Weekly Notes 47/2025
Bangalore has suddenly turned very cold, apparently due to a cold wave. It’s been at least 4 to 5 degrees colder in the early mornings. I had a bit of a temperature, a cold, and a sore throat most of the week, thanks to the weather and Uma. School kids are super spreaders. I missed a workout and game day.
- It’s been a hectic week at work, too. I couldn’t focus much due to an irritating cold. Still, I am happy that I got the important stuff done at least.
- I got a chance to ride a Yamaha on a longer stretch and visit Manju’s Farm. The ride was good. Thankfully, my neck and shoulder are also doing well. I am happy about it.
- I am trying to add image tags to the OSM post boxes. Currently, I am using images hosted here, panoramax, and on Wikimedia Commons. MapComplete has an option to upload images under CC-BY-SA that go to panoramax. It’s an easy way to upload to panoramax without knowing about it. Soon, I will have to find a standard way to do this. Maybe it’s here, Are.na and panoramax. That should guarantee that the images exist somewhere.
- After a lot of thinking, I gifted myself a riding jacket. It’s a canvas urban riding jacket. I will write about it once I use it next week. Look and feel match the advertisement.
- One of the most prominent features of Buddhism is free inquiry and the ability to question. It comes through clearly in the Kalama Sutta, which recounts a conversation between Gautama Buddha and the people of Kesaputta village. The sutta is very small, a couple of pages, but it is very dense. You could spend days thinking about it.
- Public AI is a nonprofit, open-source project that supports the work of public AI model builders from Singapore, Switzerland, Sweden, and others. You can try them in chat mode.
