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Priyanka was ghost-writing an interview request from PC Quest for Ankor. Two questions were a bit

Recently, I've re-used my own writing / transcripts as context to LLMs. For example, I've

Our brains remember some things better. Explaining that way makes it stick. Here are the eight things

In Feb 2024, Claude 3 Opus was the best model, at $15/MTok. In Jul 2024, GPT 4o Mini reached that

I got an email from Google Cloud on my work account "excited to introduce you to Gemini

High Scepticism + High Humility = Scientist. Editor. Indecisive. "Let's test it." Good

I have a bad memory. (I need to write about that. I keep forgetting to.) It's worsening.

Developing taste & judgement are an essential skill in the AI era. # # But taste is different

You can use AI to submit not just talk proposals but entire articles from your past work. Ranjeeta

10:20 am. After submitting my VizChitra 2026 talk proposal, did a quick analysis of the submissions.

Here's my talk proposal for VizChitra 2026: Description There's stuff I know AI can do.

This week, Namit and I met a Straive team that operates from a client office. One team member asked:

My last two presentations used browser tabs as slides. For my talk last week titled Your Chotu Is

Whenever "let's set up a recurring meeting" comes up (from me or others), I add: "

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.