Vikas Damodaran

My thoughts on NEET paper fiasco and suggestions to address this ..

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Here is the Leader of the Opposition's response when asked about the heinous crime committed against the Kolkata doctor. Sooner or later, he will be on an expedition to India. Ask him a simple question: 'What matters more to you, the safety and security of Indian women, or your political aspirations? India's opposition parties are tight-lipped & silent about young doctor's horrific incident in West Bengal, primarily due to the political compulsion of having an alliance member in the West Bengal government. Leadership is oftentimes tested during a crisis. What you would have done if you were the Leader of the Opposition? #kolkatarapeandmurder #kolkatadoctor #crimeagainstwomen #supremecourt #ReclaimTheNight #GenderJustice #Kolkata #Safety #Doctors #Healthcare #India #Justice #Calcutta #WestBengal #IMA #Hospital #RGKar #Medical #MedicalCollege #Investigation #RGKarHospital #CBI #Gender #GenderViolence #Health #genderequality #WomenEquality #WomenEmpowerment #kolkataRapecase #WomenSafety #SC

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Most of you reading this post and especially in southern part of India, definitely you would watched or atleast heard about “Amaran” movie, a recent blockbuster in Tamil film industry. Well, this post is not about the movie or its story rather an interesting aspect to Data and Personal Privacy. A Chennai college student, was bombarded with unsolicited calls after his mobile number coincidentally matched heroine’s number portrayed in the film. He did filed a legal petition against the makers of the film and how far it went is unknown but the breach of personal privacy can’t be reversed ❌ When researched a bit, got to know that in India, the following number range is reserved for use in film and television productions. +91-9999xxxxxx +91-9876xxxxxx Similar regulations are found in other countries like U.S, Australia and Germany, providing a specific range of numbers for use in media and communications. It is always critical for all industries to follow and be aware of local regulations and policies in terms of usage of personal data, and Film industry is no exception 🎥 #dataprivacy #personalprivacy #regulations #policies #data

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Another great read on how CMMI positively impacts IT capabilities and performance. Love these two sentences in particular: "CMMI has become the go-to framework globally and in India as the tool that can both effectively solve problems that have traditionally plagued software development, as well as meet future requirements." "It has proven to be effective in driving significant growth for organizations, regardless of the specific performance objectives they choose to focus on. Organizations have achieved a wide range of advancements by targeting both specific enhancements and comprehensive improvements." https://lnkd.in/e8dDYCkm

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Amid US H1B visa delay, EB5 visas remain in high demand Obtaining an H1B visa from India is a significant challenge due to the high number of applicants versus available visas. This results in a high rejection rate. Amid such uncertainties, there is increasing interest in the EB-5 visa program among Indians. The EB-5 visa offers a path to permanent residency in the United States for foreign investors. It has its own requirements and limitations but provides a viable alternative for those who may not qualify for an H1B visa. How strong is the demand for EB-5 visas among Indians? U.S. Immigration Fund (USIF) reported a 400% rise in demand for EB-5 visas for Indian investors between 2016 and 2019. The program then lapsed during Covid, but now that it is back, applications have almost doubled from 2019 levels. Why is there a sudden uptick in demand for EB-5 visas among Indians? Nicholas A. Mastroianni, III, President and Chief Marketing Officer of USIF, cites several reasons. Firstly, the H1B program has become more restrictive, making it difficult for Indians to qualify. H1B workers are at the mercy of their employers and face uncertainty if they lose their job. The EB-5 program offers a more permanent solution, attracting more Indians. Another factor is the significant Indian population in the US. Many Indians on F1 student visas or H1B work visas see the EB-5 program as a chance to obtain permanent residency. Spouses of H1B workers often cannot work in the US, making the EB-5 program an attractive solution. Amid these uncertainties, the EB-5 program presents a promising alternative for those seeking permanent residency in the US. #h1bvisa #techhiring #staffing #ithiring #hr #staffing #eb5visa

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My #Nomination #journey:: Hope you excercised your #VOTE, shown your responsibility towards building better #india ! My learnings by standing in elections as #MP #MemberofParliament in #Elections2024 as follows: 1. Stand as Independent or on behalf of low profile(registered but not recognized) party- your expenses are on your shoulders - Including 25K, and minimal travel due to hot summary, costed around 50-60K, mostly depending on self-made #socialmedia #instagram #facebook #youtube 2. When you look around small profile parties - they are basically caste-based motives -goals of power, authority... Religion, Caste, Community - plays major role...but we have to go with our concrete and interesting vision for the country - https://lnkd.in/dQ6YvwBw 3. Major political recognized parties are less than 5 in number, in a given election, but registered and independent parties sums upto 20-40.. wondered why? some are placeholders of expenditure for Major political parties.. General limit was 95Lakhs INR for a party, but these guys put up literally hundreds of Crores in #campaign, #distribution, granting #communityhalls, building #swimmingpools #cricketgrounds... etc, so inorder to distribute the expenses in books, these small scale politicians expenditure books would help the major parties... 4. Also, as an evil strategy of some contestants... if one thinks certain religion,caste votes are polarizing aka "Uniting", then putting up same caste/religion would derail the other ones... 5. Finally, if one get lucky in political gambling, like in uninomous places, each contestant would get lot of money in the bargain by the Major party guy with a hook or crook! Other **interesting** observations are : 6. A lot of #PAPER is utilized for #Affidavits, #nominations, #internal #office.. oh.. you will see #HEAPS of paper by the #candidate and also by the #electionOffice @ECIVEEP... literally any #ecofriendly guy will #weep, get #nausea at the #wastage, where all it could have been #digitalized... We are #breathing still #1950's !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 7. When you go to #government #office, however #educated and #logical you are, you will be doomed by the #clerical #british #nature of the #office for #rules, #proforma, #fullstop #coma... its same case with #returningOfficer, they look like they dont want to change any #british #colonial #procedures... to scare the shit out of low profile #political #candidates 8. After filing #nomination, We had only 15days to #campaign in a large #MP constituency which contains atleast 4-5 #assembly #constituency. 9. Must have an 2-3 active #electionagent #support to visit the #MRO #collectorate on demand basis to visit and submit the #election #expenditures #books #tally, even for #pomphlets #distirbution #permission #digitalmedia permission... They says its all about the #seriousness of the #candidate..but I see it as a #PRORICH #policies...

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What could have been better at #ChiefElectionCommission #ECIVEEP ? 1. **REQUIRED**:: #innovation of #digitalsignatures to be used by #advocates #notaries #officials for #affidavits #nomination, #legalcontracts #law to #ZERO in the #paper #usage, especially incase of #elections so that it could be a #testimony for the #larger #office #documents 2. **REQUIRED**:: Not just #electronicVoting, We should try #anywhere #voting for #MLC #Municipal #elections to #test the #strategy... As #many #villagers #migrate to several #other #urban #metro #cities of #india....so, Travelling to their place, for example from #Chennai, #hyderabad, #Bangalore to #northIndia #cities like #Bihar #chattisgarh, #assam would require 4 days to travel back and forth.. as these guys are #peasants, they would not get any #leverage of #similar #leave from their #employment...Look at the #surge #demand #spike in #travel with #jampacked #buses #railways... #govt. unable to handle the #spike, not at all #scalable :( so #innovation towards #anywhere #voting, think #startups #enterprenurs 3. #Approvals of all #kindsofDocuments #documents #PDFs #expenditure, #digitalassets of #candidate should be for #ONLINE #review, so that #candidate or #electionagent need not #travel to #collectorate #office, to reduce their #expenses and Keep themselves as #cleanpolitician https://lnkd.in/duF-Zf9g 4. #selfdeclaration of #expenditure, for example, a #candidate declares he would limit to say 1-2lakhs INR for their #electioncampaign, #electioncommission should give #leverage of no-checks, no-documents to be for #auditing... There are #election #observers like #police #media can watch if they find any #discrepancy than the #declaration.. so that #electionprocedure is enable a #commonman of #middleclass, otherwise it tends to be #PRORICH process

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The Great Train Robbery - 2024 Edition = Recently a distant relative in India posted the following Facebook (or Fakebook) update: A new beginning: Go-Al Associate L2 at Amazon India Nearly hundred people rushed to congratulate her on securing this non technical job with Amazon India. I was intrigued and looked up the job to understand this post topic: The Great Train Robbery - 2024 Edition = So here is the job description of Go-Al Associate L2 at Amazon India The Associate in this role is required to watch the video of the stowing action at a fulfillment center, understand it thoroughly and make best use of human judgement in combination with the tools and resources to indicate the activity captured in the video. They are expected to verify or mark the location of product through a tool while maintaining highest level of accuracy. This process helps in maintaining the fulfillment center's stow quality. This is an operational role. Under general supervision, the Associate performs precise and thorough video/image annotations with high degree of accuracy and duration. The candidate is expected to demonstrate: • Commitment to meet deadlines • Constructive spirit of discontent & mental toughness • Pace of implementation & consistency in performance • Ability to Annotate video based Jobs for prolonged time • Ability to work with remote teams and exceptionally good team player About the team GO-AI provides human support to Amazon Fulfillment facilities with the goal of enabling hands-free active stowing through visual annotations on videos/images. Videos with a brief duration (typically between 15 and 20 seconds) are sent to GO-AI so that humans can annotate them with information on the products being stored at fulfilment centers. For business use, these videos need to be thoroughly reviewed and annotated using the best human judgement. The effectiveness of the automated process will be increased by using videos that GO-AI Associates have annotated. This process helps in maintaining stow quality at the fulfillment center. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - Bachelor's degree PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - Work a flexible schedule/shift/work area, including weekends, nights, and/or holidays I could not read any further ... = Now we are at the heart of this post: The Great Train Robbery - 2024 Edition This is how the train robbery is ongoing: Do dead end jobs with undergraduate education to train Machines with tedious 996 hours so that in a few years many jobs (such as stowing in a warehouse) can be done by machines flawlessly 24x7 at a much cheaper rate. If this is not a great robbery (2024 edition) then I do not know what is. When Indian Outsourcer Wipro or Infosys took a contract from The Walt Disney Company and in that contract outgoing displaced Disney Employees had to train their own replacement - it became a scandal. And this is not a scandal?? You may read the following book to understand this: Machines Learn and Humans Do Not

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The ultimate goal of investors and Big Tech transhumanist overlords is to replace humans as fast as possible and AI is the pathway to get there. In that pursuit, most humans will be relegated to this kind of roles generating data for AI model training. FSD is a good example. For a while I was baffled by the incessant push for FSD and hundreds of billions of dollars of investment, inspite of their unpopularity. Safety was touted as the main motivation. But that’s a red herring. Without the required autonomous AI technology, FSDs will never be safer than human driven automobiles. The real motivation is replacement of humans. #ai #automation #human #replacement #transhumaism #model #training

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Need more politicians with such clarity of thoughts... a must watch video

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Building an ecosystem for food and grocery delivery is a highly complex and challenging endeavor, one that only a few have successfully achieved on a global scale. Instead of focusing solely on criticizing new achievements, it’s essential to recognize the progress made and take a constructive approach to address any issues or shortcomings. Countries like the United States have faced significant challenges in establishing such delivery systems despite their technological advancements and resources. This highlights just how impressive it is for us to have developed and implemented these systems in our country. Rather than pointing out flaws prematurely, we should appreciate the efforts and innovations that have gone into creating these systems. If genuine issues arise, our focus should be on fixing or improving them collaboratively. It is through this mindset of constructive criticism and collective effort that we can enhance these systems, address any disadvantages, and continue to innovate for the benefit of society. Let’s celebrate our country’s achievements while actively working to refine and improve upon them as needed.

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It the tradition of #Communists, selfless #leaders A lot of leaders #Jyotibasu #buddhaDev ... dontated their body for #MedicalResearch I #PLEDGE my #BODY after #LIFE for #MedicalResearch #INDIA.. #MOHAN #OrganDonation #LaalSalam #redSalute #Johar for their #sacrifices https://lnkd.in/gwNQxvw3

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Sanskrit, Chemistry Periodic Table,a Mckinsey framework and Planet Neptune Is the similarity between the Hindi alphabet table (as in picture below) and Chemistry Periodic table a coincidence? Let's see… The picture below shows letters of the Hindi Alphabet. While reading these letters aloud we notice distinct parts of our vocal chamber come into play. The line KA, KHA, GA… is spoken from the throat, The line PA, FA, BA… can only be spoken with the lips joined. The line CHA, CHHA, JA… can only be spoken with the tongue pushing onto your teeth. In summary, when you have finished reading all the letters, you will realize each part of your vocal chamber has vibrated. The Hindi letters are based on DEVANAGARI script – primary script of Sanskrit. This phonetic construct was first conceived and stated in Shiva Sutra by Panini in 14 BC. The genius of Devanagari script is it was constructed in such a manner that: • ALL POSSIBLE building blocks of sound our mouth can produce are leveraged for the letters – they are COLLECTIVELY EXHAUSTIVE • Each sound of a letter is distinct from another letter – they are MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE. Devanagari scripts above illustrate a powerful management consulting framework called MECE developed by Barbara Minto, first female consultant of McKinsey. Using this simple framework to develop solution alternatives, consultants are advised to brainstorm: ALL POSSIBLE choices (COLLECTIVELY EXHAUSTIVE- C.E.) NON-OVERLAPPING alternatives (MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE- M.E.) The framework in simple terms is called M.E.C.E. or the MECE FRAMEWORK. On a different but related note, it is fascinating to note the similarity of the look and feel of Hindi letters and the periodic table of chemistry, which follows a MECE construct, is no coincidence. Mendeleev, when he constructed the first eight elements, used the prefixes of eka, dvi, and tri (Sanskrit one, two, three) in their naming. In fact, when Mendeleev first developed the periodic table to arrange elements by atomic weights at St. Petersburg University, his fellow colleague Sanskritist Böhtlingk was preparing the second edition of his book on Panini at about this time. Mendeleev wished to honor Pānini with his nomenclature. Noting that there are striking similarities between the Periodic Table and the introductory Śiva Sūtras in Panini's grammar, he named them accordingly. Just as Panini arranged the sounds in order of increasing phonetic complexity Mendeleev arranged the elements in order of increasing atomic weights. Structured thinking can reveal things before they are experienced, closing with another astonishing trivia- The planet Neptune was deduced by mathematics guesstimate before it was visiblly discovered on the telescope ( in the future) just like Mendeleev left empty spaces in the table for elements to be discovered in future.

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Infrastructure work is zero in Karnataka no matter who is in power. Government can't repair broken roads but aiming to build sky deck because there is more scope for corruption in such projects. One example is Gunjur Road connecting Sarjapur road with Whitefield. Same story as in the video.

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#Palmistry #Astrology #future #predictions #young #india These are #datascience #inferences by #past #historical #observations You dont need to know these for #predicting #future, but one need to observe, #Mother #Father and their #polymorphic #structures like #maternal #uncle #aunty, similarly #paternal #uncle #aunty present or Past #events could be in your #fate...as part of the #Random #combinations of #XY #XX #YY #chromosomes.... So, #Monitor #support #takecare of their #current #state, in whatever #possible #manner - could be #financial #support, #health or minimum is calll/visit them #frequently to #assure your #support Thus you are yourself #making #safe #fate #Risk #mitigating for you!! #Karma #bandhan There is another easy way to #escape #karma #bandhan, just being #high #purposeful #focused irrespective of these #fates #highs #lows, #happiness #sad #mindset, you will #FLY away like #EAGLE, thats seen as #mukti #moksha Best way to #pedict a #future is to #create it, by #focused, #meticulous #planning... Whats your #future? 🤗

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It is like consulting the doctor but not taking the prescribed medicines. An astrologer like Astrodamus_22 suggests remedies to heal your karmas in the same way, a doctor prescribes medicine to heal the ailment in your body. Please start practicing the remedies as soon as you consult Astrodamus_22.

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