India has seen massive growth in solar PV installations since it launched Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission in 2010 and revised its target in 2015. Since its inception, the mission has succeeded in creating the domestic market for Multi-MW PV power plant developers through an e-reverse auction mechanism. In…
NVIDIA GauGAN: Convert your painting into images!
On March 18, 2019, NVIDIA, technology-based company introduced AI enabled software called GauGAN which converts your dumb paintings into photorealistic images. A few minutes ago, their video popped on my Youtube homepage. The idea is so cool that I couldn’t resist me from sharing it with all of you….
Google Vs DuckDuckGo
Diploma आणि Degreeला असताना मी ज्या कारणासाठी Google वापरत नव्हतो त्या बद्दल आज मी लिहिणार आहे. सगळे मित्र Android मोबाईल वापरत असताना मी Windows फोन वापरायचो. अँड्रॉइड फोनवर आपल्या डेटाच्या गूपनीयतेबाबत माझ्या मनात अफाट शंका होत्या. पण शेवटी एकेदिवशी मलासुद्धा Androidला shift व्हावं लागलं. याचे मुख्य कारण म्हणजे…
Talks on ‘Section 377’ and ‘Data Privacy’ at IIT Bombay
The year 2019 has been very delightful for me. While the first week was full of discussions with my friends from the solar fraternity, the second week was indeed more enlightening. I got an opportunity to attend 3 talks and 1 panel discussion on different socio-technical topics. The…
Critique of and Alternatives to Extractive Imagination of Artificial Intelligence
A Talk by Dr Anupam Guha on ‘What is to be done? Critique of and alternatives to extractive imagination of AI’ was organized by the Centre for Policy Studies, IIT Bombay on 11 January 2019. Anupam Guha is a computer scientist, working on Artificial Intelligence and…