Tech

Vijay Narayanan on October 22nd, 2011

This morning I helped an elderly couple pick their first ever smartphone. It was a wonderful experience; eye-opening at times. I have known them for a while, and they have been telling me for a couple of months that they wanted to buy an iPhone. I had asked them to wait until Apple launched their [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on October 17th, 2010

Google announced “Priority Inbox” a few weeks ago. Roughly this is how it works. When an email arrives, the user can flag it as important or not-so-important. Gmail will use a learning algorithm that will try to mimic the user’s classification. So when you check your email in the morning and find that it has [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on November 5th, 2009

Here’s what I found when signing up for a discounted copy of Windows 7 (for anyone with a .edu email address):

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Vijay Narayanan on May 11th, 2009

Consider this. You have a list* of maps. You want to replicate the list a specified number of times. For example, if the list has two maps, and you want to create from this list another list that contains six maps. The constraint is that you have to write your own method, and you must [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on February 10th, 2009

… is Microsoft’s best stab at a web browser since IE 4.

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