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Weekly Notes 34/2025

Today, I took time to attend Anveshana Showcase 2025 at Prayoga. The plan was initially to attend the presentations by students who were part of NMG/2025 grantees group. But then I also got to know my niece was also presenting at the same event as part of another group. Unrelated, but what a...

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Copy to Learn, Try Till You Master

I’m often surprised at how almost every action of Uma can be traced back to someone around her. She copies so easily, sometimes adding small twists of her own. But it’s not always a perfect copy. For example, she often mispronounces words or struggles with the action, but she never stops copying. And...

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Weekly Notes 33/2025

India celebrates Independence Day today. As much as we gained freedom from the British in 1947, we have yet to gain full freedom from other evils like religion, caste, class, and gender based biases. We are still a country with a large, uneducated, and hungry population. There is much to do before we...

2020 was bearable because of Echo and Pathu 2

Stress

It’s a lie to say that there is no stress; stress is always present, whether at work, at home, or in any situation involving human interaction or expectations.  Forget external expectations; your self-expectations; the image you have of yourself (good or bad) that you want to maintain leads to stress. I am not...

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Weekly Notes 32/2025

I spent most of the week (Monday through Thursday) in Mumbai. It was a busy but fruitful week. I got lots of things done. I usually carry everything in a backpack if it’s for a couple of days. But this time I had more, so I checked it in the luggage. I forgot...

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From Prompt to Report

I have been exploring LLMs to see if they can be used to do data analysis. LLMs are not good with data by default. But they are good at analyzing a small table and trying to make sense of it. LLMs are also decent at writing code. So my wish was, can I...