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[sameer]

If anyone is interested in Machine learning/Deep learning, Here's one website. Has a project based learning approach. Some are free and some are paid.

Courses

Discover the best courses to build a career in AI | Whether you're a beginner or an experienced practitioner, our world-class curriculum and unique teaching methodology will guide you through every stage of your Al journey.

www.deeplearning.ai

I personally work in the semiconductor industry and lot of my work is in C++. So the above website has been a good way to upgrade skills and branch out.

btw If anyone else has other websites/books/resources for learning ML/AI, then please do share.

@ArjunMK1A If you are interested in data science careers, then invest in learning ML and statistics. Learn Python and R as well. There are some courses on sites like coursera.

 

[concard]

If anyone is interested in Machine learning/Deep learning, Here's one website. Has a project based learning approach. Some are free and some are paid.

Courses

Discover the best courses to build a career in AI | Whether you're a beginner or an experienced practitioner, our world-class curriculum and unique teaching methodology will guide you through every stage of your Al journey.

www.deeplearning.ai

I personally work in the semiconductor industry and lot of my work is in C++. So the above website has been a good way to upgrade skills and branch out.

btw If anyone else has other websites/books/resources for learning ML/AI, then please do share.

@ArjunMK1A If you are interested in data science careers, then invest in learning ML and statistics. Learn Python and R as well. There are some courses on sites like coursera.

What's the next thing in software? Please don't tell me about AI or Machine learning, I have heard enough of it. Is there anything where we can make $1 million - $10 million in services per year. I am talking about any niche area where I can provide services to companies where others have not shown much interest. I feel like I have become soulless working in Technology. It's like my work is used for mere consumerism of the masses which in turn has devastating impact on the planet. I want to make a small difference somewhere but I have no idea where to look.

Just to give an example what I am looking for in general, imagine through software I am able to save our country 5% of crude oil imports, that would make me happy. Something more like where there is positive environmental and societal impact. I am not interested in catering to building another app or service which promotes only consumerism.

 

[sameer]

What's the next thing in software? Please don't tell me about AI or Machine learning, I have heard enough of it.

Some of the hype is dying down now. A lot of the AI stocks are also going down. But it is an important skill to keep learning nevertheless at least personally for me because I don't want to be left out. As an example recently, our company was piloting Github Copilot for all SW developers, and some of things that it could do were surprising. i.e it was automatically able to fill in various blocks of code if given enough description and context, though I still had to double check and edit some stuff for code quality.

It is not a level where it can automatically identify bugs and fix them, but it was still eye opening nevertheless, because earlier I used to consider LLM's as just hyped up garbage.

The truth about all this AI stuff is somewhere in the middle. I'd still say that it is the next biggest thing, at least in the Computer science field, but not as much hyped up or incredible as it is being marketed to be.

I feel like I have become soulless working in Technology. It's like my work is used for mere consumerism of the masses which in turn has devastating impact on the planet. I want to make a small difference somewhere but I have no idea where to look.

Just to give an example what I am looking for in general, imagine through software I am able to save our country 5% of crude oil imports, that would make me happy. Something more like where there is positive environmental and societal impact. I am not interested in catering to building another app or service which promotes only consumerism.

Well, tbh almost every corporate desk job is soulless, the glass will always be half full whichever way you look at it, it really depends on how much interest you have in the area you'e working in.

I don't have any specific ideas for you right now, but what you want can perhaps be done through ESG focused startups. Just search for ESG startups, there are many working in the sustainability sector, maybe you'll find something that interests you.

https://www.f6s.com/companies/sustainability/india/co

 

[SKC]

What's the next thing in software? Please don't tell me about AI or Machine learning, I have heard enough of it. Is there anything where we can make $1 million - $10 million in services per year. I am talking about any niche area where I can provide services to companies where others have not shown much interest. I feel like I have become soulless working in Technology. It's like my work is used for mere consumerism of the masses which in turn has devastating impact on the planet. I want to make a small difference somewhere but I have no idea where to look.

Just to give an example what I am looking for in general, imagine through software I am able to save our country 5% of crude oil imports, that would make me happy. Something more like where there is positive environmental and societal impact. I am not interested in catering to building another app or service which promotes only consumerism.

AI or Machine Learning is the product. There are the tools using which you need to come up with a product.

You need to find a use case where you can make something useful using these and then market it to customers with some sensible pricing structure.

What I am seeing these days is the new Cloud based all-in-one platform from Microsoft/Oracle/Google like MS Power Platform which offers reporting, apps development, data transformation, automation, etc all in one place and tied to single licenses.

We are already replacing old custom applications made in Java/Dotnet with apps developed in PowerApps using reports made in PowerBI and flows made in PowerAutomate. Single license covers these three and is much cheaper than hosting a windows server for Java/Dotnet and an Oracle SQL Database.

For the folks in regular IT job, please learn about Power Platform it is creating a havoc already in the IT Services Industry and there is currently shortage of Power Developers in the market.​

 

[DumbPilot]

Guys and gals I would recommend hyperskill to anyone of you if you want to quickly learn a new coding language or any of its framework.

It costs 20$ tho, well worth the price.

I took my friends account to go through it pretty good content.

If anyone else know other such platform than please share with the young ones here.

A far better alternative is Advent Of Code: https://adventofcode.com/

It happens every year from 1st to 25th of December, and is problem oriented. You pick up your coding language you want to learn, and start away on the problems.

 

[spikey360]

What's the next thing in software? Please don't tell me about AI or Machine learning, I have heard enough of it. Is there anything where we can make $1 million - $10 million in services per year. I am talking about any niche area where I can provide services to companies where others have not shown much interest. I feel like I have become soulless working in Technology. It's like my work is used for mere consumerism of the masses which in turn has devastating impact on the planet. I want to make a small difference somewhere but I have no idea where to look.

Just to give an example what I am looking for in general, imagine through software I am able to save our country 5% of crude oil imports, that would make me happy. Something more like where there is positive environmental and societal impact. I am not interested in catering to building another app or service which promotes only consumerism.

The next thing in software lies in the embedded. More electronic devices will be invented than ever before. While there are programmers who already exist for writing embedded programs to run their OS and the usual operations, there is a lot of scope for bring to life applications into the embedded devices, functionalities for which does not exist yet. Example: a watch being able to send a PGP-encrypted email, all by itself. This is, in my opinion what exists in the retail space.

As for non-retail, simulation is the next. We need a simulator for everything. Let's say you as a sarpanch have a simulator which models the behaviours of the typical 200-350 people under your watch. You are goiing to take a big decision like widening the communal pond, what do you think the reactions of various sections of your populace will be. Something like this. This scales up, from sarpanch, to municipal heads, DMs, CMs, PMs etc. The military people already have their battle simulators and wargames. Civilians need simulators which model some aspects of the society as well.

 

[concard]

The next thing in software lies in the embedded. More electronic devices will be invented than ever before. While there are programmers who already exist for writing embedded programs to run their OS and the usual operations, there is a lot of scope for bring to life applications into the embedded devices, functionalities for which does not exist yet. Example: a watch being able to send a PGP-encrypted email, all by itself. This is, in my opinion what exists in the retail space.

As for non-retail, simulation is the next. We need a simulator for everything. Let's say you as a sarpanch have a simulator which models the behaviours of the typical 200-350 people under your watch. You are goiing to take a big decision like widening the communal pond, what do you think the reactions of various sections of your populace will be. Something like this. This scales up, from sarpanch, to municipal heads, DMs, CMs, PMs etc. The military people already have their battle simulators and wargames. Civilians need simulators which model some aspects of the society as well.

I was thinking something similar to what you have written. Embedded systems and simulation is where the Gold is. With respect to simulation I hope we can create smart tools which can recommend the shape and size of the aircraft, the design of our cities you know something along those lines. That would save lot of time and man hours.

 

[spikey360]

I was thinking something similar to what you have written. Embedded systems and simulation is where the Gold is. With respect to simulation I hope we can create smart tools which can recommend the shape and size of the aircraft, the design of our cities you know something along those lines. That would save lot of time and man hours.

City design sounds very cool. Not only for new cities, but on how and where and if to or if not to expand cities at all.
So many times, politicians inaugurate city extensions which take decades to actually become habitable.

 

[Suryavanshi]

How many of you guys know how to use github

 

[Suryavanshi]

How many of you guys know how to use github

Post in thread 'Defence Acquisitions - 2014 onwards'

Feb 7, 2025

Lists of some major defence deals signed/cleared by Government of India since 2014:

Updated list with country of Origin of the equipment.
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2014

• 118 Arjun Mk-2 Tanks.
• 262 Barak-1 SAMs.

2015

• 36 Rafale Fighter Jets.
• 22 AH-64E Apache Attack Helicopters. (Delivery completed in 2020)
• 15 CH-47F Chinook Transport Choppers.(Delivery completed in 2020)
• 10 Heron TP MALE UAVs.
• 7 Next-Generation Stealth Frigates.
• 6 Nuclear-Powered Attack Submarines.
• Akash SR-SAM Systems (7 Squadrons).
• 428 L-70 & ZU-23 AD...

• ezsasa

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I'm looking into maintaining a repo for the above type of data in github

 

[phakepraful]

I'm looking into maintaining a repo for the above type of data in github

Like this? https://github.com/phakepraful/Defence-Aquisitions---2014-onwards

 

[Suryavanshi]

Like this? https://github.com/phakepraful/Defence-Aquisitions---2014-onwards

Can we have version control in this like we have for code?

 

[phakepraful]

Can we have version control in this like we have for code?

Yes.

Click on this for list of all commits/versions.


Click on this to go to that particular commit/version. Or just click on the version to see the changes in that version.

 

[Suryavanshi]

Yes.

Click on this for list of all commits/versions.
View attachment 25677

Click on this to go to that particular commit/version. Or just click on the version to see the changes in that version.
View attachment 25678

I will be creating a central defence forum bharat github account. All our project will he hosted there.
Can you do the same job there we will give you full access the commit.

@ezsasa we will like to proceed with your permission, all credit will be given.

 

[SKC]

You can give access to ezsasa as contributor to the github code. He can checkout and add new stuff regularly.

 

[Suryavanshi]

You can give access to ezsasa as contributor to the github code. He can checkout and add new stuff regularly.

@ezsasa your call

 

[ezsasa]

I will be creating a central defence forum bharat github account. All our project will he hosted there.
Can you do the same job there we will give you full access the commit.

@ezsasa we will like to proceed with your permission, all credit will be given.

please go ahead.
what will the output look like, as-is or some cleanup?

 

[Suryavanshi]

please go ahead.
what will the output look like, as-is or some cleanup?

Their are multiple purposes and some will be explored in the future.

For now ours many focus is version control i.e, track all the changes you have made over tike since you will he monitor your own contributions you have made over time.
It is hard for you to check data eveytime you make an update and github has tools to visualize the data.
This repo will he exposed to public and peope may give you inputs or ask you for permission to contribute.

 

[phakepraful]

Can you do the same job there we will give you full access the commit.

Sure. I can do it.

And to address ezsasa's point of wether some cleanup is required. I don't know what exactly he meant by it, but yes, some "cleanup" is required.

Since we are using MarkDown (MD) file, we need to write content in MD format.

Like this. (All those links are just flag emojis)


Which will then look like this.


And since Github doesn't provide a formatting toolbar, we might need to use an external MD editor, and then copy back into github. I used https://stackedit.io/app#

And, since this editor too doesn't have emojis, we need to copy emojis from dfb.

Also, we can copy directly from dfb into stackedit and most of the formatting is preserved.

 

[Suryavanshi]

Sure. I can do it.

And to address ezsasa's point of wether some cleanup is required. I don't know what exactly he meant by it, but yes, some "cleanup" is required.

Since we are using MarkDown (MD) file, we need to write content in MD format.

Like this. (All those links are just flag emojis)
View attachment 25698

Which will then look like this.
View attachment 25699

And since Github doesn't provide a formatting toolbar, we might need to use an external MD editor, and then copy back into github. I used https://stackedit.io/app#
View attachment 25701
And, since this editor too doesn't have emojis, we need to copy emojis from dfb.

Also, we can copy directly from dfb into stackedit and most of the formatting is preserved.

Man your a life saver. This was what I was looking for.

Any idea if github will cause issue with creating account from proton mail? I heard not including 2FA might cause the account to be flagged