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by vivek_v
12 Aug 2017 09:41
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Be Indian Buy Indian
Replies: 176
Views: 38371

Re: Be Indian Buy Indian

LG launched the Q6 today. Needed to replace my current phone. Ideally, would have gone to for Xiaomi phone (Redmi note or something like that) but bought the LG Q6. It's not much but it's a start. Q6 looks pretty nice and Amazon gives an additional 3000 rupees over and above the exchange price. Wil...
by vivek_v
11 Jul 2017 07:25
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: GST - Discussion on all Aspects
Replies: 772
Views: 235791

Re: GST - Discussion on all aspects.

If its a fresh lime juice, there should be no tax whatsoever. If it is a fresh lime soda, there just may be GST on the soda part. Sir, I checked with my local hotels. Their bone of contention is that while most of the items which they buy have no input tax (food items), they are forced to charged @...
by vivek_v
04 Jul 2017 19:24
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: GST - Discussion on all Aspects
Replies: 772
Views: 235791

Re: GST - Discussion on all aspects.

@JayS. Thank you, it's much clear now. Basically, it seems that everyone out to increase prices qoting GST but pocketing the profits.

I hope that government acts and does not provide ammunition to the opposition since the common man would not really understand the nuances of the same.
by vivek_v
04 Jul 2017 16:45
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: GST - Discussion on all Aspects
Replies: 772
Views: 235791

Re: GST - Discussion on all aspects.

............................Its the Service Tax which was 14+1=15%. But due to abatement it would be effective 6-7% for non-AC and 12% for AC restaurants (may not be exact numbers but thereabout) on the base price................... Ideally speaking, considering earlier "ST+VAT + excise duty +...
by vivek_v
04 Jul 2017 15:34
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: GST - Discussion on all Aspects
Replies: 772
Views: 235791

Re: GST - Discussion on all aspects.

i have read in KAR, under some scheme the darshinis were liable to less tax..something like you mentioned. Yes, you are correct 2.5% TN VAT has become 18%. It makes no sense to tax staple diet from hotels like Idly, Dosa, Vada ..etc and junk foods like Pizza, Burgers..etc in the same bracket. A lot...
by vivek_v
04 Jul 2017 15:08
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: GST - Discussion on all Aspects
Replies: 772
Views: 235791

Re: GST - Discussion on all aspects.

I do not have the exact numbers but veg restaurants in Chennai like A2B/Hotchips used to give 2%-4% tax on the bill (or) some very negligible amount. The Pizza's/MCD's of the world used to have something close to 20% tax (I think). Now everyone is charging 18% which is a difference of close to 14%-1...
by vivek_v
20 Jun 2017 22:12
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 1372
Views: 445647

Re: Indian IT Industry

@NRao sir, please don't get me wrong but I am not very clear on what you are trying to convey by quoting my reply. I have been using DL for some time now though __not__ as anyone who was created new architectural papers or new forms of normalisation/networks but speaking as a user of these technique...
by vivek_v
20 Jun 2017 09:13
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 1372
Views: 445647

Re: Indian IT Industry

......................................................................... would the tcp congestion avoidance mechanisms be called AI? .............................................................. I would not call it AI. Also, I am not sure what rules engines are being used with either Machine lear...
by vivek_v
14 May 2017 15:34
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 1372
Views: 445647

Re: Indian IT Industry

How much of this is due to your first two reasons? So, essentially, take out the first two and what would remain in the third? It's like three faces to a triangle if you remove two faces there won't be a traingle. Having very little data would cause the models to get extremely overfitted unless you...
by vivek_v
14 May 2017 10:42
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 1372
Views: 445647

Re: Indian IT Industry

Nothing in "AI" is new, everything is pretty much from the 80s. The main diff is "speed" - faster CPUs, networks, larger-faster-cheaper memories, etc, etc, etc. The foundation of "AI" cannot really change. Three major things according to me personally caused the sudden...
by vivek_v
12 May 2017 06:44
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 1372
Views: 445647

Re: Indian IT Industry

Has anybody seen AI in action in the IT field? IBM Watson or anything anywhere? What kind of jobs is it supposed to do and replace? When is the expected time of deployment in large scale across the industry? IBM Watson is not particularly good in the one place I have seen. Predicting cricket scores...
by vivek_v
10 May 2017 20:11
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 1372
Views: 445647

Re: Indian IT Industry

>DigiKey/Mouser order would be overnight shipping in USA so khan and taiwan have local manufacture for IoT parts or they have large distributors who ship and pre-cache all parts from panda for local overnight shipping? how do they handle prototypes which need to be custom made - do they have local ...
by vivek_v
10 May 2017 11:50
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 1372
Views: 445647

Re: Indian IT Industry

^^ Difficulties in India? Which means if someone were to put up a venture that caters to Indian pricing would thrive? No? Personally, nothing like driving to the local electronics market, picking up spares to put together your weekend project to begin with. ...................................... In...
by vivek_v
10 May 2017 11:33
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 1372
Views: 445647

Re: Indian IT Industry

Unfortunately true. ............................ Having said that, IoT is too vast a field to left alone for the Chinese and there is no reason not to venture in it for high end concepts. Roy Sir, we are in extremely high-end IOT design space. Again, what is IOT could be open for debate but this pr...
by vivek_v
10 May 2017 10:54
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 1372
Views: 445647

Re: Indian IT Industry

well then the trick is to make import and export of such prototype low volume hw pieces really easy... there must be plenty of embedded design shops in japan/soko/taiwan/usa/germany who import produce from china. how do they manage? Leaving exotic Chinese things (say a weird translator/bridge IC or...
by vivek_v
10 May 2017 06:26
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 1372
Views: 445647

Re: Indian IT Industry

FOSS gurus who can glue together a pipeline of 10 sw to get a enterprise workflow done on the cheap are valued. rest are shown the door. I agree, especially for greenfield deployments. Also, More than the cost, the turnaround time with these FOSS tools is just remarkable. If not for Android, I woul...
by vivek_v
03 May 2017 09:40
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 1372
Views: 445647

Re: Indian IT Industry

ML and Deep learning cannot replace humans not at the level being talked about..........me a single example of ML solution which can truly replace a skilled human in IT. I never meant to imply that ML or DL is going to replace humans in IT or we will build Skynet/Commander Data. From my experience ...
by vivek_v
03 May 2017 08:21
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 1372
Views: 445647

Re: Indian IT Industry

A long post, but having worked both in Massa land, Desh , short stints in Panda land and nearby areas, I believe the actual truth is somewhere in between. One thing which cannot be disputed is that India is cheap for IT like how panda land is close to unbeatable for manufacturing. Doing all the soft...
by vivek_v
03 Feb 2017 09:21
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 1372
Views: 445647

Re: Indian IT Industry

As long as their company has a branch office in India and they are in technical roles then it should not be an issue and could try to weather the storm in US itself. The problem would be with engineers who are in a client facing roles and for whom there is no branch office back in India. I am really...
by vivek_v
26 Jan 2017 07:44
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
Replies: 6030
Views: 1223518

Re: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion

....... There would also be a decent number of Indians willing to pay a tad more to avoid a painful and time-consuming connection in the ME. In a 1.3 Billion people country, it has to be possible to fill one plane of 300 passengers every day from Mumbai to Newark or Bengaluru to San Francisco non-s...
by vivek_v
21 Jul 2015 18:17
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Roads Thread
Replies: 3345
Views: 711490

Re: Indian Roads Thread

Taxi Mafia attacks self-drive vehicle convoy in Ladakh, hurts three tourists, damages vehicles I don't know if the peaceful community is involved here, but some thing is wrong in Leh-Ladakh regions as well. With lots of people now owning vehicles and preferring self-drives, the taxi driver gangs se...
by vivek_v
09 Jan 2015 07:31
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 3916
Views: 592613

Re: Indian IT Industry

so overall, the era of getting by with just learning some pkgs is perhaps ending.....concepts have become very important. I doubt the most talent driven smaller cos care which branch you did as long as you meet their criteria. True. Fundamental understanding of concepts and the ability to adapt the...
by vivek_v
07 Jan 2015 14:43
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 3916
Views: 592613

Re: Indian IT Industry

Yep, It is always painful trying to explain on why I prefer to be in a product design house (or even be in India) than TCS/Infy but everyone always used to feel that I am not "capable" enough to get in and rejecting TCS offer (fresher days, a decade ago) was the biggest mistake of my life ...
by vivek_v
07 Jan 2015 14:01
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 3916
Views: 592613

Re: Indian IT Industry

@Chandra ..well said, though I doubt 50% of startups would make it to $1 Million space. I wish your start-up all the very best and hope that yours would make it to the $100 million mark. I guess the main reason why people equate Indian IT= TCS/INFY et al is due to sheer size and volume of these behe...
by vivek_v
07 Jan 2015 12:30
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 3916
Views: 592613

Re: Indian IT Industry

@saravana, I guess bloggers and even some in in BR easily say to upgrade one skills like it is reading a 'C' book or something. With all these parallel computing/big data/cluster/analytics, every stuff is very complicated and at-least for me tends to shake my basic fundamentals every-time. To given ...
by vivek_v
07 Jan 2015 10:21
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 3916
Views: 592613

Re: Indian IT Industry

@KJo. "Nothing good" comes out of India is probably a blanket statement. Quite a few captive MNC's does do cutting edge product research in India and are quite successful in that regard. I myself belong in one :(( The main issue is on vast majority of cases (say like TCS) here is that due ...
by vivek_v
19 Dec 2014 17:35
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 3916
Views: 592613

Re: Indian IT Industry

@Singha Same here. Never thought the Discreet math, Linear algebra, Design and Analysis of algorithm paper and Machine learning was so useful. Realized it 7 years late and needed to re-read the whole thing again. At-least if i had read all those properly during graduate days, would have got better g...
by vivek_v
19 Dec 2014 07:25
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 3916
Views: 592613

Re: Indian IT Industry

Probably OT but If one actually wants to learn algorithms in any depth then Robert Sedgewick's algorithms in Java would be a good book to start since it has lesser amount of math. If one really wants to push into Bigdata analytics, Supervised/unsupervised ML (and can digest the math) then books like...
by vivek_v
13 Oct 2014 14:19
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: West Asia News and Discussions (YEMEN, gulf)
Replies: 4734
Views: 645814

Re: West Asia News and Discussions

Apache's are too risky to be employed in ISIS areas in Syria. Possibly A-10 could be thought of to provide some form of CAS to the Kurds but I guess by the time POTUS decides it would be too late for the Kurds. ME is definitely doomed.
by vivek_v
24 Sep 2014 11:04
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Health Care Sector
Replies: 1211
Views: 223201

Re: Indian Health Care Sector

The cost for vaccinating a 6 month old kid apparently costs Rs 7,000 in India. Does the govt give free vaccines for people? MMR, Polio(this one is, we all know), HepB etc? To the best of my knowledge there are two types of vaccines in India which are a) Normal syringe type a.k.a painful type. These...
by vivek_v
17 Jul 2014 20:37
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
Replies: 6030
Views: 1223518

Re: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion

Another Malaysian airline has crashed near Ukraine-Russia border. Probbaly brought down by some SAM's ? Too bad Malaysian airlines seems to have a string of bad lucks.
by vivek_v
19 Feb 2014 17:28
Forum: BR Nostalgia Archive
Topic: AP Politics and runup to 2014 General elections
Replies: 5848
Views: 543494

Re: AP Politics and runup to 2014 General elections

I don't understand the comments on the anger towards the BJP, a) BJP always supported Telangana and as a principle supports creation of smaller states for better administration. It would have been funny if they did not support Telangana now for getting a few extra seats (with is also very hypothetic...
by vivek_v
31 Dec 2013 14:28
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: West Asia News and Discussions
Replies: 12577
Views: 1247374

Re: West Asia News and Discussions

Are the Saudi taking revenge on Russia through Non state actors for thier support to Assad? I feel that the bigger revenge is the $3 billion being given to Lebanon military for free to buy arms which would be directed against Hezbullah. Since Lebanon army is divided between every sect's , if Saudi'...
by vivek_v
22 Aug 2013 10:30
Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
Topic: Indian Economy - News & Discussion 27 May 2012
Replies: 3973
Views: 388428

Re: Indian Economy - News & Discussion 27 May 2012

God will force India to be a exporting country and will give stiff competition to PRC merchandise. Many external entities such as global bankers/G8 have the same goal to make sure PRC does not have a monopoly on global trade. The issue is that it is difficult to do any high-tech electronic in India...
by vivek_v
19 Jun 2013 08:57
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Education System
Replies: 3954
Views: 718360

Re: Indian Education System

freshers are desperately looking for any job. any walk-in interview in blr means a line about a 1 km long outside the place. you can see it yourself on any weekend morning near the IT offices. those with means are hoping to get a outlet through GRE. but millions are not so blessed. The issue with G...
by vivek_v
18 Apr 2013 13:54
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 3916
Views: 592613

Re: Indian IT Industry

...... For firms that employ 50 or more employees, depending on the percentage of their total workforce that are H-1B or L-1 employees, under the new system they would be liable to pay either $5,000 (30-50 per cent of existing employees with H-1B or L-1) or $10,000 (more than 50 per cent H1-B or L-...
by vivek_v
17 Apr 2013 19:43
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 3916
Views: 592613

Re: Indian IT Industry

@ Sriman: Thanks for the insights. It was very good. HCL has also posted a very good results. Around 73% increase in net profits. HCL might not be the size of Yamato but their results are impressive never the less. Then again HCL is seems to be running very tight in terms of headcount with net shedd...
by vivek_v
14 Apr 2013 12:28
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 3916
Views: 592613

Re: Indian IT Industry

All the talk of high end services is still a long way off from fruition. This applies to other companies as well. There is still money to be made traditionally (TCS is really superb here. They've nailed the staffing issue). Infy will be around. Might take a couple of years to fully recover but doom...
by vivek_v
12 Apr 2013 17:19
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 3916
Views: 592613

Re: Indian IT Industry

The most admired company seems to have posted poor results which has caused a blood bath in the market. Not sure what the problems is since others did post good results. Then again i am a Sergeant fighting in the trenches for a long time in a product based IT company and not an officer and hence i h...
by vivek_v
06 Mar 2013 16:59
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 3916
Views: 592613

Re: Indian IT Industry

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/start-us-on-our-promised-jobs-hcl-recruits-urge-firm/article4479649.ece Was reading the morning paper when i came across the above link. Looks like Freshers who did not clear the HCL's FRP test are being placed in HCL Infra and the disgruntled candidates ...