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One of my goals this year is to "Automate finance + tax". Today, I took a baby step by

I was taking a bus past Mandaveli in Chennai, which reminded me of where I learnt mrdangam from Mr

This weekend, two people asked me, roughly "How do I use AI better?" This is a frequently

I use comics to make my course more engaging. Each question has a comic strip that explains what

Graded Assignment 1 (GA1) for the Tools in Data Science course is released and is due Sun 15 Feb 2026

This morning, I migrated my Tools in Data Science course page from Docsify to Hugo using Codex. Why?

As AI marches along, another role at risk is the data engineer / database administrator. (Data

If you look at the IMDb titles with a 9+ rating and 50K votes this decade, there are only 4 entries.

Scott Adams, the author of Dilbert, passed away last month. While his work will live on, I was

I continue to be impressed by Gemini 3 and it's become my default agent. It writes in simpler

Several educators have AI-enabled their courses, like: David Malan at Harvard CS50 provides an AI-

I ordered a Caramel Cashew Cookie - Soft & Chewy at the Chennai airport, an hour before my flight

OpenAI launched Prism - an AI LaTeX IDE. It's a boon for anyone writing LaTeX documents. All the

My Tools in Data Science course is available publicly, with a few changes from last year. First, I

On Friday, our data & analytics client-facing teams connected Gemini to their Drive and Email:

Google has released a huge number of AI tools. Not all are useful, but some are quite powerful.

Straive turned on Chrome Enterprise Premium on my browser. This means: No extensions or DevTools. No

Using LLMs to find errors is fairly hallucination-proof. If they mess up, it's just wasted effort

I tried vibe-code a CSV to colored HTML table converter using this prompt. Create a tool that can

As a teenager, I asked my mother "What is the aim of life?" She said, "To be happy and

Summary: Nano Banana Pro is much better than recent models at copying images without errors. That

Gemini lets you copy individual responses as Markdown, but not an entire conversation. That's

Here's a great post by Karthik Shashidhar on why they shut down Babbage Insight, and the

It's incredible how hostile LinkedIn is for reading / writing content. Posts containing links to

I have this feeling that the skills we need for the AI era might be found in video games. (Actually,

Stanford ran a conference called Agents for Science. It's a conference for AI-authored papers,

I read The Periodic Table by Primo Levi, written in Randall Munroe's style. Here is the

For those who missed my Applied Vibe Coding Workshop at NPTEL, here's the video: YouTube video

Mapping The Red Headed League is a fascinating reconstruction of the actual places mentioned (or

Astral released Ty (Beta) last month. As a prototyper, I don't type check much - it slows me down