A container for all my views with excerpts from technology, travel, films, books, kannada, friends and other interests. I am Thejesh GN, friends call me Thej.
I did a workshop titled “Back to Basics: Build Your Own LLM from Scratch” at IITM/Paradox 2026, which kind of included some basic theory on how a transformer works, and then building a very small LLM. The idea was to demystify an LLM (or transformer) by understanding what goes on and then building...
I am at IITM/Chennai for Paradox. I have been here since 2022, since the first Paradox. The fest and the crowd have grown bigger. I came by car with friends A&S. We took Old Madras Road and stopped at Sriperumbudur for a quick visit to the Rajiv Gandhi memorial.
FlavorGraph is a large-scale graph network that combines data from over a million recipes with chemical compound information from 1,500+ flavor molecules to predict ingredient pairings. It uses graph embedding methods to represent foods as dense vectors, enabling data-driven food pairing suggestions that go beyond human or chef intuition. In FlavorGraph, the chemical...
It’s been a good week in general. The work schedule is back under control. I am getting back to normalcy there. I also played after a long time on Sunday. We played singles again. It was tough but fun. It tests one’s stamina and technique more than doubles. I enjoyed it. I am...
We have updated Uma’s playlist on her radio. It’s no baby rhymes now. It has carefully selected songs. Currently, U2026 has songs from Kannada, Malayalam, English, and Italian. I have heard all of them and read lyrics as well to make sure it’s friendly. It is tough to filter out songs for toddlers,...
A CBSE student raised a question about his misplaced answer sheets. Instead of empathy or a call for accountability, he got called anti-national. This is about the machinery that turns complaints into betrayal, and reminds us that hate does not stay contained; it will come to your home too.
I have proposed BoF (Birds of Feather) session and discussion at IndiaFOSS/2026. The proposal is yet to be approved as of today. I am logging the same content here for readers of my blog post and also for record keeping. I will update in both places if there are any changes.
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Thejesh GN (ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್) "Thej" is an Independent Technologist, Hacker, Maker, Traveler, Blogger, InfoActivist, Open data and Open internet enthusiast from Bangalore, India. He loves experimenting with all things life and hence some times he is called hacker and other times duct tape. You can read more about him here. Email [ i @ thejeshgn dot com]. PGP/GPG Keys are here.
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