Following are some of the shocks in General election 2009 that i have found out :-
1. Left front routed from West Bengal and Kerala - Last time they had as many as 61 MPs from India . This time they only managed half of it. This is mainly because of their poor show in WB and kerala. It was expected that their performance will dip this time , but nobody expected a 50% fall.
2. Indian national congress bagging more than 200 seats - This was most unexpected. Everyone expected that they will get around in the range of 160. But they got 40 odd seats too many.
3. Congress bagging 20+ seats in UP - The big players SP and BSP failed this time. And congress ,the underdog in UP got 20 seats in UP. This was mainly because of the Rahul Gandhi factor.
4. TMC getting all the seats in kolkata and 100 Kms away from kolkata - Another big shocker. The left was completely routed from kolkata. What was even more surprising that they lost by huge huge margins in some constituency.
5. SP and BSP giving unconditional support to UPA - SP leader Amar singh before the results said that they will force the congress and humilate the congress by making them beg for Samajwadi party's support. But things are quite different now. Its the other way around . Also SP and BSP supporting the same govt!!... quite a surprise.
6. Congress alliance with DMK doing expectionally well in TN - Everybody expected AIDMK+ to do well in TN this time . Everybody expected Jaylalitha to play the role of kingmaker this time. But nobody now even talks of Jaylalitha .
7. Congress doing well in Maharastra - I personally felt that congress will do poorly this time in Mahasrastra simply because of poor governance there and the 26/11 attack. But congress managed to increase its tally by 2 this time around.
8. The Naveen Master Stroke - Naveen Patnaik broke away from the NDA this time before the polls. He took a huge gamble. But surprisingly BJD managed to sweep polls in both lok sabh and also state elections!
9. Paswan failure - Ram Bilas Paswan the 6 time MP and LJP leader lost in the election for the first time. I was personally shocked to see this.
If you have any more points to add onto this please comment!
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Next Version of Internet May Include Brain!
The problem with the web today is, it has no idea what the hell you’re talking about! It doesn’t understand what you are asking of it. Search for an artist you like and you’re OK but ask it “what was the highest temperature in Kolkata week”, and it fails embarrassingly.
A new technology Wolfram|Alpha, a system which is capable of computing answers to questions is likely to be launched this year.So the web is expected to be smarter by the end of this year. However it isn’t limited to any field or type of question. It actually understands what you are asking of it, and computes the answer! It is like as calculator which can give you answers to questions like “What was the length of the longest whale discovered in the pacific ocean between the years 1900 and 1990”. It doesn’t come with preprogrammed questions; considering the scope of the questions it aims to answer, that would be almost impossible. Instead, the developers have actually generated models of the kind of factual questions that it may be asked, and broken them down into units that can be computed.
The potential of this system is limitless, but it itself is not. It doesn’t not plan to give answers that may have multiple opinions, just for facts so don’t expect it to answer question on anything like “Should I marry my boyfriend who has been with me for the last three years, but we broke up for like 3 months in the middle, and he didn’t even call once! Well actually he did, but I wasn’t there, but he didn’t call again! So should I? ”. This means the system has less chance of being biased, i.e. having answered based on the opinions of the people who are entering the data. This also means that it can only supplement google, not replace it. It may never be able to rule the world, but I’m pretty sure it will rule the web!
A new technology Wolfram|Alpha, a system which is capable of computing answers to questions is likely to be launched this year.So the web is expected to be smarter by the end of this year. However it isn’t limited to any field or type of question. It actually understands what you are asking of it, and computes the answer! It is like as calculator which can give you answers to questions like “What was the length of the longest whale discovered in the pacific ocean between the years 1900 and 1990”. It doesn’t come with preprogrammed questions; considering the scope of the questions it aims to answer, that would be almost impossible. Instead, the developers have actually generated models of the kind of factual questions that it may be asked, and broken them down into units that can be computed.
The potential of this system is limitless, but it itself is not. It doesn’t not plan to give answers that may have multiple opinions, just for facts so don’t expect it to answer question on anything like “Should I marry my boyfriend who has been with me for the last three years, but we broke up for like 3 months in the middle, and he didn’t even call once! Well actually he did, but I wasn’t there, but he didn’t call again! So should I? ”. This means the system has less chance of being biased, i.e. having answered based on the opinions of the people who are entering the data. This also means that it can only supplement google, not replace it. It may never be able to rule the world, but I’m pretty sure it will rule the web!
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