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In a year when several countries, including India and the US will have elections, addressing artificial intelligence-generated misinformation that could deceive voters is an urgent global threat that requires various stakeholders such as the governments and the technology industry to come together, said Dana Rao, executive vice president and chief trust officer at software major Adobe. Rao, however, cautioned that regulations should not stifle innovation."Government and industry have to work together in order to have a…

The Mahabharata and the Ramayana can be rather unidimensional in the popular imagination — a triumphalist account of good over evil almost verging on a “happily-ever-after”-style fairytale ending. I have always found the epics’ amenability to interpretation fascinating, even if it means that people use them to jump to all sorts of conclusions. When I was 10, a classmate told me that the key message of both texts is that women are the root of all evil and wars. However, it is to this offering up of multiple meanings that…

In a senior level appointment, Chyrscapital-backed consulting and IT services provider Xoriant has hired former LTIMindtree executive Mukund Rao as president for global markets, ET has learnt.Based in the US, Rao was the chief business officer of the banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) vertical at LTIMindtree (with Mindtree before the merger with L&T Infotech) for over four years.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIM KozhikodeIIMK Advanced Data Science For…

Guns & Gulaabs, the new retro-style crime drama from Raj & DK, is dropping today on Netflix. Serving as an ode to Bollywood in the mid-90s, the black comedy series blends romance and pulp comedy into a fine paste, where a wrench turning into an instrument of death sets off a chain reaction of wild events in the unpredictable town of Gulaabganj. Marking the duo's first Netflix project, it's worth mentioning that Guns & Gulaab's spent an egregiously long time in production — having dropped a teaser in September,…

How to explain any machine learning model using SHAPShapley Value is a concept derived from cooperative game theory in Economics that assigns a value to each player in a cooperative game based on their contributions to the game. In the field of machine learning, this concept has been adapted into the SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations) framework, which is an effective technique for interpreting the workings of a model.If you’re interested in learning more about Shapley Values, I highly recommend checking out my previous…

Sidharth Rao, the founder of one of India’s first digital advertising agencies Webchutney, and founding partner of marketing technology firm Punt Partners, died on Friday evening. Rao is survived by his wife and parents. He launched Webchutney in 1999, which was acquired by the Japanese multinational media network Dentsu in 2013. While he continued to head Webchutney, it was in 2021 when Rao was appointed as head of the India unit of dentsuMB, the restructured global creative network of the company.Rao’s agency won the…

A comprehensive (and colorful) guide to everything you need to know about evaluating classification modelsI realized through my learning journey that I’m an incredibly visual learner and I appreciate the use of color and fun illustrations to learn new concepts, especially scientific ones that are typically explained like this:Image by authorFrom my previous articles, through tons of lovely comments and messages (thank you for all the support!), I found that several people resonated with this sentiment. So I decided to…

Who is CR Rao, 102-year-old mathematician awarded ‘Nobel Prize’ of statistics for 75-year-old work? Photo: IANS102-year-old mathematician CR Rao has been honoured with the 2023 International Price in Statistics, called the ‘Nobel Prize of statistics'. Rao is being conferred with the ultimate honour for his remarkable work published 75 years ago that has with age helped in advancement across several scientific fields. Rao is a prominent mathematician and statistician who started out from India and eventually…

Looking for an exciting web series to binge-watch? There's good news Jubilee is set to make its OTT premiere soon. Although there are several films and shows that are expected to premiere on OTT platforms in the coming weeks, Jubilee has attracted attention from the audience due to a stellar star cast and promising premise. The web series centers around the extravagance and allure of the Bollywood film industry during the 1940s and 1950s, along with the drama that occurred behind the scenes.The trailer of Jubilee has…

How would you explain the literary and religious significance of Saundarya Lahari to someone who is not familiar with this text?  We all know about the worship of the Mother Goddess, and the numerous legends about Shakti – as Kali, as Chandi, as Durga. Saundarya Lahari is a Sanskrit hymn in one hundred verses – or hundred and three, in some versions – and it identifies Shakti as the ultimate boss. It tells us how the entire universe is nothing but her manifestation, presents a cosmology centered around Shakti, and…