2025-05-22
Random internet find! Fish = ๐ก๐ Fish = ๐ก๐ก๐ก๐ก Fishes = ๐ก๐ก๐๐๐ Here, fish (plural) and fishes are semantic plurals....
2025-05-20
Here are some fun facts from visiting the National Postal Museum in DC. This is one of the lesser known Smithsonian Museums....
2025-05-14
Em dashes (--, or โ) became the next thing claimed to be an "LLM style"! It is always tricky when something you (human) use gets overused by an LLM, and it becomes a marker of LLM-generated text.
2025-05-08
I attended the "How the Buddha Met His Mother": Book Talk by Donald Lopez at the Smithsonian Museum of Asian Art . I am listing some interesting insights from the author here....
2025-04-08
"Imagine an email finding you well" -- email footer goals!
2025-03-26
Guilty pleasure-- eavesdrop.png
2025-03-21
#Showerthought: When you are using exclamations in a text where you can have a factorial, use a comma.
2025-03-18
Terrible applications of AI Optifye YC Pitch
2025-03-13
Started using Windows 11 IOT Enterprise. Yeah, it has almost zero bloat....
2025-02-14
Happy Valentine's Day! Greetings from ML twitter.
2025-02-12
Japanese website landing pages are on a whole different level!
2024-11-01
I am guilty of following this 59 sec workout video from an unverified source.
2024-08-16
Elizabeth Swaney is (arguably) the coolest olympian ever!
2024-08-01
I keep forgetting parser.add_argument('--fp16', action='store_true', default=False)
2024-07-29
One line lessons from Eat That Frog (by Brian Tracy) Eating the biggest frog as the first activity of the day is to do the most important/difficult task before you go to easy tasks for the day. Planning on paper is always better than keeping plans in mind.
2024-07-01
I have to add a version of the following tweet to my list . "Our schools never taught us how to console a grieving friend, how to say sorry as you mean it and how to be a good listener.
2024-06-03
To read: How to Hug a Porcupine
2024-06-02
I have heard contradictory remarks from different sources about how competitive Sri Lankan GCE AL is. Here is a back of the envelope calculation....
2024-06-01
Comments that are kinda useless when it comes to any research paper It is not in a good venue.
2024-05-27
TO DO: Test alternatives for Gotukola in the US -- Parsley (curly Parsley NOT Italian one), Arugula/rocket leaves, Cilantro, Kale, Carrot leaves, Vietnamese markets [e.g.
2024-03-03
[To think and write] Consolidated acts.....
2024-02-25
Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person talk by Alain de Botton (Courtesy of Jameel)
2024-02-20
If someone (outsider) who only speaks English (i.e. not familiar with any local language) were to read a book (or watch a movie/TV show) to understand contemporary Sri Lankan culture, what would that book be?
2024-01-08
College Park translates into เทเถปเทเทเท เถเถบเถฑ ( Sarasavi Uyana ).
2024-01-07
Coffee stains for $ \LaTeX $
2024-01-06
Phrases people should not use in talks given to graduate students "$\forall x \in { \text{graduate school, research, work}},$ Think of $x$ as a marathon instead of a sprint." -- Whoever saying this is significantly over-estimating how athletic grad students are!
2024-01-05
Nanathambara is looking for volunteers who can teach programming for school children.
2024-01-02
I need to make a checklist for flying. Passport, ticket, i20 (updated) Put bag tags!...
2023-09-07
Sharmila's (or Raju's) checklist before leaving home for a longer trip -- (1) Bed (2) Fridge (3) Bathroom (4) WHAT WAS THAT?
2023-09-06
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
2023-09-04
Height of buildings act of 1910: wiki
2023-09-02
Someone should implement faiss.add(torch.Tensor()) to faiss .
2023-09-01
The summer vision project PDF
2023-08-02
Retweets are not endorsements. They are performative engagement markers that intentionally confound direct alignment with ironic promotion, ambivalent reflection, or personal brand management so as to reveal all or nothing of one's authentic perception depending on the observer.
2023-08-01
False dichotomy, no true Scottsman, slippery slope, and gross generalization are some cool logical fallacies.
2023-05-01
Reading list (2023 Summer): Girl in Room 105, Reader, ~~Lolita~~ -- this is too boring to read.
2014-01-01
BlogGadol has so many cute stories.