More Transcendental than barriers of time.

A new Forte

Since childhood we are all surrounded by all sort of media around us. It serves as a great influence on moulding our minds. Given the fact that my english grammar has become completely horrible and I can't even construct sentences with correct grammar, leaves me no other choice apart from venturing into a new field althogether that is :- making short films.

I have most certainly spent last two days trying to cook up a script which glorifies and comics the situations in college life. It was kind of difficult task which makes me appreciate people who make videos a lot more. I wouldn't care much if the film gets less number of views but I would kind of regret if the film turns out a nuisance. Creating an intertwined story and keep the audience engaged at every frame of your video is extremely challenging. I think movies made Raju Kumar Hirani do this very well that they never bore their audience. Each movie plot has subplot which are coherently linked together in this amazing sequence.

 I will post the video of making, the complete film over here in some time. Keep tight. :-)

What next?

This blog has been a place for me to organise my thoughts properly and post about events of my life. This is the first weekend after 3 weekends that I have not been travelling or staying awake whole night and writing code. I finally have some time to organise my thoughts properly. There are three technology sectors that are said to have high importance, they are largely :-

1. IOT (Internet of things)
2. Blockchain 
3. Artificial Intelligence (including data analysis)

It is interesting how all of these combined, would lead to complete automation of industries which is slightly disastrous and exciting at the same time. Now like all technologies, they have to be groomed and properly nurtured by industries to take effect.

IOT- Energy
AI - Education
Blockchain - Payment Systems

To be completely honest, instead of building things over a weekend. I want to build something more serious while doing projects in these fields.

Selected by FbStart Programme

I will receive 40,000 $ in services and tools which are provided by facebook and its' partners. Isn't it super cool!

Blockchain based research journal

I have written this presentation for iHack Hackathon. It is a basic web application which leverages Blockchain technology to increase the pace of innovation. Questions in comments section are highly appreciated. 

Wow! A great debate

Understanding ed-tech startup space #2

In this debacle I would concentrate more on basic idea of learning. I won't be comparing the intent of learning (say, Online Test Prep or skills connect startup).I think this is a part which each edtech sector startup asks itself is how to stimulate learning to the target audience. In case, where target audience is between classes 4-10th grades, the accepted approach is usually to use games for each topic to make learning more addictive. In higher classes and skill development scenario, the approach is more tilted towards using demonstrative videos / lecture videos to help the learner learn. There are also very few domain specific websites which allow users to learn computer algorithms in a highly addictive manner but they cater only to programming audience.

Most of the educational websites have certain amount of traffic but that does not mean they are for sure the best approach, at the same time also stating the fact that just because it's done does not mean they must have approached things in a wrong way.

Nonetheless, I would like to give few points :-

1. Ed-Tech startups are not working at all on Artificial Intelligence (completely automated and personalised learning system) that helps learners learn better. 
2. Startups need to understand the current segment very carefully before proposing a change. You can't shift things in a night. Change would happen gradually only and a strategic approach is needed that would propose change in current system rather than create a new system altogether. (My opinion is biased) 
3. Public-Private relations hold a major key. You need to make that work out in your benefit.

I would be adding more to this article, after I complete my research on various education startups and how they tried to simulate learning to their target audience. For now, I would like to sign of on a note saying that don't try something new just because it is something new. In my next article I would focus on the demand-supply of college education with industry. So definitely keep tight.  :-)