll and pinch-to-zoom on laptops and desktops.

Charms Bar

Windows 10 brings down the mini Charms Menu from the top left corner of an app.This has the three dots that give you any extra commands, now clearly labelled as App Commands, the Search, Share and Settings charms that are usually on the Charms bar, plus other useful commands like Play, Print and Project, plus the option of running the app Full Screen.

The Command Prompt

If you’re a programmer, then this feature will surely delight you. In Windows 10, you can change the size of the command prompt window. In addition to this, you can finally use familiar keyboard shortcuts to select a line or a word at a time, and to copy and paste text.

Video : Introducing Windows 10

-Aditya Awalkar, ShunTz

Kickstart HTML

Posted on September 21, 2014 by shuntzblog

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Google’s Revolutionary Unique Projects

Posted on May 9, 2014 by shuntzblog

Google likes to work on things that no one else is working on. If run well, Google CEO Larry Page sees corporations like Google as being an agent for change. Google has already changed the way we acquire information with Search. It’s changed how we consume media content with the Chromecast and it’s already changing how we consume information with Glass.
Google is also known for its moonshot lab, where it works on experimental products that may or may not come to fruition.

Google’s Driverless Cars

Thanks to Google’s driverless car experiment, we may be on the verge of reducing the number of traffic fatalities a year. The cars have already been able to master driving on freeways, but Google has since announced that its test cars can handle city streets with pedestrians.

Flying Bikes

Google CEO Larry Page has even thought about creating aerial bikeways with the hopes of encouraging more people to bike. “It looks totally crazy,” Page said it in a recent TED talk. Google isn’t working on that particular thing,”but it gets your imagination going.”

Internet Balloons

Project Loon is Google’s attempt to bring internet access to the entire world . The goal is to use these balloons to provide internet access to the two-thirds of the world living without it.

Modular Smartphones

Project Ara is the search giant’s ambitious modular smartphone concept designed exclusively for 6 billion people. With Ara, people can customize basically every aspect of their smartphone.

Google Glass

Google Glass is bringing humans closer to technology than even before. This year, Virgin Atlantic began testing the use of Glass as a means of checking in passengers at the airport.

Gigabit Internet Speed

Google Fiber aims to provide Gigabit internet speeds. Google’s ultra-high speed internet service Fiber could allow us to consume information at speeds never seen before.

– Aditya Awalkar, ShunTz

Your time is li…

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Posted on April 3, 2014 by shuntzblog

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other opinions drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
-STEVE JOBS

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Kickstart C

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What is ShunTz ?

Posted on January 14, 2014 by shuntzblog

Shuntz came into existence with a small talk between 12th standard students aiming CET ,AIEEE , IIT, AIMS exams (which currently are doing Engineering & MBBS from various reputed colleges ), As how they studied their 8th & 9th standard under some local tuition in their areas which themselves have no idea of the subject but just read the books and ask us to mug up the concepts ,this leads to a very weak foundation and thus results in not only low score in 10th ,11th,12th,competitive exams but this comes out as a very big problem lifetime and specially
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People Often Run For ‘Marks’… True.. But We Also Often Forget That Knowledge And Its Application Plays Very Important Role In Our Jobs.
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Posted on January 11, 2014 by shuntzblog

Education is big part of knowledge economy because currency in knowledge economy is having good ideas. And training the next generation to do that is one of the most important things we’re doing.
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