Category: Technology

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Lawrence Liang’s Speech at JNU Alternative Classroom – Annotated

Lawrence Liang legal researcher, lawyer and co founder of the Alternative Law Forum based in Bangalore. He is known for his legal campaigns on issues of public concern. Picture of Lawrence is by Joi Ito is distributed under CC BY 2.0. He recently lectured at JNU Alternative Classroom. It was a brilliant lecture...

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Localization Lab @ IFF

I love spreading a word about good tools. There are at least a dozen of tools that I use that I want everyone I know to use. That said most of these tools are not easy to use and/or not in a language which is accessible to all. One way to cut that...

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Book: The Einstein Theory of Relativity

The quote that “there are only twelve people in this world who understand Einstein’s Theory” surely is not true. But I am sure there are only twelve people in this world who can explain it like I am five twelve years old. Hendrik Antoon Lorentz who is credited with with sharing the development...

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Geocaching, The Intersection and OpenPostBox

I appeared(?) on the Intersection podcast to talk about Geocaching. Geocaching is a real world treasure hunt using GPS enabled devices. The podcast itself was about IRNSS (Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System) by ISRO. Its GPS like navigation system for Indian subcontinent. Just like GPS, IRNSS is supposed to provide open to public...

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All new OpenPostbox.org and The Karnataka Philatelic Society

Members of Karnataka Philatelic Society meet every first Sunday of the month at GPO, Bangalore. They invited me this time to come and talk about OpenPostbox. It was an awesome group to talk. It wasnt difficult to convince them to contribute. Members have already started sending me pictures of postboxes. I will have...

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Creating web maps from Python

In my work flow I generally use JavaScript to do graphs and maps. That’s because most of my work lives online. But before I get to map or graph I will have to do quite a bit of work in python. Which means a lot of work in python and then a bit...