Memory Vials

A few years ago, if anyone had asked me that they had a requirement of identifying objects from the photographs, I would have probably thought of computer vision to accomplish that. The accuracy of the result would be highly dependent on the image quality, orientation, and presence of other objects in the picture. I would have thought of building a complete dataset of the possible combinations and it would have taken me weeks to even get started on something like OpenCV. The Technology Well, Google seems to have understood the pain behind writing an application from scratch for the identification and classification of images. While looking for a solution for the image classification problem, I came across Google's Cloud Vision - A web service Google has developed for this particular problem. It's a set of simple REST APIs which users can use to check what's in the image. Interestingly, they have provided a demo application on Google Cloud's homepage. All you have to do...

फेसबूक, गूगल, मोबाइल व टीव्ही शिवाय आपण जगू शकतो तरीही यांना बनवणारी मंडळी जगातील सर्वात श्रीमंत आहेत पण अन्नाशिवाय आपण जगू शकत नाही तरीही माझा शेतकरी फार गरीब आहे, असं का? पाणी आणि हवेशिवाय माणूस जगू शकत नाही तरीपण शुद्ध पाणी जास्तीत जास्त 20 रुपये लिटर तर हवा फुकट आणि सोने आणि चांदी खाता येत नाहीत तरीपण बहुमोल, असे का? असाच काहीसा तर्क आहे प्रश्नकर्त्याचा. वस्तूची किंमत उपयुक्तता, मागणी आणि पुरवठा या तत्वावर ठरते. पाणी उपयुक्त आहे, मागणी जास्त आहे पण पुरवठा देखील जास्त आहे त्यामुळे किंमत कमी. सोने उपयुक्त आहे, मागणी जास्त आहे पण पुरवठा कमी म्हणून किंमत जास्त. केशर उपयुक्त, मागणी कमी आणि पुरवठा त्याहून कमी त्यामुळे किंमत जास्त.करोना वायरस च्या काळात - चिकन उपयुक्त, मागणी कमी, आणि पुरवठा जास्त म्हणून किंमत कमी. [१] आता शेतमाल म्हणाल तर उपयुक्त आहे, मागणी जास्त आहे आणि पुरवठा देखील जास्त आहे त्यामुळे किंमती कमी. मागणी आणि पुरवठ्याचे प्रमाण व्यस्त झाले तर स्कॉर्पिओ मागे "ही कांद्याची कृपा" लिहिलेले देखील आपण पाहिले आहे. 'फेसबुक, गूगल यासारख्या कंपन्या उपयुक्त नाहीत' ही ...

Teaching aging parents to use smartphones can be extremely beneficial as well as joyful. I bought my mother a smartphone when she had no idea how to use it. I was skeptical at first but she started slowly picking up the phonebook, reading SMS and downloading play store apps. The real moment of joy was when she started using WhatsApp and sent a few messages to me and my sister. I added her to our cousins' group and she became the first senior of our family to join the young group. She would send those annoying forwarded   good morning and good night messages. Later I taught her how to type Marathi and she got hold of it without too much effort. She types faster than I do now. She now makes video calls to my sister on her own. She has recently started using youtube (though it's a pain to convince her that not everything on YouTube is true and there is no snake in the Himalayas with 5 heads though the video says so). She is now finishing her first ever digital book on her K...