Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Monday, 12 October 2020

WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION – CATHY O’NEIL

                                                            BOOK READ ON 17-02-2017 TO 04-11-2019



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When I read any book, I scribble my comments / notes in the margins

These reflect my views / opinions about what the author is saying – including my disagreement

Often, my comments are in the nature of telling myself :

Hey ! We should try out this idea in our own business ( Head-hunting / Online Recruitment )

Following are my comments re :


WEAPONSOF MATH DESTRUCTION – CATHY O’NEIL


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Page No 01

·         I keep adding up the numbers, to see how fast and how accurately can I add mostly by separately adding up Pairs 2 digits, simultaneously.

Page No 2

·         Subprime crisis of 2008.

Page No 3

·         In 2009, we developed “Resume Rater “which did, exactly this!  Even today, you can download it form a dozen wishes!

·         As of today, 3259 download from soffpedia! Total exceed 20,000!!

·         I selected “keyword” from thousands of resumes job Advts.

Page No 46

·         Recent example; NPA’s work lakhs of crores by Indian’s Big banks.

Page no 52

·         What-which-how much [weight]

·         This is how I developed my simply formula for [integrated logistics = transport] e-log to compute. “HARM QUOTIENT of each vehicle.

·         In my case, Transport Tax.

Page No 55

·         My formula for “vehicle Harm Quotient” does not rely on any “inputs” from humans [whether vehicle owner’s/drivers/passengers].it entirely depends upon Sensors & Navic satellites.  

Page no 60

·         I think this is a universal belief.

Page no 61

·         When I was at KU [Lawrence] in 1956-58. uniu.admin went to great lengths to attract wilt chamberlain (7’-2”) to join for its Basketball tame. one rumor was that uni-even spotted a tall girlfriend for wilt!

Page no 64

·         Probably, this industry is even bigger in India. eg: city of KOTA.

·         Ditto here.

 

Page no 67

·         NITI Aayog has developed its own formula for ranking of colleges where 50% weightage is assigned to “graduation rates.”

Page No.69

·         See my blog “The Future Of Advertising” - where I have described a similar

Scenario for a person waiting form bus at a bus stop.

Page no 74

·         I have suggested a similar ”segmentation” in my blog Digital dividend form demographic data [4D].

PAGE NO 76

·         IF M/c learning can get access to the AUDIO LOGS, of all the smartphones [of English speakers, to begin with] that world be much bigger data base and tell much more about us than our clicks & likes pushing speech to text conversion s/w.

Page no 84

·         Reed my poem about Detroit, when I read that Detroit city had to declare bankruptcy.

Page no 90

·         Read my blogs on: “Bank Recapitalization” “only Rs-7000 per person”

Page no 95

·         In India, court cases, linger on decades-it you have a good lawyer.

·         China is doing this for its 1.4 billion citizens.

Page no 96

·         Read my blogs

§  Privacy is dead

§  Privacy does not live here

§  RIP = Privacy

§  Privacy for sale

·         Just does not exist!

Page no 99

·         Health of patient in hospitals in general and ICUs in particular-would improve faster there was sunlight!

 

Page no 100

·         In China CCTV cameras fixed along roads, do this for all its 1.4 billion citizens.

Page no 101

·         China leads the world in State Suruaillan.

Page no 108

·         The year I got posted at Madh

Page no 109

·         If you get 500 application against 1 job, you are forced to make a trade-off!-especially when HR dept. is under pressure to fill job in 10 days!!

Page no 112

·         It is impossible to give any meaningful feedback (on test performance) To hundreds of applicant who get rejected by tests.

Page no 113

·         I launched “Resume Rater” software on 27/6/2007 [Download.Cent.com] now there are hundred.

Page no 120

·         Read my blog “PA-RANK “which had a similar concept.

Page no 132

·         My MS thesis [ KU-1958] was titled: A work sampling study of white collar workers: In KU library, I took recorded “working/ non-working/restroom” student of some 20/30 clerks and tabulated “frequency of occurrence” Study last 1 week

·         In one of his books Peter Drucker. Has talked about this which I mentioned in my thesis.

Page no 144

·         Since this got written 3 years ago things have 90 worse! Privacy is a more illusion.

Page no 148

·         Happened to me my fist interview L& T you have no exp.) I tried again after 1 year exp at medico and got selected!!

Page no 149 

·         In India, millions continues to die each year because they have no money for medicines or hospitalization.

Page no 151

·         Also from job boards full of resumes.

Page no 152

·         Same data on a thousand serves. How can anyone find and delete all?

Page no 155

·         Humans will in reduce their own bias and greed.

Page no 157

·         Never imagined such things could happen in USA!!    

Page no 181

·         All mobile service provides, have our AUDIO LOGS- cash and every word that we every spoke in those mobile and words. We received thru those mobile. Easy to convert in to text.

Page no 191

·         What reliance jio is trying here for past 2 years?

Page no 200

·         According to Hindu mythology, at the beginning of  TIME if self, god [brahma? Vishnu?]  said = “EKO Aham, Bahu Syam: [ I am one only I will be come many]       


Saturday, 10 October 2020

CHAOS – JAMES GLEICK

                                     BOOK READ ON 06-10-2009 TO 9-11-2009


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When I read any book, I scribble my comments / notes in the margins

These reflect my views / opinions about what the author is saying – including my disagreement

Often, my comments are in the nature of telling myself :

Hey ! We should try out this idea in our own business ( Head-hunting / Online Recruitment )

Following are my comments re :



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Page No 05

·         Could it also be in the behavior of traffic to a website? - Niyati’s 50th birthday

Page no 06

·         “That which becomes new [different] contiusoualy is the true nature of beauty.”

·         Apparently our Rishis knew about CHAOS theory centuries ago!

Page no 07

·         What large Hadron Collider is now trying to find out?

 Page no 19

·         Malcom Gldewell’s “Tipping Point” examines “Social Phenomena”, using the same argument. 

Page no 20

·         Same with raw scores [predictions?] of our Function Graphs: i-e. Implied precision but then no one has come up with an alternative.

Page no 21

·         I have asked Rahul to “guess” an initial frequency distribution for raw scores for few thousand candidates, In order to set the ball rolling!

Page no 36

·         “Customize Resume” will be unorthodox whether it will turn out to be “exceptional” or not, remains to be seen.

Page no 37

·         We started “straying outside the normal bounds” [of jobprotals] with launch of India Recruiter we will continue that path with customize Resume.

·         Fits my case!

  Page no 38

·         A resume is a “picture of career” when we try to ‘”reorganize” it thru graphs, it meets with lots of resistance – both from job- sellers & recruiter.

Page no 39

·         Our website title read:

·         Customize resume – The end of plain text.

 

Page no 61

·         Would this apply to traffic on websites?

·         Month after month?

Page no 70

·         In Customize Resume, I have arbitrarily selected a “starting / initial condition “[of distribution of Raw scores and plotted the curve what Will be the shape of this curve.

·         once we launch it? It will depend upon what kind of  jobseekers register meaning what kind of raw scores they get the curve may flatten or balloon or keep fluctuating between these 2 extreme “states” as more & jobseekers join.

Page no 72

·         In our case the Y axis [percentile score] not only depends upon a candidate Raw score, but ALSO on the population size at that point of time.

Page no 83

·         Our “Function / skill” graphs are merely  a “distribution of large and small RAW SCORES within overall population of registered candidates.

Page no 84

·         Which I am discarding in “Customize Resume” for 2 ½ yrs,we used it inIndia Recruiter.net, but i suspect candidates-and Recruiters as well perhaps.

·         Simply failed to appreciate those frequency diagrams.  


Friday, 9 October 2020

PITCH ANYTHING - OREN KLAFF

BOOK READ ON 17-09-2012 TO 24-10-2012




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When I read any book, I scribble my comments / notes in the margins

These reflect my views / opinions about what the author is saying – including my disagreement

Often, my comments are in the nature of telling myself :

Hey ! We should try out this idea in our own business ( Head-hunting / Online Recruitment )

Following are my comments re :



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PAGE NO 15

·         About 2 hours back? Sent an email to charnajeet [of whistle] requesting him to read “Appreciation” and “our USP” pages of our website before our meeting at 4 pm. I hope his crock brain find “our USP” in training & novel!.

·         May be, I need to show him actual working of “My Jobs” on my smart phone i.e. a VISUAL concrete evidence.

·         Got no chance! Charnajeet said they don’t find app useful for every one!

·         Have sent email today, to reconsider decision.

Page no 17

·         Today I prepared a revised “pitch” to tablet manufactures, which begin: can you create jobs? Maybe you can maybe not.

·         I will send these [emails] out tomorrow and wait to see, it this new pitch, generates better response than last week’s pitch, which read: “first Data wind, second swipe, who next?

·         In the end quoted swami Vivekananda. 

    Page no 28

·         Tablet manufactures have millions of Apps,to choose from when it comes to “pre-installing”, for then it is safe to bet on apps like” Facebook/ twitter/ Angry bird / what’s AP” etc. Of which, millions of copies have been downloaded.

·         For then My jobs has very little importance so, my first email [first Data wing second swipes who next? focused on raising their [curiosity] why their compotator are installing my jobs second [can you create jobs?

·         Focused on a quotation from swami Vivekananda urging to “bring joy in to the miserable lives of people around you” A spiritual, moral appeal.

Page no 29

·         My third email today [ David vs Goliath] stresses comparison between David [ myself] and goliaths [ themselves] except urging to throw their weight behind a “noble cause” viz: taking  job related in to internet deprived. 

·         I must wait & see, how my” FRAMES” collide with their frame of “Indifference”

Page no 37

·         Happens all the time.

Page no 38

·         Won’t work in India! 

·         This is ok.

 

Page no 39

·         I have, quite a few ,” opposite-type of experiences in such situations ! I have waited-and waited – for the big boss for hours, politely insisting that I will not leave without talking to him! When the big boss finally turns up after 2 hours he has guilty confusions and “accepts” my proposal!

Page no 44

·         Some 25 years break, sat in builder Hasmukh shas’s office from morning till evening and refused to leave without refund of rs-40,000/- I had advanced for a row-house I did not leave even after entire staff went home .then I got my money back ! 

Page No.47

·         This is exactly how I got from a BMC officer at shivaji park permission for a separate water concoction – after going & sitting in his office, continuously, for 3days in a row! 

 


Thursday, 8 October 2020

SMART LUCK – ANDREW DAVIDSON

                                         BOOK READ ON 16-10-2005 TO 17-11-2005


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When I read any book, I scribble my comments / notes in the margins

These reflect my views / opinions about what the author is saying – including my disagreement

Often, my comments are in the nature of telling myself :

Hey ! We should try out this idea in our own business ( Head-hunting / Online Recruitment )

Following are my comments re :



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Page no 09

·         Will monster / Naukri / times jobs under- estimate Global Recruiter? I hope so.

Page no 10

·         Between WWJ and GR, I plan to change the way online recruitment gets done today.

Page no 18

·         A management deserves the Union it gets Read my circulars  “ communicating for productivity”1982/87

Page no 30

·         I don’t think, I have such a “needed personality “- never the less I am going to try to convince 400 newspapers to publish JAS, every day. 

PAGE NO 43

·         What next after 3pjobs.com / recruitguru.com / world- wide-jobs.com / global Recruit net / India recruiter.net?

·         JAM / RAM are in this category.

·         We are trying to do the same with 2 people & myself!

·         I hope, someday, I will take job –info to jobseekers in the farthest corner of India. That is my mission.

Page no 44

·         We are going thru our hard times right now. 

Page no 60

·         In our case, a more resourceful “second” can overtake, both WWJ & GR that is a worry.

Page no 80

·         I saw one, for the first time in sing ore some 8/10 months ago.

Page no 88

·         I could ask the same thing about WWJ, & GR!

·         This is where we are suffering.

Page no 89

·         We have been at WWJ for a year now and it just does not seem to pick-up!

·         This will apply genially to partner websites of GR.

Page no 92

·         This could describe me as well

Page no 98

·         Perseverance

·         I agree. This is one of the biggest problems for American businesses.

Page no 99

·         Just as we don’t want to take on monster & Naukri & timesjobs.we could not. We have no money!  

 Page no 129

·         Writing for mummy’s cataract operation.

Page no 130 

·         I am only 72 


Thursday, 1 October 2020

THE INVISIBLE GORILLA – CHRISTOPHER CHABRIS & DANIEL SIMONS



                                                                   BOOK READ ON 19-10-2010 TO 21-03-2011



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When I read any book, I scribble my comments / notes in the margins

These reflect my views / opinions about what the author is saying – including my disagreement

Often, my comments are in the nature of telling myself :

Hey ! We should try out this idea in our own business ( Head-hunting / Online Recruitment )

Following are my comments re :



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Page no xi

·         “I have suffered most from this illusion.”

·         What illusion can I “take advantages of “-to persuade jobseekers to use JAM? It has been 13 days sine lunch and no traffic, despite pushing out 200,000 emails!

Page no 07

·         People see what they want to see and hear what they want to hear.   

Page no 11

·         Arjun being able “see” only one eye of the bird sitting on a branch of the tree.

Page no 14

·         Google computes “Relevance” of any search link to an entered “search Term “in this way. After search results are displayed, which is the “first” link that click and how long do you “stay” on that site before moving on.  

Page no 27

·         People hear what they like to hear!

Page no 30

·         Like placeman of your website on the very first page of Google search-results!

Page no 33

·         Read “Black Swan” by Nasim Taleb. of course, “Fooled by randomness” is better.

Page no 47

·         This did happen!

Page no 48

·         Quite like “key words database for any function or skill.

Page no 49

·         See Japanese movie “Rashomon” for  3 versions of a murder by 3 differcht “Eye witnesses

Page no 52

·         Read book “thinking on your feet” by a famous Americans criminal lawyer.