Technology Dear DoT & TRAI, IXPs Are Not ISPs - End the Policy Paralysis Internet connects everyone, but Internet eXchange Points connect Internet. Despite having over 944 million internet users, A fundamental missing element in India's digital landscape is a robust, enabling framework for Internet Exchange Points (IXPs). India currently lacks a cohesive national IXP policy. Recent developments indicate a problematic shift
The Rise and Fall of Cities: Can Vijayawada Reclaim Its Future? Imagine walking through Vijayawada’s crowded streets, past stinking canals and dying trees. This is our city—but it doesn’t have to stay this way. The canals that once made Vijayawada thrive are now choked with trash and encroachments. Overcrowding has killed our greenery, turned our city into a
Politics How the native elites of Amaravati have failed to defend Amaravati? A political phenomenon is pitting Amaravati against small town populists and a rural base. Trump stands left and Brexit stands right to this strategy. In the recent US elections, Trump lost in all of America's largest cities but was carried into White House on the shoulders of rest
Technology Hey! Again! I switched my blogging platform again, but this one is to stay here for a while. After a couple of attempts with Blogger, dozen iterations with Drupal & Wordpress and a false start with Django, i ditched dynamic content management systems and gave Jekyll a spin. I liked the idea
Politics Is Mass Democracy Stupid? What the world need to know from Brexit? The Brexit has shown that masses are stupid when it comes to making policy decisions. While Donald Trump's campaign succeeded on cashing out the mortal imbecility on trusting narcissistic patriotism by securing nomination for the Presidential Race. Masses are prone to emotions and a crowd is always more
Technology How to build TensorFlow, a fast & flexible Deep learning platform with GPU Support on Ubuntu? With the increasing velocity of data from all the directions, providing data scientists with the best tool is tough. Thanks to Google for open sourcing TensorFlow and syntaxnet an open source neural net framework for NLP. Often Deep Learning demands high computing capabilities and using GPU's for computation
Pollution VTPS is slowly killing the neighbourhood Vijayawada Thermal Power Station makes us proud by lightening the entire state! As a organization, it completely ignores to protect the neighborhood villages interest. Stack Emission: APPCB (Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board) has set the permissible standard of 115mg/NM3 for SPM Particles, but VTPS has been violating it with
Politics Hazare ji doing a good thing but by degrading parliamentary values I consider applauding Anna Hazare at the very outset for having brought corruption to the National center stage. He encouraged a millions of anonymous Indians to come out on the streets and get voice. I closely watched few students in my university thinking about the on-going fast and corruption than
Technology A Dwarf standing on the shoulders of giants In my understanding, We all are Dwarfs, with a magical power of knowledge. Dwarf is the person, one who develops future Intellectual pursuits by understanding the Research's and works created by notable thinkers of the past. I would call the Scientists, Writers, Analysts, Medico's, Observers in
Technology What is FOSS and its four principles? This is Satish, a brand new site by Satish V Madala that's just getting started. Things will be up and running here shortly, but you can subscribe in the meantime if you'd like to stay up to date and receive emails when new content is published!
