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.
I am a big fan of Minecraft. I remember buying it in 2011 from Mojang for 15 euros. It’s one of the few games I bought. It’s also one of those games I visit once in a while. My recent experiments with it has been using Minecraft pi and Minecraft API mostly around...
This morning I was trying to print some maps in Kannada using Marble. Then to my surprise1 I found Philippines in English, which means there is no Kannada translation available. Then ran a simple query on Overpass to see the missing Kannada country names. The query prints the details in CSV format (separated...
For a while I have been using KDE Marble as my desktop map client. The project describes itself as “a virtual globe and world atlas — your swiss army knife for maps”. It can do a lot but I use it for my day today work like bookmarking areas, creating KML files etc....
One of the biggest challenge when you want to use ML in your project is training models using right data. It’ not super tough if you have enough data to build a model but most of the time when I want to quickly experiment, i don’t necessarily have the data for it, forget...
Wikipedia says Transliteration is a type of conversion of a text from one script to another that involves swapping letters (thus trans- + liter-) in predictable ways. For Kannada we usually use Latin letters to represent1 Kannada script. Most of the time this conversion is based on phonetic similarity. It sounds simple but...
I love SQLIte for its simplicity, portability and stability. Most of my personal projects use SQLite as the database. For most I suggest using DB Browser for SQLite (DB4S) project which has a great UI, is open source and cross-platform. But I still know some who like to use LibreOffice Base. LibreOffice is...
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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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