Dineshkumar Ponnusamy

கொரானா வைரஸ்

2020-03-07T02:12:00.000+05:30

நேரமாகிக்கொண்டே இருந்தது; வெளிச்சமில்லாத இடத்தில் நேரம் போவது சற்று கொடுமையாகவே இருந்தது. ஏதோ வெளியிலிருந்து வருவது போல் இருந்தது. கட்டையான குரலில், "வாங்க போலாம், அது நமக்கான விண்கலம் தான். இன்னும் ஒருமணி நேரத்துல பூமிக்கு போயிடலாம்", என்ற இயந்திரமனிதனின் கட்டளையை ஏற்றுக்கொண்டது போல கரிகாலன் வெளியே வந்தார்.

நாசாவின் விண்கலம். பட உதவி: நாசா

மிகவும் நெலிந்து போயிருந்த கரிகாலன் கடந்த 20 நிமிடங்களாக உணவு எதுவும் எடுத்துக்கொள்ளவில்லை. மின்னலொளி யில் இயங்கும் வீட்டின் மின்சாரத்தை துண்டித்திருந்தார். பூமியைப் பற்றிய நினைவுகள் வந்து போயின. கடந்த மூன்று ஆண்டுகளில் தன்னுடைய விண்கலத்தையும், இயந்திரமனிதர்களையும் தவிர வேறு எதையும் கவனத்தில் கொள்ளாத கரிகாலன், தன்னுடைய கொள்ளுப்பேரன் மூன்றாம் கரிகாலனையும், எள்ளுப்பெயர்த்தி நல்லினியையும் வீனசிலிருந்து பூமிக்கு வரச்சொல்லியிருந்தார்.

கரிகாலன் 2020-ம் ஆண்டு புவி வெப்பமயமாதலும் , கொடிய நச்சு பரவுவதன் காரணத்தாலும், செவ்வாய் கிரகத்திற்கு நுழைவிசைவு வாங்கிச்சென்றார். பூமியிலிருந்து வேலைக்கு ஆட்கள் வருவதை செவ்வாய் வாசியினர் விரும்பவில்லை. ஆயினும், ஆயுளை நீட்டிக்கச்செய்யும் ஆராய்ச்சியில் எலான் மஸ்க் விருது வாங்கியிருந்த மாறவர்மனின் கூற்று பொய்யென நிறுவியிருந்ததால் செவ்வாய் செல்வதற்கு நுழைவிசைவு கிடைத்தது.

எலான் மஸ்க். பட உதவி: விக்கிப்பீடியா

இரண்டு ஆண்டுகளில் மாறவர்மனும் கரிகாலனும் காதல் திருமணம் செய்து கொண்டனர். இரண்டாம் கரிகாலனும், மூன்றாம் கரிகாலனும் மாந்தர் படியாக்கம் முறையில் உருவானார்கள். ஹ்யூமனாய்டுகளை கொள்ளுப்பேரன்களாகவும் எள்ளுப்பெயர்த்திகளாகவும் தத்தெடுத்துக் கொண்டனர். 2030, செவ்வாய் பகுதி-33 நேரப்படி காலை 9:00 மணிக்கு பூமிக்கு முதலாம் கரிகாலன், மூன்றாம் கரிகாலன், நல்லினி, மாறவர்மன் என அனைவரும் வந்திருந்தனர்.

மாறவர்மனின் கையிலிருந்த திறன்கடிகாரம் , 2021-ம் ஆண்டு நவம்பர் 24-ம் நாள், இந்தியநேரப்படி இரவு 8:35 மணிக்கு பூமியில் நடந்த இயற்கைப் பேரழிவைப் பற்றிய காட்சிகளையும் , அதன் பகுப்பாய்வுகளையும் , மனித உயிரிழப்புகளையும் , துயரங்களையும் அனைவரின் கண் முன்னே கொண்டு வந்தது. அரை மணித்துளிகள் இக்காட்சிகள் அனைவரின் கண்முன் தோன்றியது. கரிகாலன் கண்களில் நீர் தாரை தாரையாக வழிந்தோடியது. ஒருவொருக்கொருவர் பார்த்துக் கொண்டனர், எதுவும் பேசவில்லை.

கரிகாலன் தன் கண்களை மூடினார், பிறகு திறக்கவே இல்லை...

முற்றும்.

குறிப்பு: இந்தக் கதை, வா. மணிகண்டனின் நிசப்தம் ப்ளாக்கில் நடந்த சிறுகதைப் போட்டிக்காக, Oct 5, 2017 அன்று எழுதியது. போட்டியில் என் கதை தேர்வாகவில்லை.

2020-இல் நடப்பது ஒத்துப்போகிறது. அதனால் குறிப்புகளை சேர்த்துள்ளேன்.

அடிக்குறிப்புகள்

[1] Lightning | Electricity | Physics | FuseSchool

[2] கொள்ளுப்பேரன் - தமிழ் விக்சனரி

[3] உங்கள் சொந்த மொழியின் பழமையான சொற்கள் யாவை? கேள்விக்கு உமாமகேஸ்வரன். இரா (Umamageswaran R)-இன் பதில்

[4] வெள்ளி (கோள்) - தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியா

[5] புவி சூடாதலின் விளைவுகள் - தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியா

[6] கொரோனாவைரசு - தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியா

[7] செவ்வாய் (கோள்) - தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியா

[8] எலான் மசுக் - தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியா

[9] நுழைவிசைவு - தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியா

[10] அகனள், அகனன், ஈரர், திருனர் - தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியா

[11] மாந்தர் படியாக்கம் - தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியா

[12] Humanoid - Wikipedia

[13] கடிகாரம் - தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியா

[14] All the ways China’s coronavirus outbreak is affecting tech

[15] Coronavirus Update (Live): 101,858 Cases and 3,462 Deaths from COVID-19 Wuhan China Virus Outbreak

[16] Coronavirus

[17] நிசப்தம்

[18] குட்டியாக ஒரு போட்டி

All about Algorithms!

2019-05-16T23:39:00.001+05:30

If you want to get a job in any software company, and you are ready to learn anything, then try the following items.

Algorithms forever

Note: At least 50% of the software engineers may not even heard of these algorithms.

First start with Linear data structures and algorithms.

Arrays
Linked List
Stack
Queues

Then move to basic algorithms :

Sorting - Merge Sort, Insertion Sort, Quick Sort, Number of inversions
Matrix Multiplication (just know the algorithm, if not implement it)
Prime Sieving
Modular Math including multiplication and division
Euclidean Algorithm for GCD, Modular Inverse, Fast Exponentiation
Fibonacci number with matrix multiplication
Probability distribution and expected value
Stats - Mean, Median, Variance, Bayes theorem

Then one can learn some popular algorithmic techniques:

Divide and Conquer - Binary Search, Maximum Subarray
Greedy Algorithms - Activity Selection, Huffman encoding
Dynamic Programming - Matrix Chain Multiplication, Knapsack,
Linear Programming - Variable Maximisation, Linear time sorting
String Algorithms - Manacher, LCS, Edit Distance

Then comes some typical non-linear data structures:

Trees - Binary Tree, General Tree, Lowest Common Ancestor
Binary Search Tree - In order Traversal, Level order traversal, finding kth largest element, diameter, depth, number of nodes, etc.
Heaps - Array Implementation, Heapify, Heap Sort
Union Find
Hash Table - Linear Probing, Open addressing, Collision avoidance

Then you can learn about Graphs:

Adjacency List, Adjacency Matrix, Weighted Edge Graphs
Basic Traversal algos - Breadth First Search, Depth First Search, etc
Shortest Path Finding Algorithm - Dijkstra, Floyd Warshal, Bellman Ford
Minimum Spanning Tree - Kruskal's Algorithm, Prim's Algorithm

By this time you are already pretty good with programming. You will do better than most of undergrad CS students. If you want to learn more and delve deep read more.

Advance Tree and Graph :

Balanced Trees - AVL, Red-Black
Heavy Light Decomposition, B+ Trees, Quad Tree
Advance Graph - Min Cut, Max Flow
Maximum Matching - Hall's Marriage
Hamiltonian Cycle
Edge Graphs / Line Graphs
Strongly Connected Components
Dominant Sub-Graph, Vertex Cover, Travelling Salesman - Approx algorithms

Advance String Algorithms :

Knuth Morris Pratt Algorithm
Rabin Karp Algorithm
Tries and Compressed Tries
Prefix Trees, Suffix Trees, Suffix Automation - Ukkonen Algorithm

Advance Math:

Fast Fourier Transformation
Primality Testing
Computational Geometry - Closest point pair, Voronoi diagram, Convex Hull.

General Advance topics :

Iterating through all combination / permutation
Bit manipulation

Well, once you know all of these, you are ready to think like an algorithm designer, welcome to the world of Algorithms :D

Why machine learning now?

2019-05-13T10:27:00.000+05:30

Well, last year I thought it was the block chain technology which is going to dominate in future but soon I realized that it is the Machine Learning and it's sub branch deep learning.

Why Machine Learning Now

Why it is so important?

Have you heard about the Google's Self driving cars, it's the future. It's not just car, trucks, or any vehicle which will pickup something from source and deliver at the destination without any manual intervention. Humans can track or monitor it. Uber, Lyft they all will be in loss, once the self driving cars are out.

How those are working, In simple terms Machine Learning, how to drive. It identifies the signals, it identifies the crossing paths, animals, humans, and most importantly the difference.

Is there anything else which is live?

Yes all the smart speakers (Siri, Cortana, Alexa, Google assistant), all of them uses the Machine learning. It learns the routine.

Have you ever used YouTube Autoplay?
Have you ever wondered why YouTube/Netflix/Amazon recommends a video?
Have you ever seen a book or a thing you may buy in next week or month or so, is recommended to you?
Your loan application result also determined by the same concept.

Not only these and many more in our life is now uses this technology. It's never late to learn a technology. Better late than never. Welcome to the world of Machine Learning. Let's continue with python programming basics.

Basic Data Types in Python - Numbers

2019-05-11T04:39:00.003+05:30

Usually every programmer will start with "Hello World!", but for a change lets start with numbers. I personally believe that numbers play vital role than alphabets.

Numbers

For someone who worked on other programming languages, it will be surprise and shock, since python doesn't have a concept called Variable Declaration.

For new beginners, Variable declaration is a technical way of saying the data type for a variable. Let's go with an example.

In Python 2.x,
In Python 3.x,
If you look at both the examples, there is a very minor change. Let's not worry about it now. If you see the variable 'x', we didn't define what kind of value it is going to hold.

We assigned the value of x to 1, we are printing it, and we are also printing the (data) type of x. In the last line we are printing both the type and value of x. The output will be like this:

Output of Numbers

If you look at the output, python understood that the variable 'x' is of type 'int', even though we didn't declare the variable with the data type 'int'. There is no semicolon at the end of the lines (some language tend to have that semicolon at the end of each line).

Another observation from 2.x and 3.x is the open and close brackets. Python 3 has more explicit way of passing the variables, where as Python 2 doesn't have this. This is one among the different between 2 and 3. Here after all my codes will be Python 3, as I mentioned earlier in the post.

Launching Python Terminal on Windows 10

2019-05-11T04:14:00.000+05:30

Open your python terminal. If you didn't install Python, check my old posts. In order to open python, press Windows Key and type "Python" and hit Enter.

Launching Python 3.7 Terminal

It will open Python Terminal. This is just to make sure that you have Python Installed on your computer, we will see other programs with Microsoft Visual Studio.

Once the Python terminal is opened (it will look similar to the command prompt with black and white screen). Three greater than symbol (>>>) will be shown. You can try some in built commands like help(), copyright() and other commands.

Once you type any of those commands, it will take you to that particular topic. Let's say I want to read what print command does, so First I type help(), and then print.

Python Terminal - Help

In order to get out of the help menu, need to press Ctrl + C. That will take back you to the original menu (with >>>).

We have something else called IDLE (Python). IDLE is an python's default IDE with lot of options rather than plain command prompt.

Python 3.7.2 IDLE

We can create files, open existing files, save it, save as, print, debug and much more. You can play around with it, let me know your feedback in the comments.

Do I need to have some Pre-requisite for Machine Learning?

2019-05-11T03:44:00.001+05:30

Well, I don't think you need any extra prerequisite other than understanding simple English and a computer with you (preferably with internet connection) to access the source codes and you can move from there.

Python Pre-requisite for Machine Learning

When I started Learning, I started with python, but I realized its so boring since I already know other languages and it doesn't need any challenges in creating the Python scripts. I also got into the puzzle of Python 2 vs Python 3. I started with Python 2 (yes old golden days, where we don't have conflict to choose version), I left it in half and I continued Python 3 in later 2018 for fixing a not working script written in python.

I finally ported those codes to C#, and created "exe" for running on Windows Machines. I don't want to create an environment with every customer to have python installed. But there is a way, where you can convert your Python codes to Windows executable. There are couple of options, Py2exe and PyInstall . Both of them are easy to do, but I personally don't recommend creating executable from python, well that's my personal preference.

Am planning to cover some of python programs in order to complete our machine learning with more clarity. You don't need to know much but at least this. Most of the scripts I have taken and modified it from Stanford University Lectures for CS228 and CS231n.

I don't like Microsoft Way, what's my choice?

2019-05-10T18:59:00.000+05:30

With Windows computer, you can still choose other famous IDE's. The first one I recommend is Anaconda. It has Spyder, Jupyter and Many more. I personally recommend using Jupyter notebook for interactive programming.

Anaconda Distribution for R, Python, Jupyter, Spider, NumPy, SciPy, TensorFlow, pandas

Pycharm is another IDE which I used earlier, this is good for Python.

PyCharm - Python IDE for Professional Developers

Jupyter supports other programming languages including R, Scala and almost 40 languages.

In fact all of them are available for free. Some paid versions also there, for personal use we can stick to the free version.

When it comes to Python Language, you don't need to know any other languages to start with. It's super easy and user friendly. Python is built on top of C, and C++.

Python eliminates the variable declaration part. We can see more about python programming in my next post.

Python 2 vs Python 3

2019-05-10T08:43:00.000+05:30

There are two different versions of python. One is the older version 2.x and there is new forked version 3.x. The only problem is 3.0 doesn't have backward compatibility, which means the program written for 2.x cannot be run on 3.x and vice versa.

Python 2.x vs Python 3.x

Till today, there are certain group of people who are stick to 2.x version and some of them using 3.x version. There are only minor changes, most of the packages (libraries or 3rd party supporting scripts) supports both the version.

There is no hard and fast rule for version, you can choose whatever you want. In my humble opinion you can choose 3.x if you never used python, because the old version (2.x) is officially discontinued from 2010, no major releases after 2.7.

For Linux users, Python 2.x versions are installed by default, if you have any Linux based OS released after 2010, likely you will have 3.0 but anytime you can install 3.x.

How to Install Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 with Python?

2019-05-10T02:02:00.000+05:30

Since Microsoft Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio 2019 both of them are available for free, you can choose whatever you are comfortable with.

Visual Studio Code doesn't have any inbuilt compilers (you need to install different compilers if you want to run any of the other language), on the other hand Visual Studio 2019 comes with compilers for bunch of languages (C, C++, C#, and many more based on selection). When you get something extra, always you need to have more storage.

Visual Studio Code is a light weight editor, and takes very less space for doing our Machine Learning with Python.

Go to the URL: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/

Download and install the most comfortable (for you) software. Community Edition is free and comes with lot of perks including online access. You can register for Microsoft account.

MS Visual Studio Code vs MS Visual Studio 2019

Installation process is so easy, just press next wherever you see that option, when it provides check box for selecting environment select python for Visual Studio 2019. Visual Studio Code leave everything in the default state. We are not playing with configurations now.

If you want to download on different machine and install it on different machine, you need to follow a different process.

Once you download the Visual Studio Installer, (vs_community.exe), you need to run it with command prompt. Do not download anything you don't need it, because the entire package is almost 30 GB.

vs_community.exe --layout c:\vslayout --lang en-US

Add anything you want to be added as parameters, for example the below parameters lets you to install C++.

--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NativeDesktop --includeRecommended

I have added .NET desktop development and Python.

Python Development in Visual Studio

Select whatever you want along with this, if you have already installed VS you can just go to the Installer, hit of More -> Modify and select this option to install.

Machine Learning Theory vs Practical

2019-05-09T05:07:00.004+05:30

I learnt C program and their concepts by actually writing it down on a piece of paper and then later on computer, when it comes to machine learning, most of them are concepts.

Machine Learning - Theory vs Practical

The actual piece of work can be written in a line of one or two (that's the reason we choose python). Before even debating whether theory takes priority or practical takes priority, lets focus on why we need machine learning?

People tend to write programs for everything they want computer to take care of. In technical world, this process is called automation. Anything that can be automated can be automated in IT industry. But there comes a situation, when it cannot be automated.

For example, If I give you a picture of cat and picture of dog, how do you differentiate both of them?

In order to identify the difference, you will ask lot of questions about its characteristics.

1. How big it is?

2. How is the skin?

3. Does it have legs?

4. How many legs does it have?

Can we answer with these 4 questions, the answer is NO. We need more details and we need to learn from the previous answers. Even if it is technically possible to write all the possible questions and come to conclusion, but all the efforts will be wasted if I put another picture of Mouse, and ask you to choose, what is Cat, what is Dog and what is Mouse. The problem is choosing the feasible way to teach machines to understand our thinking behavior based on previous analysis.

How a child learns?

The kids learn based on watching, listening, thinking and then uses the same pattern to analyze things. The same way, we are training the systems, we are providing guidance using algorithms to get the best output, cross verifying the results, and providing the feedback to the system. In that way, the machine increases it learns. I believe that now you might have understood, the process of making the computer to learn and think based on learning is Machine Learning.

In real world, Self Driving Cars, Personal Assistants (Alexa, Google, Cortana, Siri), Product recommendations (Amazon you might be interested in, Netflix recommended for you), Search Engine results refining (How google sends results and advertisements), Chat bots (If you message any company support, it will answer based on its learning experience), and many more. Will see one by one in detail later.

Well, the best way to learn machine learning is doing it in parallel and put more focus on the concepts. Because, once you are aware of the concepts you can implement it in any programming language you want.

Machine Learning

2019-05-08T22:50:00.001+05:30

Artificial Intelligence is one of the domains which is going to rule the IT field for at least some decades from now on, it could be in various forms Machine Learning, Deep Learning or whatever.

Artificial Intelligence vs Machine Learning vs Deep Learning

Machine Learning

Recently started taking various courses related to machine learning, most of them explains in a very complicated way or at least complicated to me to understand whatever they are trying to convey.

I found lot of free courses and paid courses for the same. Finally I understood what they tried to explain. Let me try to put it in a simple way.

This is my scribbles based on my understanding, it may not be true!

Before learning about I think it is always good to learn the basics about mathematics (yes, the same maths :( ), refresh the hands-on over python (Not the snake, its the programming language) along with various packages (or libraries or tools or whatever) like Numpy, Scipy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, matplotlib, pillow and others as required.

I saw lot of people uses different set of tools, languages, for their tasks. I tried using C, C++ , Matlab (yes you can perform machine in almost any language you are comfortable with) but I felt easy with the following options.

1. Windows 10 OS [was Available for free, you can even use Windows 7]
2. Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 (Yes, its working with 2017 as well) [Community Edition is free] [Alternatively you can use Visual Code as well]
3. Python and its packages [Easy to write code (very less numbers), good for beginners and its free]

Thoothukudi Massacre in 2018 May

2018-05-24T23:36:00.002+05:30

Thoothukudi is one among the major corporation in Tamil Nadu for years. Copper extraction company Sterllite was setup in this city. Due to toxic chemicals and wastage this has a huge impact on the city and it's environment.

Thoothukudi Massacre in 2018 May

There are lot of protests happening all over the world for about 100 days, the current government ruled by Mr. Edapaadi K. Palaniswamy issued a firing order stating the protest is violent and they killed about 13 people till date, including a minor girl.

This is a massacre executed by the central government (Government of India) and state government (Tamil Nadu Government) with the political, police power against the common public.

They are trying to create a religious feelings among the people in order to divert this issue. In addition to all these non-sense, they blocked the internet and forfeited the camera from media people.

For saving a single company, the merciless government attacked the common man who live in the country, which is disgraceful.

The government of Tamil Nadu announced a million rupees each for the people who died in the massacre as a stipend, after issuing shooting order towards them.

The entire massacre looks like well planned before the execution. They even meet the collector of the district with the special force and took a picture.

People are comparing the massacre with the Syria attack and also with Jallian walla bagh massacre.

There are no condemn statement from the central government so far. People of Tamil Nadu lost their hopes with local and central government.

Future of Etherum and upcoming ICO's in 2018

2018-01-09T07:59:00.000+05:30

After a massive hit of Bitcoin in 2017, this year 2018 is going to be the year of Etherum. Not Just Etherum, but also all the ERC-20 based tokens.

As per analysis done in last year, the price was expected to reach 5000$ by end of the year 2017.
However it reached the maximum of 19890$ and currently down to 17000$.

Etherum price started with around 80$ last year march, this year it reached about 1200$. It is going to move more high. The plan to change the algorithm of ETH (Etherum), leads to the increase of price.

Most of the ICO's accepts only ETH (due to the less network transfer fee). Though BTC (Bitcoin) is expected to reach 27000$ this February. Due to the price fluctuations on the price, it may vary by 15-30 days.

Slowly ICO are ready to accept NEO as their term of investment. There are few ICO's which accepts around 60+ Cryptocurrency.

My prediction for ETH this year is, around 5,000$ by August 2018. Expected to Cross 10,000$.

Price Prediction for ICO's on or before December 2018:

1. ETN (Electroneum) - 2$
2. CAS (Cashaa) - 16.65$
3. CoinFi - 25$
4. ClearCoin - 2$
5. Zeepin - 2$
6. ORCA - 3$
~~7. Teleport - 7.56$~~
8. LOCI - 5$
9. Vyral - 8$
10. BitDegree - 20$
11. ETH (Etherum)- 10,000$
12. BTC - 27,000$
13. GONetwork - 10$

Will update the prediction for more coins and detailed analysis behind these numbers soon. Happy Holidays!

Remember to spend time with your family, it will help you to motivate much better and think!

India is also on the ICO race!

2017-11-22T08:05:00.001+05:30

After the huge success of Bitcoin, all the companies started their ICO's most of them went well and still plenty of ICOs getting launched everyday.

Recently, Electroneum a new cryptocurrency attracted more than 4 lakh users to register for an ICO. ICO is nothing but an Initial Coin Offerings which is exactly similar to the Initial Public Shares (IPOs).

This month when I was searching the internet for new ICOs, I found Cashaa a new token which is planning to address the online remittance, micro finance, and much more. Cashaa's target audience is India, Europe, and other countries.

The CEO of Cashaa Gaurav, seems to be young and energetic, and have a good vision about the company's mission.

They raised about 5.78 million USD, their hard target is about 30 million USD. The special news is that they provide 40% bonus for who registered before the ICO, and others get 10% to 40%. KYC verification fetches 2.5% bonus.

Thanks giving bonus 10% for the users who registered before 7th of November 2017.

Bitcoin Mining on Mobile!

2017-11-20T23:36:00.000+05:30

I was just searching the internet for chances of mining through mobile, how the mining works, is it really possible to utilize the hash rate of mobile for verifying the bitcoin transactions and all.

I found couple of applications (Android App) which does somewhat equivalent of the mining. They are actually displaying some google ads and providing some Satoshi's as points. Satoshi is the unit for measuring 8th digit of bitcoins.

Still am not sure whether they will provide the bitcoins or not, but their idea is inspiring.

How it Works?

1. They ask you to watch some videos (advertisement from Google Video ads) and give 300 satoshi for each video.
2. Install some applications and complete certain levels (mostly games, non-popular games)
3. Complete some surveys, usually redirect to some spam websites.
4. Without doing anything for every half an hour they provide 1000 satoshi. You need to claim it every half an hour otherwise it will wait for your confirmation to proceed further.
5. You can boost the half an hour to ten minutes by paying 2000 satoshi fees for limited time (I guess 60 minutes).

Another application simply displays some dummy hash rates, and adding satoshi's you need not to interact with it, just keep simply running in background. sometime they provide free 300 satoshi to watch an ads (most of the time it didn't work).

Here is my summary:

1. Let's assume we are using both the apps and running continuously for 10 hours a day (it's possible I believe).
2. Will use the boost technique (2000 satoshi fee for every 60 minutes), so we need to spend 20K satoshi everyday.
3. In 10 hours, we have about 600 minutes, 10 minutes each 1K satoshi, so for 600 minutes we will get about 60K satoshi. (It doesn't include the video points)
4. In a month we work around 20 days (assumption) and it will be about 1.2 million satoshi in the first app and somewhere around 1 million satoshi in second app.
5. In total around 2.2 million satoshi, which is equivalent to 12K+ INR as of today's bitcoin price.

Am just trying out for some extra cash handy, will update the post if it works with the application names and links.

ETN is not a scam!

2017-11-03T23:34:00.003+05:30

Answers for some common questions:

Why is the website inaccessible?
Someone or some group is actively attacking Electroneum's website. That's why it has to be secured to prevent them from gaining access.
Why is Electroneum being targeted?
It's too popular so it will attract ill-minded people. Some people are just jealous, or simply being evil. Criminal minds.
Why I can't mine anything after long hours?
Mining difficulty has increased a lot since the blockchain went live. Unless you are using expensive mining rigs custom built to mine cryptocurrencies, you probably won't get nothing or just a little.
If mining difficulty increased, what will happen to mobile mining?
Mobile mining is simulated, not actual mining. So blockchain mining difficulty has no effect on it. The company will determine how much we can mine with mobile phones.
Why does the Electroneum Pool Network have a high hash rate that doesn't equal to the amount of the hash rate from uspool+eupool+asiapool?
The high hash rate comes from professional miners in community pools. These people own specialized mining equipments worth millions of dollars and they normally mine coins as to earn money. Remember when Richard Ells the CEO said that he encouraged us to use community pools? Also, you don't chase out miners because miners are important to keep the blockchain alive. No miners = no blockchain = no listing on exchange = no iOS app = no wallet for you. So miners keep everything together, along with developers and us the investors. You can be a miner too, if you are willing to invest a lot of money into specialized mining rigs.
Why I can't access my account/wallet or transfer my ETN to exchange?
As mentioned, the team wants to make sure that none of our ETNs are compromised before they release the wallet. Be patient and wait for the problem to be solved.
Is Electroneum a scam?
No, it is not. A lot of people calling scams because they behave like internet trolls. Most of them just want to sell their ETNs quickly and because of the security issue that is being fixed at the moment is delaying them from selling, they are frustrated. Meanwhile, real investors who believe in the project for long-term do not have an issue to wait.
What is the potential of Electroneum?
Crypto market cap grew 14x from 2016-2017. Considering that crypto population is under 0.5% of the world, there's a lot of room for growth. If market cap growth rate just stays the same from 2017-2018 and to 2019, the market will be worth $35 trillion dollars. You may think that it's big or impossible, but the stock market is worth $65 trillion dollars, and considering that a lot of countries/corporations/citizens are already adopting crypto, that is very possible. At $35 trillion dollar market cap, even if Electroneum is priced at $100 each and has maxed the supply of 21 billion (which won't be), it will only reach #3 on market cap, behind Ethereum and Bitcoin.
And as you know, Bitcoin and Ethereum wallets are not growing as fast as Electroneum, they certainly don't have apps in 92 languages, they are difficult to use due to many decimal numbers.
So Electroneum will be a very big coin in 2 years. Not today, not next week, not next month. But 2 years. If you sell now, you will regret it, just like the guy who bought pizzas with 10,000 Bitcoins. Everyone wants to get rich, but not everyone is patient enough to be rich. Do you have the enough patience? 😉
Are you admin/developer/affiliated to ETN?
No, I am not. I am just an investor like you. Despite all the noises you see on Telegram chat or Facebook comment, there are investors who believe in the potential of Electroneum.

ETN (Electroneum) FAQ's as of 2, Nov.17

2017-11-03T01:03:00.003+05:30

How to buy ETN?
1. Register in cryptopia and coinbase.
2. Buy Bitcoin from Coinbase using CC or savings account.
3. Transfer bitcoins to cryptopia Bitcoin wallet.
4. Buy ETN with bitcoin in cryptopia.

How to get public wallet?
1. Go to https://my.Electroneum.com
2. Login to the account
3. Select offline paper wallet
4. Download the PDF and keep it safe. (This is the place we save all our hard work and money)

How to mine ETN?
1. Go to pool site (https://eupool.electroneum.com)
2. Download basic miner for windows (recommended for beginners)
3. Enter the public wallet address and click on start mining.

Where can I see my mining status?
Go to the pool site, scroll down enter your public wallet address and hit on lookup.

Can I mine using mobile?
Not yet. Wait for official announcement.

Can I sell my ETN which I purchased during ICO?
No, not yet.

Can I sell the ETN which I mined?
Yes you can but you need to have more than ETN tokens.

Buy Bitcoin Now!

2017-10-30T23:18:00.001+05:30

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Some ICO Statistics and Electroneum Price

2017-10-24T01:22:00.000+05:30

Here is some latest ICO statistics:

1. Omisego - USD raised $24 million

Token sold - 98,312,024

Started on 15/7/2017 ICO price-$0.244

Current price - $7.281

2. Metal - USD raised $3.8 million

Token sold -21,088,888

Started on 3/1/2017 ICO price -$0.88

Current price - $6.657

3. Etheroll - USD raised $31.16 million

Token sold - 4,501,622

Started on 13/2/2017 ICO price - 0.069

Current price - $3.468

4. Ark - USD raised $311,162

Token sold - 94,695,480

Started on 11/7/2016 ICO price - $0.01

Current price - $2.44

Here is Electroneum ICO result:

USD raised - $40,719,955

Token sold - Over 4 Billion ( Before launch)

Start date - 1 Nov.2017

ICO price - ??????

Future price - ???????

Compare the figure carefully and history is in the making!!!!🤔🤔🤔🤔

What is Electroneum? Why do I need to invest on ICO?

2017-10-17T09:19:00.000+05:30

What is Electroneum?

Electroneum (ETN), is one of the upcoming cryptocurrency in the market, which targets common public especially smart phone users.

It is doing ICO (Initial Coin Offerings) till October 31, 2017. Initial Coin Offering is similar to IPO in stocks. They are crowdfunding the project before it is available to public for purchase.

Why do I need to invest on ICO?

Investing on ICO is kind of risk and solid investment if you are investing for many years. Usually investing in CrypoCurrency is good for the future.

Let's say you have invested on Gold by 2003, the gold price was nearly around 415$ per 1 troy oz. Today the gold price is 1300$, which is 3 times more than the investment in 14 years.

By 2010 one bitcoin was costing around 8 cents (i.e., 0.08$). In 2017, the price is around 5800$. Can you see the growth in past 7 years.

It is always good to invest in these kind of new technology, which will help you to grow more in less years.

When to sell / buy a cryptocurrency?

2017-10-14T21:08:00.001+05:30

I saw this and I decided to share so that everyone can read...

#NOTE :A very good lesson

1. A coin *ADA* just got listed on bittrex exchanges few minutes ago, it was listed at 0.09$(0.00002000 satoshi), but in less than *5mins* it depreciated to 0.03$(0.00000586 satoshi).
if you are a good trader, you will understand this..
but just incase you do not know why, indulge me to enlighten you.

the coin depreciated because there was a huge sell order than buy order,(in layman's word: supply is more than demand) hence the price drastically dropped. some may have sold in profit while others may have sold in loss.

Now the implication is: the coin may take months or years before it would get back to its initial worth(0.009$), and probably may never attain that price again, example is *DOGE*COIN*- it is yet to see 0.01$ hitherto.

2. Another example is *REGALCOIN* , it got listed to coinone exchange yesterday, i got to know when it was $7 this morning, now it is worht $10 per coin, you know why? because demand is hugely more than supply. most of the investor have decided not to sell till next year, and if they do not get tired of holding on their coin, it may attain $100 per coin within a year.

3. *LISKCOIN* was sold at $0.0002 per coin during ICO last year(2016), as at the time i'm writing this piece (Oct 1st 2017), it is worth $5.52 on bittrex exchanges. A $100 worth LISKCOIN during ICO is now worth $3,000,000($3 million USD).
This is the power of Holding your coin tightly.

Though, in all that is mentioned above, the dev. team also have a lot to do to strenghten these coins, this would keep all investor to keep holding the coin.

MORAL:
1. Never lose an atom of your coin cheaply because they never came cheaply, remember your sleepless nights, your critics, haters, and above all, remember you too can become a billionaire in the nearest future.

2. There is power in holding your coins, and happiness in spending it.

3. Think long term, Not short term.

Electroneum ICO

2017-10-10T03:12:00.000+05:30

Hi guys.

So i've decided to create a FAQ over all the frequently asked questions we get on Telegram. We're more than happy to answer every question posted there, as it means somebody new every single time has decided to get involved. That is amazing!

However, many of the answers could be found in the whitepapers, which is why i will compile the answers here and then i hope you all, as a community, will direct new people here to get their answers for their, hopefully, many legit questions. I've found that one question nearly almost every time leads to another, or a thousand, which is amazing in its self. Perhaps because this really IS an interesting project, especially for new people to the crypto-world.

It is my hope that everybody will participate in letting me maintain, and keep this updated throughout the ICO, and beyond, by either correcting information as we get them, or adding new questions to this section, which will be answered.

Join the Electroneum ICO here: my.electroneum.com
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Frequently Asked Questions:
What is the purpose with this coin / what is so special about it?
- It targets the masses, the people without knowledge of Cryptocurrency, now finally have a shot at obtaining one, without having to worry about wallets, mining rigs or setting up your computer with technical know-how just to mine, and keep the coins. While you're mining on your app, which can be done from the background, you gain currency to your wallet which is set up for you inside the app. If you choose to play the game incorporated in the app, you get additional coins, and you learn a good amount of stuff about Cryptocurrency, how it works on a basic level, and gives you the knowledge and skills to mine on your computer with the dedicated program thats in development. The program allows people to easily mine without much hassle or technical knowledge.
In the future of the coin, gaming and gambling markets will be targeted, used as a form of currency where you can "sell" the hours you've spend on your, lets say character in World of Warcraft, while the entry and exit fees you pay, to legally get in or out, get allocated to the company behind. This is a win-win for both parts.
Likewise the coin is targeting the massive amount of people without a bank account, but with smartphone and/or internet access. There are tens of millions of such people, who could use cryptocurrency for storage of value or payments. Everyone wants to see mass adoptation for a cryptocoin, and then they will probably jump on the wagon for a lot of proposals. Likewise Bitcoin only have 3 million users; Electroneum wants more than that, which will give the team behind a lot of possibilities for usage of the coin around on the markets.

How many coins is there in total?
- 21.000.000.000 coins.

How many coins is there in the ICO?
- 6.000.000.000 coins.

Isn't that a too many coins?
- The supply of coins is not an issue; the amount of coins has been chosen to reflect a real life currency; so instead of paying 0,000135 Bitcoin for a can of coke, you can pay 15,10 Electroneum (this is NOT the real exchangerate!) for the same can. This is a clear advantage, the study group suggested. Especially when you think about the fact that Bitcoin has 16 decimal digits and Electroneum has 13 decimal digits. So you're effectively just moving the decimal-point around.

How many coins is allocated for the devs?
- $200.000 dollars worth of Electroneum, which is around 20 million coins.

Can they dump them when the coin gets listed?
- No. They cannot sell them within the first 12 months of the launch of the coin.

What is the price of the coin?
- $0.01 pr coin WITHOUT bonus.

When will the ICO end?
- 31st of October at 23.59

What will happen to the coins that is not sold during the ICO?
- Normally they would get destroyed, but it is not 100% certain that all the coins would be destroyed for ever, so it was decided to be allocated to the mobile miningpool to increase the likelyhood of people finding the mobile mining experience fun, and worth running.

Is there a bonus-system for early investors?
- Yes there is. See this picture for clarification:

When do i get my coins?- When you invest, your coins should be allocated to your wallet, on your app, and on my.electroneum.com within minutes of your transfer being confirmed. Coins from the referralprogram and bountysystem will be allocated on the 1st. of November

Would the fee for a transfer from, lets say, Coinbase be absorbed like it is for Kraken?- Yes it will be.

Who are the devs?
- The devs are listed on the website: Electroneum - Team. The most active on the Telegram-group, is Richard Ells the teamleader.

Can i talk to them?
- Yes! Richard is VERY active on telegram, and will gladly answer all the questions his busy day allows him.

What is mobile mining?
- Mobile mining is regular mining done on a phone, which includes getting the phone to solve algorithms, but not adding blocks to the blockchain, and as a reward allocate some coins.

When will it be possible to mine?- Both the mobile mining experience, and the desktop version of mining will be available to mine with on the 1^st. of November; the desktop miner will be available to download a few days before launch of the blockchain.

What version of Windows will the desktop miner work on?- At the moment Windows 10, 8 and 7. Testing is still ongoing.

What differentiates Electroneums kind of mobile mining from the "normal" kind? And how does the mobile mining experience work?
- The mobile experience of Electroneum doesn't solve algorithms on a blockchain, but instead allocates coins to your wallet, based on a calulation of how powerful your phone is. All this can be done from the background of your phone. The rate of allocating of coins will depend on the amount of users, the amount of coins mined/in the pool and so on. See the technical paper at the bottom of this post for a further explanation.

Will it cause my phone to heat up, drain the battery or just damage it in any way?
- NO! And this is a huge difference from all the other attempts at creating a mobile miner. This does NOT overheat or drain your battery so the life expectancy drops fast.

Will it eat all my data?
- Nope! With the apps special way of functioning, it doesn't require much data to run. See the technical whitepaper for a more detailed explanation.

What is the app used for?
- The app is used for mobile mining, as a wallet for your currency, to make transactions with your currency and to learn about cryptocurrencies through a game!

What version of Android do i need to have to run the app?
- 4.4 or newer.

What is the genre of game is it going to be?- Something like Idle Miner, this is what the devs took their inspiration from. A kind of tycoon-game.

Where can i get it?
- Google Play at the moment.

Has it released for IOS yet?
- Not yet. Apple wants to see a listing on an exchange first, it will release around 1st of November

Is the app hard to use?
- Not at all! A very clean and easy experience; had a few bugs, but they should be fixed now. A 5 star review on Google Play would help a lot since it's primarily been reviewed in the beginning of the project, where it had a few bugs.

Is this a 100% mobile currency?
- No you can mine it from your computer as well.

Will you be able to mine the currency on computer?
- See above.

Why is mining it on computer important?
- Because you solve blockchains which in return takes a bit for the pool of mobile users allocated coins and distributes it so that more and more people can get into crypto, and in the long run create value for the brand and the monetary value of the coin as well. Everything serves the purpose of mass adoptation, which enables a lot of more cool features and stuff.

How do you mine it on your computer?
- With an easy to use computer program, currently developed but kind of in a Quasimodo-state of being very ugly but functioning.

How many coins will i be able to mine on my phone/computer/tablet/playstation/x-box/Commedore 64/AMIGA
- That cannot, at the time being, be answered as it depends on the ICOs result, because of the coins being allocated to the mining pool, and number of users mining on their computers and so on.

Will you need a wallet to mine?
- Yes, but luckily your app provides you with one, but it is recommended that you move your coins from your mobile app to your offlinewallet, AS SOON AS they launch the blockchain.

What is an offline-wallet?
- An offline wallet is a piece of paper that has, at least, a spend and deposit key and perhaps even a QR-code, which is your private key, where you can allocate funds to and from. It is the only way of getting into your offlinewallet, so losing that, means that you've lost your currency.

Can the offline wallet be hacked?
- It is literally unhackable. There is a pretty cool comparison on how hard it would be to hack it:
Imagine that every grain of sand on earth is a lottery. The odds of hacking it is roughly the same as winning EVERY SINGLE LOTTERY AT THE SAME TIME.

Will i need to send my funds to my offline wallet immediately after getting them on the website?
- No you don't. Just make sure you transfer it to your wallet when the blockchain goes live the 1st of November 00.01. This is VERY important!
Also, do NOT send your offline-wallet, in ANY WAY, via e-mail!

Can't the Chinese just mine this industrially?
- No it has whaling-protection, and even though i do not quite understand the technical-details about this, it prevents ASIC-mining and tries to diminish the difference between GPU and CPU mining. More of this stuff in the technical whitepaper, at the bottom of this post.

Will it have whale-protection?
- Yes, see above.

How many units can i mine with pr. IP?
- The limit is set at 5, to begin with.

Can i tether with my phone, to mine on my laptop or desktop?
- Yes you can. But it will use data.

What will the mobile miner allocate coins from?
- A pool of coins from the ICO and blockchain mining from the computer. See "Why computer mining is important".

What is the hard-cap of the ICO?
- $40 million USD.

What is the soft-cap of the ICO?
- There is none.

Can i pay with fiat / bank transfer?
- You can put your fiat into an exchange and pay with Etherum or Bitcoin. That is the only way around it, even though there was talks about being able to do a bank transfer, this was adviced against by their lawyers, and was decided not to be implemented, due to security reasons with regards to following KYC-legislation, for the sake of the security of all involved in this.

What exchanges will you be listed at?
- Yobit, liqui.io and Cryptopia at least. Evercoin is close. Talks are still going on with major sites, i.e Bittrex.

When will it be listed at the exchanges?- As soon as possible after the 1st of November. Official dates will be posted when they know exactly when.

Help! My coins have disappeared from the wallet on my app!
- Keep checking back, and make sure your coins are still on my.electroneum.com, if they are, then there is no need to panic.

What distribution of Linux are you targeting?- Ubuntu, current version (per. 19/09-2017)

Which hardware wallets will support ETN?- No hardware wallet will support ETN to begin with, but as the adoption rate grows, there will be implemented hardware wallets.

Where can i see the amount of coins i got from my referrals purchases?
- In the Social Rewards tab on my.electroneum.com at the bottom.

Is the my.electroneum.com site secure and use HTTPS?- This is the answer we got from the devs, when someone raised some security-concerns:
"Hi, well wordpress is a security nightmare - which is why it is completely isolated on it's own server - get full access to that box, and you've got access to nothing but the ability to deface the site (which we could restore in seconds). We keep that up to date with auto security patches - but I've had bad experiences with wordpress in the past - but i re-iterate - that we used wordpress because our translators needed a global CMS that they could understand. my.electroneum.com is a completely different animal. It is firewalled with a number of levels, from running behind a load balancer to our proprietary software (meaning no script kiddie with a copy of nessus is coming close). Our team have built the Retortal architecture which has 100s of thousands of users and has been secure (touch wood - a strange quirky British thing to say for luck). We will be implementing 2FA as we move into the next phase." - Richard Ells

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Electroneum Whitepaper Overview
Electroneum Technical Whitepaper
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Any comments are appreciated a lot. I hope you will use this as a reference point as it contains a lot of information. This will be updates as we go further into the ICO and hopefully sees a lot more people. If you ever need an argument, this is a good place to start.

Further questions for the team can be asked in the Telegram-group, or as a last resort at the Electroneum Zendesk: electroneum.zendesk.com/hc/en-us

Join the Electroneum ICO here: my.electroneum.com

Shared by Mathias from Electroneum Team :)

The Criticism Hamburger

2017-08-08T22:01:00.000+05:30

When you need to critique someone, whether it's a colleague’s presentation or your child’s work of art- Always start with a compliment, then mention your critique, then end on a positive note.

“Hey Charlie, what an amazing speech you just delivered, you touched down some very important facts that nobody else did. However it would have been a bit better if you would have introduced some variation in your pitch. But nevertheless it is always worthy listening to you. That ending was really smart. Well played! ”

The "criticism hamburger" gets the message across but softens the blow.

The Criticism Hamburger

P. S. - Works like a charm most of the time but there's no silver bullet for managing people. What works well for some will totally backfire on others.

Thindal Murugan Temple

2015-10-16T12:54:00.001+05:30

Thindal Murugan Temple is widely known in Erode District. The official name of the temple is Arulmigu Velayudhaswamy Temple - Thindal. An ISO 9001 - 2005 certified Temple.

It is located in between Erode - Perundurai. All the buses which travels to Perundurai, Avinashi, Perumanallur, Tirupur, Coimbatore crosses this temple.

You can follow the GPS location as given below:

How do I get there ?

There are numerous ways to reach here including the public transportation of buses, share autos, autos, Taxi services from fasttrack, Saravana Call Taxi also available.

You can find more details @ their official Website: http://www.thindalmurugan.tnhrce.in/ or at Wiki Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thindal_Murugan_Temple

Dinesh Weds Mythili

2015-10-09T14:09:00.002+05:30

Yes, Am getting married this October 26th. No time to invite friends, relatives, near and dear ones. Sorry for not coming and inviting each and everyone of you personally. I was running out of time. It was my dream to conduct in a big way but started realizing that it is not so easy as I thought of. Somehow we managed to find a marriage hall for the dates we have in hand.

Though I have done plenty of designs for various international organizations, it took a while for me to design my own wedding card. I managed to spend about couple of hours in a week day late night and designed it.

Kindly treat this e-Invitation as my personal invitation and show your presence on Monday, October 26, 2015.