How A Data Scientist Topped The UPSC Exam This Year

This year’s UPSC topper is a data scientist and the data science community is going gaga over it. When Kanishak Kataria was declared to be the topper, he thanked his parents, sister and girlfriend for the help and moral support, and one thing that came as an instant identifier was that he is currently a data scientist at qplum, Bengaluru, which is an online investment advisory firm, offering AI and machine learning based portfolios.

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https://www.analyticsindiamag.com/how-a-data-scientist-topped-the-upsc-exam-this-year/ (Accessed on April 9, 2019)

NIRAMAI to Develop Artificial Intelligence-based Software to Detect River Blindness

Artificial intelligence-based Indian health-tech company Niramai is currently using Thermalytix to detect breast cancer in the early stages

Artificial intelligence-based Indian health-tech company Niramai announced that it will develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-based computer-aided software for controlling spread of River Blindness. Niramai will leverage its innovative Thermalytix technology to detect the presence of live adult worms of Onchocerciasis, which causes river blindness and significant disability.

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https://www.dqindia.com/niramai-develop-artificial-intelligence-based-software-detect-river-blindness/ (Accessed on April 9, 2019)

ग्रंथनिर्मितीचा सोहळा

Source: Maharashtra Times e paper (Mumbai edition) dated April 8, 2019

पुस्तक आदान-प्रदान

Source: Maharashtra Times e paper (Mumbai edition) dated April 8, 2019

रोबोटिक तंत्रज्ञानाची उपयुक्तता

Are we hurting learning and teaching by diverting funds from blackboards to digital boards?

Policy makers seem to be drowning in a sea of buzzwords. This tendency seems particularly marked in “digital” initiatives. Digital, it seems, is the ultimate panacea for every problem. Our classrooms — in schools and universities — will soon be adorned with “digital boards”. These boards “will work on emerging technologies including Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Analytics and provide ‘Intelligent Tutoring’ to students based on their personal requirements.” (‘Over 1.5 lakh schools to get digital boards under scheme,’ IE, February 20)The deployment of this technology is expected to improve the quality of teaching-learning and also ensure that graduates are no longer “unsuitable for the requirements of the society and market”. That sounds quite a lot for a digital board to achieve.

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https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/prakash-javadekar-digital-boards-classrooms-right-to-education-5663965/ (Accessed on April 8, 2019)

A ‘million word gap’ for children not read to at home

Parents who read them five books a day help them build a better vocabulary ahead of kindergarten

Young children whose parents read them five books a day enter kindergarten having heard about 1.4 million more words than children who were never read to, a study has found.

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https://www.thehindu.com/books/a-million-word-gap-for-children-not-read-to-at-home/article26763466.ece (Accessed on April 8, 2019)