January 2010
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Android development on Samsung Galaxy:
I got a new phone - Samsung i7500 Galaxy. Looks like it is going to be more fun than my older phones.
1. Samsung i7500 Galaxy runs the Android 1.5 platform. So I downloaded the sdk tools from google and then followed their readme to get started with getting the 1.5 platform specific downloads on my mac.
2. I got the Galaxy skin from rexxar, for better looks. Got eclipse and ran couple of...
Linchpin - Seth Godin - Summary
Quieting the lizard brain
How can I explain the never ending irrationality of human behavior?
We say we want one thing, then we do another. We say we want to be successful but we sabotage the job interview. We say we want a product to come to market, but we sandbag the shipping schedule. We say we want to be thin but we eat too much. We say we want to be smart but we skip class or don’t...
Personal development for smart people - summary
Seek truth with open eyes. Courageously accept your discoveries and their consequences. Rid your life of falsehood, denial, and fear of what is. Make truth your ally, not your enemy. This isn’t easy, but it is correct.
Share your love openly. Connect with yourself and others by tuning in to the connection that already exists. The risk of rejection is overshadowed by the rewards of loving...
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Future of artists
Seth Godin talk about artists and their leverage in the new connected world.
Today, I listened to Sophie Madeleine. She is so talented. She chose to sell her own music, instead of going the record route of publishing music. It is now possible for quality content to be distributed more easily than ever before. I think the days of studios and arbiters of any art, are counted.
But, India as a music...
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Clustering stocks in a sector
Quantitative clustering techniques solely rely on grouping a bunch of stocks based on returns and their correlations, seems to fail while trying to classify a set of stocks in an industry. I ran a test on set of 20 stocks from utilities and couldn’t find meaningful clusters just based on this data analysis alone.
Another technique which helped me though was the fundamental classification...
Getting started with quantmod
I got quantmod installed on R at work and home couple of months ago. Here are the instructions for installing them from the R command line.
install.packages(c('xts','Defaults','quantmod'))
Check out the Quantmod homepage for further information.
To quickly whip up an example to check your installation is alright, use this script:
# chart AAPL...
“I’m not a disciplined person. Having bipolar affective disorder...”
– Self Vs. Self: My Law And Disorder
“Live the life you’ve dreamed.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via theimpossiblecool)
“Every day I meet people who have so much to give but have been bullied enough or...”
– Seth Godin
Selling ebooks on Amazon Kindle
Today, I got really intrigued by the Kindle Digital Text platform for publishing ebooks. Amazon recently announce that it would increase the royalty paid for the books to 70%. But there is fine print to this news, this program comes in effect in June 2010 and is applicable only to the content that gets sold in US.
So, the royalty rates are going to stay at 30% for sometime to come or until Apple...
“Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank...”
– Invictus
Apple Tablet
I wish Apple could make a computing device that would make Wacom Cintiq redundant. Cintiq behaves like a hardware peripheral made by elves and not like a computing device by itself.
My ideal product for touch, brush/tool based computer, follows this premise ‘everything is the screen’. No haggling with the cables and all the other nasty bits.
Apple whip out a product for this, please.
“I have no talent. What I do have is a lot of practice. And I am not talking...”
– I Have No Talent // RailsTips by John Nunemaker
John, thanks for writing this.
“spending of the best part of one’s life earning money in order to enjoy a...”
– Walden - Wikiquote
“The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what...”
– The Second Act: Boost your productivity with Hemingway’s hack
“You see people, the alpha males have business degrees. They can be fat and...”
– I fucking code so I’m not a man anymore. The Freehacker’s Union
My year in 2009 was pretty adventurous and difficult at times. Time with family was crucial and helped stabilize emotions. Boo and I are making progress towards our goals. Career has been all over the place, but finally showing signs of direction. Overall my best year so far, making me a better human. Looking forward I am feeling so optimistic about 2010 and I want to be happy with Boo. I know...