Thursday, April 23, 2009

New job profile for IT in India

Please decode all numbers in brackets in blue to their corresponding alphabets .
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
P Q R S T U V U W X Y Z
16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

Ever came across a job profile for IT like this?
Experience--10 years
Technology --Expert in JAVA
Ready to travel immediately
(18-5-12-9-7-9-15-15)-----(14-15-14-13-21-19-11-9-13)
May be you answered NO,but looks like not any more.
It is ridiculous and it hurts when ones 18-5-12-9-7-9-15-15 (or whatever you name it) comes in the way of profession.
As a pavid Kashmiri girl, I always wanted(and I still want to as I like traveling) to travel abroad and States was always my first choice.But with the passage of time , moved along the flow of life and the thought of traveling took a back seat.But recently, my work demanded me to go to States. That was really exciting as traveling is something I like.
The consul at Chennai consulate was a nice Caucasian. He asked me few questions-- Great so far! . But in a second,I found him frowning and he came up with words “Yours is a FUNNY little case and your case needs some administrative processing”.
Funny?Was my face funny? Was my nose funny? or Was I funny ? Naah! It was just that my name was funny and it kicked some part of his cerebrum to come with those funny words.It hurts and it pains to think that I can’t go to States(or I am supposed to wait for some months) because of my name(off course it in turn relates to something else.Great! if you understand that).I am temporarily sad about it.
Never mind,nothing is everlasting, so what if America is the most powerful country :)

Friday, April 10, 2009

Quiescently moving on a stright line

Ever since I joined Software company after graduating,I noticed a trend in myself-getting bored/frustrated after working on a project for a while.This I thought attribute to my lack of patience(less patience) but little did it made difference when I tried to be patient.This trend in me continues even after 3 and half years of workig experience in 'S/W companies'.Though I thought of writing about after such a long time,its only after a year that I realised,that its consequence of the following graph Well,this is too less learning in descent amount of time(considering other factors being optimal) and it really bothers me and haunts me all the time leading to boredom and frustration.Now what about the following graph Thought the difference between the two graphs is evident, there is one more factors which augments the second one and i.e "Learned What".Let me try to give an example.
Learned--

Transition from my scary world to Bangalore-y world

Please decode all numbers in brackets in blue to their corresponding alphabets .
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
P Q R S T U V U W X Y Z
16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26


(2-12-15-15-4-19-8-5-4), (6-9-18-10-14-7),(3-18-15-15-19-6-9-18-10-14-7),(12-1-20-8-9-3-8-1-18-7-5),(3-21-18-6-3-23),(3-15-18-4-15-14) are among the few words I learnt in my early childhood and are so blended in my life that their absence make s me feel unusual about the present but… its relieving.25 years have passed, the situation there remains the same and the same words welcome every newborn etching every fragile mind with the dirt that has poisoned the world today.My pair of eyes has seen (2-18-21-20-1-12-11-9-12-12-9-14-7-19), (2-15-13-2-19),(2-21-18-14-9-14-8-20-15-23-14) and what not.That picture never fades away from my mind and every time I think about it, a tear drop washes my anger away.
Being in Bangalore for about 7-8 years now has changed me as a person.When I first landed in Bangalore as a teenager, it really amazed me with so much of exposure, host of other things to see and learn, different kind of people around me. I remember something funny. One of my batch mates in freshman year was my room mate in our college hostel(She was bred in Dubai).It was pretty frequently she used to say ‘ I am going to cyber cafe’.I used to think what on earth can this ‘cyber cafe’ mean which sounded to me more like something related to space.So I once decided to go to her cyber café and to my surprise ‘cyber cafe’ meant ‘internet’.I had never used internet before.After that incident, everyday back from the college till late evenings I have spent time in internet café using it for everything but INFORMATION.
My 4 years of graduation went pretty well but had there been some mentor, some guide to direct me,I would have been able to do more than just my studies, perhaps like Sunayana (or may be I was not smart enough to get the things done on my own).whatever it is,I have changed(rather I had to change).Better late than never! behooves me.I will try to leverage the facilities and grab opportunities to make up for the lag and do something cooool!

Assumptions of linear regression

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