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 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...
The only thing I miss about working remotely is being around people. I enjoy meeting people outside of work, such as over coffee or during lunch breaks. Even working remotely, I have tried to go out and meet and work with people at least once a week. However, for some reason, I didn’t...
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...
Table of Contents1 Speech to Text2 Text to Speech3 Translation4 Actions5 Settings6 Need help I’ve always dreamed of talking to computers. Cloud tools made it possible, but nothing beats doing it right on your machine. The first one I encountered that ran well locally was Dragon Speak. It worked pretty well but was...
We returned from Langkawi on Wednesday after a week-long vacation. It was a good trip. I had nearly a thousand unread emails, both work and personal when we returned. Around 80% of them are non-critical – newsletters, alerts from GitHub, issue trackers, etc. But I believe in inbox zero, so I had to...
My neck is doing okay. Resting, i.e., not looking at the phone but sleeping, has greatly helped. I’m still wearing the cervical collar, as the doctor advised. I’ve also slowed down on the work front this week because of it. Hopefully, I will be able to catch up next week.
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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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