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I took a Turing test and the test won
Example of how the Turing test was done. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
So if you or I took the Turing test, would we pass? Or fail?
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Kyle Neath: Quality ship!
English: MS Polarfront weather ship IMO Number: 7608708 Callsign: LDWR (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
.. another misinterpretation that’s always bugged me: Ship early, ship often OR Ship quality product. Quality isn’t something to be sacrificed … Ship early, ship often, sacrificing features, never quality.
- Kyle Neath
Daphne Koller: What we’re learning from online education
Daphne Koller (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free — not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn. With Coursera (cofounded by Andrew Ng), each keystroke, quiz, peer-to-peer discussion and self-graded assignment builds an unprecedented pool of data on how knowledge is processed.
With Coursera, Daphne Koller and co-founder Andrew Ng are bringing courses from top colleges online, free, for anyone who wants to take them.
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Mentoring
Sir Salman Rushdie (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
If mentors and mentees are too similar, there may be little value for mentees in terms of knowledge,awareness or capability due to the lack of ‘stretch’ in the relationship.
If mentors and mentees are too far apart,then there is a risk of scheme breakdown due to a lack of empathy, credibility and motivation in both directions.
Both mentor and mentee gain more from the relationship if the mentee takes the initiative and if he or she expects developmental (as against directive) behaviours from the mentor.
The more passive the mentee and the more directive the mentor, the less successful the relationship.
Salman Rushdie writes:
Those who do not have the power of the story that dominates their lives—power to retell it, rethink it,deconstruct it,joke about it, and change it as times change—truly are powerless because they cannot think new thoughts.
Mentoring can help us explore our story, think new thoughts and realize a new future. Mentoring gives us an opportunity not to be condemned to repeat our pasts.
Mentoring is essentially a voluntary activity.
Mentoring is for the mentee.Attempts to impose agendas on the mentee result in manipulation and social engineering.
Mentors should reflect on their own ethical approach. References can be both external (e.g. a professional body) and internal (own values, situational ).
(Excerpted from Mentoring in Action—A Practical Guide (2nd Edition) [Chapter 1: The Mentoring Framework] by D Megginson,D Clutterbuck, B Garvey,P Stokes and R Garrett-Harris.)
Inglorious PMP Meet Mumbai: Sep 4, 2011
I attended a PMI chapter meet for the first time , here in Mumbai, on the 4th of September, 2011 at Welingkar’s Management School, Matunga.
The experience to put it mildly—grated. The speaker was a certain Pradeep Phendse.
I decided to avoid any more meets.
Quoting my correspondence below:
“I’d like to add that the PMP meet was a disturbing experience for me.
My experience was marred by some ‘unknown’ individuals making threatening sounds behind my back before the meet began.
Have you or anyone else had a similar experience?”
I found the attendees willing to tolerate any loutish, juvenile and intimidating behavior so long as they were not the ones targeted.
Find below the full transcripts of my e-mail conversation with Messr. Sagar.
PS: ‘Thank you’ to ‘Nutul’ (read Blithering idiot) for ‘Gib, Up’. I can take a hint and stay away where I’m not welcome.
Dear Sir/Madam,
As you are non-member of PMI Mumbai Chapter, you were suppose to pay Fee Rs.500/-. But some how you missed to make the payment, so request you to make the payment as earliest as possible.
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Regards,
Sagar Patil
PMI MUMBAI CHAPTER
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Linus Fernandes to Sagar
show details 28 Sep
thanks, sagar, for this email. or maybe not. the specified meet was
supposed to be free for both members and outsiders. are you telling me
otherwise?
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Linus Fernandes
http://linusfernandes.com
Live life as an exclamation, not an explanation!
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Sagar,
I’d like to add that the PMP meet was a disturbing experience for me.
My experience was marred by some ‘unknown’ individuals making threatening sounds behind my back before the meet began.
Have you or anyone else had a similar experience?
Would you return?
Linus Fernandes
http://linusfernandes.com
Live life as an exclamation, not an explanation!
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Do you need any more clarifications?
Linus Fernandes
http://linusfernandes.com
Live life as an exclamation, not an explanation!
Dell Hell VII: Promises galore, faulty deliveries
The Dell saga continues.
Despite promises made that the refund would be processed by Monday, the 31st of October, 2011, the day passed in utter silence.
Finally, a shouted tweet to @Dell_IN elicited a response that Ms. Rajeshwari SN would be processing the matter.
Surely, this could have been communicated much earlier.
Are returns and refunds the weakest link?
Definitely, yes.
And no I’m not scoring brownie points.
My credit card bill falls due this week and having to pay the amount without receiving an assurance is a bloody pain in the butt.
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