a nice quote from 大学 “Great Learning”

A great quote to share here...

明明德於天下者，先治其國。
欲治其國者，先齊其家。
欲齊其家者，先修其身。
欲修其身者，先正其心。
~大学 “Great Learning”

(míngmíng dé yú tiānxià zhĕ, xiān zhì qí guó)
(yù zhì qí guó zhĕ, xiān qí qí jiā)
(yù qí qí jiā zhĕ, xiān xiū qí shēn)
(yù xiū qí shēn zhĕ, xiān zhēng qí xīn) 

Da Xue 

 

 Those who wish to bring light and virtue to the world, must first govern the nation.
Those who wish to govern the nation, must first organise the home.
Those who wish to organise the home, must first cultivate themselves.
Those who wish to cultivate themselves, must first correct their heart.

 

 

Business Analytics

• Continuous exploration of past business performance to gain insight and drive business planning.
• Developing new insights
• Based upon data,stastical methods, quantitative analysis and predictive modeling
• Fact-based management to drive decision making 
• Strong management backing to champion fact base decision making.

Sun Tzu: The Art of War , Principles

Sun Tzu, The Art of War presents two levels of principles

Strategic Principles

• Commitment
• Observation
• Preparation

Tactical Principles

• Assessment
• Adaptation
• Leverage
• Deception
• Timing
• Pace

Point of Views

• The Individual
• Individual Working Group
• Competition

This year web 2.0 summit focus on key point of control

How the clashes between the giants and dwarves, coexisting and fighting for control in the web 2.0 world. Companies consolidating for power and increasing the footprints. The theme for this year summit on the point of control certainly will help the community learn how this controls are working and how it will shape the future.

So how does it help? A map was created.
The  first iteration map that could be found at this link below:-
http://map.web2summit.com

Hope to learn alot more soon.

Afraid of loosing...

To understand the design, sometime we have to go back to some human fundamentals...

I just learn an interesting view on human perspective on loss aversion which I hope to record here. 
Based on given amount and head or tail challenge.


Case 1:
Given $1000

Take a risk:  [ Head get $1000 more, Tail loose and get $0]
Play it safe : [ Get $500 more no matter what ]


Case 2:
Given $2000

Take a risk:  [ Head loose $0 , Tail loose $1000]
Play it safe : [ Loose $500 no matter what ]


It was understood even in human and some primates study, both will more preferably choose to play it safe in case 1, but when the scenario is changed in case 2, more will take the risk option. The interesting point to observe here is that in both cases, playing it safe will make one person still have $1500. However, the relative view of human mind chooses bases on the perception where it is called risk loss aversion

Interestingly, that how our finance/economy is geared up to capitalize on this psychological aspect of human  behaviors.

A quick blog on LTO tapes roadmap and specs ( Photocourtesy of LTO Ultrium owners)

android is learning to run

Just like a baby, after 18 months or so, Android OS has started to show that is able to run. If cupcakes was liken to a baby learning to walk, Froyo will likely be it learning to run. Infact it is already showing some strength against the iphone OS prior froyo release.

Here is the list of milestone to date on android OS.
20080923 - Android 1.0 [1st release]
20090309 - Android 1.1 [2nd release]

20090430 - Android 1.5 [cupcake]
20090915 - Android 1.6 [donut]
20091026 - Android 2.0 [eclair]
20100112 - Android 2.1 [flan]
20100520 - Android 2.2 [froyo]
TBA         - Android 3.0 [gingerbread]


 

*picture courtesy of web resources*