What is Data Mining? What? How? Can? Explainstuff – Concept of the day.

ExplainStuff.com jumps into a technical sector and explains about what Data Mining is and how it is used and can it be used to counter terrorism.

Data Mining was supposedly used to determine the leader of the 9/11 attacks.

Take the real world example of the 9/11 attacks. There is historical data about these attacks: a number of foreign men applied to flight school in the United States as part of their attack planning. Based on this historical data, a model can be created that collects data on all of the future applicants to flight schools to see whether any are foreign, or share other characteristics. Read on further to understand the concept in an in depth detail.

Explain what is a macro? – Concept of the day.

A macro is a series of keyboard strokes recorded by an application. These keystrokes often represent commands within a piece of software which are combined to reduce the work needed to perform the functions. Macros are then stored within the application to allow for repeated use.

When recording a macro within an application like Microsoft Word, the keyboard strokes or commands get bound to a shortcut key or stored within a toolbar making them accessible via the mouse.

Explain Stuff – Elephants Dream :World’s first Open movie

We have heard of open source softwares very much. But what about movie ? Let’s see…..
Elephants Dream is the world’s first open movie, made entirely with with open source graphics software such as Blender and production files freely available to use however you please, under a Creative Commons license.
The short film was created by the Orange Open Movie Project studio in Amsterdam during 2005/2006, bringing together a diverse team of artists and developers from all over the world.

Explain Stuff – World’s Strongest Animal – Amazing fact of the day

The term “strongest animal” can be misleading, but most often it refers to how much an animal can lift relative to its own weight. Let’s see the world’s strongest animals in terms of different standards :

Explain stuff – Blue Screen – Fascinating concept of the day

Bluescreen has become such a sophisticated technique that it is now virtually impossible to tell the difference between special effects and real film locations. The process can transport actors anywhere in the world, or out of this world, without actually leaving the studio. It can take you to prehistoric times or transport you to outer space.

Most poisonous animal – Explain Stuff Fact of the day

Being the most poisonous animal, the Golden Poison Frog has an interesting relationship with humans, as does the fugu pufferfish. The Golden Poison Frog is the main source used by Columbian natives to create poison darts. The frog is captured between sticks, then held near a fire. Under stress, the frog begins releasing poison profusely as small drops which leak from its skin.

Flying First class is Fun! Worth the money.

My first class flight from DFW to SYR has been a memorable one and I talk how much better the service is different from economy to first class. They make it worth the money.

World’s first Rocket warfare – Explain Stuff Fact of the day.

Explain stuff takes a step into the World’s history and explains how and who used World’s first Rocket Warfare. Today’s Fact of the day talks about Chinese invention, Tipu Sultan – First to use rockets in wars, British – who upgraded the initial rockets, anglo-mysore wars, and about APJ Abdul Kalam who touched this topic in his renowned book “Wings of Fire”

Read on to enjoy today’s fact of the day.

Few differences between CVS and SVN | CVS vs SVN

I have been doing some research on which Source control tool I should use for my next project. These are a very few of the list I have made that I think are most important. Please talk more about cvs and subversion and let me know which one you use and why?

Is there something special that you do when you are stressed out?

Usually reading a blog, reading something funny or interesting, gets the brain energized again. That’s what we learn when we were kids, usually each class lasted around 50-60 minutes, just for this one reason. But, somehow we miss that at work and hence the lack of interest and enthusiasm.

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