Saturday, August 31, 2019

Safeguarding Intellectual Property through Blockchain

  August 31, 2019    Nikhil Verma

Few weeks back I had published an original idea of Intertwined Blockchains. I thought why not timestamp it on the two well known blockchains - Bitcoin and Ethereum so that there is a permanent history and I can easily prove the same.

I got this solution in the form of www.stamp.io which promised to create an immutable record of existence, integrity and ownership for documents and files thereby ensuring accountability, attribution and auditability.

I made a PDF of the idea and submitted to this website for "stamping". Essentially it created a hash of my document (along with other hashes of other documents) and stored that hash on the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains. It then provided me with a link (certificate) to evidence the transaction IDs that contain the hash of my document along with the hash of my document.

The PDF of Intertwined Blockchain idea is here.
The stamp.io certificate can be found here.
You can use any other website to generate SHA256 checksum like the one here.


Visualizing Fourier Series and Fourier Transformation

  August 31, 2019    Nikhil Verma

If you ever go in the depths of artificial intelligence, you will come across the need for understanding the fourier transformation. As Deep AI says, Fourier transform can be used as a feature selection and/or dimensionality reduction technique.  If the data exhibits any tendency towards periodicity, the FT can be used to generate features by selecting the FT components with the highest weights.  One can also reduce the dimensionality of the data set if one projects all data on to a subspace of components that tend to exhibit large weights.

Folks at 3Blue1Brown have two amazing videos on this topic:
1. But what is a Fourier series? From heat flow to circle drawings

Gartner predicts 90% of enterprise blockchain implementations will require replacement by 2021

  August 31, 2019    Nikhil Verma

By 2021, 90% of current enterprise blockchain platform implementations will require replacement within 18 months to remain competitive, secure and avoid obsolescence, according to Gartner, Inc.

https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2019-07-03-gartner-predicts-90--of-current-enterprise-blockchain

Saturday, August 3, 2019

KPMG's top 10 technologies for 2019

  August 03, 2019    Nikhil Verma

KPMG has revealed the findings of its 2019 Technology Industry Innovation Survey, which includes responses from over 740 technology industry leaders across 12 countries. The top 10 transformational technologies for 2019, according to KPMG, are:
1. Internet of Things (IoT)
2. Robotic process automation (RPA, e.g. software bots)
3. Artificial intelligence, cognitive computing, machine learning
4 & 5 (tied position). Blockchain and Robotics & automation (including autonomous vehicles).



More in the link here: https://info.kpmg.us/content/dam/info/en/techinnovation/pdf/2019/top-10-technologies-for-business-transformation.pdf
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