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Virtual Reality

Which do you remember better – the city in the chapter on geography that you read just last week, or the location of the vacation that you took many months back? I bet it is the vacation! The reason for this is … Continue reading

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Waterfall performance management in agile organizations!

As software engineers, we do not realize it but we live and operate in a weird world, very different from that of our colleagues in sales or marketing or even our engineering colleagues say in manufacturing. We grapple with a … Continue reading

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Smart Glasses

Last week we  looked into augmented reality or AR. In AR, a user could point their phone camera onto a scene and look at their screen and see not just what the camera saw, but also also other things which … Continue reading

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Interviewing

It is no secret that hiring good talent in general is hard, and good software engineers is especially hard. Here are some of my thoughts on the subject of interviewing? Candidate Screening The real challenge with candidate screening is that … Continue reading

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Augmented Reality

Notice anything weird about the image below? Normally when you point your cellphone camera on an object, the cellphone screen shows you exactly what is in front of it. However in the image below, rather than see just a black … Continue reading

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Why did Zeo fail?

The news is out – the sleep coach company Zeo is shutting its doors. There has been a lot of discussion about the possible causes – hopefully the founders will do a blog post with a postmortem so that the … Continue reading

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R Tutorial

I have long been meaning to find an alternative to Matlab. I looked at Octave, but it failed on some pretty basic stuff like reading an image. R is something I have heard a ton about, and finally got down … Continue reading

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Hobby Servo Motors

Control There are two sorts of motor control: Position Control – In position control, one attempts to control the angular position of the motor shaft. I.e. if you command the motor to move to a position, it moves to that position … Continue reading

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