Hey there! Just wanted to let you know that today is officially National 'Make Everyone Smile' Day! So, consider yourself officially tasked with spreading joy and laughter wherever you go. Oh, and if you happen to fall for any pranks along the way, just remember it's all in good fun! Happy April Fool's Day!
Do What Matters
Do what Matters - nurturing your own growth and well-being by engaging in activities that bring you joy, fulfillment, and a sense of personal accomplishment.
Sunday, March 31, 2024
Saturday, March 5, 2022
New MS project ideas
- The car tells you what it needs http://news.mit.edu/2017/software-let-your-car-tell-you-what-it-needs-1026
- Similarly in an Industrial setting, an expensive machine tells you when it needs service
- Wristbands detect stress signals http://news.mit.edu/2016/empatica-wristband-detects-alerts-seizures-monitors-stress-0309
- www.tanium.com endpoint management
- Build a tool like AHA Ideas: https://www.aha.io/pricing?product=Ideas
- Develop a data pipeline for Climate Intelligence (get inspiration from https://cervest.earth/
- Morale and culture-building app for remote teams get inspired from https://culture.justdisco.com/
- cross-selling services for a specific business. Get inspired from https://swogo.com/ Fir example, millions of sellers on eBay or Amazon sell just 1 or 2 items, the service will enable them for cross-sell other products to the same customers and save customer acquisition costs
- Subscription business creation platforms are emerging, see this for zym/athelitc trainers https://playbookapp.io/
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Spring 2021 - MS CMPE272 Team Project Ideas
While COVID taught us a great deal of resilience, patience, empathy and generosity, it also gave us opportunity to think hard and introspect. What's important in our lives. How do we use our technical skills and everything else to solve problems with greater good.
Data sources: https://usafacts.org/data/
My Grad students always do projects using cool modern technology such as AI and Machine Learning. Past projects are available here:
Spring 2017: https://github.com/SJSU272LabS17
Fall 2017: https://github.com/SJSU272LabF17
Spring 2018: https://github.com/SJSU272LabSP18
Fall 2018: https://github.com/SJSU272LabF18
Spring 2019: https://github.com/SJSU272Spring2019
Fall 2019: https://github.com/SJSUFall2019-CMPE272
Spring 2020: https://github.com/SJSUSpring2020-cmpe272
This semester, they will do even better. Here are some ideas I am sharing with them:
Category: AI in Software Development
Idea#1: Apply ML into Fuzzing to improve software reliability
Idea#2: New implementation of the Probabilistic programming
Idea#3: Use AI to measure and improve Microservice performance
Category: Data Privacy & Governance
Idea#4: Data Privacy in the Decentralized AI architecture
Idea#5: Create domain specific business glossary using NLP
Vertical taxonomies such as an e-commerce taxonomy for retailer, telecom taxonomy for Telecom. Businesses will be able to bring their domain specific private documents and the NLP based AI system will create a well formed taxonomies ingestible into a common catalog such as Google data catalog or Alation Business Glossary
Category: Social Good
Idea#6: Lucy keeps our seniors happy and engaged
1. Senior isolation increases the risk of mortality.
2. Feelings of loneliness can negatively affect both physical and mental health.
3. Perceived loneliness contributes to cognitive decline and risk of dementia.
4. Social isolation makes seniors more vulnerable to elder abuse.
5. Loneliness in seniors is a major risk factor for depression.
Lucy is a skill developed for Amazon Alexa device echo dot which sits in senior’s room.
A group of student volunteers write personal emails to our seniors . Lucy reads those emails to seniors as they come or at certain time.
Idea#7: Get inspiration from DataKind Projects
https://www.datakind.org/projects
Idea#8: Using Divrsitykids datasets, create a dashboard and use NLG to generate a citizen friendly report
Datasets: https://data.diversitydatakids.org/dataset
Idea#8: Using Divrsitykids datasets, create a dashboard and use NLG to generate a citizen friendly report
Datasets: https://data.diversitydatakids.org/dataset
NLG: https://rosaenlg.org/rosaenlg/1.10.1/index.html
Idea#9: Street vendors support network
Bringing street vendors in an organized group has several advantages:
• Vendors will get much needed financial help and support to bootstrap their business.
• Govt will have much desired success in getting them on epayments and cashless economy.
• this network will be able to uplift them and help them move into high value quadrant. For example, a street food hawker graduates to become a food truck owner. A vegetable seller eventually becomes a “Fresh cut vegies” supplier to apartments.
• This network can be connected to micro lenders and other entrepreneurs such as organic farmers.
- Zero trust vs “trust and verify”
- Hyperlocalization in business will drive next gen endpoint security for data and application access
- Borderless security practices for multi-national companies and workforce
- Remote Work-employee experience
- whats the burden on tax payers for prisoners in private prison vs state prison?
- impact of pending court cases on economy and taxpayers?, correlation with specific types of crime?
- correlation between certain types of firearms and crime?
Idea#13: Justice on wheels
Access to Legal services in India is very limited, especially in rural areas. In many cases, long running justice process and expensive legal help deter people even to seek justice. A Justice on wheels app(with lawyers network) that provides mobile (at your doorstep ) service for:
• Affidavit and stamp papers related work
• Will and trust
• Legal rights education
• Consumer protection related services and others
This “On wheels” idea can be applied to Tutoring, Books and stationary selling.
“Accounting on wheels” can be another opportunity as there are tons of BCOM boys and girls in India looking for work. The company will train them on business and financial accounting
More coming..
Monday, December 14, 2020
Story of a food
https://foodstory.substack.com/
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
ML 101 - Setup Jupyter notebook on your laptop
This instruction is for Mac, please look for similar instruction to install on Windows/Linux.
First thing first: Install brew if you don't have it:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
export PATH="/usr/local/opt/python/libexec/bin:$PATH"
Install latest Python3 and necessary packages:
brew install python
pip3 install -U pip setuptools wheel
Install Jupyter:
pip3 install -U jupyter jupyter-client
Install datascience packages:
pip3 install -U numpy pandas scikit-learn matplotlib
Setup a working directoryand start Jupyter server:
mkdir ~/work
jupyter-notebook --notebook-dir=~/work
This should start Jupyter on your localhost: http://localhost:8888/
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
CMPE272 Spring 2020 Project Ideas
Sunday, May 20, 2018
Spring 2018 Technology Showcase at San Jose State University
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/technology-showcase-day-rakesh-ranjan/
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