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The case of 12-year old Jamalo, who was walking from Andhra Pradesh to her village in Bastar (Chhattisgarh) collapsing 11 km short of her village was widely reported. However, there are many such heartbreaking cases. News reports tracked during the ongoing lockdown suggest that more than 300 people died because of the lockdown:...
As an engineer, maker, builder, you want to build something during the crisis to help the community. But what can you build as a software engineer that can help the society during this period of crisis? The answer to the question is not easy, As we have not seen something this devastating in...
Yesterday I spoke to students of NPTEL. The topic was “How to be a Good Software Developer”. It’s more like my advice to my younger self. The talk went on quite well except for few internet glitches. It was also special we because I was part of NPTEL’s engineering team at Google. I...
DataMeet community has been doing some amazing work in collecting, cleaning and organizing COVID-19 datasets. The focus in on Indian datasets. The data is mainly sourced from different government websites which are freely available to all the Indians. I recorded a video introducing these datasets. In the video we will go through each...
Note: I have not figured out yet. I will update with a new blog once I am sure. – May 20, 2020 Usually I announce the results on April 14. This year it won’t happen. When I announced it in Jan 2020 world was a different place. Today world is a different place....
He is here. He was supposed to come home next month. Thanks to Corona Virus our travel got cancelled. We are mostly working from home. So why wait? He is five six or seven. Super friendly. We adopted him from CUPA, Second Chance. That’s all for now. TTYL
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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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