Thejesh GN

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.

Category: Technology

Gummalapuram Branch P.O 0

Technology

Linked List : Annotating Photos for Humans and Machines

Photos taken on a mobile phone can include metadata. I like it for various reasons. My various projects depend on metadata, such as date, location, orientation, etc. But more and more, the phones are removing that metadata when I transmit it. Some of them also change the file name. But I care, and...

Searching your name in SIR in 2002. 0

Life / Technology

 

SIR Online: Everything Is Difficult by Design

I did SIR enumeration online. The application seems to have been written by someone who hates users and doesn’t want them to get the work done1. I have had the same EPIC number since 2002, and it is still valid. I have kept my information updated over the years. Yet, I had to...

Accessing Arduino Uno properties in SimulIDE 0

Podcast / Technology

Getting Started with SimulIDE and Arduino

I was looking for an alternative to Tinkercad to simulate building, coding, and running Arduino projects. SimulIDE Circuit Simulator seemed like an ideal candidate. SimulIDE is a simple real time electronic circuit simulator, intended for hobbyist or students to learn and experiment with analog and digital electronic circuits and microcontrollers. It supports PIC,...

Compare Matrix for Kannada Kasturi. 0

Technology

Building kannada-kasturi-embeddings

Table of Contents1 Word2Vec and FastText2 Data3 Build and Test4 TODO Embeddings are numerical representations of real-world objects, such as words, phrases, text, images, audio, and video. Since the real world is so complex, these representations are usually vector arrays of floating-point numbers. This helps computers process meaning, context, and semantic relationships using...

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Technology

Thank you for attending Back to Basics: Build Your Own LLM from Scratch

I sent this email to all workshop attendees. It made sense to publish it as a post as well. Thank you for attending the “Back to Basics: Build Your Own LLM from Scratch” session. It was great to see so much curiosity and many questions in the room, the feedback many of you...

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Technology

 

Back to Basics: Build Your Own LLM from Scratch

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...