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Who Actually Decides Where the Model Runs
The choice between a frontier API and your own hardware gets argued as an engineering question. It is rarely decided as one. The forces that push a workload off the fr...
The League and the Derivatives Regulator
In March, Major League Baseball named a prediction market its exclusive partner — and signed integrity paper with a federal derivatives regulator. The second clause is...
Sports as AI Insurance
Within five weeks this spring, the reporter, the banker, and the fund all said the same thing: sports is the asset AI cannot synthesize. They are right — and the corol...
Kotak Mahindra’s “Fantastic” Management TechniqueDispatch
I’m being very sarcastic with that headline. So, here’s how Kotak “inspires” staff to achieve targets: they give out medals in a public ceremony to various people…
Great Music Playlist, Quarter 4, 2008-09Dispatch
In no particular order, the music I’m listening to this quarter (why should fiscal barbequers be the only people to throw around quarters like they’re worth…
Everybody’s A Crook: Satyam, Wipro, Insurance Cos … who’s next?Dispatch
Let me get this straight, less than a week after Satyam implodes, the World Bank releases a list of companies that are barred from doing business with the Bank, and…
NewsX — sold … really?Dispatch
Right, I’ve stayed away from talking about this all day long. Mostly because I’ve been trying to figure this whole thing out, using the little information that’s…
Why Satyam’s going to screw India for a long, long time …
So, one of India’s biggest technology companies has just imploded. Call me a pessimist, but the impact on Indian technologies companies is going to be terrible. And…
The Satyam Shocker explainedDispatch
Now that I’ve gotten over the stomach upset that Raju and Satyam managed to give me yesterday, I’ve digested the news a little better. And guess what, I’m feeling…
The letter Raju wrote
To the Board of Directors Satyam Computer Services Ltd, From B. Ramalinga Raju Chairman, Satyam Computer Services Ltd. January 7, 2009 Dear Board Members, It is…
The Political Edge we gave our clients, a 100% resultDispatch
One of the businesses I’m involved in is an analytics firm. We call the political analytics wing Political Edge. In the months leading up to elections in Rajasthan,…
I’m hiringDispatch
I’m looking for someone with equal measures of life experience, enthusiasm, and enterprise LAMP development skills. 1. Life Experience: I don’t care about how old…
Five Reasons to StartupDispatch
Ladies and Gents, Good Morning! It’s the 13th of December, 2008 — the sun’s out, and its turning out to be a beautiful winter morning. It just makes you feel…
VCCircle: Temasek, India Equity Partners To Invest Rs 163 Cr In Lokmat GroupDispatch
Temasek and India Equity Partners (IEP) will jointly invest Rs 163 crore ($32 million) in regional media house Lokmat Group, VCCircle has learned. Temasek will pick…
Mumbai Attack Impact UpdateDispatch
It’s not a good time to be in Mumbai. You just need to scratch the surface to reach the deep sense of unease amongst Mumbaikars today. And it’s a feeling that…
Outsourcing abuseDispatch
On September 26, 2002, Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen born in Syria, was flying home to Montreal from a family trip to Tunisia. During a stopover at New York's JFK…
Why management doesn't workDispatch
No form of education is more commercialised than management education. But are business schools teaching the right things?'
Why you need a websiteNote
The webopedia tells you why you need a website . . . Nowadays a website and a url (Universal Resource Locater - the address of a website eg., www.naren.8m.com) is…
An Online Marketing Maintenance PlanNote
Here is an article which tells you what you need to do to ensure that you actually make money out of your site. An Online Marketing Maintenance Plan This is an…