Author: Thejesh GN

Christmas 2024 0

Godless but not joyless

So, when you don’t believe in God or follow a specific religion, what do you celebrate with others? Just because I’m not religious doesn’t mean I’m anti-social—I still want to spend time with family and friends, which often happens around religious festivals. Lately, I’ve been thinking about turning religious festivals into social events....

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Weekly Notes 25/2025

I continue to do Physiotherapy. It has helped a lot. Thanks to all the friends who recommended, encouraged, and gave me leads for Physiotherapy. One of the things that I believe helped me in my recovery is the Memory Foam Contour Cervical Pillow with Coolgel from My Armor. I know it’s a mouthful,...

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Embedding models for Kannada

Table of Contents1 Open Weight Models1.1 nomic-embed-text-v2-moe1.2 paraphrase-multilingual1.3 bge-m31.4 snowflake-arctic-embed22 OpenAI Model2.1 text-embedding-3-large Embedding models transform words, sentences, documents, or digital items into vectors of numbers (usually floats) so that machines can understand and compare them semantically1. A good embedding model has enough information to capture the meaning and relationships in dense vector...

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Weekly Notes 24/2025

My visit to IITM/Chennai was enjoyable; I met many students and spent time with some of them. In general, it was great to catch up with all of them. This is the fifth year of the program. Many graduated this year with three-year and four-year degrees. It’s amazing to see this happening at...

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Walking, Talking, Writing: A Blog Post Experiment

So, I’m going to attempt to write a blog post, actually by dictating it using IdeaShell. It’s my dream to write a whole blog post using voice. It’s not done using any Text-generating LLMs, but this is done using Speech to Text (STT). Just to try it out. I’m doing this while I’m taking a stroll at Madras, an evening stroll. It’s a good way to test it because I just wanted to test it in different environments. How does it perform?

Sarvam Translate, translating a story. 1

First Impressions of Sarvam Indic Translate Model

I have been searching for models that perform translations between Kannada and English and vice versa. I learned about the Sarvam Translate model, which seemed very promising. I tried it on their site before downloading the model directly to run locally. Model weights are available under GPL. Sarvam-Translate is an advanced translation model...