Data Science Tales - A Tech blog by Bia Chaudhry

John went to the cafeteria 10 times at 1:00 P.M. on 10 Fridays, each time the cafeteria was closed at that particular time. John decided not to go to cafe at 1:00 P.M. on Friday because the cafe will be closed.  But wait! How did John know that the cafe will  also be closed on next Friday at 1:00 P.M.??? Yes, you are absolutely right.  "John Learned from his Experience that the Task of going to the cafeteria at 1:00 P.M. on Fridays resulted in waste of time, since the cafe was closed on each Friday, so it will Perform the same on the next Friday." In the above scenario, John learned something so we can call it " John Learning ". Similarly, if we replace John with some sort of Machine, that can learn from the Experience or from the History about how the tasks were performed in the past given certain situation. Such that the Machine will perform the same if the same task happen again in near future. Then this will be called as Machine Learning. To mak...

On 17th November, 2018, there was a 4th session of GDG Islamabad naming DevFest GDG 18 , at NUST  NICE  H-12 , Islamabad Pakistan. The event commenced at 1100 hours. The whole hall was full of business owners, entrepreneurs, developers and students. A boosting music was playing in the background.  In the beginning, community co-manager of GDG Islamabad introduced GDG. He said that digital wellbeing is the main focus of Google technologies.  Saad Hamid is a manager at GDG Islamabad. Muhammad Bin Masood is its co-manager. In the session the audience were told about different technologies of Android P mobiles. Some of these technologies and applications are: Gesture Navigation (Much needed Application) Wind down Notch support Lock-down Mode Smart Notification Auto-Rotate Button Media Panel Digital wellbeing Disconnect at night Time spent on app MOTO OF DIGITAL WELLBEING: " GREAT TECHNOLOGIES SHOULD IMPROVE LIFE, NOT DISTRACT FROM IT " ...