The founders and exclusive owners of Buffnstaff are:
Pradeep Varma, PHD, and Dr. Sangeeta Varma
Some of Our Public Talks/Works
Pradeep Varma, A brief treatise on Buffnstaff's intelligent software, i.e. well-tuned, up-front or by self-tuning, and not intimidating, based on a disproof of Maya/Illusion. April 2018. Millenial # 1
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Pradeep Varma. Talk at IIT Roorkee, Saharanpur Campus, titled "Trademarks, Semiotics and Startups". Nov 7, 2017.
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Pradeep Varma, the lifestyle song for Buffnstaff's Educational Products and Services, titled "Confidence: Manufacturing Joy and Success for School and College and More", September 2020, and the Macro Magic V1.1 theme song that was originally sung in July 2017, followed finally by the arrival, Bridged, an adaptation of a Simon and Garfunkel original by Pradeep Varma and recorded latest by him for (his) children on 28 March 2023.
Buffnstaff will look to hire. Whom, from a country whose parliament for 80% of its long existence has not had prime minister of credible educational credentials and not tried to nurture such a successor therefor either. Salesmanship for leadership lies in "chaiwallah", "chutkulewallah", "ladla bawla" epithets alone. For a culture that would historically rather pour molten wax down the ears of the majority, what education and educational institutions abound? These graduates of Vedanta, never having read any Veda or equivalent, teach and demand a demographic dividend, by rhetoric like "knowledge culture" alone while pushing for commoditization of whatever "skilled/educated" denizens exist, in body shops that undercut professional jobs and individual merit everywhere while preferring the anonymity of easily managed and abused bodies, as opposed to the harder work of building up profiles of individuals and contributing to their fields. When laziness, greed, and irresponsibility are the sole motivators, then who can buy such result? And why not then, the allure of a past whose knowledge we actually use, that then, the parliament replaced, for brokerage over our lives with manifestoes like Mandirs, Cows, and such knowledge-enhancing whims? Finally, a question -- whodunnit, how, and why?
Naipaul's India critique is easily explained. When the theory of the country reduces words to a void of meaningless noise, then the denizens are reduced to animal interaction with no language, just sounds. This clearly is reverse evolution. And when Rajiv Gandhi claims his dispatch of Rs. 1 reduces to Rs. 0.05 by the time it reaches the target, it is not hard to understand that a charity of 5 percent is about all that the animal interaction can deliver, which is quite a success, frankly. Vidyadhar is absolutely right in identifying the malaise, his fascination with the theory of the land, however, is wrongly placed. Again, what can educate the insistently animal, except a human civilization willing to shoulder the huge burden of the never thankful? This clearly means taking on the self-appointed, so-called alphas of the land, completely vested in animal raj?
The theory of the land is not a complete writeoff. In human relationships, in particular family relationships, it teaches erasing all past, restarting with an open mind, devoid of pretensions, presentations, interests, biases and emoting at the base level, going touchy feely, in building or rebuilding relationships. The strong Indian family is a result of this that the culture does bring to table. This puts the notion of bidirectional commerce in place, for example, in negotiating employee-employer custom contracts, to say address the two-body modern problem of both working parents. Regarding work life-balance, the theory again teaches erasure, e.g. reaching past medical problems by attempting to forget one's medical past and rebuilding afresh with Yogic and Ayurvedic prescriptions, commonly providing a critical start, e.g. shavasan, for relaxation and rejuvenation, with the struggle being quite visible in the prescriptive parts. Tie up with Modern practices may help bring out the best of the world.
Pradeep Varma, A whitepaper on Copyright Protection Technology, February 2015
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Pradeep Varma, A whitepaper on Smart Home and Office Solutions, October 2020.
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Sample Research Interests
Pradeep Varma, "Wait-Free Publish/Subscribe Using Atomic Registers". In SIAM PPAM 2003 September 7-10, Czestochowa, Poland, LNCS 3019, pp. 69-76, Springer 2004.
Pradeep Varma, “Generalizing Recognition of an Individual Dialect in Program Analysis and Transformation", In Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2007, (Seoul Korea), March 11-15, 2007, pp. 1432-1439.
Why Software Implementation Patents Are a Bad Idea
A software-implementation patent is an extremely cumbersome intellectual device that takes a long time and effort to arrive at. By the time you arrive, the core of what you are patenting becomes stale. Instead of perfecting and adapting your technology to new, emerging contexts, with such patents, you are stuck with a one-time unchanging submission of your anticipation of the future world, that almost never suffices. Your claims, the typically allowable ones, are highly specific to your one-time rendition of the future and then in a bid to justify your trash, you're stuck with quibbling how the emerging world fits your anticipation even if it doesn't. You are the delight of the armies of lawyers who would best fight such a war, but a skilled adversary will easily trounce such arguments and get away with bold counter moves.
The right way to do a software implementation patent would be as a addendum to copyright, to submit a patent after your implementation is perfect and tested and you're confident of your results that they anticipate a sufficiently large part of the future to justify the investment as a patent. And only then, comes the expensive investment, as follows: You craft the perfect, highly specific claims and then try to carve out a part of such a future, but the expense now is that instead of investing your expensive skills in building newer technology, you're spending time with lawyers trying to deify whatever you have already secured by copyright protection besides giving up any agenda you might have to set world-wide standards. You get a 20-year protection period, once you've gone through this exercise, but again, you've become retrograde by outlook, invested into the past and worshipping it and looking at the future through its prism, as opposed to moving forward with time. For what? A 20-year window of solace, a large part of which will be chewed up by the patent offices worldwide dwelling upon the merits (or lack thereof) of your patent submission. Why bother? The 100-year copyright window is far better, at least for software, (of course highly specific), and freely arrived at. This is not to say that there is no gem possible that suits the patenting exercise. Public key cryptography comes to mind as a candidate gem -- but that too, rose to the standards level and hence again, its candidature is dubious. Patents other than of software implementations are also best done after implementation or near implementation, to be certain of their quality or finality.
Nobody does patents as advised above. The shortcuts they take, (e.g outsource completely to lawyers, be early, forget implementation, collude with patent offices in patent politics), trashify further the commonplace trash that passes as patents. Patent trash is a highly recommended management practice to keep the hordes of employees firmly trapped in bad employment, instead of actually pursuing meaningful change. No wonder, such true-blue companies are ripe for takeover by the occasional braveheart who dares to take the challenge.
How to Do a Patent -- The Right Way
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